paleontologist

• palaeontologist, palæontologist

paleontology +‎ -ist

paleontologist (plural paleontologists)

1. One who studies paleontology.
   • 1963, Claude Lévy-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, New York: Basic Books, page 4:

     An alternative approach is to break down cultures into ab-
     stract elements and to establish, between elements of the same
     type in different cultures, rather than between cultures themselves,
     the same kind of relationships of historical descent and progressive
     differentiation which the paleontologist sees in the evolution of
     species.

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 197:

     In the late nineteenth century, paleontologists began to catalog the many curious correspondences exhibited by fossils gathered on different continents.