Thomas Wright (geologist)

Dr Thomas Wright FRS FRSE FGS (9 November 1809 – 17 November 1884) was a Scottish surgeon and palaeontologist.

Wright published a number of papers on the fossils which he had collected in the Cotswolds and elsewhere, including Lias Ammonites of the British Isles, and monographs on the British fossil echinoderms of the Oolitic (Jurassic) and Cretaceous formations.

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