Kenneth Carpenter

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Kenneth "Ken" Carpenter (born September 21, 1949 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese-born American paleontologist .

Carpenter received his PhD in geology and vertebrate paleontology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He was a curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where he attracted attention with award-winning, lifelike dinosaur montages, and a professor at the University of Colorado, and has been director of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Price, founded by Don Burge in 1961, since 2010 (Utah) (whose attractions include an Allosaurus and a Utahraptor ).

He did research in particular on ankylosaurs and stegosaurs and dinosaurs of the Cedar Mountain Formation of the Lower Cretaceous in eastern Utah. He also did research on plesiosaurs .

Carpenter first described (with others) Animantarx (1999), Gojirasaurus (1997), Niobrarasaurus (1995), Gargoyleosaurus (1998), Cedarosaurus (1999), Cedarpelta (2001), Maleevosaurus , Pectinodon , Mymoorapelta and Venenosaurus (2001). Together with Bryan Small and Tim Seeber, he found the most complete Stegosaurus skeleton to date at Canon City in Colorado in 1992 .

He wrote several books on dinosaurs and, for example, advised the BBC on the television documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs .

In 1997 he revised the original tyrannosaur Dryptosaurus with Dale A. Russell and others.

Fonts

  • with Peter Larson (Ed.): Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Tyrant King. Indiana University Press, 2008.
  • (Ed.): The armored Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, 2001.
    • therein from Carpenter: Phylogenetic analysis of the Ankylosauria. Pp. 455-484.
  • (Ed.): Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, 2007.
  • Eggs, Nests, and Baby Dinosaurs: A Look at Dinosaur Reproduction (Life of the Past). Indiana University Press, 1999,
  • The Dinosaurs of Marsh and Cope: The Dinosaurs of Garden Park, Colorado. Garden Park Paleontology Society, 1996.
  • with Darren H. Tanke (Ed.): Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Indiana University Press, 2001.
  • with Virginia Tidwell (Ed.): Thunder-lizards. The Sauropodomorph dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, 2005.
  • (Ed.): Carnivorous Dinosaurs. Indiana University Press, 2005.
  • with Philip J. Currie (Ed.): Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and Perspectives. Cambridge University Press, 1990, 1992.
  • with Karl F. Hirsch, John R. Horner (Eds.): Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
  • with Daniel J. Chure, James Kirkland (Eds.): The Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation - an Interdisciplinary Study. Results of a symposium held at the Denver Museum of Natural History, May 26-28, 1994. In: Modern Geology. Volume 22, 23, 1998.
    • in Volume 22 of Carpenter: Armor of Stegosaurus stenops, and the taphonomic history of a new specimen from Garden Park Colorado. Pp. 127-144.
  • A review of short-necked plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous of the western interior. North America. New Yearbook for Geology and Palaeontology Abhandlungen (Stuttgart) 201, 1996, pp. 259–287.
  • Comparative cranial anatomy of two North American Cretaceous plesiosaurs. In: JM Calloway, EL Nicholls (Eds.): Ancient Marine Reptiles. Academic Press, 1997, pp. 91-216.
  • Revision of North American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the western interior. In: Paludicola. 2, 1999, pp. 148-173.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salt Lake Tribune, June 8, 2010 ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sltrib.com
  2. ^ Paleontologists
  3. Jump up ↑ Carpenter, Russell, Donald Baird, R. Denton Redescription of the holotype of Dryptosaurus aquilunguis (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey , Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17, 1997, 561-573
personal data
SURNAME Carpenter, Kenneth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carpenter, Ken
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese-American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo