Charles Alfred Matley

Charles Alfred Matley (4 February 1866–1947) was a British civil servant who also spent his spare time as an amateur paleontologist and geologist. During his postings as a civil servant in various places including in India and Wales, he conducted geological studies in his spare time. He retired from the civil service in 1920 and was made a government geologist posted to work in Jamaica in 1922 but the survey position was ended in 1924. The dinosaur Indosaurus matleyi is named after him.

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