David B. Weishampel

David Bruce Weishampel ( born November 16, 1952) is an American paleontologist who deals with dinosaurs.

Life and work

Weishampel studied geology and palaeontology at the Ohio State University (Bachelor in 1975 with a thesis on an Antarctic Lystrosaurus ) and the University of Toronto ( Master's degree 1978) and in 1981 at the University of Pennsylvania PhD ( The evolution of jaw mechanics in ornithopods ). After that, he was at Rutgers University (1981, Lecturer ), University of Pennsylvania, 1982/83 with a NATO fellowship at the University of Tübingen ( and again in 1988 and in Warsaw), from 1983 assistant professor at Florida International University, and from 1985 at Johns Hopkins University. There he became Associate Professor in 1990 and 1996, professor at the School of Medicine, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology.

Except with dinosaurs, he dealt with cladistics, evolutionary theory and its history, as well as biomechanics (eg pine ). With Peter Dodson and Halszka Osmólska he gave a standard work on dinosaurs out (The Dinosauria ).

A particular focus of the research was on dinosaurs in Europe during the Cretaceous period, for example, in Romania, where the Dinosaur developed on islands dwarf forms.

In 1980, he received the Alfred Sherwood Romer Prize of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, which is awarded for outstanding work by students before graduation. 2007 to 2009 he was president of the Jurassic Foundation in Chicago.

He was one of the advisers of Steven Spielberg for the film Jurassic Park.

Writings (selection )

As author

  • With Coralia M. Jianu: The smallest of the large largest. A new look at possible dwarfing in sauropod dinosaurs. In: Geology en Mijnbouw. International Journal of the Royal Geological Society of minig and the Netherlands. Vol 78 (1999), Issue 3/ 4, pp. 335-343, ISSN 0923-1110.
  • Fossils, phylogeny, and discovery. A cladistic study of the history of tree Topologies and ghost lineage durations. In: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Vol 16 (1996 ), pp. 191-197, ISSN 0272-4634.
  • Fossils, function, and phylogeny. In: Jeff Thomason (ed.): Functional Morphology in Vertebrate Paleontology. CUP, Cambridge 1995, ISBN 0-521-44095-5, pp. 34-54.
  • Jack Horner: Life history syndromes, heterochrony, and the evolution of Dinosauria. In: Kenneth Carpenter, John R. Horner, Karl F. Hirsch ( eds.): Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1994, ISBN 0-521-56723-8, pp. 229-243.
  • Beams and machines. Modeling approaches to analysis of skull form and function. In: James Hanken, Brian K. Hall ( ed.): The Skull, Volume 3: Functional and Evolutionary Mechanisms. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1993, ISBN 0-226-31571-1, pp. 303-344.
  • With David Fastovsky: The evolution and extinction of Dinosaurs. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 0-521-01046-2.

As editor

  • Peter Dodson, Halszka Osmólska: The Dinosauria. 2nd edition. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004, ISBN 0-520-24209-2. (EA Berkeley 1990) where: S. 325-334: Basal Ornithischia ( with David B. Norman and Lawrence M. Witmer )
  • S. 335-342: Basal Thyreophora ( with David B. Norman and Lawrence M. Witmer )
  • S. 363-392: Ankylosauria ( with Teresa Maryańska and Matthew Vickaryous )
  • S. 464-477: Pachycephalosauria ( with Teresa Maryańska and Ralph Chapman )
  • S. 517-606: Dinosaur distribution ( with Paul M. Barrett and others)
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