George Getz Shumard (January 10, 1823 – September 29, 1867) was an American geologist and surgeon.

[1][2] His brother, Benjamin Franklin Shumard (1820–1869), went on to serve as the first state geologist of Texas.

[1][3] At the same time, he served as an assistant geologist to his brother and much of North and West Texas.

[1] Several decades later, in 1886, it was published in its entirety by Hamilton P. Bee (1822–1897), who served as Texas State Commissioner.

[1] He corresponded with pioneer explorer Gideon Lincecum (1793–1874), who gave a bottle of mustang wine as well as its recipe to thank Shumard for sending him a copy of his pamphlet entitled, Notice of Fossils from the Permian Strata of Texas to New Mexico.