Donald L. Frizzell

Don L. Frizzell was born on 19 October 1906 in Bellingham, Washington.[2] He attended grade school in White Bird, Idaho.[3]

In 1926, Frizzell entered the University of Washington in Seattle where he received master's degree in zoology under the direction of Professor Kincaid.[3] During 1930–1931, he published three papers in Nautilus and one more paper on the new molluscan species. In summer 1931, Frizzell worked as a junior paleontologist with the Northwest Experiment Station, U.S. Bureau of Mines in Seattle.[3]

In autumn 1931, Frizzell started a five-year doctorate in paleontology at Stanford University. Pursuing graduate school, he received several fellowships such as Jacob Fellow in 1931–1932, Scholar in 1933–1934, and Jordan Fellow in 1934.[3]

After graduating from Stanford in 1936, Frizzell started working for Shell Oil Company as a micropaleontologist.[2] However, he did not consider this job very promising and left it a year later.[3] In 1937, he joined the International Petroleum Corporation spending next 7 years working in the oil field of Peru and Ecuador.[2]

On 29 August 1938, Frizzell married an American arachnologist Harriet Exline Lloyd in Guayaquil, Ecuador.[3]

In 1939, Frizzell was in M. Smith's 2nd International Directory of Malacologists in Negritos, Peru, and in 1943, M. Smith's International Directory of Malacologists in Guayaquil, Ecuador.[1]

In January 1945, Frizzell accepted an offer to work as an associate professor in geology department at the University of Texas in Austin.[3] In 1946–1948, he spent summers working as a geologist for the Texas Bureau of Economic Geology in Austin.[2]

In 1948, Frizzell moved to Rolla and started working in the Department of Geology at the University of Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy.[2] At the University of Missouri Frizzell taught micropaleontology, paleontology, petroleum geology, and later also stratigraphic paleontology.[3]

Having completed work on Foraminitera Frizzell opened new avenues of study in the area of holothurian sclerities.[2] Monograph of fossil holothurian sclerites, written jointly with his wife Harriet Exline, was published in 1955.[4]

In 1959, Frizzell was awarded a National Science Foundation grant for a two-year (1959 to 1961) study of "Recent otoliths and the Eocene-Oligocene otoliths of the Gulf Coast".[3]

Frizzell kept teaching activities until September 1972. He died at Jefferson City, Missouri, in Still Hospital on 17 October 1972.[2]

Frizzell is honored in the bivalve name Pitar frizzelli Hertlein & Strong, 1948.[1]

• 1928. Frizzell, Don L. . Pododesmus macroschisma Deshayes. Nautilus 42(2): 67 & 43(3) 104 (1930)
• 1930. Frizzell, Don L. A new Pleistocene fossil from Port Blakely, Washington. Nautilus 43(4): 120–21.
• 1930. Frizzell, Don L. Variation in the sculpture of Acila castrensis Hinds. Nautilus 44(2): 50-53
• 1930. Frizzell, Don L. Schizothaerus nuttalli capax Gld. not maxima Midd. Nautilus 44(2): 69
• 1930. Frizzell, D. L. The status of Paphia tenerrima alta Waterfall. The Nautilus 44(2): 48-50
• 1931. Frizzell, Don L. A Molluscan Species New to the Recent West Coast Fauna. Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. VI, No. 21, pp 319–24, plate 22
• 1935. Frizzell, Donald Leslie. Studies in the molluscan superfamily Veneracea. Stanford University Press. 262 pages
• 1935. Frizzell, Don L. Bivalves of the genus Protothaca. Proc. Geol. Soc. Amer. for 1934: 387–88.
• 1936. Miller, R.C. & Don L. Frizzell. Key to the pelecypod genera of Puget Sound. Proc. Geol. Soc. Amer for 1935: 415
• 1936. Frizzell, D. L. Preliminary reclassification of veneracean pelecypods. Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique, Bulletin 12(34): 84 pp.
• 1953 (with A. Myra Keen). Illustrated Key to West North American Pelecypod Genera. Stanford Univ. Press[1]
• 1955 (with Harriet Exline). Monograph of fossil holothurian sclerites.[4]