Percy M. Butler

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Percy Milton Butler (born July 19, 1912 - † February 7, 2015 ) was a British vertebrate paleontologist and zoologist. He was Professor of Zoology at the Royal Holloway College, University of London.

He studied at Cambridge University and Columbia University , while at the same time in 1938 he worked at the American Museum of Natural History (with William King Gregory ) on the evolution of teeth in mammals.

Butler was particularly concerned with early (Mesozoic) mammals and the development of the teeth of early mammals. He also dealt with tertiary mammals from East Africa, where he also worked with Louis Leakey on the fauna of the Olduvai Gorge . In the 1990s he was still concerned with Haramiyida .

In 1996 he received the Romer Simpson Medal of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology , of which he has been an honorary member since 1994.

Fonts

  • with Kenneth Joysey (Ed.) Development, Function and Evolution of Teeth , Academic Press 1978
  • Contribution to Louis Leakey Preliminary report on the geology and fauna of Olduvai Gorge , 1965, Reprint Cambridge University Press 2009
  • East African Miocene and Pleistocene Chalicotheres , British Museum of Natural History, 1965
  • Erinaceidae from the Miocene of East Africa , British Museum of Natural History, 1956
  • with A. Tindell Hopwood Insectivora and Chiroptera from the Miocene rocks of Kenya Colony , British Museum of Natural History, 1957
  • Studies of the mammalian dentition. Differentiation of the post-canine dentition , Proc. Zoological Society London, Volume 109, 1939, pp. 1-36
  • Tooth morphology and primate evolution , in DR Brothwell (Ed.) Dental Anthropology , Oxford, Pergamon Press 1963, pp. 1-13

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vertpaleo.org
  2. ^ American Museum of Natural History, Annual Report for the year 1938, p. 15
  3. ^ Butler Review of early allotherian mammals , Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Volume 45, 2000, pp. 317-342
personal data
SURNAME Butler, Percy M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Butler, Percy Milton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British vertebrate paleontologist and zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1912
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2015