Otto Zdansky

He graduated from the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in Paleontology on 21 March 1921, with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' (dissertation: 'Über die Temporalregion des Schildkrötenschädels').^[1]

He is best known for his work in China, where he, as an assistant to Johan Gunnar Andersson, discovered a fossil tooth of the Peking Man in 1921 at the Dragon Bone Hill, although he did not disclose it until 1926 ^[2] when he published it in Nature after an analysis by Davidson Black.^[3] He is also famous for his excavations of mammal fossils in Baode County area (Pao Te Hsien), Shanxi Province.^[4] Zdansky in 1923 excavated the sauropod dinosaur Euhelopus zdanskyi named after him.

• Jokela, T.; Eronen, J. T.; Kaakinen, A.; Liping, L.; Passey, B. H.; Zhaoqun, Z.; Mingkai, F. (2005). "Translation of Otto Zdansky's "The Localities of the Hipparion Fauna of Baode County in Northwest Shanxi"(1923)" (PDF). Palaeontologia Electronica. 8 (1).

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