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    Charles Léo Lesquereux (November 18, 1806 – October 25, 1889) was a Swiss-born bryologist and a pioneer of American paleobotany who studied the formation...
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    scientists. Early research included the Cretaceous plant discoveries made by Leo Lesquereux. During the Precambrian, Minnesota was covered by an ocean. Contemporary...
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    of North America. They were first described as †Pistia corrugata by Leo Lesquereux in 1876 based on specimens from the Almond Formation of Wyoming (late...
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    and would often crumble with fossils still hidden inside. In turn, Leo Lesquereux's 1883 monograph described and named many new specimens obtained by Scudder...
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    (posthumously completed by Leo Lesquereux and Asa Gray) Manual of Mosses of North America (1884) (posthumously completed by Leo Lesquereux and Thomas P. James)...
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  • were monographed as early as 1874 by Leo Lesquereux for the United States Geological Survey. In 1892, Lesquereux published one such fossil as Carpites...
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    any species and is considered defunct. The genus is named in honor of Leo Lesquereux, 1805–1889, Swiss and American botanist. Genus: Lesquerella S. Watson...
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    Rupelian. Fossils now placed in Florissantia were first reported by Leo Lesquereux (1883) from the Florissant Formation and described as the morning glory...
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    the early 1870s, and fossil plants from the beds were described by Leo Lesquereux, fossil insects by Samuel Hubbard Scudder, and vertebrate fossils by...
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    also a mention of Blytt in correspondence between the Swiss botanist Leo Lesquereux and George W. Clinton, then President of the Buffalo Society of Natural...
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