James Hopson

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James Allen Hopson (* 27. August 1935 in New Haven (Connecticut) ) is an American vertebrate - paleontologist .

life and work

Hopson graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and received his doctorate in paleontology from the University of Chicago in 1965 . From 1963 to 1967 he was at the Peabody Museum of Natural History and in 1967 he was assistant professor and in 1986 professor at the University of Chicago. Since 1971 he has also been a Research Associate at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

He is mainly concerned with the evolutionary history of synapsids , mammal-like reptiles ( therapsids ) and the origin of mammals. Accordingly, his focus is on the Permian and Triassic periods , and since many finds of mammalian reptiles from this period come from South Africa, he traveled there frequently. He also dealt with hadrosaurs like Parasaurolophus and the function of their bone crest on the skull.

In 1984 he was president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and became an honorary member in 2008. In 2015 he received their Romer-Simpson Medal .

Fonts

  • with JM Clark: Distinctive mammal-like reptile from Mexico and its bearing on the phylogeny of the Tritylodontidae , Nature, Volume 315, 1985, pp. 398-400.
  • with HR Barghusen: An analysis of therapsid relationships. In: N. Hotton III., PD MacLean, JJ Roth, EC Roth (Eds.), The Ecology and Biology of Mammal-like reptiles , Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press 1986, pp. 83-106.
  • Systematic of the non-mammalian Synapsida and implications for patterns of evolution in synapsids. In: HP Schultze, L. Trueb (Eds.), Origins of higher groups of tetrapods: controversy and consensus , Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1991, pp. 635-693.
  • with EF Allen: Evolution of the auditory system in Synapsida ("mammal-like reptiles and primitive mammals) as seen in the fossil record. In: DB Webster, RR Fay, AN Popper (eds.), The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing , New York: Springer-Verlag 1991, pp. 587-614.
  • with JR Wible: Basicranial evidence for early mammal phylogeny. In: FS Szalay, MJ Novacek, MC McKenna (Eds.), Mammal Phylogenym , New York: Springer-Verlag 1993.
  • with GW Rougier: Braincase structure in the oldest known skull of a therian mammal: Implications for mammalian systematics and cranial evolution , American Journal of Science, Volume 293-A, 1993, pp. 268-299.
  • Patterns of evolution in the manus and peers of non-mammalian therapsids , Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Volume 15, 1995, pp. 615-639.

literature

AW Crompton, Farish A. Jenkins, Jr., Susan Hopson, Timothy J. Gaudin, Matthew T. Carrano: James Allen Hopson: A Biography , in Matthew T. Carrano, Timothy J. Gaudin, Richard W. Blob, and John R . Wible. (Ed.), Amniote Paleobiology: Perspectives on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles: A volume honoring James Allen Hopson , The University of Chicago Press, Chicago & London, 2006, pp. 507-515

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References and comments

  1. ↑ life data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Professor for Organizational Biology and Anatomy
personal data
SURNAME Hopson, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hopson, James Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH New Haven (Connecticut)