Timothy Rowe
Timothy Rowe (* 1953 ) is an American vertebrate paleontologist and zoologist.
Rowe graduated from Occidental College with a bachelor's degree in geology in 1975, received a master's degree in anatomy from the University of Chicago in 1981, and received a PhD in paleontology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986 . In 1975/76 he was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow and leading paleontological museums in Europe and South Africa and from 1978 to 1981 he was Senior Paleontologist at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff . 1983/84 he was Fellow in Residence at the National Museum of Natural History . From 1986 he was at the University of Texas at Austin , where he is a professor and director of the Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory. He is the Nalle Gregory Regents Professor in Geological Sciences .
He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award (as the first paleontologist) from 1989 to 1994 for his innovative work on incorporating digital techniques into the study of fossils. In 1997 he founded the X-ray Computed Tomography Facility (UTCT) with William Carlson. He maintains the website Digital Morphology with high-resolution digital X-ray computed tomography images for zoology and palaeontology.
He excavated especially in the southwest of the USA (in layers from the Permian to the Tertiary), but also in Mexico, Europe and South Africa. He deals with the development and anatomy of the vertebrate skeleton in both recent and fossil species, the brain and sensory system and fauna of the Western Interior region of North America (from the Permian to the Mesozoic Era).
Fonts
- with Lowell Dingus The mistaken extinction: dinosaur evolution and the origin of birds , Freeman 1998
- with Ronald S. Tykoski Ceratosauria , in Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson The Dinosauria , University of California Press, 2nd edition 2004
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| SURNAME | Rowe, Timothy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American paleontologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1953 |