Arthur Boucot

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Arthur James Boucot (born May 26, 1924 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , † April 10, 2017 in Denver , Colorado ) was an American paleontologist .

Career

Boucot studied at Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in 1948, a master's degree in 1949 and a doctorate in 1953. From 1949 to 1956 he was a geologist at the United States Geological Survey and then in 1956/57 as a Guggenheim Fellow in Europe. In 1957 he became an assistant professor and later an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; from 1961 to 1968 he was an associate professor at Caltech . 1968/69 he was professor of geology at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Smithsonian Institution . From 1969 he was professor of geology (and from 1979 of zoology) at Oregon State University .

He dealt with palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Silurian and Devonian and especially of brachiopods . From 1973 he was US representative in the Silurian sub-committee of the International Commission on Stratigraphy . He dealt with marine paleoecology and paleobiogeography and inferences about evolution, behavior and extinction rates from the fossil record.

In 1985 he received the Raymond C. Moore Medal for Paleontology , in 1999 the Paleontological Society Medal and in 1990 the Natural Science Award of the Academia Sinica . In 1980/81 he was President of the Paleontological Society and from 1984 to 1989 of the International Paleontological Association. He was an honorary member of the Swedish Geological Society and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen . Boucot is also the namesake for the Boucot Plateau in Antarctica.

Fonts

  • Evolutionary Paleobiology of Behavior and Coevolution , Elsevier 1990
  • with George O. Poinar Fossil behavior compendium , CRC Press, Taylor and Francis 2010
  • Evolution and extinction rate controls , Elsevier 1975
  • Principles of benthic marine paleoecology , Academic Press 1981 (with contributions by Robert S. Carney)
  • with JG Johnson, John A. Talent Early Devonian brachiopod zoogeography , US Geological Survey, 1969
  • Editor with Jane Gray Historical biogeography, plate tectonics, and the changing environment , Oregon State University Press 1979
  • Editor with Jane Gray, William Berry Communities of the past , Stroudsburg: Hutchinson Ross Publ. 1981
  • Editor with JD Lawson Paleocommunities: a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian , Cambridge University Press 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Obituary on paleopolis.rediris.es , accessed on May 29, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Boucot, Arthur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boucot, Arthur James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2017
Place of death Denver , Colorado