Edward Oscar Ulrich

Edward Oscar Ulrich (1 February 1857, in Covington, Kentucky – 22 February 1944, in Washington, D.C.) was an invertebrate paleontologist specializing in the study of Paleozoic fossils.

Biography Ulrich was educated at Wallace College and the Ohio Medical College. Abandoning the practice of medicine, he became curator of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History in 1877, and he was awarded the Penrose Medal in 1932.

Legacy An extinct species of graptolite, Climacograptus ulrichi, was named for him in 1908.

Bactritimimus ulrichi, an extinct Carboniferous belemnite, was named in honor of Ulrich in 1959.

In 2002, an extinct genus of monoplacophorans, Ulrichoconus, was named in his honor for his geological studies of the Ozark Plateaus.