Raymond Cecil Moore (February 20, 1892, Roslyn, Washington – April 16, 1974, Lawrence, Kansas) was an American geologist and paleontologist.
In 1953 Professor Moore organized the launch and became the first editor of the still ongoing multi-volume work Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology.
[3] After commencing work in Kansas he made the decision to analyse Permian-Pennsylvanian stratigraphy of the Midcontinent.
[3] In addition to his stratigraphic work, Moore was able to define and clarify his findings by identifying their unique fossil signatures.
He studied oil and gas resources up to the Precambrian period, as well as igneous intrusives in several counties within Kansas.
[3] With planning beginning in 1953, Moore drafted a project where specialists would write on their area of expertise in paleontology to a multi volume series.
This international team of experts would provide the manuscripts, which would be published by the University of Kansas Press.
[3] As volumes of the Treatise were completed up until 1966 these were published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press.
After 1966, new volumes of the ongoing work were published by the Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas.
[3] The main Kansas Geological Survey building on the University's west campus was named for Moore in 1973.
Moore was honored with the Prix Paul Fourmarier Gold Medal from the Académie Royale de Belgique in 1966.
The ancestor of the G-Hawk was Jayhawkornis kansasensis, which Moore illustrated and promoted, was featured in the 1954 comic strip Pogo[3].