Tor Ørvig
Tor Ørvig (27 September 1916 – 27 February 1994) was a Norwegian-born Swedish paleontologist who explored the histology of early vertebrates. He was professor at the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Stockholm and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He described a possible post-Cretaceous coelacanth fossil from the Paleocene epoch.

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Swedish paleontologists
20th-century Swedish zoologists
Paleozoologists
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1916 births
1994 deaths
Swedish ichthyologists
Norwegian emigrants to Sweden