Otto Zdansky

Otto Karl Josef Zdansky[1] (28 November 1894, Vienna – 26 December 1988, Uppsala) was an Austrian paleontologist.

He graduated from the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in Paleontology on 21 March 1921, with the academic degree 'Dr.

[1] He is best known for his work in China, where he, as an assistant to Johan Gunnar Andersson, discovered a fossil tooth of the Peking Man in 1921 at the Dragon Bone Hill, although he did not disclose it until 1926 [2] when he published it in Nature after an analysis by Davidson Black.

[3] He is also famous for his excavations of mammal fossils in Baode County area (Pao Te Hsien), Shanxi Province.

[4] Zdansky in 1923 excavated the sauropod dinosaur Euhelopus zdanskyi named after him.