Gilbert Klapper is a paleontologist.
In 1971, with Graeme M. Philip, he described the conodont family Cryptotaxidae and the conodont genus Cryptotaxis.Devonian conodont apparatuses and their vicarious skeletal elements. G Klapper and GM Philip, Lethaia, Volume 4, Issue 4, pages 429–452, October 1971,
In 1981, he described the conodont families Distomodontidae and Kockelellidae.Gilbert Klapper in Clark et al., Treatise on invertebrate paleontology, Part W: Miscellanea : Conodonts : Conoidal Shells of Uncertain Affinities, Worms, Trace Fossils, and Problema, 1981
Awards He received the Pander Medal, an award from the Pander Society, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology.
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External links Gilbert Klapper at Northwestern University website (retrieved 14 July 2016)