Carroll Lane Fenton (February 12, 1900, Butler County, Iowa – November 16, 1969, New Brunswick, New Jersey)[1][2] was a geologist, paleontologist, neoichnologist, and historian of science.
Fenton was the author and illustrator of numerous books on geology and paleontology for a general audience.
He published extensively in the field of paleontology in both the professional literature and in popular journals.
He was an associate editor of the American Midland Naturalist from 1923 to 1960, expanding the coverage of the journal into the arena of paleontology.
Fenton was a critic of creationism and documented the evidence for evolution in a series of Little Blue Books in the early 1920s.