George Herbert Girty | |
Birth Date: | 1869 |
Death Date: | 1939 |
Workplaces: | United States Geological Survey |
Alma Mater: | Stanford University Yale University |
George Herbert Girty (1869–1939) was an American paleontologist.
Girty was educated at Yale University, where he obtained his PhD in 1894. During his postgraduate year at Stanford University in 1895, he was appointed as a paleontologist, and worked for the United States Geological Survey. He kept that position till he retired 44 years later. He is best known for his research on Permian faunas and for researches of Mississippian and Pennsylvanian invertebrates, in the Western United States.[1]
During his lifetime he wrote only one book:
He also co-authored in writing a book called: