Otto Zdansky
Otto Karl Josef Zdansky was an Austrian paleontologist.Biography
He graduated from the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in Paleontology on March 21, 1921 with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.'.
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 when he published it in Nature after an analysis by Davidson Black.
He is also famous for his excavations of mammal fossils in Baode County area, Shanxi Province. Zdansky in 1923 excavated the sauropod dinosaur Euhelopus zdanskyi named after him.
