George F. Sternberg
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 55 years ago |
Date of birth | August 26,1883 |
Zodiac sign | Virgo |
Born | Lawrence |
Kansas | |
United States | |
Died | Hays |
Kansas | |
United States | |
Date of died | October 23,1969 |
Siblings | Levi Sternberg |
Parents | Charles Hazelius Sternberg |
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ID | 4399032 |
George F. Sternberg Life story
George Fryer Sternberg was a paleontologist best known for his discovery in Gove County, Kansas of the "fish-within-a-fish" of Xiphactinus audax with a recently eaten Gillicus arcuatus within its stomach. Sternberg was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and began leading fossil-hunting expeditions in the early 1900s.