Richard Markgraf

Richard Markgraf
Markgraf in 1900
Born(1869-03-13)13 March 1869
Pressnitz, Austria-Hungary (now extinct Přísečnice, the Czech Republic)
DiedJanuary-March 1916 (aged 46)
Known fordiscovery of Spinosaurus
Scientific career
FieldsPaleontology

Richard Markgraf (13 March 1869 – January-March 1916) was a German Bohemian paleontologist. He is best remembered for his expeditions to Egypt, which discovered the first known remains of many extinct fossil reptiles, such as Aegyptosaurus, Tameryraptor and Spinosaurus.

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