Tom Rich
Thomas Rich (born c. 1940), generally known as Tom Rich, is an Australian palaeontologist. He is, as of 2019, Senior Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Museums Victoria.[1]
Tom Rich | |
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 Tom Rich at Dinosaur Cove, Australia, c 1995 | |
| Nationality | Australian |
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| Institutions | Museums Victoria |
Education and career
- He was a student of Professor Ruben Arthur Stirton. This pushed him to become aware of potential in Australia to make fundamental discoveries about mammalian evolution[2]
- He graduated in 1973 from Columbia University in New York City with a P.h.D. in Geology.
Career and professional positions
- Rich is a trained Vertebrate paleontologist at University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University.
Publications
- Three decades, 37 bones: the long hunt for Victorian Dinosaurs. Thomas H. Rich and Roger Benson[3]
Personal life
Thomas H. Rich was born on May 30, 1941, in the United States. Rich is married to palaeontologist Patricia Arlene Vickers-Rich. Together the couple described the dinosaur genera Leaellynasaura and Timimus, naming them after their daughter and son, Leaellyn and Tim Rich, respectively.
Thomas Rich is also honored in the epithet of the ancient thylacinid species Nimbacinus richi.[4]
References
- "Dr Thomas Rich". Museums Victoria. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
- "Thomas H Rich". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- Benson, Roger; Rich, Thomas H. "Three decades, 37 bones: the long hunt for Victorian dinosaurs". The Conversation. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
- Murray, P.; Megirian, D. (2000). "Two New Genera and Three New Species of Thylacinidae (Marsupialia) from the Miocene of the Northern Territory, Australia". The Beagle: Occasional Papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences. 16: 145–162.
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