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Gilbert Klapper

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Gilbert Klapper is a paleontologist.

In 1971, with Graeme M. Philip, he described the conodont family Cryptotaxidae and the conodont genus Cryptotaxis.[1]

In 1981, he described the conodont families Distomodontidae and Kockelellidae.[2]

Awards

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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.

References

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  1. ^ Devonian conodont apparatuses and their vicarious skeletal elements. G Klapper and GM Philip, Lethaia, Volume 4, Issue 4, pages 429–452, October 1971, doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1971.tb01865.x
  2. ^ Gilbert Klapper in Clark et al., Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Part W: Miscellanea : Conodonts : Conoidal Shells of Uncertain Affinities, Worms, Trace Fossils, and Problema, 1981
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