Marsh's finds formed the original core of the collection of Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History. The museum's Great Hall is dominated by the first fossil skeleton of Brontosaurus that he discovered, which was reclassified as Apatosaurus for a time. However, an extensive study published in 2015 concluded that Brontosaurus was a valid genus of sauropod distinct from Apatosaurus.「6」
He donated his home in New Haven, Connecticut, to Yale University in 1899. The Othniel C. Marsh House, now known as Marsh Hall, is designated a National Historic Landmark. The grounds are now known as the Marsh Botanical Garden.
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Marsh named the following dinosaur genera:Allosaurus(1877),Ammosaurus(1890),Anchisaurus(1885),Apatosaurus(1877),Atlantosaurus(1877),Barosaurus(1890),Brontosaurus(1879),Camptosaurus(1885),Ceratops(1888),Ceratosaurus(1884),Claosaurus(1890),Coelurus(1879),Creosaurus(1878),Diplodocus(1878),Diracodon(1881),Dryosaurus(1894),Dryptosaurus(1877),Labrosaurus(1896),Laosaurus(1878),Nanosaurus(1877),Nodosaurus(1889),Ornithomimus(1890),Pleurocoelus(1891),Priconodon(1888),Stegosaurus(1877),Torosaurus(1891),Triceratops(1889). He named the subordersCeratopsia(1890),Ceratosauria(1884),Ornithopoda(1881),Stegosauria(1877), andTheropoda. He also named the familiesAllosauridae(1878),Anchisauridae(1885),Camptosauridae(1885),Ceratopsidae(1890),Ceratosauridae,Coeluridae,Diplodocidae(1884),Dryptosauridae(1890),Nodosauridae(1890),Ornithomimidae(1890),Plateosauridae(1895), andStegosauridae(1880). He also named many individual species of dinosaurs. The dinosaurOthnieliawas named in 1977 by P. Galton as a tribute to Marsh, as wasMarshosaurus bicentesmus(Madsen, 1976).
Othniel Charles Marsh's signature