The Paleontologist

One of the first women to work as a professional scientist in the oil and gas industry. She was a geologist, stratigrapher and paleontologist. Part of the teams that provided the first significant geological information about the oil-producing areas in Texas and Louisiana and to explore areas of Old Eocene beds in Trinidad and Venezuela. Findings of fossils and fauna were the first of their kind in the Caribbean and South America. Leader of the “Maury Expedition” to the Dominican Republic in 1916. This resulted in the discovery of 400 new species. Official paleontologist with the Geological and Mineralogical Service of Brazil. While in this position, she published multiple monographs and Mineralogical Service Bulletins between 1919 and 1937.