- Ronald Pearson Tripp
Ronald Pearson Tripp (1914-2001) was a British paleontologist specializing in
trilobites . Born in England in 1914, Tripp was self-taught inpaleontology , but became an authority in thetaxonomy of thetrilobite familiesEncrinuridae ,Lichidae , andLichakephalidae – the latter of which he named. He wrote the section on the superfamilyLichacea for the monumental "Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology", which was published in 1959, and wrote numerous articles and monographs pertaining to those families, as well as publications on entire trilobite faunas. As a Fellow of theRoyal Society of Edinburgh , Treasurer of thePalaeontological Association , and Associate of theNatural History Museum , he established many new species and higher taxa of trilobites, particularly from theOrdovician rocks of theUnited Kingdom , before expanding his research globally. His wife, Doris, died in 1980, and he later married Phyllis Forrest and moved to Toronto, where he continued his trilobite research as Associate of theRoyal Ontario Museum , after having become legally blind. Tripp died in Toronto, in 2001. Phyllis died suddenly two months later.References
*Gass, KC. 2002. Ronald Pearson Tripp. Journal of Paleontology 76(2), p. 396.
*Moore, RC, ed. 1959. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part O, Arthropoda 1. Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press. Lawrence, Kansas & Boulder, Colorado. xix + 560 p., 415 fig.
*Rushton, A and JT Temple. "Ronald Pearson Tripp (1914-2001)". Palaeontological Association Newsletter 49 (2002), p. 32-34.
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