Mount Leidy is a summit in

Teton County, Wyoming Teton County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 23,331. Its county seat is Jackson, Wyoming, Jackson. Its west boundary line is also the Wyoming state bounda ...

, in the

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. With an elevation of , Mount Leidy is the 424th highest summit in the state of Wyoming. The mountain was named for

Joseph Leidy Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist. Leidy was professor of anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, later becoming a professor of natural history at Swarth ...

, an American paleontologist.

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