Sentences with phrase «state palaeontologist»

James Kirkland, state palaeontologist at the Utah Geological Survey, identified the tooth as coming from the upper jaw of a lungfish in the extinct genus Ceratodus, a freshwater bottom - feeder which used massive tooth plates to crunch shelled animals.

In their article on discredited dinosaur hunter Nate Murphy, Jeff Hecht and Joe Iacuzzo state that: «for decades out - of - state palaeontologists...

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Now a detailed study led by palaeontologists Dean Lomax (The University of Manchester) and Professor Judy Massare (State University of New York), has re-examined and compared Protoichthyosaurus and Ichthyosaurus.

The protein discovery is exciting, but palaeontologists will have to work harder to uncover fossils that preserve it better, says Jack Horner of Montana State University in the US, who was involved in the analysis.

Fred Grine, a palaeontologist at the State University of New York in Stony Brook, says, «basically what they're looking at comes down to nothing more than biogeography» and that «if you started finding catarrhines in South America, they'd also change the phylogeny».