About Gilbert Klapper
Born 1934. Gilbert Klapper is an American paleontologist, malacologist, geologist and university teacher.
Gilbert Klapper is a paleontologist.
In 1971, with Graeme M. Philip, he described the conodont family Cryptotaxidae and the conodont genus Cryptotaxis.
In 1981, he described the conodont families Distomodontidae and Kockelellidae.
Awards He received the Pander Medal, an award from the Pander Society, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology.
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American geologist
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Gilbert Klapper was born in 1934 in Evanston.
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Gilbert Klapper is a paleontologist, malacologist, geologist and university teacher.
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Gilbert Klapper is American.
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