David B. Norman

David Bruce Percival Arthur Norman ( born June 20, 1952) is a British vertebrate paleontologist who deals with dinosaurs. He is curator of paleontology at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge, where he was director.

He is since 2002 a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and teaches there ( as Reader and Tutor ) geology, biology and paleontology.

He dealt in particular with Ornithischia and among these especially with Iguanodon, on which he also received his doctorate.

Norman wrote many popular books about dinosaurs.

The Chinese hadrosaur Equijubus normani was named after him in 2003.

Writings

• The illustrated encyclopedia of dinosaurs, New York: Crescent Books 1985
• Age of Dinosaurs, New York: Book Right Press 1986
• Prehistoric Life: the rise of the vertebrates, Macmillan 1994
• Dinosaur! , Macmillan 1995
• Angela Milner Dinosaur, New York: Knopf 1989
• Dinosaurs, Oxford University Press 2005
• Basal Ornithischia and basal Thyreophora ( with Lawrence Witmer, David Weishampel ), basal ornithopods ( with Hans -Dieter Sues, Lawrence Witmer, Rodolfo Coria ), Basal Iguanodontia in Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson The Dinosauria, University of California Press, 2nd Edition 2004
• Scelidosaurus. The earliest complete dinosaur, in Kenneth Carpenter The armored dinosaurs, Indiana University Press 2001