Michael J. Benton

Michael James "Mike" Benton (born April 8, 1956 ) is Professor of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol . Since 2001 he has been the “Head of Department”. Benton is the author of numerous non-fiction books ; many of them were also published in German.

life and work

Michael Benton has published numerous scientific papers since the late 1970s that have appeared in recognized journals , including Nature . In addition, he also appears as the author of several textbooks in paleontology , as well as numerous popular scientific non-fiction books , especially for children, with dinosaurs being the main focus. Benton was a scientific advisor for many television documentaries , including the BBC series " Dinosaurs - In the Empire of the Giants " (Original: "Walking with Dinosaurs"). In 2008 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and in 2014 a member of the Royal Society .

In 2005 he received the Lyell Medal . For 2020 Benton was awarded the Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal of the European Geosciences Union .

2005 Mesozoic and Tertiary fossil mammals and birds of Great Britain by MJ Benton, L. Cook, D. Schreve, A Currant and JJ Hooker
2005 Vertebrate palaeontology (third edition)
2003 When life nearly died: the greatest mass extinction of all time
2002 Permian and Triassic red beds and the Penarth Group of Great Britain by MJ Benton, E. Cook and PJ Turner
2000 The age of dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia, edited by MJ Benton, DM Unwin, MA Shishkin and EN Kurochkin
2000 Walking with dinosaurs: the facts
1997 Basic palaeontology by MJ Benton and DAT Harper
1997 Vertebrate palaeontology (Second edition)
1996 The Penguin historical atlas of the dinosaurs
1996 The Viking atlas of evolution by R. Osborne and MJ Benton
1995 Fossil reptiles of Great Britain by MJ Benton and PS Spencer
1993 Extinct animals. In The Guinness book of records
1993 The fossil record 2, edited by MJ Benton
1991 The rise of the mammals
1991 The reign of the reptiles
1990 On the trail of the dinosaurs
1990 Vertebrate palaeontology: biology and evolution, London, Boston: Unwin Hyman
1988 The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods, Volumes 1 and 2 edited by MJ Benton

2008 The 70 great wonders of nature ( The Seventy Great Mysteries of the Natural World , translated by Werner Kügler), Frederking & Thaler, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89405-716-9 .
2007 Paleontology of Vertebrates (translation of the 3rd English edition by Hans-Ulrich Pfretzschner), Pfeil. Munich
2007 dinosaurs. An atlas of prehistoric times (John Malam, John Woodward and Michael Benton)
2001 The large colored dinosaur lexicon. With many other primeval animals .
2000 The development of life on earth. 3.5 billion years of evolution .
2000 The big book of dinosaurs. Behavior, fossils, finds, nests, extinction .
1997 dinosaur
1993 The big colored dinosaur lexicon . Special edition. Gondrom, Bindlach 1993, ISBN 3-8112-1099-8 (illustration by Jim Channell and Kevin Maddison).
1992 Questions and Knowledge, Dinosaurs
1991 My first book about dinosaurs
1991 Animals of prehistoric times from A - Z
1990 dinosaurs from A - Z
1988 The development of life on earth: 3.5 billion years of evolution ( The Story of Life on Earth , translated by Elisabeth Fritsch, illustrated by Kuo Kang Chen), Quelle and Meyer, Heidelberg / Wiesbaden 1988, ISBN 3-494-01176 -1 .

^ Professor elected to elite Fellowship (University of Bristol press release of April 21, 2008)
↑ EGU announces 2020 awards and medals. In: egu.eu. October 22, 2019, accessed October 23, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Benton, Michael J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Benton, Michael James; Benton, Mike
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 8, 1956