David Bruton
David Lawrence Bruton (born July 3, 1939 in Worcester ) is a British-Norwegian paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo . He is a professor emeritus and from 1967 was curator at the Oslo Natural History Museum.
Life
He deals with the taxonomy and functional morphology (for example the rolling mechanism or the visual mechanism of trilobites) of fossil arthropods , in particular with trilobites of the Cambrian and Ordovician in the Oslo area. He worked with Winfried Haas , among others (e.g. on the paleobiology of Phacops and the visual mechanisms of trilobites). He also deals with the geology of the Caledonids and Svalbards .
Bruton was also involved in the revision of the Burgess Shale fauna under the direction of Harry Blackmore Whittington (Cambridge) from the late 1960s (at that time already in Oslo) . To this end, he participated in new excavations in the Burgess slate in 1967 by the University of Cambridge and the Geological Survey of Canada . As part of the revision of the Burgess fossils in the 1970s and 1980s under Whittington (in which Simon Conway Morris , Derek Briggs and Chris Hughes were also involved), he published a monograph on Sidneyia in 1981 and in 1983 with Whittington on Emeraldella and Leanchoillia .
In 2009 he became a corresponding member of the Paleontological Society .
Fonts
- Publisher: Aspects of the Ordovician system, Oslo University Press 1984
- Contribution to Ivar Ramberg u. a. (Editor) The making of a land. Geology of Norway , Trondheim 2008 (Life in the Precambrian with JH Hurum)
- with Gabrielsen, Larsen The Caledonides of the Oslo Region, Norway - stratigraphy and structural elements . Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift, Volume 90, 2010, pp. 93-121
- Bruton, Bockelie, Nakrem and others: Classical Fossil Localities in the Oslo Area, International Geological Congress, Oslo 2008, Excursion 104, pdf
- with Lindström, AW Owen The Ordovician of Scandinavia , in Gee, Sturt (Editor) The Caledonid Orogen , Wiley 1985
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Date of birth according to Who's Who in European Research and Development , Saur, 2003
- ↑ Phil.Trans Roy. Soc. B, Vol. 295, 1981, pp. 619-656
- ↑ Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B, Vol. 300, 1983, pp. 553-585
- ↑ See Stephen Jay Gould Wonderful Life - the Burgess Shale and the nature of history , Norton 1989
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bruton, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bruton, David Lawrence (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Norwegian paleontologist at the Natural History Museum of the University of Oslo |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 3, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Worcester |