Gregory S. Paul

Gregory S. Paul ( born December 24, 1954 in Washington, DC) is an American illustrator and paleontologist.

He worked from 1977 to 1984 as an unofficial research assistant and illustrator Robert Bakker at Johns Hopkins University together and was one of those who from the late 1970s, created by their reconstructions and illustrations, a new, more dynamic image of dinosaurs, the new findings and hypotheses of corresponding warm-bloodedness. He was also one of the first who predicted the later discovered in the 1990s, feathered dinosaur.

His work has been in many magazines and books, and he was also adviser regarding television shows about dinosaurs, for example, Discovery Channel and PBS / Nova and in the film Jurassic Park ( and also the author Michael Crichton gives him his bestseller Jurassic Park Credits ).

He erstbeschrieb Avisaurus archibaldi 1985 Michael K. Brett - Surman as theropods, by Luis M. Chiappe, he was as Enantiornithes ( ie as early bird ) recognized in 1992. A described by him in 1988 as a theropod Acrocanthosaurus was filed altispinax later in Becklespinax. With A. Elzanowski and TA Stidham he erstbeschrieb the early bird Potamornis skutchi from the Upper Cretaceous of Wyoming (probably a Hesperornithiformes ).

He named a few genera of dinosaurs, so the Brachiosaurus by Werner Janensch from Tendaguru 1988 Giraffatitan and the classic Brussels Iguanodon specimens in Dollodon. Based on his work on a revision of the Iguanodone he also called Dakotodon and Mantellisaurus.

The dinosaurs Sellacoxa Paul (2010) and Crypto Volans Paul (2002) were named after him, but after the latter assigned to the Micro Raptors.

Writings

• Predatory Dinosaurs of the World, Simon and Schuster 1988
• The Complete Illustrated Guide to Dinosaur Skeletons, Gakken 1996 ( Japanese / English)
• The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs, Princeton University Press in 2010 ( he treated over 735 species with 600 illustrations by Paul )
• Gregory S. Paul 's Dinosaur Coffee Table Book, 2010 Blurb
• Publisher: The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs, St. Martin's Press 2000