Clive Forster-Cooper

Clive Forster-Cooper
Born(1880-04-03)3 April 1880
Died23 August 1947(1947-08-23) (aged 67)
NationalityBritish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsPalaeontology

Sir Clive Forster-Cooper, FRS (3 April 1880 – 23 August 1947) was an English palaeontologist and director of the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and Natural History Museum in London. He was the first to describe Paraceratherium, also commonly known as Indricotherium or Baluchitherium, the largest known land mammal.[1]

  1. ^ Watson, D. M. S. (1950). "Clive Forster-Cooper. 1880-1947". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 7 (19): 82. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1950.0006. S2CID 162268241.