Rintschengiin Barsbold

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Rinchen Barsbold ( Mongolian Ринченгийн Барсболд , Rintschengiin Barsbold ; * 1935 in Ulaanbaatar ) is a leading Mongolian vertebrate paleontologist. He works at the Institute of Geology in Ulaanbaatar.

Barsbold was instrumental in extensive dinosaur discoveries in the Gobi Desert , partly with Soviet and Polish scientists. The Gobi Desert has been known as a dinosaur site since the discovery of Roy Chapman Andrews in the 1930s. Barsbold is particularly an expert on predatory dinosaurs, on which he did his PhD, and specifically Ornithomimidae . Early in the 1980s he pointed out various bird characteristics of predatory dinosaurs in Mongolia and advocated the ancestry of the birds from such dinosaurs, which later received support in the West through the discovery of feathered dinosaurs in the 1990s ( Philip Currie ).

In 1994 he was one of those who identified a clutch of oviraptors , which led to the assumption that they brooded like birds.

The hadrosaur Barsboldia and the oviraptorid Rinchenia are named after him.

He himself described the Ornithomimidae genera Gallimimus , Garudimimus , Anserimimus , the Enigmosaurus , Conchoraptor , Adasaurus , Harpymimus , Ingenia , the Oviraptoridae family .

In 2010 he received the Romer Simpson Medal .

Fonts

  • Oviraptorosauria . In: Philip Currie , K. Padian (Eds.): Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Academic Press, San Diego 1997
  • Oviraptosauria (with Halszka Osmolska, Philip J. Currie), Therizinosauroidea (with James M. Clark, Teresa Maryanska) in Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson The Dinosauria , University of California Press, 2nd edition 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norell, Clark, Barsbold et al. a. A Theropod Dinosaur Embryo and the Affinities of the Flaming Cliffs Dinosaur Eggs , Science, Volume 266, 1994, p. 779
Mongolian name: As is customary in Mongolia, in this article the patronymic is in the genitive case before the proper name. So Rinchen is the patronymic, Barsbold the proper name. The person is addressed with their proper name.
personal data
SURNAME Barsbold, Rintschengiin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barsbold, Rintschengiin; Барсболд, Ринченгийн (Mongolian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mongolian vertebrate paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulaanbaatar