Ray S. Bassler
American geologist and paleontologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ray Smith Bassler was an American geologist and paleontologist. Biography Bassler was born in 1878, in Philadelphia. When he was in high school he used to sell fossils for Edward Oscar Ulrich. He got his bachelor's degree in 1902 from the University of Cincinnati, and received master's degree in 1903 and Ph.D. in 1905 from George Washington University. Starting from 1904 to 1948 he was an assistant professor there. From 1905 to 1931 he was working with Ferdinand Canu of France on Tertiary Polyzoa of the Atlantic and Gulf coastss. Starting from 1910 to 1922 he was working as a curator for the Division of Paleontology and for the Division of Stratigraphic Paleontology from 1923 to 1928 at the United States National Museum. By 1929 he was appointed as a head curator of the Department of Geology, a job that he kept till his promotion to associate in Paleontology in 1948. He died in 1961.
Ray S. Bassler's Published Works
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- Bibliographic and Faunal Index of Paleozoic Pelmatozoan Echinoderms (1943) (188)
- North American early tertiary Bryozoa (1922) (165)
- An Outline of a Reclassification of the Foraminifera . By Joseph A. Cushman. Contributions from the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research, Vol. 3, pt. 1, 1927, pp. 1-105, 21 plates. Published by the author at Sharon, Mass. (1927) (129)
- A classification of the toothlike fossils, conodonts, with descriptions of American Devonian and Mississippian species (127)
- Bibliographic index of Paleozoic Ostracoda (1934) (81)
- Fossil and Recent Bryozoa of the Gulf of Mexico region (81)
- Classification of the cheilostomatous Bryozoa (70)
- Faunal Lists and Descriptions of Paleozoic Corals (1950) (65)
- New American Paleozoic Ostracoda. Notes and descriptions of Upper Carboniferous genera and species (62)
- New American Paleozoic Ostracoda. Preliminary revision of the Beyrichiidae, with descriptions of new genera (61)
- Cambrian bivalved Crustacea of the order Conchostraca (1931) (56)
- Studies on the cyclostomatous Bryozoa (51)
- The stratigraphy of the central basin of Tennessee (1932) (49)
- Nomenclatorial notes on fossil and recent Bryozoa (1936) (47)
- THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY. (1914) (34)
- Cambrian and Ordovician (31)
- The bryozoan fauna of the Vincentown limesand (1933) (31)
- The bryozoan fauna of the Galapagos Islands (29)
- the classification of the edrioasteroidea (1935) (29)
- A study of the James types of Ordovician and Silurian Bryozoa (27)
- The bryozoan fauna of the Rochester shale (24)
- The Hederelloidea, a suborder of Paleozoic cyclostoraatous Bryozoa (1939) (22)
- A supposed jellyfish from the pre-Cambrian of the Grand Canyon (1941) (22)
- A revision of the paleozoic bryozoa. Part 1 (20)
- New genera of American Middle Ordovician "Cystoidea." (1950) (16)
- The paleozoic rugose coral family Paleocyclidae (1937) (14)
- Corynotrypa, a new genus of tubuliporoid Bryozoa (13)
- The Nevada early Ordovician (Pogonip) sponge fauna (1941) (13)
- Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, Held at Ithaca, New York, December 29–31, 1924 (1925) (12)
- Bibliographic index of American Ordovician and Silurian fossils, by Ray S. Bassler. (9)
- New Ordovician cystidean echinoderms from Oklahoma (1943) (8)
- Cambrian and Ordovician / Maryland Geological Survey. (7)
- New species of Tertiary cheilostome Bryozoa from Victoria, Australia (with nine plates) (1935) (6)
- Part III. Cretaceous bryozoan from Georges Bank (1936) (6)
- A synopsis of American fossil Bryozoa, including bibliography and synonymy / by John M. Nickles and Ray S. Bassler. (6)
- New species of American Edrioasteroidea (with seven plates) (1936) (5)
- North American early Tertiary Bryozoa by Ferdinand Canu ... and Ray S. Bassler ... (5)
- Upper Cretaceous / Maryland Geological Survey. (4)
- The late Niagaran strata of west Tennessee (4)
- Part G, Bryozoa, Ch. 1, p.1-90 (1953) (4)
- The Bryozoa of the Galapagos Islands (3)
- Maryland geological survey : Upper cretaceous (3)
- Contributions to the biology of the Philippine Archipelago and adjacent regions. Bryozoa of the Philippine region (3)
- Parafavosites and similar tabulate corals (1944) (3)
- Generic descriptions of Upper Paleozoic Bryozoa (1941) (2)
- Development of Invertebrate Paleontology in America (1933) (2)
- Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 28-29, 1910 (2)
- Shelled invertebrates of the past and present (1931) (2)
- THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY. (2)
- American and European Tertiary Bryozoa (1924) (1)
- Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Albany, New York, December 27, 28, and 29, 1916 (1)
- Bryozoa of the Canal Zone and related areas (1)
- Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Washington, D. C., December 27–29, 1923. (1924) (1)
- THE PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY. (1914) (1)
- The Smithsonian; pioneer in American geology. (1946) (1)
- Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Baltimore, Maryland, December 28, 1918 (1)
- Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the West Indies. Prepared under the direction of Thomas Wayland Vaughan. (1)
- Shelled invertebrates of the past and present, by R.S. Bassler, Charles E. Resser and others. (1931) (0)
- Foraminifera: Foraminifera, Their Classification and Economic Use, second edition, and An Illustrated Key to the Genera of Foraminifera . By Joseph A. Cushman, Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research, Special Publication Nos. 4 and 5. Sharon, Massachusetts, 1933. (1933) (0)
- The Smithsonian: Pioneer in American Geology. (1946) (0)
- Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 31, 1917, and January 1 and 2, 1918 (0)
- Record Unit 543 Personnel Records, circa 1940-1980 (1940) (0)
- Part G, Bryozoa, Ch. 3, p. 147-236 (1953) (0)
- Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, Held at Washington, D. C., December 26–28, 1929 (1930) (0)
- Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 29, 30, and 31, 1914 (0)
- Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Ann Arbor, Michigan, December 28–30, 1922 (1923) (0)
- Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Madison, Wisconsin, December 27–29, 1926 (1927) (0)
- Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at New Haven, Connecticut, December 28–30, 1925. (1926) (0)
- Accession 16-008 Ray S. Bassler Papers, 1899-1925 (0)
- Record Unit 7234 Ray S. Bassler Papers, 1875-1961 and undated (0)
- Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Amherst, Massachusetts, December 28–30, 1921 (0)
- Symposium on ten years’ progress in Vertebrate Paleontology (0)
- Part G, Bryozoa, Ch. 2, p. 90-147 (1953) (0)
- Part G, Bryozoa, References and Index (1953) (0)
- Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Boston, Massachusetts, December 30–31, 1919 (0)
- Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Chicago, Illinois, December 28–30, 1920 (0)
- The stratigraphy of a deep well at Waverly, Ohio (0)
- Poetry of the Rocks (1934) (0)
- Map Showing the Distribution of the Cambrian and Ordovician Formations of Maryland (0)
- Part G, Bryozoa, Front Matter (1953) (0)
- The American Paleontological Society (1924) (0)
- Cement materials of western Virginia (1908) (0)
- Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Cleveland, Ohio, December 29–31, 1927 (1928) (0)
- Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Washington, D. C., December 28, 29, and 30, 1911 (0)
- Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at New Haven, Connecticut, December 30 and 31, 1912 (0)
- Part G, Bryozoa, Complete Volume (1953) (0)
- Conference of the faunal criteria in Paleozoic Paleogeography (0)
- Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Washington, District of Columbia, December 29, 30, and 31, 1915. (0)
- Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at New York City, December 27–29, 1928 (1929) (0)
- Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Paleontological Society, held at Princeton, New Jersey, December 31, 1913, and January 1, 1914 (0)
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