- Sankar Chatterjee
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known_for = Study of prehistoric vertebrates
occupation = paleontologist
nationality =Sankar Chatterjee is a paleontologist, and is the Paul W. Horn Professor of Geosciences at
Texas Tech University and Curator of Paleontology at theMuseum of Texas Tech University . [ [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/communications/vistas/archive/04-winter/stories/young-investigators.php Texas Tech University :: Young Investigators] ] He earned his Ph. D. from theUniversity of Calcutta in 1970 and was a Post-doctoral Fellow at theSmithsonian Institution from 1977-1978. [ [http://www.gesc.ttu.edu/Fac_pages/chatterjee Sankar Chatterjee] ]Dr. Chatterjee's has focused on the origin, evolution, functional anatomy, and systematics of
Mesozoic vertebrates, including basalarchosaur s,dinosaur s,pterosaur s, andbird s. [ [http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/VV/bfv1.html Handbook of Texas Online - VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY] ] He has researchedLate Triassic reptiles inIndia , such asphytosaur s,rhynchosaur s, andprolacertiformes . He is best known for his work on vertebrates recovered in the 1980s from the Post Quarry in the Late TriassicCooper Canyon Formation (Dockum Group ) ofWest Texas . The material includes the large rauisuchian "Postosuchus ", which was named for the nearby town of Post. It also included controversial specimens Chatterjee identified as being avian ("Protoavis "). The identification of these specimens as avian would push back the origin of birds by at least 75 million years. [http://www.depts.ttu.edu/museumttu/PaleoWebsite/chatterjee.html Paleontology Division: Dr. Sankar Chatterjee] ]In
2008 , Chatterjee andRick Lind designed a 30-inchunmanned aerial vehicle with a large, thinrudder inspired by the crest of a Tapejara.Genera named
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The Rise of Birds "
*"New Concepts in Global Tectonics "
*"Posture, Locomotion, and Paleoecology of Pterosaurs "References
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