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The location of the United States in North America. A substantial amount of paleontological research has occurred within or conducted by people from the United States. Paleontologists have found that at the start of the Paleozoic era, what is now "North" America was actually in the southern hemisphere. Marine life flourished in the country's ...
Catherine E. Badgley (United States, 1950-) William Hellier Baily (England, 1819-1888) Andrew Geddes Bain (South Africa, 1797-1864) Robert T. Bakker (United States, 1945- ) Jean-Christophe Balouet (France, 1956-2021) Harlan Parker Banks (United States, 1913-1998) Mário Costa Barberena (Brazil, 1934-2013) Erwin Hinckly Barbour (United States ...
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(1): 119–143. Dinosaur Fossils are not found in Indiana Archived 2018-04-04 at the Wayback Machine Our Hoosier State Beneath Us: Paleontology. Indiana Geological Survey, Department of Natural Resources. Accessed August 2, 2012.
C. Susan Cachel; Charles Lewis Camp; Frank M. Carpenter; Kenneth Carpenter; Thomas Carr (paleontologist) Robert L. Carroll; Ermine Cowles Case; Kenneth Edward Caster
The simplest definition of "paleontology" is "the study of ancient life". [7] The field seeks information about several aspects of past organisms: "their identity and origin, their environment and evolution, and what they can tell us about the Earth's organic and inorganic past".
Stanley received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1968. For most of his career he taught geology at Johns Hopkins University (1969-2005). In 1977 Stanley was awarded the Paleontological Society's Charles Schuchert Award which is presented "to a person under 40 whose work reflects excellence and promise in the science of paleontology."
McKenna began his paleontology career at the Webb School of California (grades 9-12) in Claremont, California, under noted paleontologist and teacher, Raymond Alf.He attended the California Institute of Technology and Pomona College, then graduated in paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also earned his Ph.D. [1]
Robert Thomas Bakker (born March 24, 1945) is an American paleontologist who helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded). [2]