Ted Daeschler

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Ted Daeschler is an American vertebrate paleontologist and Associate Curator and Chair of Vertebrate Biology at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He is a specialist is fish paleontology, focusing on the Late Devonian, and the development of the first limbed vertebrates. [ "Neil and Ted's Excellent Adventure" by Sono Motoyama [http://www.citypaper.net/articles/070199/feat.covstory1.shtml Philadelphia CityPaper] July 1–8, 1999 ] , [ "Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler: How Fish Came Ashore" [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/04/3/l_043_41.html PBS] 2001 ] , ["Fossil Shows an Early Fish (Almost) out of Water" byElizabeth Pennisi, Science 7 April 2006: Vol. 312. no. 5770, p. 33 [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/312/5770/33 abstract] ] He is the discoverer of the transitional fossil tetrapod Hynerpeton bassetti, and a Devonian fish-like specimen of Sauripterus taylorii with fingerlike appendages. [ Daeschler, E. B. and N. H. Shubin. 1998. Fish with Fingers?. "Nature" 391:133.]

He received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. He has held recent research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and other donors. He is also known for his work on the preservation of natural history collections. ["Endangered collections" by Rex Dalton Nature 446, 605-606 (5 April 2007) doi:10.1038/446605a ] .

He is married, and has three daughters

elected Major Publications

Daeschler, E. B. and N. H. Shubin. 1998. Fish with Fingers?. "Nature" 391:133.

Daeschler, E. B. 2000. An early actinopterygian fish from the Upper Devonian Catskill Formation in Pennsylvania, USA". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences" 150:181-192.

Daeschler, E. B. 2000. Early tetrapod jaws from the Late Devonian of Pennsylvania, USA.Journal of Paleontology 74(2):301-308. Ahlberg, P. E., Z. Johanson, and E. B. Daeschler. 2001. The Late Devonian lungfish Soederberghia (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) from Australia and North America, and its biogeographic implications.Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(1):1-12.

Downs, J.P. and E.B. Daeschler. 2001. Variation within a large sample of Ageleodus pectinatus teeth (Chondichthyes) from the Late Devonian of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Journal" of Vertebrate Paleontology" 21(4):811-814. Daeschler, E. B., A. Frumes and C. F. Mullison. In press. Groenlandaspidid placoderm fishes from Late Devonian of North America." Records of the Australian Museum."

References

External links

* [http://clade.ansp.org/vert_zoology/people/daeschler/ Official website] at the AMNH.
* [http://www.tv.com/the-colbert-report/ted-daeschler/episode/750288/summary.html Daeschler interview on "The Colbert Report"]