Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist. Leidy was professor of anatomy...
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. It was named after US palaeontologist Joseph Leidy. The award was established in 1923 to recognize excellence in "publications...
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ricardoensis, Osteoborus validus, and Tephrocyon mortifer, and was named by Joseph Leidy as a subgenus. It was recombined as Aelurodon haydeni by Scott and Osborn...
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Ferdinand V. Hayden, Isaac Lea, William W. Jefferis, John Lawrence LeConte, Joseph Leidy, Samuel George Morton, George Ord, and James Rehn were members. Corresponding...
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Leidy is a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include: surname Joseph Leidy (1823–1891), American paleontologist Paul Leidy (1813–1877)...
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Hadrosaurus (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
as the Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy site, is now a National Historic Landmark. Foulke contacted paleontologist Joseph Leidy, and together they recovered...
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Pectinatella magnifica (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
Kyiv Van Der Waaij, Michiel (October 19, 2011). "Pectinatella magnifica (Leidy 1851)". Bryozoans.nl - Zoetwater Bryozoen (mosdiertjes) in Nederland. "Pectinatella...
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Xiphactinus (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
sic Vavrek, M.J.; Murray, A.M.; Bell, P.R. (2016). "Xiphactinus audax Leidy, 1870 from the Puskwaskau Formation (Santonian to Campanian) of northwestern...
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proper description until 1853 when Joseph Leidy named the fragmentary specimen (ANSP 12546) Felis atrox ("savage cat"). Leidy named another species in 1873...
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Foulke in 1858. The dinosaur was later named Hadrosaurus foulkii by Joseph Leidy. The site, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994, is now a...
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Megacerops (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
existing for approximately 4.1 million years. Megacerops was named by Leidy (1870). Its type species is Megacerops coloradensis. It was synonymized...
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the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. American paleontologist Joseph Leidy obtained most of his fossil specimens from Hayden. Hayden Valley in Yellowstone...
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Bison antiquus (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
complete horn core. The fossil (ANSP 12990) was briefly described by Joseph Leidy in 1852. Although the original fossils were fragmentary, a complete skull...
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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden on the Platte River of Nebraska and sent to Joseph Leidy at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, who named them Felis...
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Amoeba proteus (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
Friedrich Müller referred to it as Proteus diffluens in 1786. In 1878, Joseph Leidy proposed the current name Amoeba proteus to describe Rösel's Proteus...
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The Dr. Joseph Leidy House is a historic residence located at 1319 Locust Street between S. 13th and S. Juniper Streets in the Washington Square West neighborhood...
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Trachodon (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
ceratopsids (their teeth have a distinctive double root), and its describer, Joseph Leidy, came to recognize the difference and suggested limiting the genus to...
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Uintatherium (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
parietal horn, and fragmentary postcrania. The following year, Marsh and Joseph Leidy collected in the Eocene Beds near Fort Bridger while Edward Cope, Marsh's...
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internationally known guests, including biologists Thomas Huxley and Joseph Leidy, astronomer Samuel Langley, scientist Lord Kelvin, Senators James Blaine...
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to them, for they still continue on Singing till they die. In 1851, Joseph Leidy described and illustrated the fungus that had apparently caused the abdominal...
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obtained by the geologist Joseph Granville Norwood from an Evansville collector, Francis A. Linck. The paleontologist Joseph Leidy determined that the specimen...
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Troodon (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
diet. The name was originally spelled Troödon (with a diaeresis) by Joseph Leidy in 1856, which was officially amended to its current status by Sauvage...
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palæontological discoveries." In 1848, a study On the fossil horses of America by Joseph Leidy systematically examined Pleistocene horse fossils from various collections...
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infection was unclear at the time. A decade later, American scientist Joseph Leidy pinpointed undercooked meat as the primary vector for the parasite, and...
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well as within their unique ecosystems. Naturalists such as American Joseph Leidy pushed for greater emphasis on the biological perspective in exhibits...
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Anthracotheriidae (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
Suborder: Whippomorpha Superfamily: Hippopotamoidea Family: †Anthracotheriidae Leidy, 1869 Genera and subfamilies †Anthracohyus †Anthracothema †Bugtitherium...
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1823 – Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist and academic (d. 1891) 1828 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author and playwright (d. 1910) 1834 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse...
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Oregon and the Trans-Pecos area of Texas. Archaeotherium was named by Joseph Leidy in 1850, based on a partial skull (ANSP 10609) recovered from the White...
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William White, applying a bandage to the patient; Dr. Joseph Leidy (nephew of paleontologist Joseph Leidy), taking the patient's pulse; and Dr. Ellwood R....
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Antrodemus (category Taxa named by Joseph Leidy)
valens, first described and named as a species of Poekilopleuron by Joseph Leidy in 1870. The first described fossil specimen was a bone obtained secondhand...
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