Gregory Edgecombe
Gregory Donald Edgecombe (* 1964 in Canada ) is a Canadian paleontologist who is considered a leading trilobite researcher.
Edgecombe studied at Acadia University (Bachelor 1985) and at the University of Alberta with Brian Chatterton (Master’s degree 1987). He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1991 and was then a post-doctoral student at the University of Alberta. From 1993 he was at the Australian Museum in Sydney , where he became Senior Research Scientist in 1995 and Principal Research Scientist in 2002. Since 2007 he has been a Research Leader at the Natural History Museum in London. In 2018 Edgecombe was elected to the Royal Society .
He deals with the phylogenetic classification of the trilobites as well as the systematics of the trilobites of the Ordovician , Silurian and Devonian , especially from Australia and South America, and the ontogenesis of the trilobites.
He is also interested in the Chilopoda , the centipedes, which he works scientifically in addition to his paleontological work.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Edgecombe, L. Ramsköld, Relationships of Cambrian Arachnata and the systematic position of Trilobita , J. Paleont., Volume 73, 1999, pp. 263-287, Edgecombe, Gerhard Scholtz Heads, Hox and the phylogenetic position of trilobites , in Stefan Koenemann, Ronald A. Jenner Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships . Volume 16 of Crustacean issues. CRC Press, 2005, pp. 139-165
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| SURNAME | Edgecombe, Gregory |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Edgecombe, Gregory Donald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Canada |