James Steele Williams (1896–1957) was an American

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and stratigraphist. In 1921, he began working as an Instructor of Geology at the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

, where he remained till 1930 when he got Associate Professor position. The same year he joined

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as assistant, and later even succeeded

George Herbert Girty George Herbert Girty (1869–1939) was an American paleontologist. Biography Girty was educated at Yale University, where he obtained his PhD in 1894. During his postgraduate year at Stanford University in 1895, he was appointed as a paleontolo ...

, who was the specialist on late

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marine fauna. He also worked as a staff for Missouri Bureau of Mines and Geology. He died with a position of Principal

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