David Bruce Norman (born 20 June 1952 in the United Kingdom) is a British paleontologist, Graduate Tutor and Director of Studies at Christ's College, Cambridge, emeritus Professor of Vertebrate Palaeobiology and emeritus curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University. [1] [2] . From 1991 to 2011, Norman was also the Sedgwick Museum's director. [3]
Norman is a fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he teaches Earth Sciences in the Natural Sciences tripos. A member of the Palaeontological Association, [4] he has studied Iguanodon [5] and also has participated in the studies and scientific surveys included in the dinosaur work The Dinosauria (2nd edition, 2004). The species epithet of Equijubus normani was named in honour of him. [6]
In 2017, Norman was one of three British palaeontologists who proposed a radical new hypothesis for early dinosaur evolution and interrelationships in a paper in the journal Nature . In this work, Matthew Baron, Norman and Paul Barrett suggested that Ornithischia and Theropoda were closely related as part of a new clade that they named Ornithoscelida. [7]
He also possesses a keen interest in rugby, and he regularly referees for Cambridge University. [8]
