Sterling Nesbitt

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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

  1. ↑ Brian Switek: Earliest known dino relative found in nature.com on December 5, 2012, accessed on May 11, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Nesbitt, Sterling
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nesbitt, Sterling J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Mesa , Arizona