Richard Aldridge

Richard John Aldridge ( born December 16, 1945) is a British paleontologist who deals mainly with Paleozoic conodonts and other microfossils.

Aldridge received her doctorate at Ronald Leyshon Austin at the University of Southampton. After that, he was a lecturer at University College London and the University of Nottingham before 1989 professor at the University of Leicester has been, where he is FW Bennett Professor of Geology.

Aldridge cleared with Euan Clarkson and Derek Briggs, the long enigmatic nature of conodonts important index fossils of the Paleozoic, ( were discovered as soft tissue residues) of which but until the 1980s, only tooth-like relics were known. About conodonts and their biostratigraphy, he conducted research as early as the 1970s. He also conducted research on Paleozoic phytoplankton and other micro fossils and digging in the fossil deposits of the Ordovician Soom Shale of South Africa and the Konservatlagerstätten the early Cambrian Chengjiang in China ( Chengjiang Faunengemeinschaft ).

In 2006 he received the Medal of Pander Pander Society, which is dedicated to the study of the conodonts. In 2011 he received the Lapworth Medal. 2002 to 2006 he was president of the International Palaeontological Association.

Writings

• With XG Hou, J. Bergström, DJ Siveter, XH Feng, The Cambrian fossils of Chengjiang, China: the flowering of animal life, Blackwell Science Ltd, London 2004