Roy Herbert Reinhart (born September 11, 1919, died December 11, 2005 Oxford, Ohio)[1] was a zoologist, geologist, and paleontologist. He is especially remembered for his research on Sirenia and the discovery of the orderDesmostylia.
Reinhart earned his B.S. at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1941. He met is wife, Betty J. (née Whitesell) while an undergraduate student at Miami.[2]
After the war, he founded the Department of Geology at West Texas State College before returning to Miami as a teacher in paleontology. He discovered and described the order Desmostylia, a group of marine mammals, in 1959.[2]
He was rewarded twice as an author; the AK Morris Award in 1991 and the John Dolibois Award in 1994. In 1991, he donated 44 acres (18 ha) of land to Miami University, now known as the Reinhart Reserve.[2][3][4]
Throughout his life, Reinhart was an active cross country runner and a published cartoonist. Except his interest in fossils of all kind, he also assembled one of the finest collections of mound builder relics in the US.[2]
Reinhart had a brother, a sister, two daughters, one son, three grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. He and his wife were named Parents of the Year in 1972. He died in December 2005 after a brief illness.[2]
Reinhart, Roy H. (February 1951). "A new genus of sea cow from the Miocene of Colombia". Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences, University of California. 28 (9): 203–213. LCCN51009203. OCLC6081510.
Reinhart, Roy H. (1951). Collected papers. OCLC25988747.
Reinhart, Roy H. (1951). "A new shark of the family Ptychodontidae from South America". Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences. 28 (8): 195–201. LCCNa51009237. OCLC6081404.
Reinhart, Roy H. (July 1959). "A review of the Sirenia and Desmostylia". University of California Publications in Geological Sciences. 36 (1): 1–146. LCCNa59009804. OCLC3474601. (thesis)
Reinhart, Roy H.; Bever, James Edward (1961). Introductory geology: laboratory manual. Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown. OCLC20770763.
Reinhart, Roy H. (1970a). "Desmostylia". In Gray, P. (ed.). The encyclopedia of the biological sciences (2nd ed.). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. p. 243.
Reinhart, Roy H. (1970b). "Sirenia". In Gray, P. (ed.). The encyclopedia of the biological sciences (2nd ed.). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. pp. 854–855.
Reinhart, Roy H. (October 1971). Fossil Sirenia of Florida. The Plaster Jacket. Florida State Museum, University of Florida. pp. 1–10. OCLC33438006.
Reinhart, Roy H. (1975). "New discoveries in the Order Desmostylia". Am. Zool. 15 (3): 826.
Reinhart, Roy H. (1982). "The extinct mammalian order Desmostylia". Natl. Geogr. Soc. Res. Repts. 14: 549–555.
Hulbert, Richard C. Jr.; Reinhart, Roy H.; Morgan, Gary Scott; Pratt, Ann E. (2001). "Sirenians". In Hulbert, R. C. Jr. (ed.). The fossil vertebrates of Florida. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. pp. 322–330. OCLC43929789.