Loren Babcock
Loren Edward Babcock , (born May 26, 1961 in Buffalo, New York ) is an American paleontologist and geologist.
Babcock graduated from the State University of New York at Fredonia with a bachelor's degree in 1983 and from Kent State University with a master's degree in 1986, and received his PhD in geology from the University of Kansas in 1990 . In 1990 he became an assistant professor and later professor at Ohio State University .
He deals with paleobiology and paleobiogeography in particular the early history of multicellular cells and especially of trilobites of the Paleozoic (Cambrian) and the transition from the Ediacara fauna to the Cambrian. He dealt with the evolutionary history of biological asymmetry (handedness), the process of fossil formation and the role of predators in evolution.
In 2001 he received the Charles Schuchert Award . He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the Paleontological Society . He is secretary of the international subcommittee on stratigraphy of the Cambrian (2016).
In 2000 he found the oldest known footprint (from the legs of an unknown living being) in marine shallow water sediments near Goldfield (Nevada) , which is 570 million years old , which they published in 2008. It is assigned to the Ediacara fauna and, according to Babcock, could be an indication of more complex life forms than previously known (probably an arthropod) that may have already landed. Similar traces were found in Canada (520 Ma) and in southern China (540 Ma) in 2002.
Fonts
- Visualizing Earth History, Wiley 2008
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Oldest footprints on earth found , Live Science, October 5, 2008
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Babcock, Loren |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Babcock, Loren Edward (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist and geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 26, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buffalo (New York) |