GEOL 008 Lecture 15: 15 - The Bone Wars
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Nephew of multi millionaire philanthropist george peabody. Peabody museum of natural history at yale, marsh became chair of. Mostly hired workers to find things for him. First met at berlin national history museum in 1864. Maintained correspondence shared notes and fossils and photos. Cope collected from bone fields in nj where leidy"s hadrosaurus had been found. 1866 nj - the carnivorous enemy of the great herbivorous hadrosaurus . Cope rushed to publish the name laelaps. Name already taken, 1877, marsh renames cope"s dino dryptosaurus (tearing. 1868 - cope"s rush to publish led him to reconstruct elasmosaurus wrong, he put the skull on the tail. Marsh and leidy called out the error, humiliating cope. A dino rush began during the 1870s. Cope joined the us geological survey,later army corps of engineers. Cope and marsh competed to outdo each other. Re -discovered and renamed 22 times by cope and marsh.
