Kenneth Carpenter

Kenneth " Ken " Carpenter ( born September 21, 1949 in Tokyo) is a Japanese- burly American paleontologist.

Carpenter earned his doctorate in geology and vertebrate paleontology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He was curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where he drew attention to himself with award-winning, life-like dinosaur mounts, and a professor at the University of Colorado, and is since 2010 director of the company founded by Don Burge 1961 USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum in Price (Utah ) ( to whose attractions include an Allosaurus and a Utahraptor ).

He conducted research in particular Ankylar and Stegosaurus dinosaurs and the Cedar Mountain Formation of Lower Cretaceous in eastern Utah. He also conducted research on plesiosaurs.

Carpenter erstbeschrieb ( other ) Animantarx (1999), Gojirasaurus (1997), Niobrarasaurus (1995), Gargoyleosaurus (1998), Cedarosaurus (1999), Cedarpelta (2001), Maleevosaurus, Pectinodon, Mymoorapelta and Venenosaurus (2001). With Bryan Small and Tim Seeber he found in 1992 at Canon City, Colorado, the most complete Stegosaurus skeleton.

He wrote several books about dinosaurs and discussed, for example, the BBC in the documentary television series Walking with Dinosaurs.

In 1997, he underwent the original tyrannosaur Dryptosaurus with Dale A. Russell and other revision.

Writings

• Editor Peter Larson: Tyrannosaurus Rex. The Tyrant King, Indiana University Press 2008
• As editor of The armored Dinosaurs, Indiana University Press 2001 This, inter alia, Phylogenetic analysis by Carpenter of the Ankylosauria, S. 455-484

• In Volume 22 of Carpenter: Armor of Stegosaurus stenops, and the taphonomic history of a new specimen from Garden Park Colorado, pp. 127-144.