Luis M. Chiappe

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Luis M. Chiappe (born June 18, 1962 ) is an Argentine paleontologist whose scientific interest is in fossil vertebrates.

Chiappe worked at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in the 1990s . He is the curator and director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County . He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California .

Chiappe is mainly concerned with fossil archosaurs and the evolution of birds ( paleornithology ) and was on palaeontological field work except in the USA in Mongolia, Argentina, China and Kazakhstan.

He dealt in particular with the early evolution of birds, but also with later epochs. He contradicted the view of an explosion-like diversification and emergence of modern birds after the extinction of the dinosaurs at the turn of the Cretaceous / Paleogene and advocates a much earlier diversification. He discovered new types of enantiornithes ( Neuquenornis volans , 1993, with Jorge Calvo ) from the Mesozoic of Argentina in the 1990s .

He is one of the first to describe the bird-like theropod (an alvarez dinosaur , from them assigned to a genus Mononykus in 1993 ) from Mongolia, which they classified as a flightless bird, as did Shuvuuia from Mongolia. However, this classification, due to certain anatomical similarities to birds, did not prevail.

Chiappe also dealt with the paleobiology (reproduction, brood rearing and development) of sauropods . Chiappe was with Lowell Dingus and Rodolfo Coria 1997/99 one of the discoverers of the site of sauropod nests in Auca Mahuevo in Patagonia with very well preserved fossil eggs and embryos.

Together with Ursula B. Göhlich, he is the first to describe Juravenator .

He received a Guggenheim grant and a Humboldt Research Award , with which he conducted research in Munich in 2005. He received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize from the Humboldt Foundation.

From 2016 to 2019 Chiappe was President of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution (SAPE). In 2019 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts

  • The Rise of Birds, in DEG Briggs, PR Crowther (Ed.) Palaeobiology II. A Synthesis , Cambridge University Press 2001, pp. 101-106
  • with Lowell Dingus: The tiniest giants: discovering dinosaur eggs, Random House 1999
  • with Lowell Dingus: Walking on eggs: the astonishing discovery of thousands of dinosaur eggs in the badlands of Patagonia, Scribner 2001
  • with dingus, Coria Dinosaur eggs discovered! : unscrambling the clues , Minneapolis: Twenty-First Century Books 2008
  • Glorified dinosaurs: the origin and early evolution of birds, Wiley 2007
  • Editor with Lawrence M. Witmer: Mesozoic birds: above the heads of dinosaurs, University of California Press 2002
    • therein by Chiappe: Basal Bird Phylogeny: Problems and Solutions, 448–472 and with CA Walker: Skeletal morphology and systematics of the Cretaceous Euenantiornithes (Ornithothoraces: Enantiornithes), 240–267
  • with GJ Dyke: The mesozoic radiation of birds, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 33, 2002, 91-124
  • The first 85 million years of avian evolution, Nature, 378, 1995, 349-355
  • with Kevin Padian: The origin and early evolution of birds, Biological Reviews 73, 1998, 1-42
  • with Gareth Dyke: The early evolutionary history of birds , J. Paleont. Soc. Korea, 22, 2006, 133-151, pdf

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Individual evidence

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  2. ^ A. Perle, Mark Norell , Luis Chiappe Flightless bird from the Cretaceous of Mongolia Nature 362, 1993, 623-626, Correction Nature 363, 1993, 188
  3. ↑ Chiappe, Norell, James M. Clark The skull of a relative of the stem-group bird Mononykus , Nature 392, 1998, 275-278
  4. ↑ Chiappe, LM, Coria, RAA, Dingus, L., Jackson, F., Chinsamy, A., & M. Fox. Sauropod Dinosaur Embryos from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Nature 396, 1998, 258-261
personal data
SURNAME Chiappe, Luis M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1962