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Charles Emerson Beecher was an American Paleontologist most famous for the first excavation and study of the Beecher's Trilobite Beds and eventually rising to Curator of Geological Specimens at the Yale Peabody Museum. Beecher began collecting fossils from local sandstones and shales when his family moved to northwestern Pennsylvania, resulting in a collection of fossil phyllocarids and freshwater unionids prior to his studying for an undergraduate degree from University of Michigan (B.S. 1878).

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  • Charles Emerson Beecher was an American Paleontologist most famous for the first excavation and study of the Beecher's Trilobite Beds and eventually rising to Curator of Geological Specimens at the Yale Peabody Museum. Beecher began collecting fossils from local sandstones and shales when his family moved to northwestern Pennsylvania, resulting in a collection of fossil phyllocarids and freshwater unionids prior to his studying for an undergraduate degree from University of Michigan (B.S. 1878).
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  • Charles Emerson Beecher was an American Paleontologist most famous for the first excavation and study of the Beecher's Trilobite Beds and eventually rising to Curator of Geological Specimens at the Yale Peabody Museum. Beecher began collecting fossils from local sandstones and shales when his family moved to northwestern Pennsylvania, resulting in a collection of fossil phyllocarids and freshwater unionids prior to his studying for an undergraduate degree from University of Michigan (B.S. 1878). Following graduation, Beecher worked as personal assistant to the highly influential James Hall for 10 years, and then at the request of Othniel Charles Marsh moved to New Haven to oversee the Yale Peabody Museum’s growing collection of invertebrate fossils. Beecher was awarded his doctorate for his study on Brachiospongidae (enigmatic Silurian sponges) in 1891. In 1892 Beecher renewed his working relationship with Charles Schuchert (who had also worked with Hall) preparing slabs of Crawfordsville crinoids for the 'Chicago Exposition'. From 1893-1895 Beecher was first to thoroughly excavate a thin deposit of shale that now bears his name; the Beecher's Trilobite Beds. Exceptional preservation (by pyrite) of soft body parts later marked out Beecher's Trilobite Beds as a highly significant paleontological site, a Konservat-Lagerstätten. Beecher’s promotion path at Yale was rapid. He ascended to Professor of Historical Geology in 1897 and, on the death of Marsh in 1899, Beecher succeeded him as Curator of the Geological Collections. Beecher died suddenly in 1904 leaving many of his studies unfinished. Beecher was succeeded by his colleague Schuchert as Curator of the Geological Collections. Although Beecher is most famous for his work on trilobites he is also regarded for his work on corals and was ultimately regarded as a leading authority on fossil crustacea and brachiopoda. Beecher was also noted for contributions in ecology and evolution.
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