Walter C. Sweet (17 October 1927 in Denver, Colorado – 4 December 2015 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American paleontologist. He was a Chief Panderer of the

Pander Society The Pander Society is an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology. It publishes an annual newsletter. Although there are regular meetings of the Pander Society, at the Annual Meeting of the Geol ...

, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology. In 1984, he was president of the Paleontological Society, an international organisation devoted to the promotion of paleontology. In 1979, he described the conodont genus ''

Culumbodina ''Culumbodina'' is an extinct conodont genus. References External links * ''Culumbodina''at fossilworks Fossilworks was a portal which provides query, download, and analysis tools to facilitate access to the Paleobiology Database, a ...

''. In 1988, he described the conodont order

Proconodontida Proconodontida is an Order (biology), order of conodonts which originated in the late Cambrian (Furongian) and persisted partly through the Ordovician. The ancestral proconodont, ''Proconodontus'', was one of the earliest euconodonts ("true cono ...

and the conodont family

Gnathodontidae Gnathodontidae is an extinct conodont family in the order Ozarkodinida. It consists of the extinct genus '' Icriodus''. References * Carboniferous gnathodontid conodont apparatuses: evidence of a dual origin for Pennsylvanian taxa. RC Grayson ...

.The Conodonta: morphology, taxonomy, paleoecology, and evolutionary history of a long-extinct animal phylum. WC Sweet, 1988, Oxford University Press, USA

Awards and tributes

He received the Pander Medal, the

Paleontological Society Medal The Paleontological Society Medal is an award given by the Paleontological Society to a person whose eminence is based on advancement of knowledge in paleontology.Paleontology Society Medal information page https://www.paleosoc.org/paleontological- ...

in 1994 and the Raymond C. Moore Medal in 1988. The conodont genus ''

Sweetognathus ''Sweetognathus'' is an extinct genus of conodonts in the family Sweetognathidae that evolved at the beginning of the Permian period (298.9 Ma), in near-equatorial, shallow-water seas. The genus is characterized by pustulose ornamentation on a ...

'' is named in his honour.

References

Stig Bergström Stig M. Bergström (born 12 June 1935 in Skövde) is a Swedish-American paleontologist. In 1981, he described the conodont family Paracordylodontidae. In 1974, he described the multielement conodont genus '' Appalachignathus'' from the Middle Or ...

and Walter C. Sweet, The generic concept in conodont taxonomy. Proceedings North American Paleontological Convention, 1, 1969, S. 29–42. * Stig Bergström and Walter C. Sweet, Conodont provinces and biofacies of the Late Ordovician, Geological Society of America Special Papers 196, 1984, S. 69–88 * Stig Bergström and Walter C. Sweet, Conodonts and Biostratigraphic Correlation, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 14, 1986, S. 85–112

External links

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