Gregory S. Paul

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Gregory S. Paul, Princeton 2011

Gregory Scott Paul (born December 24, 1954 in Washington, DC ) is an American illustrator and paleontologist .

He worked as an unofficial research assistant and illustrator with Robert Bakker at Johns Hopkins University from 1977 to 1984 and was one of those who, through their reconstructions and illustrations, created a new, more dynamic image of dinosaurs, the new knowledge and hypotheses of, from the late 1970s onwards Warm-bloodedness accordingly. He was also one of the first to predict the feathered dinosaurs discovered later in the 1990s.

His pictures have been in many magazines and books and he has also been a consultant on television shows about dinosaurs, for example on Discovery Channel and PBS / Nova and in the film Jurassic Park (and author Michael Crichton also gives him credits for his bestseller Jurassic Park ).

He first described Avisaurus archibaldi in 1985 with Michael K. Brett-Surman as a theropod, and in 1992 Luis M. Chiappe recognized him as enantiornithes (i.e. as an early bird). A theropod he described in 1988 as Acrocanthosaurus was later classified in Becklespinax altispinax. With A. Elzanowski and TA Stidham he first described the early bird Potamornis skutchi from the Upper Cretaceous of Wyoming (probably a Hesperornithiformes ).

He renamed some genera of dinosaurs, such as the Brachiosaurus by Werner Janensch from Tendaguru 1988 in Giraffatitan and the classic Brussels Iguanodon specimens in Dollodon . Based on his work on a revision of the Iguanodon , he also named Dakotodon and Mantellisaurus .

The dinosaurs Sellacoxa pauli (2010) and Cryptovolans pauli (2002) were named after him, but the latter was then assigned to the microraptors .

Fonts

  • Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, Simon and Schuster 1988
  • The Complete Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Skeletons, Gakken 1996 (Japanese / English)
  • Dinosaurs of the Air: The Evolution and Loss of Flight in Dinosaurs and Birds, The Johns Hopkins University Press 2002
  • The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, Princeton University Press 2010 (covers over 735 species with 600 illustrations by Paul)
  • Gregory S. Paul's Dinosaur Coffee Table Book, Blurb 2010
  • Published in: The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs, St. Martin's Press 2000

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personal data
SURNAME Paul, Gregory S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Paul, Gregory Scott (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC