David B. Norman

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David Bruce Norman (born 20 June 1952 in the United Kingdom) is a British paleontologist, currently the main curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge University. [1] From 1991 to 2011, Norman has also been the Sedgwick Museum's director. [2]

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Life and career

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, [3] he has studied Iguanodon [4] 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. [5]

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 Grant Baron, Norman and Paul Michael Barrett (2017) suggested that Ornithischia and Theropoda were closely related as part of a new clade that they named Ornithoscelida. [6]

He also possesses a keen interest in rugby, and he regularly referees for Cambridge University. [7]

Works

Children books

Scientific books and surveys

TV documentaries

Crew member, as a scientific advisor

On screen, as himself

Acknowledgements

References

  1. "Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences - Staff". Sedgwick Museum. Archived from the original on 30 August 2018. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
  2. University of Cambridge / Department of Earth Sciences / People / Professor David Norman / Biography
  3. "| Reg. Charity No. 1168330". The Palaeontological Association .
  4. "Norman David B". Archived from the original on 1 December 2008. Retrieved 28 January 2010.
  5. You, Hai-lu; Luo, Zhe-xi; Shubin, Neil H.; Witmer, Lawrence M.; Tang, Zhi-lu; Tang, Feng (June 2003). "The earliest-known duck-billed dinosaur from deposits of late Early Cretaceous age in northwest China and hadrosaur evolution" (PDF). Cretaceous Research. 24 (3): 347–355. doi:10.1016/S0195-6671(03)00048-X.
  6. Baron, Matthew G.; Norman, David B.; Barrett, Paul M. (23 March 2017). "A new hypothesis of dinosaur relationships and early dinosaur evolution". Nature. 543 (7646): 501–506. Bibcode:2017Natur.543..501B. doi:10.1038/nature21700. PMID   28332513. S2CID   205254710.
  7. Professor David Norman FLS (MA Cantab), Christ's College - University of Cambridge