Samuel Paul Welles, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American palaeontologist
Date of Birth: 09-Nov-1907
Place of Birth: Gloucester, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 06-Aug-1997
Profession: paleontologist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Samuel Paul Welles
- [Not to be confused with Samuel Gardner Welles] Samuel Paul Welles (November 9, 1907 – August 6, 1997) was an American palaeontologist.
- Welles was a research associate at the Museum of Palaeontology, University of California, Berkeley.
- He took part in excavations at the Placerias Quarry in 1930 and the Shonisaurus discoveries of 1954 and later, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park.
- He accumulated an extensive collection of fossils of marine reptiles, amphibians, and fish, as well as describing the dinosaur Dilophosaurus in 1954.
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