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Wann Langston Jr.

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bonebed. Langston, along with a small team of fieldworkers, excavated the Scabby Butte bonebed in 1957, securing several skulls and several hundred bones there. He then went on in 1963 to the University of Texas, where in 1969 he became the second director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory,
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Langston Jr., W. 1965. Fossil crocodilians from Colombia and the Cenozoic History of the Crocodylia in South America. University of California Publications of Geological Sciences, 52: 1-127.
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Langston died of natural causes a few days after a Geological Society of America symposium held in his honor at the South Central Geological Society of America meeting in Austin, Texas.
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Langston Jr., W. 1975. The ceratopsian dinosaurs and associated lower vertebrates from the St. Mary River Formation (Maestrichtian) at Scabby Butte, southern Alberta.
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Langston Jr., W. 1963. Fossil vertebrates and the Late Paleozoic red beds of Prince Edward Island. National Museum of Canada, Bulletin 187, 36 p.
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Langston Jr., W. 1976. A late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna from the St. Mary River Formation in western Canada. in Churcher, C.S. (ed.):
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Langston worked on a number of different reptiles and amphibians in his long career, beginning with the 1950 description (with
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reptiles. He retired in 1986, but continued to be active in the field. In 2007, Langston was the twentieth recipient of the
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until 1962. One of his major finds, with Loris Russell, was the rediscovery of Sternberg's Scabby Butte
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Langston Jr., W. 1960. The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama. Part VI. The dinosaurs.
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Langston Jr., W., & J.W. Durham. 1955. A sauropod dinosaur from Colombia.
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Langston Jr., W. 1952. The first embolomerous amphibians from New Mexico.
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Langston Jr., W. 1967. The thick-headed ceratopsian dinosaur
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Langston Jr., W. 1974. Nonmammalian Comanchean tetrapods.
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Presidents of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
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where he worked on many projects, including work on
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Index

Wann Langston, Jr.
paleontologist
professor
University of Texas at Austin
J. Willis Stovall
theropod
dinosaur
Acrocanthosaurus
National Museum of Canada
Charles M. Sternberg
Canada
Prince Edward Island
Pachyrhinosaurus
Cretaceous
vertebrates
Big Bend National Park
pterosaur
Quetzalcoatlus
Permian
Mesozoic
Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
A. S. Romer
G. G. Simpson
carcharodontosaurid
hadrosauroid
Lophorhothon
microsaur
Carrolla
azdarchid
Wellnhopterus

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