Thomas Wright (geologist)
19th-century Scottish physician and paleontologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dr Thomas Wright FRS FRSE FGS (9 November 1809 ā 17 November 1884) was a Scottish surgeon and palaeontologist.[1]
Wright published a number of papers on the fossils which he had collected in the Cotswolds and elsewhere, including Lias Ammonites of the British Isles,[2] and monographs on the British fossil echinoderms of the Oolitic (Jurassic) and Cretaceous formations.[3][4][5][6]