Philip J. Currie
Philip John Currie , called Phil, (* 13. March 1949 in Brampton , Ontario ) is a Canadian vertebrate - paleontologist with research focus on the dinosaurs . He is a professor at the University of Alberta at Edmonton.
Currie studied at the University of Toronto ( 1972 bachelor's degree in zoology) and McGill University , where he received his master's degree in 1975 and his PhD in paleontology on synapsids and early diapsids with Robert Lynn Carroll in 1981 . In 1976 he became a curator at the Provincial Museum of Alberta in Edmonton (later the Royal Alberta Museum ). As a co-founder of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology , he was a curator for dinosaurs.
In the 1980s, he and Dale Russell and Dong Zhiming headed a joint Canadian-Chinese project on dinosaur excavation in Mongolia . They also found dinosaurs with clear feather features ( Protarchaeopteryx , Caudipteryx ), which underpinned one of Currie's preferred hypotheses about the ancestry of the birds from the dinosaurs and made him known in wider circles. Furthermore, he researches the reconstruction of herd formation and migration behavior of dinosaurs.
In addition to excavations such as in the Dinosaur Provincial Park in the Canadian province of Alberta with fossils from the Cretaceous period , he also carried out field research in Mongolia and Argentina, among others .
Currie is married to the paleobotanist Eva Koppelhus, with whom he also wrote several books, and has three children from his first marriage. He wrote several popular science books and appeared in several television documentaries about dinosaurs.
In 1999 he was inducted into the Royal Society of Canada . In 2010 he received the Alberta Order of Excellence .
He was President of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology from 2010 to 2012 , which awarded him the Romer-Simpson Medal in 2017 .
Fonts
- with Kevin Padian (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs , Academic Press 1997
- with Kenneth Carpenter (Ed.): Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and Perspectives , Cambridge University Press 1990
- The flying dinosaurs , Red Deer College Press 1991
- with Wayne Grady: The Dinosaur Project: The Story of the Greatest Dinosaur Expedition Ever Mounted , 1993
- with Eva Koppelhus: Dinosaur Provincial Park: a spectacular ancient ecosystem revealed , Volume 1, Indiana University Press 2005
- with E. Koppelhus, MJ Orsen, M. Norell, TP Hopp, R. Bakker u. a .: Feathered Dragons: Studies on the Transition from Dinosaurs to Birds, Indiana University Press 2004
- Basal Tetanurae (with Thomas R. Holtz , Ralph E. Molnar), Ornithomimosauria (with Peter Makovicky, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi), Oviraptosauria (with Halszka Osmolska, Rinchen Barsbold ), in Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson The Dinosauria , University of California Press, 2 , Edition 2004
Web links
- Philip J. Currie ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ji Qiang, Philip Currie, Mark Norell, Ji Shu-An: Two feathered dinosaurs from northeastern China , Nature, Volume 393, 1998, pp. 753-762
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Currie, Philip J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Currie, Philip John (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brampton , Ontario |