Peter Galton

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Peter Malcolm Galton (born March 14, 1942 in London ) is a British-American vertebrate paleontologist specializing in dinosaurs .

Galton studied at the University of London with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and a doctorate (Phil. D.) in zoology in 1967. He was then until 1970 Associate Curator for vertebrate paleontology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University . In 1970 he became Assistant Professor and later Professor of Biology at the University of Bridgeport (College of Chiropractics), from 1997 as Professor of Basic Science . From 1985 he was also a curator at the Peabody Museum at Yale.

He is particularly concerned with ornithischia (such as stegosaurs ) and prosauropods (such as the plateosaurs from Germany and Switzerland). In 1974 he proposed with Robert Bakker that dinosaurs consist of only one parent group (class) (instead of the then common view that they had developed from at least two groups of Archosauria ) and advocated the ancestry of birds from dinosaurs early on.

In 1985 he named Aliwalia , Camelotia and with J. van Heerden Blikanasaurus (and the Blikanasauridae family), 1995 Bugenasaura , 1980 Callovosaurus , 1980 Dracopelta , 1979 with WP Wall Gravitholus , 1978 Lesothosaurus , 1983 with Hans-Dieter Sues Ornatotholus and Stygimoloch , 1979 with James A. Jensen Torvosaurus , 1977 Valdosaurus and 1971 Yaverlandia .

He also named the families Fabrosauridae (1972), Staurikosauridae (1972) and Ruehleia (2001) and the order Herrerasauria (1985).

He showed that Hypsilophodon did not live on trees, as was previously assumed by many, that hadrosaurs do not drag their tails behind them, but use them for balance and pachycephalosaurs use their heads as battering rams.

In 1982 he received a PhD (D. Sc.) From the University of London.

He has been married since 1993 and is a US citizen.

Fonts

  • An early prosauropod dinosaur from the Upper Triassic of Nordwürttemberg, West Germany. Stuttgart contributions to natural history, B 106: 25 p., 5 plates, 4 figs., 1 tab .; Stuttgart 1984
  • Cranial anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur Sellosaurus gracilis from the Middle Stubensandstein (Upper Triassic) of Nordwürttemberg, West Germany. Stuttgart contributions to natural history, B 118: 39 pp., 9 pls., 5 figs., 1 tab .; Stuttgart 1985
  • with RT Bakker: The cranial anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur "Efraasia diagnostica", a juvenile individual of Sellosaurus gracilis from the Upper Triassic of Nordwürttemberg, West Germany. Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, B 117: 15 pp., 2 pls., 4 figs .; Stuttgart 1985
  • The poposaurid thecodontian Teratosaurus suevicus v. Meyer, plus referred specimens mostly based on prosauropod dinosaurs, from the Middle Stubensandstein (Upper Triassic) of Nordwürttemberg. Stuttgart Contributions to Natural History, B 116: 29 pp., 5 pls., 5 figs .; Stuttgart 1985
  • with Paul Upchurch: Prosauropoda and Stegosauria in David B. Weishampel , Halszka Osmólska , Peter Dodson The Dinosauria , 2nd edition University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004
  • Classification and evolution of ornithopod dinosaurs, Nature, 239, 1972, 464-466

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography from American Men and Women of Science , 2004
  2. ^ Later College of Naturopathic Medicine
  3. ^ Galton The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Saurischia, Sauropodomorpha). I: The syntypes of P. engelhardti Meyer, 1837 (Upper Triassic, Germany), with notes on other European prosauropods with “distally straight” femora , Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen, Volume 216, 2000, pp. 233-275 , The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837 (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha; Upper Triassic). II. Notes on the referred species , Revue Paléobiologie, Geneva, Volume 20, 2001, pp. 435-502, Cranial anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus from the Knollenmergel (Middle Keuper, Upper Triassic) of Germany. I. Two complete skulls from Trossingen / Württ. With comments on the diet , Geologica et Palaeontologica, Volume 18, 1984, pp 139-171, Part II All the cranial material and details of soft-part anatomy , ibid, Volume 19, 1985, pp 119-159, Prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus (= Gresslyosaurus) (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland , Geologica et Paleontologica, Volume 20, 1986, pp. 167-183
  4. ↑ Bakker, Galton Dinosaur monophyly and a new class of vertebrates , Nature, Volume 248, 1974, pp. 168-172
  5. ^ Galton Ornithischian dinosaurs and the origin of birds . Evolution, Vol. 24, 1970, pp. 448-462
  6. ↑ Galton A primitive dome-headed dinosaur (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of England, and the function of the dome in pachycephalosaurids , J. Paleontol., Volume 45, 1971, pp. 40-47. He dealt with Sue also with Stenopelix , which they classified as a relative of Yaverlandia .
  7. ↑ Galton The pelvic musculature of the dinosaur Hypsilophodon (Reptilia: Ornithischia) . Postilla, Vol. 131, 1969, pp. 1-64
  8. ^ Galton The posture of hadrosaurian dinosaurs , J. Paleontol., Vol. 44, 1970, pp. 464-473
  9. ↑ Galton Pachycephalosaurids-dinosaiuian battering rams , Discovery, Volume 6, 1970, pp. 23-32
personal data
SURNAME Galton, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Galton, Peter Malcolm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American vertebrate paleontologist specializing in dinosaurs
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH London