Sterling Nesbitt

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Sterling Nesbitt (born March 25, 1982, in Mesa, Arizona) is an American paleontologist best known for his work on the origin and early evolutionary patterns of archosaurs. He is currently an associate professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Geosciences. [1]

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Biography

Sterling Nesbitt received his B.A. in integrative biology with a minor in geology from the University of California Berkeley in 2004. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 2009, completing the majority of his research at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. [2] He subsequently held postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Washington, and the Field Museum. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He is also a research associate/affiliate of the American Museum of Natural History, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at The University of Texas at Austin, the Virginia Museum of Natural History, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and the National Museum of Natural History.

Nesbitt appears in the 2007 IMAX movie Dinosaurs Alive! and the re-worked 2008 version of Walking With Dinosaurs on the Discovery Channel.

Academic contributions

Nesbitt has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals with over 7,700 citations (per Google Scholar [3] ) and numerous papers in high-profile scientific journals, including Current Biology , Earth-Science Reviews , Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, Royal Society Open Science , Science, and Scientific Reports .

Below is a list of taxa that Nesbitt has contributed to naming:

YearTaxonAuthors
2024 Microzemiotes sonselaensis gen. et sp. nov.Burch, Eddins, Stocker, Kligman, Marsh, Parker, & Nesbitt [4]
2023 Samsarasuchus pamelae gen. et sp. nov.Ezcurra, Bandyopadhyay, Sengupta, Sen, Sennikov, Sookias, Nesbitt, & Butler [5]
2023 Venetoraptor gassenae gen. et sp. nov.Müller, Ezcurra, Garcia, Agnolín, Stocker, Novas, Soares, Kellner, & Nesbitt [6]
2023 Mambachiton fiandohana gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Patellos, Kammerer, Ranivoharimanana, Wyss, & Flynn [7]
2022 Mbiresaurus raathi gen. et sp. nov.Griffin, Wynd, Munyikwa, Broderick, Zondo, Tolan, Langer, Nesbitt, & Taruvinga [8]
2022 Mambawakale ruhuhu gen. et sp. nov.Butler, Fernandez, Nesbitt, Leite, & Gower [9]
2022 Puercosuchus traverorum gen. et sp. nov.Marsh, Parker, Nesbitt, Kligman, & Stocker [10]
2021 Syntomiprosopus sucherorum gen. et sp. nov.Heckert, Nesbitt, Stocker, Schneider, Hoffman, & Zimmer [11]
2020 Trilophosaurus phasmalophos sp. nov.Kligman, Marsh, Nesbitt, Parker, & Stocker [12]
2020 Kongonaphon kely gen. et sp. nov.Kammerer, Nesbitt, Flynn, Ranivoharimanana, & Wyss [13]
2020 Dynamosuchus collisensis gen. et sp. nov.Müller, Von Bacsko, Desoko, & Nesbitt [14]
2019 Suskityrannus hazelae gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Denton, Loewen, Brusatte, Smith, Turner, Kirkland, McDonald, & Wolfe [15]
2018 Mandasuchus tanyauchen gen. et sp. nov.Butler, Nesbitt, Charig, Gower, & Barrett [16]
2017 Avicranium renestoi gen. et sp. nov.Pritchard & Nesbitt [17]
2017 Teleocrater rhadinus gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt et al. [18]
2016 Litorosuchus somnii gen. et sp. nov.Li, Wu, Zhao, Nesbitt, Stocker, & Wang [19]
2016 Triopticus primus gen. et sp. nov.Stocker, Nesbitt, Criswell, Parker, Witmer, Rowe, Ridgely, & Brown [20]
2016 Vivaron haydeni gen. et sp. nov.Lessner, Stocker, Smith, Turner, Irmis, & Nesbitt [21]
2016 Calciavis grandei gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt & Clarke [22]
2015 Lepidus praecisio gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt & Ezcurra [23]
2015 Carnufex carolinensis gen. et sp. nov.Zanno, Drymala, Nesbitt, & Schneider [24]
2014 Nundasuchus songeaensis gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Sidor, Angielczyk, Smith, & Tsuji [25]
2013 Lutungutali sitwensis gen. et sp. nov.Peecook, Sidor, Nesbitt, Smith, Steyer, & Angielczyk [26]
2013 Asperoris mnyama gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Butler, & Gower [27]
2012 Nyasasaurus parringtoni gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Barrett, Werning, Sidor, & Charig [28]
2011 Diodorus scytobrachion gen. et sp. nov.Kammerer, Nesbitt, & Shubin [29]
2011 Albinykus baatar gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Clarke, Turner, & Norell [30]
2011 Daemonosaurus chauliodus gen. et sp. nov.Sues, Nesbitt, Berman, & Henrici [31]
2010 Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis sp. nov.Flynn, Nesbitt, Parrish, Ranivoharimanana, & Wyss [32]
2010 Aisilisaurus kongwe gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Sidor, Irmis, Angielczyk, Smith, & Tsuji [33]
2009 Limusaurus inextricabilis gen. et sp. nov.Xu et al. [34]
2009 Kol ghuva gen. et sp. nov.Turner, Nesbitt, & Norell [35]
2009 Tawa hallae gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Smith, Irmis, Turner, Downs, & Norell [36]
2007 Effigia okeeffeae gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt & Norell [37]
2005 Redondavenator quayensis gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Irmis, Lucas, & Hunt [38]
2004 Ammorhynchus navajoi gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt & Whatley [39]

References

  1. ↑ "Nesbitt, Sterling". geos.vt.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  2. ↑ "Sterling Nesbitt". globalchange. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  3. ↑ "Sterling Nesbitt - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  4. ↑ Burch, Helen E.; Eddins, Hannah-Marie S.; Stocker, Michelle R.; Kligman, Ben T.; Marsh, Adam D.; Parker, William G.; Nesbitt, Sterling J. (14 October 2024). "A small venomous reptile from the Late Triassic (Norian) of the southwestern United States". PeerJ . 12: e18279. doi: 10.7717/peerj.18279 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   11485104 . PMID   39421413.
  5. ↑ Ezcurra, Martín D.; Bandyopadhyay, Saswati; Sengupta, Dhurjati P.; Sen, Kasturi; Sennikov, Andrey G.; Sookias, Roland B.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Butler, Richard J. (25 October 2023). "A new archosauriform species from the Panchet Formation of India and the diversification of Proterosuchidae after the end-Permian mass extinction". Royal Society Open Science . 10 (10). Bibcode:2023RSOS...1030387E. doi:10.1098/rsos.230387. ISSN   2054-5703. PMC   10598453 . PMID   37885992.
  6. ↑ Müller, Rodrigo T.; Ezcurra, Martín D.; Garcia, Mauricio S.; Agnolín, Federico L.; Stocker, Michelle R.; Novas, Fernando E.; Soares, Marina B.; Kellner, Alexander W. A.; Nesbitt, Sterling J. (16 August 2023). "New reptile shows dinosaurs and pterosaurs evolved among diverse precursors". Nature . 620 (7974): 589–594. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06359-z . ISSN   1476-4687 . Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  7. ↑ Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Patellos, Emily; Kammerer, Christian F.; Ranivoharimanana, Lovasoa; Wyss, Andre´ R.; Flynn, John J. (2023-07-25). "The earliest-diverging avemetatarsalian: a new osteoderm-bearing taxon from the Triassic (?Earliest Late Triassic) of Madagascar and the composition of avemetatarsalian assemblages prior to the radiation of dinosaurs". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 199 (2): 327–353. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad038. ISSN   0024-4082.
  8. ↑ Griffin, Christopher T.; Wynd, Brenen M.; Munyikwa, Darlington; Broderick, Tim J.; Zondo, Michel; Tolan, Stephen; Langer, Max C.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Taruvinga, Hazel R. (2022-08-31). "Africa's oldest dinosaurs reveal early suppression of dinosaur distribution". Nature. 609 (7926): 313–319. Bibcode:2022Natur.609..313G. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05133-x. ISSN   0028-0836. PMID   36045297. S2CID   251977824.
  9. ↑ Butler, R.J.; Fernandez, V.; Nesbitt, N.J.; Leite, J.V.; Gower, D.J. (2022). "A new pseudosuchian archosaur, Mambawakale ruhuhu gen. et sp. nov., from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania". Royal Society Open Science. 9 (2). Bibcode:2022RSOS....911622B. doi: 10.1098/rsos.211622 . hdl: 10919/111401 . PMC   8826131 . PMID   35154797.
  10. ↑ Marsh, Adam D.; Parker, William G.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Kligman, Ben T.; Stocker, Michelle R. (July 2022). "Puercosuchus traverorum n. gen. n. sp.: a new malerisaurine azendohsaurid (Archosauromorpha: Allokotosauria) from two monodominant bonebeds in the Chinle Formation (Upper Triassic, Norian) of Arizona". Journal of Paleontology . 96 (S90): 1–39. Bibcode:2022JPal...96S...1M. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2022.49 . ISSN   0022-3360.
  11. ↑ Heckert, Andrew B.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Stocker, Michelle R.; Schneider, Vince P.; Hoffman, Devin K.; Zimmer, Brian W. (2 July 2021). "A new short-faced archosauriform from the Upper Triassic Placerias/Downs' quarry complex, Arizona, USA, expands the morphological diversity of the Triassic archosauriform radiation". The Science of Nature . 108 (4): 32. Bibcode:2021SciNa.108...32H. doi:10.1007/s00114-021-01733-1. ISSN   0028-1042. PMC   8253714 . PMID   34213630.
  12. ↑ Kligman, Ben T.; Marsh, Adam D.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Parker, William G.; Stocker, Michelle Renae (26 March 2020). "New trilophosaurid species demonstrates a decline in allokotosaur diversity across the Adamanian-Revueltian boundary in the Late Triassic of western North America". Palaeodiversity. 13 (1): 25. doi: 10.18476/pale.v13.a3 . ISSN   1867-6294 . Retrieved 16 February 2025– via BioOne Digital Library.
  13. ↑ Kammerer, Christian F.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Flynn, John J.; Ranivoharimanana, Lovasoa; Wyss, André R. (2020-07-02). "A tiny ornithodiran archosaur from the Triassic of Madagascar and the role of miniaturization in dinosaur and pterosaur ancestry". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (30): 17932–17936. Bibcode:2020PNAS..11717932K. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1916631117 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   7395432 . PMID   32631980.
  14. ↑ Müller, Rodrigo T.; Von Baczko, M. Belén; Desojo, Julia B.; Nesbitt, Sterling J. (31 January 2020). "The first ornithosuchid from Brazil and its macroevolutionary and phylogenetic implications for Late Triassic faunas in Gondwana". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 65. doi: 10.4202/app.00652.2019 . hdl: 10919/98583 .
  15. ↑ Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Denton, Robert K.; Loewen, Mark A.; Brusatte, Stephen L.; Smith, Nathan D.; Turner, Alan H.; Kirkland, James I.; McDonald, Andrew T.; Wolfe, Douglas G. (2019-05-06). "A mid-Cretaceous tyrannosauroid and the origin of North American end-Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages" (PDF). Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3 (6): 892–899. Bibcode:2019NatEE...3..892N. doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0888-0. hdl: 20.500.11820/a6709b34-e3ab-416e-a866-03ba1162b23d . ISSN   2397-334X. PMID   31061476. S2CID   146115938.
  16. ↑ Butler, Richard J.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Charig, Alan J.; Gower, David J.; Barrett, Paul M. (2017-11-29). "Mandasuchus tanyauchen, gen. et sp. nov., a pseudosuchian archosaur from the Manda Beds (?Middle Triassic) of Tanzania" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 37 (sup1): 96–121. Bibcode:2017JVPal..37S..96B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1343728. ISSN   0272-4634. S2CID   90164051.
  17. ↑ Pritchard, Adam C.; Nesbitt, Sterling J. (2017). "A bird-like skull in a Triassic diapsid reptile increases heterogeneity of the morphological and phylogenetic radiation of Diapsida". Royal Society Open Science. 4 (10): 170499. Bibcode:2017RSOS....470499P. doi:10.1098/rsos.170499. PMC   5666248 . PMID   29134065.
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  19. ↑ Li, Chun; Wu, Xiao-chun; Zhao, Li-jun; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Stocker, Michelle R.; Wang, Li-Ting (2016-11-09). "A new armored archosauriform (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the marine Middle Triassic of China, with implications for the diverse life styles of archosauriforms prior to the diversification of Archosauria". The Science of Nature. 103 (11–12): 95. Bibcode:2016SciNa.103...95L. doi:10.1007/s00114-016-1418-4. ISSN   0028-1042. PMID   27830290. S2CID   11147562.
  20. ↑ Stocker, Michelle R.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Criswell, Katharine E.; Parker, William G.; Witmer, Lawrence M.; Rowe, Timothy B.; Ridgely, Ryan; Brown, Matthew A. (2016). "A Dome-Headed Stem Archosaur Exemplifies Convergence among Dinosaurs and Their Distant Relatives". Current Biology. 26 (19): 2674–2680. Bibcode:2016CBio...26.2674S. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.066 . ISSN   0960-9822. PMID   27666971.
  21. ↑ Lessner, Emily J.; Stocker, Michelle R.; Smith, Nathan D.; Turner, Alan H.; Irmis, Randall B.; Nesbitt, Sterling J. (2016-09-06). "A new rauisuchid (Archosauria, Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of New Mexico increases the diversity and temporal range of the clade". PeerJ. 4: e2336. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2336 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   5018681 . PMID   27651983.
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