Gareth Dyke

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Gareth John Dyke is a vertebrate paleontologist who specializes in dinosaurs and birds.

Dyke earned his bachelor's degree in biology and geology from the University of Bristol in 1997 and received his doctorate in paleontology in 2000. As a post-doctoral student he was at the American Museum of Natural History with Joel Cracraft . From 2002 he was Lecturer (from 2007 Senior Lecturer) at University College Dublin and in 2011 Senior Lecturer in Vertebrate Paleontology at the University of Southampton .

He is a Research Associate with the AMNH and the National Museum of Ireland.

He dealt among other things with birds of the early Eocene , among other things from the London clay (London Clay), and their development after the turn of the Cretaceous / Tertiary, the development of birds in the Cretaceous, evolution of wings, feathers and flight, flight mechanics of Pterosaurs, the environmental conditions in Transylvania during the Cretaceous period and the evolution of chicken birds.

In 2010 he published an article with Robert Nudds in which he stated that the structure of the spring shaft of Archeopteryx and Confuciusornis would speak against active flying. This has been contradicted , among others, by Philip J. Currie , Gregory Paul and Luis Chiappe, among other things with reference to measuring problems of the shaft thickness and incorrect approaches to the weights.

In 2008 he was one of the descriptors of one of the oldest known parrots, found in the Eocene of Denmark ( Mopsitta tanta ). With Cyril Alexander Walker he described the Argentine enantiornith Elbretornis in 2009 and in 2007 with Walker and Éric Buffetaut the enantiornith Martinavis (late Chalk, southern France, Argentina, North America).

Together with Darren Naish, he described heptasteornis from the late Cretaceous Romania as the (first found in Europe) representative of the Alvarezsauridae (previously the fragmentary finds were described by Franz Nopcsa as an owl).

He also works on finds from the Cretaceous sites of the Isle of Wight , which have been known since the 19th century , such as a new pterosaur Vectidraco daisymorrisae (named after the five-year-old finder) in 2013 .

He is working on a biography of Franz Nopcsa .

Fonts

  • with Istvan Fozy, Istvan Szente Fossils of the Carpathian Region , Indiana University Press 2013
  • Editor with Gary Kaiser Living dinosaurs: the evolutionary history of modern birds , Chichester, Wiley, 2011
  • with Luis M. Chiappe : The beginnings of birds: recent discoveries, ongoing arguments and new directions , in: Jason S. Anderson, Hans-Dieter Sues (Editor) Major Transitions in Vertebrate Evolution , Bloomington, US, Indiana University Press, 2007, Pp. 303-336
  • with Chiappe Fossil vertebrates: birds , in Selley, Cocks, Plimer (editor), Encyclopedia of Geology, Elsevier 2005
  • with Chiappe The early evolutionary history of birds . In: J. Paleont. Soc. Korea. 22, No. 1, 2006, pp. 133-151, pdf

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ For example, about a fossil sailor Dyke A primitive swift from the London Clay and the relationships of fossil apodiform birds , Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21, 2001, 195-200
  2. ↑ Nudds, Dyke Narrow Primary Feather Rachises in Confuciusornis and Archeopteryx Suggest Poor Flight Ability , Science 328, 2010, 887-889
  3. ↑ Michael Balter Did first feathers prevent early flight? , Science now, March 15, 2010
  4. ↑ Walker, Dyke Euenantiornithine birds from the Late Cretaceous of El Brete (Argentina) . Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 27, 2009, 15-62
  5. ↑ Walker, Buffetaut, Dyke Large euenantiornithine birds from the Cretaceous of southern France, North America and Argentina , Geological Magazine 144, 2007, 977-986
  6. ↑ Dyke, Naish Heptasteornis what no ornithomimid, troodontid, dromaeosaurid or owl: the first alvarezsaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Europe . New Yearbook for Geology and Paleontology Monthly 7, 2004, 385–401
  7. ↑ Darren Naish, Martin Simpson, Gareth Dyke A New Small-Bodied Azhdarchoid Pterosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of England and Its Implications for Pterosaur Anatomy, Diversity and Phylogeny , PLoS ONE 8 (3), 2013, e58451, Online
  8. ↑ Blog Nova Taxa, March 22, 2013
  9. ↑ He published an article about him in Scientific American, October 2011
personal data
SURNAME Dyke, Gareth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dyke, Gareth John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century