Donald Leslie Frizzell

Donald Leslie Frizzell (19 October 1906, in Bellingham, Washington – 17 October 1972, in Jefferson City, Missouri) was an American paleontologist, geologist and malacologist. He is honored in the bivalve name Pitar frizzelli Hertlein & Strong, 1948.

Early life and education Don L. Frizzell was born on 19 October 1906 in Bellingham, Washington. He attended grade school in White Bird, Idaho.

In 1926, Frizzell entered the University of Washington in Seattle where he received master's degree in zoology under the direction of Professor Kincaid.

In 1959, Frizzell was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for a two-year (1959 to 1961) study of "Recent otoliths and the Eocene-Oligocene otoliths of the Gulf Coast".

Frizzell kept teaching activities until September 1972. He died at Jefferson City, Missouri, in Still Hospital on 17 October 1972.

Frizzell is honored in the bivalve name Pitar frizzelli Hertlein & Strong, 1948.

Books and publications 1928. Frizzell, Don L. "Pododesmus macroschisma Deshayes". In: Nautilus 42(2): 67 & 43(3) 104 (1930) 1930. Frizzell, Don L. "A new Pleistocene fossil from Port Blakely, Washington". In: Nautilus 43(4): 120–21. 1930. Frizzell, Don L. "Variation in the sculpture of Acila castrensis Hinds". Nautilus 44(2): 50–53 1930. Frizzell, Don L. "Schizothaerus nuttalli capax Gld. not maxima Midd". Nautilus 44(2): 69 1930. Frizzell, D. L. "The status of Paphia tenerrima alta Waterfall". The Nautilus 44(2): 48–50 1931. Frizzell, Don L. "A Molluscan Species New to the Recent West Coast Fauna". In: Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. VI, No. 21, pp 319–24, plate 22 1935. Frizzell, Donald Leslie. Studies in the molluscan superfamily Veneracea. Stanford University Press. 262 pages 1935. Frizzell, Don L. "Bivalves of the genus Protothaca". In: Proc. Geol. Soc. Amer. for 1934: 387–88. 1936. Miller, R.C. & Don L. Frizzell. "Key to the pelecypod genera of Puget Sound". In: Proc. Geol. Soc. Amer. for 1935: 415 1936. Frizzell, D. L. Preliminary reclassification of veneracean pelecypods. Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Bulletin 12(34): 84 pp. 1953 (with A. Myra Keen). Illustrated Key to West North American Pelecypod Genera. Stanford Univ. Press 1955 (with Harriet Exline). Monograph of fossil holothurian sclerites.