Ermine Cowles Case was a distinguished vertebrate paleontologist from the University of Michigan. He studied a broad range of backboned animals, focusing mostly on basal tetrapods and early amniotes of the Permian and Triassic Periods. The basal synapsid Casea broilii was named in his honor by Samuel Williston in 1910. The skull of Casea is the lower right image in the UMMP logo (below).

E. C. Case oversaw the early development of the Museum of Paleontology and the associated journal Contributions of the Museum of Paleontology. His personal library of several thousand papers is housed in the Museum of Paleontology under my care and is a resource that can be used by UMMP-affiliated researchers. An effort to catalog the Case Library is currently underway.

An annual lecture is hosted in Case’s honor by the Museum of Paleontology and Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Michigan. A list of past Case lecturers can be found here (link).