David B. Weishampel

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David Bruce Weishampel (born November 16, 1952 ) is an American paleontologist who studies dinosaurs .

Live and act

Weishampel studied geology and paleontology at Ohio State University (Bachelor in 1975 with a thesis on an Antarctic Lystrosaurus ) and the University of Toronto (Master’s degree in 1978) and received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981 ( The evolution of jaw mechanics in ornithopods ). Then he was at Rutgers University (1981, Lecturer ), the University of Pennsylvania, 1982/83 with a NATO scholarship at the University of Tübingen (and again in 1988 and in Warsaw), from 1983 Assistant Professor at Florida International Universityand from 1985 at Johns Hopkins University . There he became Associate Professor in 1990 and Professor at the School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology in 1996.

In addition to dinosaurs, he dealt with cladistics , evolution theory and their history, as well as biomechanics (for example of pines). With Peter Dodson and Halszka Osmólska he edited a standard work on dinosaurs ( The Dinosauria ).

A special focus of the research was on dinosaurs in Europe in the Cretaceous Period, for example in Romania , where the dinosaurs developed dwarf forms on islands.

In 1980 he received the Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology , which is awarded for outstanding work by students before graduation. From 2007 to 2009 he was President of the Jurassic Foundation in Chicago.

He was one of Steven Spielberg's consultants for the film Jurassic Park .

Fonts (selection)

As an author

Essays
  • with Coralia M. Jianu: The smallest of the largest. A new look at possible dwarfing in sauropod dinosaurs . In: Geologie en Mijnbouw. International Journal of the Royal Geological and Minig Society of the Netherlands. Vol. 78 (1999), Issue 3/4, pp. 335-343, ISSN  0923-1110 .
  • Fossils, phylogeny, and discovery. A cladistic study of the history of tree topologies and ghost lineage durations . In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol. 16 (1996), pp. 191-197, ISSN  0272-4634 .
  • Fossils, function, and phylogeny . In: Jeff Thomason (Ed.): Functional Morphology in Vertebrate Paleontology . CUP, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-44095-5 , pp. 34-54.
  • with Jack Horner : Life history syndromes, heterochrony, and the evolution of Dinosauria . In: Kenneth Carpenter, John R. Horner, Karl F. Hirsch (Eds.): Dinosaur Eggs and Babies . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-521-56723-8 , pp. 229-243.
  • Beams and machines. Modeling approaches to analysis of skull form and function . In: James Hanken , Brian K. Hall (Eds.): The Skull, Vol. 3: Functional and Evolutionary Mechanisms . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1993, ISBN 0-226-31571-1 , pp. 303-344.
Monographs

As editor

  • with Peter Dodson , Halszka Osmólska : The Dinosauria . 2nd Edition. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004, ISBN 0-520-24209-2 . (EA Berkeley 1990) therein:
    • Pp. 325–334: Basal Ornithischia (with David B. Norman and Lawrence M. Witmer),
    • Pp. 335–342: Basal Thyreophora (with David B. Norman and Lawrence M. Witmer ),
    • Pp. 363–392: Ankylosauria (with Teresa Maryańska and Matthew Vickaryous),
    • Pp. 438–463: Hadrosauridae (with Jack Horner and Catherine Forster),
    • Pp. 464–477: Pachycephalosauria (with Teresa Maryańska and Ralph Chapman),
    • Pp. 517-606: Dinosaur Distribution (with Paul M. Barrett and others),
  • with David Fastovsky: Dinosauria. A concise natural history . 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2012, ISBN 978-0-520-24209-8 . (EA Cambridge 2009)
  • with Nadine M. White : The Dinosaur Papers. 1676-1906 . Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC 2003, ISBN 1-58834-122-4 . (Reprints of historical articles)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ with David B. Norman and Dan Grigorescu: Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus from the Late Cretaceous of Romania. The most basal hadrosaurid . In: Palaeontology. Vol. 36 (1993), pp. 361-385, ISSN  0031-0239 .
  2. ↑ with David B. Norman and Dan Grigorescu: The dinosaurs of Transylvania. Island biogeography in the Late Cretaceous . In: National Geographic Research. A scientific journal. 7: 68-87 (1991), ISSN  8755-724X .
personal data
SURNAME Weishampel, David B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weishampel, David Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1952