Charles Lewis Camp | |
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| Born | March 12, 1893 Jamestown, North Dakota, U.S. |
| Died | August 14, 1975 (aged 82) San Jose, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California Berkeley, Columbia University |
| Spouse | Jessie Margaret Pratt |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleontology, Zoology, History |
| Institutions | American Museum of Natural History, University of California Museum of Paleontology |
| Academic advisors | Joseph Grinnell, William K. Gregory, Henry Fairfield Osborn |
Charles Lewis Camp (March 12, 1893 – August 14, 1975)[1] was an American palaeontologist and zoologist, working from the University of California, Berkeley. He took part in excavations at the 'Placerias Quarry', in 1930 and the forty Shonisaurus skeleton discoveries of the 1960s, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Camp served as the third director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology from 1930 to 1949, and coincidentally as chair of the UC Berkeley Paleontology Department between 1939 and 1949. Camp named a number of species of marine reptiles such as Shonisaurus and Plotosaurus, as well as the dinosaur Segisaurus.