Edward Oscar Ulrich was an invertebrate

Invertebrate

An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone. The group includes 97% of all animal species – all animals except those in the chordate subphylum Vertebrata .Invertebrates form a paraphyletic group...

 paleontologist specializing in the study of Paleozoic

Paleozoic

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 fossil

Fossil

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Biography

Ulrich was educated at Wallace College and the Ohio Medical College. Abandoning the practice of medicine, he became curator of the Natural History Society of Cincinnati, and later was paleontologist to geological surveys of Illinois

Illinois

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, Minnesota

Minnesota

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, and Ohio

Ohio

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, also associate editor for ten years of the American Geologist.

Ulrich was a prolific writer, publishing numerous pamphlets on the subject of American paleontology, treating particularly the fossil Bryozoa

Bryozoa

The Bryozoa, also known as Ectoprocta or commonly as moss animals, are a phylum of aquatic invertebrate animals. Typically about long, they are filter feeders that sieve food particles out of the water using a retractable lophophore, a "crown" of tentacles lined with cilia...

, Gastropoda

Gastropoda

The Gastropoda or gastropods, more commonly known as snails and slugs, are a large taxonomic class within the phylum Mollusca. The class Gastropoda includes snails and slugs of all kinds and all sizes from microscopic to quite large...

, Ostracoda, and Pelecypoda. In 1930 he was awarded the Mary Clark Thompson Medal

Mary Clark Thompson Medal

The Mary Clark Thompson Medal is awarded by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences "for most important service to geology and paleontology." Named after Mary Clark Thompson, it was first awarded in 1921.- List of Mary Clark Thompson Medal winners :...

 from the National Academy of Sciences

United States National Academy of Sciences

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, and he was awarded the Penrose Medal

Penrose Medal

The Penrose Medal was created in 1927 by R.A.F. Penrose, Jr. as the top prize awarded by the Geological Society of America to those who advance the study of geoscience.-Award winners:* 2011 Paul F. Hoffman* 2010 Eric J. Essene* 2009 B. Clark Burchfiel...

 in 1932.

External links

• works by Edward Oscar Ulrich at Internet Archive
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