Peter Dodson
Peter Dodson (born August 20, 1946 in Ross , California ) is an American vertebrate paleontologist who studies dinosaurs .
Dodson graduated from the University of Ottawa with a bachelor's degree in geology in 1968, the University of Alberta with a master's degree in geology and paleontology in 1970, and Yale University , where he received his PhD in 1974, while at the Peabody Museum of Natural History as Assistant Curator. From 1974 he was at the University of Pennsylvania , where he was assistant professor of anatomy in 1975 and later professor at the School of Veterinary Medicine.
He first described Suuwassea in 2004 and Avaceratops in 1986. Dodson is a specialist in ceratopsia and publisher of a standard work on dinosaurs. In addition to North America, he also excavated in Argentina, India, Egypt, Madagascar and China.
He also lectured on geology, the history of science and (as a devout Christian) religion.
literature
- Editor and co-author with David B. Weishampel , Halszka Osmólska : The Dinosauria , 2nd edition, University of California Press, Berkeley 2004 (first 1990)
- In it he wrote the article Sauropoda with Paul Upchurch and Paul M. Barrett, Ceratopsidae (with Catherine A. Forster, Scott D. Sampson), and Basal Ceratopsia (with You Hailou)
- The Horned Dinosaurs, Princeton University Press 1996
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dodson, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American vertebrate paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ross , California |