Richard Aldridge

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Richard John Aldridge (born December 16, 1945 - † February 4, 2014 ) was a British paleontologist who mainly dealt with conodonts and other paleozoic microfossils .

Aldridge received his PhD with Ronald Leyshon Austin at the University of Southampton . He was then a lecturer at University College London and the University of Nottingham , before becoming Professor at the University of Leicester in 1989 , where he was FW Bennett Professor of Geology .

Aldridge, with Euan Clarkson and Derek Briggs , clarified the long puzzling nature of the conodonts, important key fossils of the Paleozoic Era, of which only tooth-like relics were known until the 1980s (discovered as soft tissue remains). He researched conodonts and their biostratigraphy as early as the 1970s. He also conducted research on Paleozoic phytoplankton and other microfossils and dug in the fossil deposits of the Soom Shale of the Ordovician in South Africa and the conservative deposits of the Early Cambrian in Chengjiang in China ( Chengjiang Faunal Community ).

In 2006 he received the Pander Medal of the Pander Society, which is dedicated to the study of conodonts. In 2011 he received the Lapworth Medal . From 2002 to 2006 he was President of the International Palaeontological Association .

Fonts

  • with XG Hou, J. Bergström, DJ Siveter, XH Feng The Cambrian fossils of Chengjiang, China: the flowering of animal life , Blackwell Science Ltd, London 2004

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Date of birth according to Who is Who of British Scientists , 1981.
  2. ↑ Aldridge, Briggs, Clarkson The conodont animal , Lethaia, Volume 16, 1983, pp. 1-14.
  3. ↑ Aldridge, Briggs, MP Smith, Clarkson, NDL Clark The anatomy of conodonts . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, Volume 340, 1993, pp. 405-421.
  4. ↑ Aldridge, PCJ Donoghue, PL Forey Conodont affinity and chordate phylogeny , Biological Reviews, Volume 75, 2000, pp. 191-251.
  5. ↑ Among other things in the Soom Shale in South Africa.
  6. ^ Aldridge The stratigraphic distribution of conodonts in the British Silurian , Journal of the Geological Society, London, Volume 131, 1975, pp. 607-618.
  7. ^ Soom Shale, University of Leicester.
personal data
SURNAME Aldridge, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aldridge, Richard John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1945
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 2014