Sterling Nesbitt

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]

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 Reviewss, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, Science, and Scientific Reports.

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

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

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. 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.
  5. 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. doi:10.1038/s41586-022-05133-x. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 36045297. S2CID 251977824.
  6. 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". The Royal Society. 9 (2). doi:10.1098/rsos.211622.
  7. 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.1916631117. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 7395432. PMID 32631980.
  8. 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.
  9. 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. doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0888-0. hdl:20.500.11820/a6709b34-e3ab-416e-a866-03ba1162b23d. ISSN 2397-334X. PMID 31061476. S2CID 146115938.
  10. 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. doi:10.1080/02724634.2017.1343728. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 90164051.
  11. 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.
  12. Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Butler, Richard J.; Ezcurra, Martín D.; Barrett, Paul M.; Stocker, Michelle R.; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.; Smith, Roger M. H.; Sidor, Christian A.; Niedźwiedzki, Grzegorz; Sennikov, Andrey G.; Charig, Alan J. (2017). "The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan" (PDF). Nature. 544 (7651): 484–487. Bibcode:2017Natur.544..484N. doi:10.1038/nature22037. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 28405026. S2CID 9095072.
  13. 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.
  14. 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. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.066. ISSN 0960-9822. PMID 27666971.
  15. 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.
  16. Nesbitt, Sterling; Ezcurra, Martín (2015). "The early fossil record of dinosaurs in North America: A new neotheropod from the base of the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 60. doi:10.4202/app.00143.2014. ISSN 0567-7920.
  17. Zanno, Lindsay E.; Drymala, Susan; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Schneider, Vincent P. (2015-03-19). "Early crocodylomorph increases top tier predator diversity during rise of dinosaurs". Scientific Reports. 5 (1): 9276. Bibcode:2015NatSR...5E9276Z. doi:10.1038/srep09276. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 4365386. PMID 25787306.
  18. Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Sidor, Christian A.; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.; Smith, Roger M. H.; Tsuji, Linda A. (2014-09-19). "A new archosaur from the Manda beds (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of southern Tanzania and its implications for character state optimizations at Archosauria and Pseudosuchia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (6): 1357–1382. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.859622. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 129558756.
  19. Peecook, R; Sidor, A; Nesbitt, J; Smith, M; Steyer, S; Anigelczyck, D (2014). "A New Silesaurid from the Upper Ntawere Formation of Zambia (Middle Triassic) Demonstrates the Rapid Diversification of Silesauridae (Avemetatarsalia, Dinosauriformes) (project)". doi:10.7934/p1046. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  20. Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Butler, Richard J.; Gower, David J. (2013-09-27). "A New Archosauriform (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Manda Beds (Middle Triassic) of Southwestern Tanzania". PLOS ONE. 8 (9): e72753. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...872753N. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0072753. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3785487. PMID 24086264.
  21. Nesbitt, S. J.; Barrett, P. M.; Werning, S.; Sidor, C. A.; Charig, A. J. (2012-12-05). "The oldest dinosaur? A Middle Triassic dinosauriform from Tanzania". Biology Letters. 9 (1): 20120949. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2012.0949. ISSN 1744-9561. PMC 3565515. PMID 23221875.
  22. Kammerer, Christian F.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Shubin, Neil H. (2012). "The First Silesaurid Dinosauriform from the Late Triassic of Morocco". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 57 (2): 277–284. doi:10.4202/app.2011.0015. ISSN 0567-7920.
  23. Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Clarke, Julia A.; Turner, Alan H.; Norell, Mark A. (2011-02-10). "A small alvarezsaurid from the eastern Gobi Desert offers insight into evolutionary patterns in the Alvarezsauroidea". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (1): 144–153. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.540053. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 85283009.
  24. Sues, Hans-Dieter; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Berman, David S; Henrici, Amy C. (2011-04-13). "A late-surviving basal theropod dinosaur from the latest Triassic of North America". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 278 (1723): 3459–3464. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0410. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 3177637. PMID 21490016.
  25. Flynn, John J.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Parrish, J. Michael.; Ranivoharimanana, Lovasoa; Wyss, André R. (2010). "A new species of Azendohsaurus (Diapsida: Archosauromorpha) from the Triassic Isalo Group of southwestern Madagascar: cranium and mandible". Palaeontology. 53 (3): 669–688. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00954.x. ISSN 0031-0239. S2CID 82341339.
  26. Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Sidor, Christian A.; Irmis, Randall B.; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.; Smith, Roger M. H.; Tsuji, Linda A. (2010). "Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira". Nature. 464 (7285): 95–98. Bibcode:2010Natur.464...95N. doi:10.1038/nature08718. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 20203608. S2CID 4344048.
  27. Xu, Xing; Clark, James M.; Mo, Jinyou; Choiniere, Jonah; Forster, Catherine A.; Erickson, Gregory M.; Hone, David W. E.; Sullivan, Corwin; Eberth, David A.; Nesbitt, Sterling; Zhao, Qi (2009). "A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies" (PDF). Nature. 459 (7249): 940–944. Bibcode:2009Natur.459..940X. doi:10.1038/nature08124. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 19536256. S2CID 4358448.
  28. Turner, Alan H.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Norell, Mark A. (2009-07-25). "A Large Alvarezsaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia". American Museum Novitates (3648): 1–14. doi:10.1206/639.1. hdl:2246/5967. ISSN 0003-0082. S2CID 59459861.
  29. Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Smith, Nathan D.; Irmis, Randall B.; Turner, Alan H.; Downs, Alex; Norell, Mark A. (2009-12-11). "A Complete Skeleton of a Late Triassic Saurischian and the Early Evolution of Dinosaurs". Science. 326 (5959): 1530–1533. Bibcode:2009Sci...326.1530N. doi:10.1126/science.1180350. PMID 20007898. S2CID 8349110.
  30. Nesbitt, Sterling J; Norell, Mark A (2006-01-25). "Extreme convergence in the body plans of an early suchian (Archosauria) and ornithomimid dinosaurs (Theropoda)". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 273 (1590): 1045–1048. doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3426. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 1560254. PMID 16600879.
  31. Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Irmis, Randall B.; Lucas, Spencer G.; Hunt, Adrian P. (2005). "A giant crocodylomorph from the Upper Triassic of New Mexico". Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 79 (4): 471–478. doi:10.1007/bf02988373. ISSN 0031-0220. S2CID 128541365.
  32. Nesbitt, Sterling J. (2004). "The first discovery of a rhynchosaur from the upper Moenkopi Formation (Middle Triassic) of northern Arizona". PaleoBios. 24 (3): 1–10.
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