Ted Daeschler

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Ted Daeschler ia a vertebrate paleontologist, Associate Curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and Chair of Vertebrate Biology there. He is a specialist is fish paleontology, focusing on the Late Devonian, and the development of the first limbed vertebrates. ^[1], ^[2], ^[3] He is the discoverer of the transitional fossil tetrapod Hynerpeton bassetti, and a Devonian fish-like specimen of Sauripterus taylorii with fingerlike appendages. ^[4]

He received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998. He has held recent research grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, and other donors. He is also known for his work on the preservation of natural history collections. ^[5].

He is married, and has three daughters

[edit] Selected Major Publications

Daeschler, E. B. and N. H. Shubin. 1998. Fish with Fingers?. Nature 391:133.

Daeschler, E. B. 2000. An early actinopterygian fish from the Upper Devonian Catskill Formation in Pennsylvania, USA. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences 150:181-192.

Daeschler, E. B. 2000. Early tetrapod jaws from the Late Devonian of Pennsylvania, USA. Journal of Paleontology 74(2):301-308.

Ahlberg, P. E., Z. Johanson, and E. B. Daeschler. 2001. The Late Devonian lungfish Soederberghia (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) from Australia and North America, and its biogeographic implications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(1):1-12.

Downs, J.P. and E.B. Daeschler. 2001. Variation within a large sample of Ageleodus pectinatus teeth (Chondichthyes) from the Late Devonian of Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(4):811-814.

Daeschler, E. B., A. Frumes and C. F. Mullison. In press. Groenlandaspidid placoderm fishes from Late Devonian of North America. Records of the Australian Museum.

[edit] References

^ Neil and Ted's Excellent Adventure by Sono Motoyama Philadelphia CityPaper July 1–8, 1999
^ "Neil Shubin and Ted Daeschler: How Fish Came Ashore" PBS 2001
^ "Fossil Shows an Early Fish (Almost) out of Water" by Elizabeth Pennisi, Science 7 April 2006: Vol. 312. no. 5770, p. 33 abstract
^ Daeschler, E. B. and N. H. Shubin. 1998. Fish with Fingers?. Nature 391:133.
^ "Endangered collections" by Rex Dalton Nature 446, 605-606 (5 April 2007) doi:10.1038/446605a