Carl Owen Dunbar (January 1, 1891 – April 7, 1979) was an American paleontologist who specialized in invertebrate fossils.
His dissertation was entitled, “The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Devonian of Western Tennessee.” His doctoral advisor was Yale paleontologist, Charles Schuchert.
[1] Dunbar was a worldwide expert on the evolution of fusulines during the Pennsylvanian and Permian periods of the late Paleozoic age.
[1] Dunbar is also notable for his seventeen years as the Director of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.
In 1946, Dunbar was selected by The National Academy of Sciences as one of a twenty-man committee of civilian scientists to observe Operation Crossroads, the atom bomb tests at Bikini atoll.