Peter Galton

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Peter Galton is a British vertebrate paleontologist working in America, who has to date written or co-written about a hundred papers in scientific jounals or chapters in paleontology textbooks (list of papers), especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.

With Robert Bakker in a joint article published in Nature in 1974, he argued that dinosaurs constitute a natural group, in contrast to the prevailing view that classified them in two different orders, thus initiating a revolution in dinosaur studies and the revival of the popularity of dinosaurs in the field of paleontology.

[edit] Reference

• Bakker, RT, and Galton, PM, 1974, Dinosaur monophyly and a new class of vertebrates, Nature, v. 248, p. 168-172.

[edit] External links

• EvoWiki
• DinoData - Bibliography