Gloria Jean Siebrecht

Who is Gloria Jean Siebrecht?

Gloria Jean Siebrecht is an amateur paleontologist and volunteer for the Museum of the Rockies, notable as the discoverer of Avisaurus Gloriae, which was named for her, and Piksi barbarulna.

She was born in 1940, the sixth child of James Baily Schnee and Marie Van De Rite in Kalispell, Montana. She grew up in Columbia Falls, Montana; McMinville, Oregon; and Lincoln City, Oregon. She graduated from Taft High School in 1958. Gloria married Odell Siebrecht in 1959 and raised two sons on a farm north of Cut Bank, Montana.

As a volunteer for the Museum of the Rockies, Gloria spent thousands of hours on digs and in preparing fossils for display.