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John Campbell Merriam
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American paleontologist, educator, and conservationist (1869โ€“1945)
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John Campbell Merriam (October 20, 1869 โ€“ October 30, 1945) was an American paleontologist, educator, and conservationist. The first vertebrate paleontologist on the West Coast of the United States, he is best known for his taxonomy of vertebrate fossils at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, particularly with the genus Smilodon, more commonly...

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Human
Member of
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences
American Philosophical Society
Occupation
Paleontologist
university teacher
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