Paul Upchurch

Paul Upchurch (born October 18, 1967 ) is a British vertebrate paleontologist who works on dinosaurs . He is a Reader in Paleontology at University College London .

Upchurch received his bachelor's degree from Cambridge University in 1986 and his PhD in 1993 ( The anatomy, phylogeny and systematics of Sauropod Dinosaurs ). He has been at University College London since 2003.

He deals with the systematics, evolution, behavior and biogeography of dinosaurs, especially sauropods .

He is the first to describe Isisaurus , Lithostrotia and Shanxia .

Fonts

• The evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs. In: 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.
• with M. Wilkinson, Paul M. Barrett , D. Gower, MJ Benton: Robust dinosaur phylogeny? In: Nature. 396, 1998, pp. 423-424.
• The phylogenetic relationships of sauropod dinosaurs. In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 124, 1998, pp. 43-103.
• with Jeffrey A. Wilson: A Revision of Titanosaurus Lydekker (Dinosauria - Sauropoda), the first dinosaur genus with a 'gondwanan' distribution. In: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 1, 2003, pp. 125-160.
• with Peter Galton : Prosauropoda. with Paul M. Barrett, Peter Dodson : Sauropoda. with Peter Galton: Stegosauria. In Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson: The Dinosauria . 2nd Edition. University of California Press, 2004.
• with Paul Barrett: Phylogenetic and Taxic Perspectives on Sauropod Diversity. In Rogers, Wilson (Ed.): The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology. University of California Press, 2005, pp. 104-124.
• with Alistair J. McGowan, Claire SC Slater (Eds.): Palaeogeography and palaeobiogeography: biodiversity in space and time. CRC Press, Boca Raton 2011.

Web links

• Paul Upchurch on the University College London website