[citation needed] A contemporary author wrote, "No published study of Canadian dinosaurs is possible today without citing one or another of Sternberg's papers.
"[1][2] Charles Mortram Sternberg was born in Lawrence, Kansas,[3] from a family of famous American fossil collectors.
This work was in competition with the American Museum of Natural History (New York) who were collecting many fossil skeletons and shipping them out of Canada.
Following Lawrence Lambe's death in 1919, Sternberg assumed the role of director of paleontology enterprise of the Geological Survey of Canada.
The critical site locality data for these specimens was thereby saved, thus ensuring that information was useful for the dinosaur biostratigraphic work that is so important today.