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'Plesiosaurologists' - plesiosaur palaeontologists
This page is under construction.
It will eventually showcase a selection of plesiosaur researchers, past and present. If you are a plesiosaur researcher not on the list, or if you are on the list but want to add your research interests/ contact details/ publications or personal web links, please email me and I will be very happy to post it here plesiosauria@gmail.com. Similarly, If you wish to be removed from the list, just let me know. Regards, Adam
- Active plesiosaur researchers -
Bob Bakker. Investigated plesiosaur extinctions and evolution. Is investigating Megalneusaurus rex?
Nathalie Bardet. described and named Occitanosaurus and Thililua. Revised the genus Aristonectes (co-author).
Marie Celie Buchy. Investigating pliosaurs, inc. 'Monster of Armberri'.
Kenneth Carpenter. Provided revisions of North American plesiosaurs. His current research into plesiosaurs includes an invstigation into their locomotion.
Sanka Chatterjee. Described and named Morturneria (co-author).
Arthur Cruickshank. described Rhomaleosaurus
megacephalus, Leptocleidus capensis
Pat Druckenmiller. Described and named Edgarosaurus. Describing new 'Leptocleidid'.
Mark Evans. Ph.D. on neck flexibility in plesiosaurs.
redescribed skull of Muraenosaurus. Currently
describing new plesiosaur genus.
Mike Everhart. Plesiosaur gastroliths, plesiosaurs as mosasaur food. Author of Oceans of Kansas, with a couple of sections on plesiosaurs.
Richard Forrest. Ongoing Ph.D on plesiosaur morphometrics
and neck evolution.Website: www.plesiosaur.com
Ebhard 'Dino' Frey. Proposed alternating flipper locomotion
Zulma Gasparini. South American plesiosaur research. Named the genus Maresaurus.
Marcela Gomez. Investigating large pliosaurs from Colombia.
Franziska Grossman. Ongoing Ph.D. revising the Plesiosauridae,
especially the german material from Holzmaden. Tubingen
Oliver Hampe. Named a new species of Kronosaurus.
Norton Hiller. Revised Mauisaurus.
Ben Kear. Ph.D on Australian plesiosaurs.
Hilary Ketchum. Ongoing Ph.D revising the genus Peloneustes. Cambridge.
Lingham-Solier. Investigated plesiosaur locomotion.
Michael Maisch. provided data on Muraenosaurus.
Dave Martill. described and named Pachycostasaurus
(co-author).
Colin McHenry. Revising Kronosaurus.
Darren Naish. decribing the new Isle of Wight Leptocleidus
(co-researcher)
Leslie Noe. Ph.D. thesis on Oxford Clay pliosaurs, Pliosaurus, Simolestes, and Pachycostasaurus. Named Pachycostasaurus (co-author) Cambridge.
Robin O'Keefe. Performed first major cladistic analysis of Plesiosauria. Named Hauffiosaurus, Tatenectes, Plesiopterys.
Sven Sachs. Elasmosaurid phylogeny.
Tamaki Sato. Elasmosaurids, named Terminonatator.
Becky Schmiesser. ongoing M.Sc. on pliosaurs.
Adam Stuart Smith,
Ongoing Ph.D project on Lower Jurassic pliosaurs at University College
Dublin. MSc thesis on plesiosaur phylogeny. email: sea_saur@yahoo.co.uk
Website: The Plesiosaur Directory
Glen Storrs. Work on basal sauropterygians. Revised the genus Plesiosaurus and described and named (co-author) Thalassiodracon. Currently compiling the Handbuch fur palaeoherpetology, Sauropterygia 2?
Mario Suarez. Described a skull of Aristonectes.
Mike Taylor. described Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus, described and named (co-author) Thalassiodracon. Investigated function of gastroliths in plesiosaurs and other aquatic organisms.
Langan Turner. Describing the new Isle of Wight Leptocleidus (co-researcher)
William Wahl. Working on Megalneusaurus rex, coauthored papers with Robin O'Keefe on Tatenectes and Pantasaurus.
- Historical figures in plesiosaur research -
under construction
Andrews
Buckland
Conybeare
Cope
Dames
Fraas
Hawkins
Owen
Halstead (Tarlo)
Persson
Seeley
Swinton
White
Williston
Welles