Leo George Hertlein

Leo George Hertlein is a paleontologist and a American malacologist , born in 1898 with Comté Pratt (Kansas) and died in 1972.

It is graduate at the university of Wichita (Kansas). It settles on the west coast and between with the Université of Oregon as geologist major. After having obtained its Bachelor off Arts , it is registered with the Université Stanford. It receives its doctorate in 1929 with a thesis on the Fossile S of the Pliocène of the area of San Diego (California). In 1929, Hertlein becomes preserving off assisting in the department of paleontology of the California Academy Sciences before becoming member of this institution and dealing with the conservation of the paleontology of the Invertébré S.

He travels in the years 1930 in the Galapagos and Central America. He makes appear more than one hundred fifty publications, mainly on the Mollusque S, the echinodermatous S and the current or fossil Brachiopode S of California, the Oregon, the State of Washington and the Mexico. Hertlein frequently works with its former school-fellow, Ulysses Simpson Grant IV (1893-1977), specialist in fossil molluscs of California.

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Translation of the article of English language of Wikipédia (version of November 4th, 2006).

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