Charles W. Gilmore

For those with a similar name, see Charles Gilmour (disambiguation).

Gilmore with vertebrae of Diplodocus longus, 1924.

Charles Whitney Gilmore (1874 – 1945) was an American paleontologist, who named dinosaurs in North America and Mongolia, including the Cretaceous sauropod Alamosaurus, Alectrosaurus, Archaeornithomimus, Bactrosaurus, Brachyceratops, Chirostenotes, Mongolosaurus, Parrosaurus, Pinacosaurus, Styracosaurus and Thescelosaurus.

Gilmore moved to Washington, D.C. in 1903 when he was hired by the U.S. National Museum (Smithsonian). In the Spring of 1908, he permanently settled in the Park View neighborhood, living at 451 Park Road, NW.

Gilmore was originally hired as a preparator to work on the O.C. Marsh dinosaur collection that was transferred from Yale University to the Smithsonian in the late 19th century. He later became curator of fossil reptiles and was in charge of mounting the world’s first Triceratops skeleton. He published 170 scientific papers including monographic studies on the osteology of Apatosaurus and Camptosaurus and the osteology of the carnivorous and armored dinosaurs.

As well as describing new dinosaurs, Gilmore wrote several monographs, including a 1914 monograph on Stegosaurus, a 1920 monograph on carnivorous dinosaurs, a 1936 review of Apatosaurus, as well as a more focused 1925 study of the Carnegie juvenile Camarasaurus.