Peter Galton

Peter Malcolm Galton ( born March 14, 1942 in London) is a British- burly American vertebrate paleontologist specializing in dinosaurs.

Galton studied at London University with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and his doctorate ( Phil D. ) in Zoology in 1967. Afterwards it was until 1970 Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. In 1970 he was Assistant Professor and later Professor of Biology at the University of Bridgeport ( College of Chiropractics ), from 1997 as Professor of Basic Science. From 1985 he was also curator at the Peabody Museum at Yale.

He is particularly concerned with Ornithischia ( as Stegosaurus ) and prosauropods ( such as the Plateosauriern from Germany and Switzerland ). In 1974 he suggested to Robert Bakker that dinosaurs only a core group (class) exist (instead of the then customary view, they evolved from at least two groups of Archosauria ) and advocated early on the descent of birds from dinosaurs.

He named 1985 Aliwalia, Camelotia and J. van Heerden Blikanasaurus (and the family Blikanasauridae ), 1995 Bugenasaura, 1980 Callovosaurus, 1980 Dracopelta, 1979 WP Wall Gravitholus, 1978 Lesothosaurus, 1983 Hans -Dieter Sues Ornatotholus and Stygimoloch, 1979 James A. Jensen Torvosaurus, 1977 and 1971 Valdosaurus Yaverlandia.

He also notified the families Fabrosauridae (1972 ), Staurikosauridae (1972) and Ruehleia (2001) and the order Herrerasauria (1985).

He showed that Hypsilophodon not live on trees, as previously often assumed that hadrosaur not herschleifen their tails behind them but use to balance and use Pachycephalosaurier her head as a battering ram.

In 1982 he was awarded a doctorate degree (D. Sc.), University of London.

He has been married since 1993 and is a U.S. citizen.

Writings

  • Paul Upchurch Prosauropoda and Stegosauria in David B. Weishampel, Halszka Osmólska, Peter Dodson The Dinosauria, 2nd edition University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004
  • Classification and evolution of Ornithopod dinosaurs, Nature, 239, 1972, 464-466
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