Paul M. Barrett

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Paul M. Barrett (* 1971 ) is a British vertebrate paleontologist who studies dinosaurs and fossil reptiles.

life and work

Barrett studied from 1990 at Trinity College, University of Cambridge , where he received his bachelor's degree in zoology in 1993 and his doctorate in paleontology in 1998 ( Herbivory in non-avian Dinosaurs ). From 1999 to 2003 he was a lecturer on Animal Diversity in Oxford. From 2003 he conducted research at the Natural History Museum London, where he is department head and merit researcher .

He deals with the systematics, functional morphology, paleoecology and paleobiology (e.g. food intake) of dinosaurs, but also with patterns in the evolution of dinosaurs, caused for example by a lack of fossil records, the influence of the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere and the coevolution of plants. In addition to dinosaurs, he also deals with ichthyosaurs, turtles and other reptiles. He conducted field research alongside Great Britain (including Skye ) in China, South Africa, Venezuela and Australia, among others. He was particularly concerned with the systematics of stegosaurs and sauropods .

Together with Sterling Nesbitt , Sarah Werning, Christian Sidor and Alan Charig , he described Nyasasaurus from the Triassic of Tanzania in 2013 as one of the oldest dinosaurs or close relatives of the dinosaur ancestors. He was also involved in the first description and naming of Shanxia , Massospondylus kaalae , Albalophosaurus , Hexinlusaurus and other dinosaurs.

In 2009 he described with Jeremy Anquetin and others one of the oldest known turtles, the swimming pond turtle Eileanchelys from the middle Jurassic of Skye. An even older sea turtle from the Triassic was found in China in 2008 ( Odontochelys ).

In 2006 he received the Hodson Award from the Palaeontological Association and in 2011 the Bicentennial Medal from the Linnean Society of London .

Fonts

  • with Alistair J. McGowan, Claire SC Slater (eds.): Palaeogeography and palaeobiogeography: biodiversity in space and time , Boca Raton: CRC Press 2011.
  • with DJ Batten (Ed.): Evolution and palaeobiology of early sauropodomorph dinosaurs . Special Papers in Palaeontology, 77, 2007.
    • therein with Paul Upchurch The evolution of herbivory in sauropodomorph dinosaurs , pp. 91-112
    • with Upchurch, Peter Galton : A phylogenetic analysis of basal sauropodomorph relationships: implications for the origin of sauropod dinosaurs , pp. 57-90.
  • The evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs , Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 349, 1995, pp. 365-390.
  • Sauropodomorpha , Prosauropoda in Philip J. Currie, Kevin Padian Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs , Academic Press 1997.
  • Prosauropoda (with Peter Galton ), Sauropoda (with Paul Upchurch, Peter Dodson ), Stegosauria (with Peter Galton), Dinosauria Distribution (with others) in Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson The Dinosauria , University of California Press, 2nd edition 2004.
  • with M. Wilkinson, PM Barrett, D. Gower, MJ Benton: Robust dinosaur phylogeny? , Nature, 396, 1998, pp. 423-424.
  • The phylogenetic relationships of sauropod dinosaurs , Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 124, 1998, pp. 43-103.
  • with Upchurch: Sauropod diversity through time: possible macroevolutionary and palaeoecological implications , in KA Curry-Rogers, JA Wilson (Ed.) The Sauropods: evolution and paleobiology . University of California Press, Berkeley, 2995, pp. 125-156.
  • Palaeoenvironmental controls on the distribution of Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaurs , Naturwissenschaften 95, 2008, pp. 1027-1032.
  • with AB Smith: Modeling the past: new generation approaches to understanding biological patterns in the fossil record: Introduction , Biology Letters 8, 2012, pp. 112–114 (as editor of the booklet)
  • with EJ Rayfield: Dinosaur feeding: recent advances and evolutionary implications , Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21, 2006, pp. 217-224.
  • with Susan E. Evans (ed.): Ninth International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biotas , Natural History Museum, London, 2006 (therein by Evans, Barrett et al. The Middle Jurassic vertebrate assemblage of Skye, Scotland )
  • with Susannah CR Maidment, David Norman, DB, Paul Upchurch: Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6, 2008, pp. 367-407.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ PM Barrett, AJ McGowan, V. Page Dinosaur diversity and the rock record . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 276, 2009, pp. 2667-2674
  2. ↑ Sterling J. Nesbitt, Paul M. Barrett, Sarah Werning, Christian A. Sidor, Alan J. Charig: The Oldest Dinosaur? A Middle Triassic Dinosauriform from Tanzania In: Biology Letters 9 (1), 2013
  3. ↑ Anquetin, Jérémy, Paul M Barrett, Marc EH Jones, Scott Moore-Fay, Susan E. Evans A new stem turtle from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland: new insights into the evolution and palaeoecology of basal turtles , Proceedings of the Royal Society B 276, 2009, pp. 879-886. Abstract
personal data
SURNAME Barrett, Paul M
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1971