Michael K. Howarth

Michael Kingsley Howarth (* around 1930) is a British paleontologist and specialist in ammonites .

Howarth studied geology at Manchester University with a bachelor's degree in 1953 and received his doctorate in 1956 at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University . The dissertation dealt with ammonites of the Lower Jurassic in Great Britain and their biostratigraphy. In the same year he became an employee of the Natural History Museum in the fossil cephalopod department. From 1980 until his retirement in 1992 he was an assistant keeper in his department.

He described the ammonite fauna of the Jura and the Cretaceous from Great Britain, Italy, Northern Iraq, Yemen, Tanzania, Angola, Canada and the Antarctic (often from his own collecting activity). He was a collaborator on the volume on ammonites of the Jura des Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology (Part L, Volume 4).

From 1959 to 1986 he was treasurer of the Palaeontographical Society and its trustee until 2005. From 1986 to 2005 he was secretary and managing director of the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature (ITZN). In 1954 he became a Fellow of the Geological Society of London .

Web links

• Biography at the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature