Thomas R. Waller

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Thomas Richard Waller (born July 18, 1937 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American malacologist and paleontologist .

Waller studied at the University of Wisconsin ( Bachelor 1959, MS 1961) and received his PhD in Geology from Columbia University in 1966 . He has been an Associate Curator since 1966 and Mollusc Curator at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC since 1974

He deals with evolution, ecology, functional morphology and systematics of mussels (Bivalvia) and founded the Limida mussel order in 1978 . Waller studies both recent and fossil mussels, especially scallops (Pectinidae).

Waller is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1986) and received the Gilbert Harris Award from the Paleontological Research Institution .

Fonts

  • The Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands, The Veliger, 14, 1972, pp. 221-264
  • Morphology, morphoclines and a new classification of the Pteriomorphia (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B, 284, 1978, pp. 345-365
  • Evolutionary relationships among commercial scallops, in: SE Shumway, Scallops: biology, ecology and aquaculture. Elsevier, Amsterdam 1991
  • with GD Stanley, Jr .: Middle Triassic pteriomorphian Bivalvia (Mollusca) from the New Pass Range, west-central Nevada: systematics, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and paleobiogeography, Journal of Paleontology Memoir 61, supplement to Journal of Paleontology, 79, 2005

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References and comments

  1. ↑ life data according to Pamela Kalte u. a. American Men and Women of Science, Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Waller, Thomas R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waller, Thomas Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American malacologist and paleontologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois