title: Raymond L. Ethington
text: # Raymond L. Ethington
  
  Raymond (Ray) Lindsay Ethington (born in 1929) is an American paleontologist. He works in the Geology department at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri
  
  He was one of the Chief Panderers of the Pander Society, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology.
  
  In 1983, with John E. Repetski, he described the conodont genus Rossodus
  
  ## Awards
  
  In 2007, he received the Raymond C. Moore Medal awarded by the Society for Sedimentary Geology to persons who have made significant contributions in the field which have promoted the science of stratigraphy by research in paleontology and evolution and the use of fossils for interpretations of paleoecology.
  
  