David Fastovsky
David E. Fastovsky (born December 18, 1954 ) is an American vertebrate paleontologist who studies dinosaurs .
Fastovsky studied biology at Reed College , paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley with a master’s degree and received his doctorate in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin – Madison . He is a professor at the University of Rhode Island .
Among other things, he investigated the extinction of the dinosaurs at the turn of the Cretaceous-Tertiary in the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and North Dakota and concluded that there was an abrupt extinction.
In addition to the USA, he also excavated in Mexico and Mongolia . There he found a 70 million year old nest with 15 young Protoceratops . It was the first Protoceratops nest to be found.
Fonts
- with David Weishampel The evolution and extinctions of Dinosaurs , Cambridge University Press, 1996, 2nd edition 2005
- with Weishampel Dinosaurs: a concise natural history , Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition 2012
- Dinosaur Ecology (with Joshua B. Smith), Dinosauria Extinction (with J. David Archibald), in Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson The Dinosauria , University of California Press, 2nd edition 2004
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ PM Sheehan, Fastovsky, RG Hoffmann, CB Berghaus, DL Gabriel Sudden extinction of the dinosaurs: latest Cretaceous, upper Great Plains, USA , Science, 254, 1991, 835-839
- ^ Fossilized nest of 15 baby dinosaurs found in Mongolia, Earthsky, November 23, 2011
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| SURNAME | Fastovsky, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fastovsky, David E. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American vertebrate paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 18th December 1954 |