George Fryer Sternberg (1883–1969) was an American 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.[1] He became field paleontologist and curator of the museum of natural history at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas in 1927.
George F. Sternberg was the son of Charles Hazelius Sternberg and nephew of Brigadier General George M. Sternberg (1838–1915). The Sternberg Museum of Natural History at Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas is named for his work and contributions to paleontology. The surname also honors the Sternberg fossil-hunting family, including his father, Charles Hazelius Sternberg (1850–1943), and his brother Charles Mortram Sternberg (1885–1981).[2]
Sternberg formed a mentor relationship with Marion Charles Bonner of Leoti, Kansas, and through this relationship acquired many fossils from the Niobrara Cretaceous chalk for the museum's displays and archives. The most notable specimen Bonner donated and Sternberg prepared for display was a nearly complete Dolichorhynchops osbornii in 1956.[3]
Sternberg retired from the museum in 1961. He died October 23, 1969.[4]
References
- ^ "George F. Sternberg - Kansas Historical Society". www.kshs.org. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ^ "Sternberg Museum of Natural History - Sternberg Museum of Natureal History". sternberg.fhsu.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ^ "Keystone Gallery - Fossils - Bonner Family Fossil History Page 1".
- ^ "George F. Sternberg - Kansapedia - Kansas Historical Society". www.kshs.org. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
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