Annie Montague Alexander

Paleontologist Name: Annie Montague Alexander
Education: malacology
Date of Birth: 1867-1950
Research with: Dinosaurs collection of fossils
Worked on dinosaurs type:
Country: United States
Paleontologist Source: Annie Montague Alexander

Paleontologist Scenario:

  • She was an American philanthropist and paleontological collector.
  • She established the University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), and financed their collections as well as a series of paleontological expeditions to the western United States at the turn of the 20th century.
  • She took part in many of these expeditions, gathering a significant collection of fossils and exotic game animals in her own right.

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