Hans-Dieter Sues

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Hans-Dieter Sues (born January 13, 1956 in Rheydt ) is an American vertebrate palaeontologist of German descent . He is currently the Associate Director for Research and Collections at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .

Sues studied geology and zoology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz , the University of Alberta ( Master of Science in Geology 1977) and Harvard University , where he completed his master's degree in biology in 1978. In 1984 he received his PhD in biology from Harvard . He then went to McGill University and the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC before becoming a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto in 1992 . From 1999 to 2002 he was Vice President for Collections and Research there . At the same time he taught at the University of Toronto , where he became professor of zoology in 1997. From 2002 to 2004 he was Associate Director for Science and Collections at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh .

Sues is one of the leading specialists, especially in the field of Mesozoic and Paleozoic reptiles . In particular, he researches the formation of the main lines of development from the Triassic onwards . He has, among others in the US (including Pennsylvania), Canada, Morocco, Uzbekistan, China (Mongolia) and Germany fossil material collected and numerous species of fossil reptiles first scientifically described , including 1,978 saurornitholestes , a theropod dinosaur, 2009 Levnesovia , one of the oldest hadrosauriden dinosaurs (together with Alexander Averianov), Majungatholus (with Philippe Taquet, 1979, a skull fragment from Madagascar, the first find of a pachycelphalosaur in the southern hemisphere), Ornatotholus (with Peter Galton 1983), Stygimoloch (also 1983 with Galton) and Zephyrosaurus (1980) .

He is co-discoverer of the first well-preserved skeleton of the gliding reptile Coelurosauravus . In 1982, together with Peter Galton, he also investigated the possible (according to Galton / Sues' thesis) early Ceratopsier Stenopelix valdensis . He also dealt with the evolution of land - ecosystems .

In 2003, Sue was President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology . He is on the Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society in Washington DC, the largest private financier of paleontological excavations . The dinosaur Hanssuesia was named after him in 2003.

literature

  • Sues, H.-D. (ed.): Evolution of herbivory in terrestrial vertebrates . 2000. ISBN 0-521-59449-9
  • H.-D. Sues, Anna K. Behrensmeyer, John D. Damuth, William A. DiMichele, Richard Potts, Scott L. Wing (editors and co-authors): Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time: Evolutionary Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants and Animals , University of Chicago Press 1992
  • Basal Ornithopoda (with David Norman, Lawrence Witmer, Rodolfo Coria) in Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson The Dinosauria , University of California Press, 2nd edition 2004

Individual evidence

  1. Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Carnegie. Sep / Oct 2003. FindArticles.com. 03 Dec 2007
  2. Hans-Dieter Sues and Alexander Averianov: "A new basal hadrosauroid dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and the early radiation of duck-billed dinosaurs" In: Proc R Soc B 2009 - doi : 10.1098 / rspb.2009.0229

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