Edwin H. Colbert

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Edwin H. Colbert is affiliated with the following schools: University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Columbia University

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PhD Zoology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Edwin Harris "Ned" Colbert was a distinguished American vertebrate paleontologist and prolific researcher and author. Born in Clarinda, Iowa, he grew up in Maryville, Missouri and graduated from Maryville High School. His father was George H. Colbert who was head of the mathematics department at Northwest Missouri State University and had been at the college since its founding in 1906.

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Siwalik mammals in the American Museum of natural history (1935) (430)
Nomenclature and correlation of the North American continental Tertiary (1941) (363)
EVOLUTION OF THE VERTEBRATES (1951) (229)
Pleistocene mammals from the limestone fissures of Szechwan, China. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 102, article 1 (1953) (147)
Fossil mammals from Burma in the American Museum of Natural History. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 74, article 6. (1938) (94)
A saurischian dinosaur from the Triassic of Brazil. American Museum novitates ; no. 2405 (1970) (92)
Colbert’s Evolution of the Vertebrates. A History of the Backboned Animals Through Time (1955) (75)
Temperature tolerances in the American alligator and their bearing on the habits, evolution, and extinction of the dinosaurs. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 86, article 7 (1946) (68)
Sebecus, representative of a peculiar suborder of fossil Crocodilia from Patagonia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 87, article 4 (1946) (65)
The small cretaceous dinosaur dormaeosaurus (1969) (62)
Dinosaurs: Their discovery and their world (1961) (60)
The small Cretaceous dinosaur Dromaeosaurus. American Museum novitates ; no. 2380 (1969) (58)
The Weights of Dinosaurs (2004) (55)
Triassic Tetrapods from Antarctica: Evidence for Continental Drift (1970) (53)
CORRELATION OF THE TRIASSIC FORMATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA EXCLUSIVE OF CANADA (1957) (51)
A new primate from the Upper Eocene Pondaung Formation of Burma. American Museum novitates ; no. 951 (1937) (49)
Dinosaur Systematics: Variation in Coelophysis bauri (1990) (49)
The Eustachian Tubes in the Crocodilia (1946) (48)
Aspects of vertebrate history: Essays in honor of Edwin Harris Colbert (1980) (45)
EVOLUTION OF THE HORNED DINOSAURS (1948) (44)
Stratigraphy and Life History (1965) (43)
The age of reptiles (1965) (41)
Bones for Barnum Brown: Adventures of a Dinosaur Hunter (1985) (41)
TETRAPOD EXTINCTIONS AT THE END OF THE TRIASSIC PERIOD. (1958) (40)
Hypsognathus, a Triassic reptile from New Jersey. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 86, article 5 (1946) (37)
Adaptations for gliding in the lizard Draco (1967) (37)
Studies of the phytosaurs Machaeroprosopus and Rutiodon. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 88, article 2 (1947) (36)
The weights of dinosaurs. American Museum novitates ; no. 2076 (1962) (32)
Chalicotheres from Mongolia and China in the American Museum. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 67, article 8 (1934) (31)
Wandering lands and animals (1973) (31)
Cretaceous dinosaur footprints from Western Australia (1967) (31)
A NEW PRIMATE FROM THE UPPER EOCENE PONDAUNG FORMATION OF BURMA By (30)
Lystrosaurus from Antarctica BY (29)
A New and Unusual Aquatic Reptile from the Lockatong Formation of New Jersey (Late Triassic, Newark Supergroup) (2001) (28)
Feeding strategies and metabolism in elephants and sauropod dinosaurs (1993) (28)
The Relationships of the Okapi (1938) (27)
A new rhinoceros from the Siwalik beds of India. American Museum novitates ; no. 749 (1934) (26)
Men and dinosaurs. The search in field and laboratory. (1968) (25)
Carnivora of the Tung Gur Formation of Mongolia. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 76, article 2. (1939) (25)
The Triassic reptile Procolophon in Antarctica. American Museum novitates ; no. 2566 (1975) (24)
Digging into the Past (1989) (23)
The ancestral crocodilian Protosuchus. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 97, article 3 (1951) (23)
THE TRIASSIC GLIDING REPTILE ICAROSAURUS (2004) (22)
Research on Early Man in Burma, with Supplementary Reports upon the Pleistocene Vertebrates and Mollusks of the Region, and Pleistocene Geology and Early Man in Java (1941) (22)
Tetrapods and Continents (1971) (22)
A skull and mandible of Giraffokeryx punjabiensis Pilgrim. American Museum novitates ; no. 632 (1933) (22)
Distributional and phylogenetic studies on Indian fossil mammals. 4, The phylogeny of the Indian Suidae and the origin of the Hippopotamidae. American Museum novitates ; no. 799 (1935) (21)
Labyrinthodont amphibians from Antarctica. American Museum novitates ; no. 2552 (1974) (20)
The dinosaur book (1951) (20)
Mesozoic reptiles, India and Gondwanaland (1984) (20)
Tertiary deer discovered by the American Museum Asiatic Expeditions. American Museum novitates ; no. 854 (1936) (20)
Men and dinosaurs (1968) (20)
Relationships of the saurischian dinosaurs. American Museum novitates ; no. 2181 (1964) (19)
Research on Early Man in Burma (1944) (18)
The osteology and relationships of Archaeomeryx, an ancestral ruminant. American Museum novitates ; no. 1135 (1941) (18)
A Gigantic Crocodile from the Upper Cretaceous Beds of Texas BY (17)
Triassic cynodont reptiles from Antarctica. American Museum novitates ; no. 2611 (1977) (17)
A gigantic crocodile from the Upper Cretaceous beds of Texas. American Museum novitates ; no. 1688 (1954) (16)
TERTIARY DEER DISCOVERED BY THE AMERICAN MUSEUM ASIATIC EXPEDITIONS ' BY (15)
A gliding reptile from the Triassic of New Jersey. American Museum novitates ; no. 2246 (1966) (15)
The problem of land connections across the South Atlantic, with special reference to the Mesozoic. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 99, article 3 (1952) (15)
A new fossil whale from the Miocene of Peru. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 83, article 3 (1944) (14)
The Little Dinosaurs Of Ghost Ranch (1995) (14)
Case 2840. Coelurus bauri Cope, 1887 (currently Coelophysis bauri; Reptilia, Saurischia): proposed replacement of the lectotype by a neotype (1992) (14)
Coelurosaur bone casts from the Connecticut Valley Triassic. American Museum novitates ; no. 1901 (1958) (13)
Dinosaurs: An Illustrated History (1983) (13)
On Being a Curator (1958) (12)
A pseudosuchian reptile from Arizona. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 99, article 10 (1952) (12)
A study of Orycteropus gaudryi from the Island of Samos. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 78, article 4. (1941) (12)
Carnosaurian footprints in the Lower Cretaceous of eastern Spitsbergen (1978) (12)
The great dinosaur hunters and their discoveries (1984) (11)
Rates of Temperature Increase in the Dinosaurs (1947) (11)
The distribution of Lystros aurus in pangaea and its implications (1982) (11)
Pleistocene mammals from the Ma Kai Valley of northern Yunnan, China. American Museum novitates ; no. 1099 (1940) (11)
A note on the Plio- Pleistocene boundary in the Siwalik series of India and in Java (1951) (11)
Life of an Evolutionist. (Book Reviews: William Diller Matthew, Paleontologist. The Splendid Drama Observed.) (1992) (10)
TRIASSIC METOPOSAURID AMPHIBIANS TRIASSIC METOPOSAURID AMPHIBIANS (2004) (10)
Two new rodents from the Lower Siwalik beds of India. American Museum novitates ; no. 633 (1933) (10)
Lystrosaurus from Antarctica. American Museum novitates ; no. 2535 (1974) (10)
Some Mississippian footprints from Indiana (1947) (10)
A NEW CRETACEOUS PLESIOSAUR FROM VENEZUELA BY (10)
The Triassic reptile Prolacerta in Antarctica. American Museum novitates ; no. 2882 (1987) (10)
Evolution of the vertebrates : a history of the backboned anlimals through time / Edwin H. Colbert (1980) (10)
Notes on the lesser one-horned rhinoceros, Rhinoceros sondaicus. 2, The position of Rhinoceros sondaicus in the phylogeny of the genus Rhinoceros. American Museum novitates ; no. 1207 (1942) (10)
The Triassic dinosaur genera Podokesaurus and Coelophysis. American Museum novitates ; no. 2168 (1964) (10)
A new anchitheriine horse from the Tung Gur Formation of Mongolia. American Museum novitates ; no. 1019 (1939) (10)
A Jurassic pterosaur from Cuba. American Museum novitates ; no. 2370 (1969) (10)
Scaloposaurian reptiles from the Triassic of Antarctica. American Museum novitates ; no. 2709 (1981) (9)
EXPLOSIVE EVOLUTION (1953) (9)
21. THE RECORD OF CLIMATIC CHANGES AS REVEALED BY VERTEBRATE PALEOECOLOGY (1953) (9)
Some cervid teeth from the Tung Gur Formation of Mongolia, and additional notes on the genera Stephanocemas and Lagomeryx. American Museum novitates ; no. 1062 (1940) (9)
A phytosaur from North Bergen, New Jersey. American Museum novitates ; no. 2230 (1965) (8)
Triassic Vertebrates of the Wind River Basin (1957) (8)
A study of Tetrameryx and associated fossils from Papago Spring Cave, Sonoita, Arizona. American Museum novitates ; no. 1034 (1939) (8)
The dinosaur book : the ruling reptiles and their relatives (1945) (8)
Distributional and phylogenetic studies of Indian fossil mammals (7)
A Fossil-Hunter's Notebook: My Life with Dinosaurs and Other Friends (1980) (7)
Scales in the Permian Amphibian Trimerorhachis (2004) (7)
What is a Museum?1 (1961) (7)
SOME CERVID TEETH FROM THE TUNG GUR FORMATION OF MONGOLIA , AND ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE GENERA STEPHANOCEMAS AND LAGOMERYX 1 BY (7)
Paleontologist; biologist or geologist (1948) (7)
The skull of Dissopsalis carnifex Pilgrim, a Miocene creodont from India. American Museum novitates ; no. 603 (1933) (7)
II .-CARNIVORA OF THE TUNG GUR FORMATION OF MONGOLIA 1 BY (7)
Dinosaur stapes. American Museum novitates ; no. 1900 (1958) (6)
The origin of the dog (1953) (6)
Lystrosaurus and Gondwanaland (1972) (6)
AN UPPER TERTIARY PECCARY FROM INDIA BY (6)
ENVIRONMENT AND ADAPTATIONS OF CERTAIN DINOSAURS (1951) (6)
Scales in the Permian amphibian Trimerorhachis. American Museum novitates ; no. 1740 (1955) (6)
A new Cretaceous plesiosaur from Venezuela. American Museum novitates ; no. 1420 (1949) (5)
Palaeotragus in the Tung Gur Formation of Mongolia. American Museum novitates ; no. 874 (1936) (5)
Brachyhyops, a new bunodont Artiodactyle from Beaver Divide, Wyoming (1938) (4)
The mammal-like reptile Lycaenops. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 89, article 6 (1948) (4)
FUNCTIONS OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY IN THE EARTH SCIENCES (1947) (4)
Distributional and phylogenetic studies on Indian fossil mammals. 2, The correlation of the Siwaliks of India as inferred by the migrations of Hipparion and Equus. American Museum novitates ; no. 797 (1935) (4)
The Proper Use of the Generic Name Nestoritherium (1935) (4)
Digging into the past : an autobiography (1989) (4)
An Upper Tertiary peccary from India. American Museum novitates ; no. 635 (1933) (4)
DISTRIBUTIONAL AND PHYLOGENETIC STUDIES ON INDIAN FOSSIL MAMMALS . II THE CORRELATION OF THE SIWALIKS OF INDIA AS INFERRED BY THE MIGRATIONS OF HIPPARION AND EQUUS BY (4)
The hyoid bones in Protoceratops and in Psittacosaurus. American Museum novitates ; no. 1301 (1945) (3)
The presence of tubulidentates in the Middle Siwalik beds of northern India. American Museum novitates ; no. 604 (1933) (3)
Mesozoic tetrapods and the northward migration of India (1975) (3)
A New Triassic Procolophonid from Pennsylvania BY (3)
The Paleozoic Museum in Central Park, or the Museum that Never Was (1959) (3)
Distributional and phylogenetic studies on Indian fossil mammals. 5, The classification and the phylogeny of the Giraffidae. American Museum novitates ; no. 800 (1935) (3)
The ancestors of mammals. (1949) (3)
WAS THE EXTINCT GIRAFFE (SIVATHERIUM) KNOWN TO THE EARLY SUMERIANS (1936) (3)
1939 A NEW ANCHITHERITNE HORSE FROM THE TUNG GUR A NEW ANCHITHERIINE HORSE FROM THE TUNG GUR FORMATION OF MONGOLIA 1 BY (2)
Evolutionary growth rates in the dinosaurs. (1949) (2)
The Ancestral Ursid, Hemicyon , in Nebraska (1941) (2)
A new mustelid from the Lower Siwalik beds of northern India. American Museum novitates ; no. 605 (2)
An Upper Miocene suid from the Gobi Desert. American Museum novitates ; no. 690 (1934) (2)
A Miocene oreodont from Jackson Hole, Wyoming (1943) (2)
Wandering Lands and Animals: The Story of Continental Drift and Animal Populations (1974) (2)
The Migrations of Cenozoic Mammals (1939) (2)
Distributional and phylogenetic studies on Indian fossil mammals. 3, A classification of the Chalicotherioidea. American Museum novitates ; no. 798 (1935) (2)
Old Bones, and What to Do About Them (1965) (2)
Tetrapods and the Permian-Triassic Transition (1973) (2)
The Triassic paleontology of Ghost Ranch (1974) (2)
The year of the dinosaur (1977) (2)
Book Review:Dinosaur Imagery: The Science of Lost Worlds and Jurassic Art (2001) (2)
Triassic metoposaurid amphibians. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 110, article 6 (1956) (2)
Roy Chapman Andrews, Explorer. (1960) (2)
The Triassic gliding reptile Icarosaurus. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 143, article 2 (1970) (1)
A mastodont tooth from Szechwan, China / (1951) (1)
Phylogeny and the Dimension of Time (1963) (1)
THE SKULL AND MANDIBLE OF CONOHYUS , A PRIMITIVE SUID FROM THE SIWALIK BEDS OF INDIA BY (2004) (1)
Petrified Forest Through the Ages, 75th Anniversary Symposium, November 7, 1981 (1985) (1)
The skull and mandible of Conohyus, a primitive suid from the Siwalik beds of India. American Museum novitates ; no. 621 (1933) (1)
An outline of vertebrate evolution (1983) (1)
Notice of a new genus and species of artiodactyl from the upper Eocene of Wyoming (1937) (1)
Adaptations for gliding in the lizard Draco. American Museum novitates ; no. 2283 (1967) (1)
Further Evidence Concerning the Presence of Horse at Ventana Cave (1973) (1)
EARTH RHYTHMS AND EVOLUTION (1951) (1)
Remarks on the use of the name "Valentine" (1938) (1)
SECTIONS OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY: The Pleistocene Faunas of Asia and Their Relationships to Early Man (1942) (1)
Bobb Schaeffer, a biographical sketch (1984) (1)
The University in the Museum (1965) (1)
Early History of the Sauropsid Reptiles (1957) (1)
The Triassic reptile, Poposaurus / Edwin H. Colbert -- (1961) (1)
SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY: TRIASSIC LIFE IN THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES (1948) (1)
Inexpensive Racks for the Storage of Large Specimens (1961) (1)
The appearance of new adaptations in Triassic tetrapods. (1965) (1)
The Museum and Geological Research (1960) (1)
Comments On The Proposed Designation Of A Neotype For Coelophysis Bauri (1993) (1)
Animals on the march (1937) (1)
A Census of the Determinable Genera of the Stegocephalia. Transactions of The American Philosophical Society. Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, New Series-Volume XXXV, Part IV.E. C. Case (1947) (0)
Distributional and phylogenetic studies on Indian fossil mammals. 1, American Museum collecting localities in northern India. American Museum novitates ; no. 796 (1935) (0)
DARWIN'S JOURNAL AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS (1952) (0)
Book Reviews: Traite de Paleontologie. vol. V, Amphibiens, Reptiles, Oiseaux (1956) (0)
Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles.W. E. Swinton (1955) (0)
THE ANTECEDENTS OF MAN (1960) (0)
Book Review:The Permian Reptile Araeoscelis Restudied. Peter Paul Vaughn (1957) (0)
Research on Early Man in Burma@@@Supplementary Reports upon the Pleistocene Vertebrates and Mollusks of the Region@@@Pleistocene Geology and Early Man in Java (1944) (0)
Hunting for Dinosaurs. Zofia KIELAN JAWOROWSKA. Translated from the Polish. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1969. xiv + 178 pp., illus. $7.95 (1970) (0)
Earth Rhythms and Evolution@@@Symphony of the Earth. (1951) (0)
Excavating in Mongolia: Hunting for Dinosaurs . Zofia Kielan Jaworowska. Translated from the Polish. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1969. xiv + 178 pp., illus. $7.95. (1970) (0)
LXXIV.—Breathing habits of the sauropod dinosaurs (1952) (0)
Some studies of adaptations in dentitions of mammals, including man☆ (1939) (0)
Tetrapods and the Permian-Triassic Transition [Abstract] (1971) (0)
Lone Star Dinosaurs.Louis Jacobs (1997) (0)
1939 A STUDY OF TETRAMERYX AND ASSOCIATED FOSSILS FROM PAPAGO SPRING CAVE , SONOITA , ARIZONA BY (0)
Illustration of fossil vertebrates. (1960) (0)
Life on the Wandering Continents@@@Wandering Lands and Animals (1974) (0)
Antlers in America: Ossicones in Africa (1996) (0)
Elephants . A short account of their natural history, evolution, and influence on mankind. Richard Carrington. Basic Books, New York, 1959. 272 pp. Illus. + plates. $5. (1959) (0)
Louis Jacobs: Quest for the African Dinosaurs—Ancient Roots of the Modern World (1994) (0)
New Space, New Wings (1965) (0)
A new and unusual aquatic reptile from the Lockatong Formation of New Jersey (late Triassic, Newark Supergroup). American Museum novitates ; no. 3334 (2001) (0)
Book Review:Origins of the Higher Groups of Tetrapods: Controversy and Consensus. Hans-Peter Schultze, Linda Trueb (1993) (0)
A new Triassic procolophonid from Pennsylvania. American Museum novitates ; no. 2022 (1960) (0)
Studies of Cenozoic vertebrates of western North America (1938) (0)
A mastodont tooth from Szechwan, China / Dirk A. Hooijer -- and Edwin H. Colbert --. (1951) (0)
Kings of Creation: How a New Breed of Scientists is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Dinosaurs. Don Lessem (1993) (0)
Darwin's Journal and Other Publications@@@Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H. M. S. Beagle. (1952) (0)
Vertebrate Paleontology . (2nd Ed.) Alfred Sherwood Romer. Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press, 1945. Pp. ix + 687. (Illustrated.) $7.50. (1946) (0)
W. D. Matthew's Early Western Field Trips (1990) (0)
Support for the proposal by Donald Baird on the generic names Anchisauripus Lull, 1904, and Otouphepus Cushman, 1904 (Class Reptilia: Theropoda [Ichnites]) (1957) (0)
Bone Casts from the Connecticut Valley Triassic BY (0)
Wandering Lands and Animals: The Epic Story of the Drifting Continents and the Spread of Their Animals through the Ages (1974) (0)
Millions of years ago : prehistoric life in North America (1958) (0)
14. Antarctic Fossils and the Reconstruction of Gondwanaland (1987) (0)
Criteria for the Recognition of Species and Subspecies in Upper Triassic Metoposaurid Amphibians (1955) (0)
Number 1099 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY December 31 , 1940 New York City PLEISTOCENE MAMMALS FROM THE MA KAI VALLEY OF NORTHERN YUNNAN , CHINA 1 BY (0)
Getting acquainted with science (1962) (0)
Triassic rocks and fossils (1960) (0)
SECTION OF GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY: GIANT DINOSAURS* (1955) (0)
Labyr inthodont Amphibians from Antarctica (0)
Review of the Labyrinthodontia.Alfred Sherwood Romer (1948) (0)

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