Peter Makovicky

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Peter Makovicky (* around 1973 ) is a Danish-American vertebrate paleontologist who studies dinosaurs .

Makovicky studied biology at the University of Copenhagen with a diploma in 1995 ( Phylogenetic aspects of the vertebral morphology of Coelurosauria (Dinosauria: Theropoda) ) and at Columbia University with an M.Phil. Graduated in 2001 and PhD in palaeontology in 2002 ( Taxonomic revisions and phylogenetic relationships among basal Neoceratopsia (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) ). He became Assistant Curator in 2001, Associate Curator in 2006 and Head of the Geology Department at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 2009, and he teaches at the University of Chicago. Since 2002 he has also been a Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History .

He is mainly concerned with horned dinosaurs ( ceratopsians ) and predatory dinosaurs ( theropods ). In fossil analysis he uses the most modern laboratory equipment such as laser surface scanning, scanning electron microscopes, computer tomography and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy .

He is one of the describer of xuanhuaceratops , liaoceratops , Alnashetri cerropoliciensis (2012), xiongguanlong , Beishanlong , yamaceratops , Sinovenator , Buiteraptor , shenzhousaurus , tsaagan , byronosaurus , Haya Griva , Zanabazar junior and siats meekerorum .

Fonts

  • with Mark Norell : Troodontidae ; with Norell: Dromaeosauridae ; with Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Philip J. Currie : Ornithomimosauria. In: Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson: The Dinosauria . 2nd Edition. University of California Press, 2004.
  • with JM Clark and Mark Norell: Cladistic Approaches to the Relationships of Birds to Other Theropod Dinosaurs. In: LM Chiappe, LM Witmer: Mesozoic Birds - Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. University of California Press, 2002, pp. 31-61.
  • Postcranial axial skeleton, comparative anatomy. In: Philip J. Currie, Kevin Padian (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Academic Press, 1997, pp. 579-590.
  • with Philip Currie: The presence of a furcula in tyrannosaurid theropods, and its phylogenetic and functional implications. In: J. Vertebrate Paleontology. 18, 1998, pp. 143-149.
  • with GM Erickson, Philip Currie, Mark Norell, SA Yerby and CA Brochu: Gigantism and comparative life-history parameters of tyrannosaurid dinosaurs. In: Nature. 430, 2004, pp. 772-775.
  • with Hans-Dieter Sues : Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of the theropod dinosaur Microvenator celer from the Lower Cretaceous of Montana. In: American Museum novitates. No. 3240, 1998.
  • with M. Norell: A partial ornithomimid braincase from Ukhaa Tolgod (Upper Cretaceous, Mongolia). In: American Museum novitates. No. 3247, 1998, pp. 1-16.
  • with M. Norell: Important features of the dromaeosaurid skeleton. 2, Information from newly collected specimens of Velociraptor mongoliensis. In: American Museum novitates. No. 3282, 1999, pp. 1-45.
  • with Mark Norell and JM Clark: Phylogenetic relationships among coelurosaurian theropods. In: Jacques Gauthier , LF Gall: New Perspectives on the Origin and Early Evolution of Birds. Peabody Museum of Natural History, 2001, pp. 49-67.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ X. Xu, PJ Makovicky, X. Wang, MA Norell, H. You: A ceratopsian dinosaur from China and the early evolution of Ceratopsia. In: Nature. 416, 2002, pp. 314-317.
  2. ↑ Xu, Xing, Mark A. Norell, Xiao-Lin Wang, Peter J. Makovicky, Xiao-Chun Wu: A basal troodontid from the Early Cretaceous of China. In: Nature. 415, 2002, pp. 780-784.
personal data
SURNAME Makovicky, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1973