Robert Reisz

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Robert Reisz

Robert Rafael Reisz (born August 27, 1947 in Oradea , Romania ) is a Canadian paleontologist. He is a professor at the University of Toronto and is known for research on early amniotes and terrestrial vertebrates (tetrapods).

Life

Reisz studied at McGill University with a bachelor's degree in 1969 and a master's degree in 1971 and received his doctorate there in 1975 with Robert L. Carroll in paleontology. After two years as a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , he became a professor in Toronto.

He dug for Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic vertebrate fossils in North America, Africa and Europe , funded in part by the National Geographic Society .

He was visiting scholar at the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow (1989 to 2003) and at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris (2000 to 2003) and has been associated with the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto since 1975 and with the Field Museum in Chicago and since 1980 with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. In 2006 he received the Humboldt Research Award . In 2007 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2009 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada . In 2011 he became an honorary member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology .

From 2006 to 2010 he was editor of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

In 1972 he discovered Archaeothyris from the Upper Carboniferous in Nova Scotia , the earliest known representative of the amniote line that leads to mammals. In 2000 he and colleagues found evidence of one of the earliest representatives of two-legged locomotion in reptiles ( Eudibamus cursoris , a Bolosauridae from the Permian of Germany). In 2005, together with Hans-Dieter Sues and others, he published the discovery of a nest with eggs and embryos from early prosauropods ( Massospondylus carinatus ) of the Lower Jurassic in South Africa (Elliott Formation). These are also the oldest known dinosaur embryos to date. In 1977 he classified Petrolacosaurus as the earliest known diapsid .

In 1996, together with Michel Laurin, he classified Tetraceratops among the Therapsids , making it the oldest known Therapsid.

Fonts

  • Petrolacosaurus, the oldest known diapsid reptile. Science, Volume 196, 1977, pp. 1091-1093.
  • with MJ Heaton: The origin of mammal-like reptils, Nature, Volume 288, 1980, p. 193
  • Pelycosauria, in Peter Wellnhofer (Ed.), Handbuch der Palaeoherpetologie, G. Fischer 1986
  • with Michel Laurin : Owenetta and the origin of turtles. Nature, Vol. 349, 1991, pp. 324-326.
  • with Michel Laurin: A reevaluation of early amniote phylogeny. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Vol. 113, No. 2, 1995, pp. 165-223
  • with Michel Laurin: The osteology and relationships of Tetraceratops insignis, the oldest known therapsid. In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Volume 16, 1996, pp. 95-102.
  • The origin and early evolutionary history of amniotes. TREE, Vol. 2 (6), 1997, pp. 218-222.
  • with Michel Laurin: A new perspective on tetrapod phylogeny, in: S. Sumida, KLM Martin, The Origin of Amniotes: Completing the Transition to Land, 1997, pp. 8–58.
  • with Hans-Dieter Sues : Origins and early evolution of herbivory in tetrapods. TREE, Volume 13.4, 1998, pp. 141-145.
  • with HD Sues: Herbivory in Late Paleozoic and Triassic Terrestrial Vertebrates, in: HD Sues, Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates, Cambridge Univ. Press., 2000, pp. 9-41.
  • with Diane Scott, H.-D. Sues, David C. Evans, Michael A. Raath: Embryos of an Early Jurassic prosauropod dinosaur and their evolutionary significance, cience 309, 2005, pp. 761-764, abstract
  • with H.-D. Sue: The 'feathers' of Longisquama. Nature, Vol. 408, 2000, p. 428.
  • with DS Berman, AC Henrici, SS Sumida, T. Martens: Early Permian Bipedal Reptile, Science 290, 2000, pp. 969-972, PMID 11062126 .
  • with MM Smith: Lungfish dental pattern conserved for 360 million years, Nature, Volume 411, 2001, pp. 548-550.
  • with N. Rybczynski: Earliest evidence for efficient oral processing in a terrestrial herbivore. Nature, Vol. 411, 2001, pp. 684-687.
  • Cranial anatomy of basal diadectomorphs and the origin of amniotes, in JS Anderson, H.-D. Sue: Major transitions in vertebrate evolution (Life of the past), Indiana University Press 2007, pp. 351-377.
  • with JJ Head: Turtle origins out to sea, Nature, Volume 456, 2008, pp. 450-451.

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personal data
SURNAME Reisz, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reisz, Robert Rafael (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Oradea , Romania