Brian Chatterton

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Brian DE Chatterton (* 1943 ) is a Canadian paleontologist who is considered a leading trilobite researcher.

Chatterton studied at the Australian National University . He is a professor emeritus at the University of Alberta .

In addition to trilobites, he also deals with conodonts and beaked scarfs (Rostroconchia) from the Ordovician to Devon . With Richard Fortey he introduced the trilobite order Asaphida in 1988 . In 1997, in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology , he and SE Speyer wrote the chapter on the stages of development ( ontogenesis ) of trilobites.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chatterton, Fortey: Classification of the trilobite suborder Asaphina , Paleontology, Volume 31, 1988, pp. 165-222.
  2. Chatterton, Speyer: Ontogeny , in RL Kaesler: Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part O, Arthropoda 1, Trilobita, revised. Volume 1: Introduction, Order Agnostida, Order Redlichiida , Boulder / Colorado and Lawrence / Kansas, The Geological Society of America / The University of Kansas, pp. 173–247.