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unusual facts about vertebrate paleontology



Philip D. Gingerich

His research focus is in vertebrate paleontology, especially the Paleocene-Eocene transition and early Cenozoic mammals.


see also

Deinotherium

Carroll, R.L. (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co.

Dissorophidae

Carroll, R. L. (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co.

Eryopidae

Carroll, R. L. (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, W.H. Freeman & Co.

Lethiscus

Carroll, R.L (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co. pp.176-7

Megalonychidae

Jefferson's ground sloth has a special place in modern paleontology, for Thomas Jefferson's letter on Megalonyx, read before the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, in August 1796, marked the beginning of vertebrate paleontology in North America.

Peter Dodson

A professor of vertebrate paleontology and of veterinary anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania, Dodson has also taught courses in geology, history, history and sociology of science, and religious studies.

Sinosaurus

Sinosaurus was described and named by Chung Chien Young, who is known as the 'Father of Chinese Vertebrate Paleontology', in 1948.