Peter J. Wagner

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Peter J. Wagner , (born September 27, 1964 ) is an American paleontologist and geologist.

Wagner graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor's degree (BS) in 1986 and Michigan State University (BS 1989, MS 1990) and received his doctorate in 1995 from the University of Chicago . His doctoral thesis was entitled The generation and maintenance of morphologic and phylogenetic diversity among early paleozoic gastropods . From 1996 to 2007 he was a curator at the Field Museum of Natural History and then a curator for paleozoic molluscs at the Smithsonian Institution , where he was a post-doctoral student.

He deals with mollusks of the Paleozoic Era (paleobiology, systematics, evolutionary dynamics, morphology, paleogeography).

In 2004 he received the Charles Schuchert Award .

Fonts

  • Phylogenetic relationships of the earliest anisostrophically coiled astropods. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 88. 2002

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography in Smithsonian Opportunities 2009
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Peter J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1964