{{short description|American paleontologist (1857–1944)}} [[File:ULRICH, E.O. DOCTOR LCCN2016860650.jpg|thumb|right|Edward Oscar Ulrich in 1905]] '''Edward Oscar Ulrich''' (1 February 1857, in [[Covington, Kentucky]] – 22 February 1944, in [[Washington, D.C.]]) was an [[invertebrate]] [[paleontologist]] specializing in the study of [[Paleozoic]] [[fossil]]s.
==Biography== Ulrich was educated at Wallace College and the Ohio Medical College.<ref name="SIA1">{{cite web | title=Ulrich, Edward Oscar, 1857–1944, Edward Oscar Ulrich Papers | work=Accession 10-188 | publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution Archives]] | url=http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_293066 | access-date=9 March 2012}}</ref> Abandoning the practice of medicine, he became curator of the [[Cincinnati Society of Natural History]] in 1877,<ref name="SIA1"/> and later was paleontologist to geological surveys of [[Illinois]], [[Minnesota]], and [[Ohio]], 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]], [[Gastropoda]], [[Ostracoda]], and [[Pelecypoda]]. In 1930, he was awarded the [[Mary Clark Thompson Medal]] from the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]],<ref name="SIA1"/><ref name=Thompson>{{cite web|title=Mary Clark Thompson Medal |url=http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_thompson |publisher=National Academy of Sciences |access-date=14 February 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229195631/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_thompson |archive-date=29 December 2010 }}</ref> and he was awarded the [[Penrose Medal]] in 1932.<ref name="SIA1"/>
In [[1926 in paleontology|1926]], with [[Ray S. Bassler]], he described the conodont genus ''[[Ancyrodella]]'',<ref>A classification of the toothlike fossils, conodonts, with descriptions of American Devonian and Mississippian species. EO Ulrich and RS Bassler, 1926</ref>
==Legacy== An extinct species of [[graptolite]], ''[[Climacograptus]]'' ''ulrichi'', was named for him in 1908.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Ruedemann|first=Rudolph|date=1908|title=Graptolites of New York, Part 2, Graptolites of the Higher Beds|journal=New York State Museum Memoir|volume=11|pages=412–413, 364–365, pl. 28, figs. 10, 11}}</ref>
''[[Bactritimimus]]'' ''ulrichi'', an extinct [[Carboniferous]] [[belemnite]], was named in honor of Ulrich in 1959.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Flower|first1=Rousseau H.|last2=Gordon Jr.|first2=Mackenzie|date=September 1959|title=More Mississippian belemnites|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1300916|journal=Journal of Paleontology|volume=33|issue=5|pages=809–842|jstor=1300916}}</ref>
In 2002, an extinct [[genus]] of [[monoplacophora|monoplacophorans]], ''[[Ulrichoconus]]'', was named in his honor for his geological studies of the [[Ozarks|Ozark Plateaus]].<ref name="StinchcombAngeli">{{cite journal |last1=Stinchcomb |first1=Bruce |last2=Angeli |first2=Nicholas |title=New Cambrian and Lower Ordovician monoplacophorans form the Ozark Uplift, Missouri |journal=Journal of Paleontology |date=2002 |volume=76 |issue=6 |pages=965–974|doi=10.1017/S0022336000057802 |bibcode=2002JPal...76..965S |s2cid=232348206 }}</ref>
==Notes== {{Reflist}}
==References== * [http://siarchives.si.edu/findingaids/FARU7332.htm Smithsonian Institution Archives – Record Unit 7332 – Edward Oscar Ulrich Papers] William Cox * {{Cite journal |last=Ruedemann |first=Rudolf |url=http://books.nap.edu/html/biomems/eulrich.pdf|journal=National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs|volume=XXIV|title=Edward Oscar Ulrich 1857–1944}} '''Attribution:''' *{{Appletons'|wstitle=Ulrich, Edward Oscar|year=1900}}
==Further reading== * {{Cite journal |last=Bassler |first=Ray S. |title=Memorial to Edward Oscar Ulrich|journal=Proceedings of the Geological Society of America|year=1944|pages=331–351}}
== External links == * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Edward Oscar Ulrich}}
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