Peter Galton

Peter Galton

Peter Galton is a British vertebrate paleontologist working in America, who has to date written or co-written about a hundred papers in scientific jounals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.

With Robert Bakker in a joint article published in "Nature" in 1974, he argued that dinosaurs constitute a natural monophyletic group, in contrast to the prevailing view that considered them paraphyletic as consisting of two different not closely related orders, thus initiating a revolution in dinosaur studies and contributing to the revival of the popularity of dinosaurs in the field of paleontology.

References

* Bakker, RT, and Galton, PM, 1974, Dinosaur monophyly and a new class of vertebrates, "Nature", v. 248, p. 168-172.

External links

* [http://wiki.cotch.net/index.php/Peter_Galton EvoWiki]
* [http://www.dinodata.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3530&Itemid=66 Bibliography of references] at DinoData


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