Paúl M. Velazco

Paúl Martin Velazco García (* in Lima ), commonly known as Paúl M. Velazco , is a Peruvian mammaloge and paleomammaloge. He works in the United States . His research focus is on recent and fossil representatives from the bat family of the smooth nosed bat (Phyllostomidae).

Life

In 1997 Velazco obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the Universidad Ricardo Palma in Lima. In 2002 he graduated with the writing Análisis filogenético del género Platyrrhinus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) with a Master of Science in zoology at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. In 2009 he was with the dissertation Historical diversification in the neotropics: Evolution and variation of the bat genus Platyrrhinus led by Bruce D. Patterson for Ph.D. PhD in ecology and evolution from the University of Illinois at Chicago .

From 2009 to 2013 he was a post-doc at the mammalian department at the American Museum of Natural History , where he researched the evolution of smooth noses in collaboration with Nancy B. Simmons . Since 2010 he has been a research fellow at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and since 2013 at the Department of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, where he studies the evolution and diversification of Mesozoic mammals with Michael J. Novacek . He has been an assistant lecturer at the City College of New York since 2016 .

To Velazcos research projects include the morphology and evolution of the hare-like mouth (Noctilionoidea), inventories of neotropical small mammals , the high-level phylogeny of mammals, the mammals of the Mesozoic, due biogeography and taxonomy and systematics of mammals. He is also an employee of Morphobank , a web application sponsored by the National Science Foundation , which provides an online database and a workspace for evolutionary research, in particular systematics (the science of determining the evolutionary relationships between species). Together with a team of scientists, he oversees a Tree of Life project for mammals using molecular and morphological data derived from both existing and extinct lineages. So far, a data set of over 4500 cranial, tooth, postcranium and soft tissue features has been compiled and archived.

Velazco was the first descriptions to Carollia manu , barbarabrownae Isothrix , kalkoae Lophostoma , Hsunycteris dashe , Platyrrhinus albericoi , angustirostris Platyrrhinus , fusciventris Platyrrhinus , Platyrrhinus guianensis , Platyrrhinus Ismaeli , masu Platyrrhinus , Platyrrhinus matapalensis , nitelinea Platyrrhinus , Sturnira bakeri , Sturnira burtonlimi , Sturnira giannae , Thyroptera wynneae , Vampyressa elisabethae and Vampyressa sinchi .

literature

• Curriculum Vitae (PDF, as of 2016)

Web links

• Official website of Paúl M. Velazco
• Literature by and about Paúl M. Velazco in the bibliographic database WorldCat