Levi Sternberg

Levi Sternberg (March 10, 1894 – October 21, 1976) was an American-Canadian fossil collector and paleontologist, son of Charles Sternberg and brother of George and Charles Sternberg.

Early life and family

Levi Sternberg was born in 1894 at a farm near Lawrence, Kansas to Charles H. Sternberg and Anna Reynolds, the youngest of the three brothers to survive into adulthood. In 1902 the family moved off the farm into the town, visiting the fossil sites of the Niobrara Chalk in 1906 when Levi Sternberg was 11. Charles H. Sternberg felt that his sons were sufficiently ready to join him in his fossil collecting profession full time by 1908, when George was 23, Charles was 23, and Levi was 14. As a family the Sternbergs went to Wyoming, with Levi working as an excavator and helping to lift the heavy bones. This expedition took three field seasons to complete, with Sternbergs returning to Lawrence each winter. In August 1908, Levi and George discovered the skull of a Triceratops along Schneider Creek, and later a skeleton of Edmontosaurus including skin, which would become known as a mummified dinosaur. Returning from the expedition, Levi Sternberg completed high school at Lawrence High School.