The armored fish found by Peter Bungart and Jesse Earl Hyde in the cliffs of Rocky River Reservation was known as a Dinichthys terrell at the time of its unearthing. The armored fish was renamed in the mid 20th century following the discovery that the "terrible fish" should be classified within a new family. The name Dunkleosteus terrelli was bestowned upon the genus in honor of David Dunkle, a former curator of paleontology and superisor of research at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Dunkle was an authority on the Dinichthys terrelli, and helped amass the museum's world-class collection of Devonian fish fossils.Download Original File
"Burial Grounds of the Dinichthys terrelli, 1928" appears in: Dunkleosteus
