Sterling Nesbitt
Sterling J. Nesbitt (born March 25, 1982 in Mesa , Arizona ) is an American paleontologist .
Nesbitt earned a BA in biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004 and a PhD from Columbia University in 2009 , doing extensive research at the American Museum of Natural History . He is an assistant professor at Virginia Tech .
He dealt with early history of the dinosaurs and archosauria in the Triassic .
In 2006 he discovered a new species in the camps of the American Museum of Natural History in a previously unexplored block that Edwin H. Colbert found in the Ghost Ranch Formation in New Mexico in 1947/48. Colbert found many well-preserved specimens of the dinosaur Coelophysis there . Nesbitt and Mark Norell found an archosaur from the Crurotarsi group in the block , which was similar to the Ornithomimidae , but was not a dinosaur. Morell and Nesbitt named him Effigia okeefeae after the painter Georgia O'Keeffe , who lived near the Ghost Ranch for years.
Nesbitt is one of the first to describe Nyasasaurus .
Fonts
- with David WE Hone: An external mandibular fenestra and other archosauriform character states in basal pterosaurs. In: Palaeodiversity. Volume 3, 2010, pp. 225-233
- The early evolution of archosaurs: relationships and the origin of major clades. In: Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Number 352, 2011, pp. 1-292
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brian Switek: Earliest known dino relative found in nature.com on December 5, 2012, accessed on May 11, 2015
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SURNAME | Nesbitt, Sterling |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nesbitt, Sterling J. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1982 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Mesa , Arizona |