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John Ostrom

Biology

#153

World Rank

#279

Historical Rank

#96

USA Rank

Paleontology

#8

World Rank

#14

Historical Rank

#8

USA Rank

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John Ostrom's Degrees

PhD Zoology Columbia University
Bachelors Geology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, John Harold Ostrom was an American paleontologist who revolutionized the modern understanding of dinosaurs. Ostrom's work inspired what his pupil Robert T. Bakker has termed a "dinosaur renaissance".

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John Ostrom's Published Works

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Published Works

Archaeopteryx and the origin of birds (1976) (308)
Archaeopteryx and the Origin of Flight (1974) (218)
The Origin of Birds (208)
The Ancestry of Birds (1973) (161)
Cranial morphology of the hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 122, article 2 (1961) (132)
Were some dinosaurs gregarious (1972) (114)
Remarkable New Birdlike Dinosaur (Theropoda: Maniraptora) from the Upper Cretaceous of Montana (2000) (109)
A functional analysis of jaw mechanics in the dinosaur Triceratops (1964) (84)
Marsh's Dinosaurs: The Collections from Como Bluff (1999) (78)
On a new specimen of the lower Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Deinonychus antirrhopus (1976) (72)
A reconsideration of the paleoecology of hadrosaurian dinosaurs (1964) (61)
Some hypothetical anatomical stages in the evolution of avian flight (1976) (58)
Taphonomy and paleobiological implications of Tenontosaurus-Deinonychus associations (1995) (56)
FURTHER COMMENTS ON HERBIVOROUS LIZARDS (1963) (55)
The Munich specimen of Triceratops with a revision of the genus (1986) (48)
Computed tomography of Archaeopteryx (1988) (47)
Bird flight: how did it begin? (1979) (44)
Archaeopteryx: Notice of a "New" Specimen (1970) (36)
A new species of hadrosaurian dinosaur from the Cretaceous of New Mexico (1961) (32)
A NEW THEROPOD DINOSAUR FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS OF MONTANA (1969) (27)
Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus, a crested hadrosaurian dinosaur from New Mexico / John H. Ostrom -- (1963) (23)
Dinosaur Systematics: Triceratops : an example of flawed systematics (1990) (21)
On the Constrictor Dorsalis Muscles of Sphenodon (1962) (21)
Case 2840. Coelurus bauri Cope, 1887 (currently Coelophysis bauri; Reptilia, Saurischia): proposed replacement of the lectotype by a neotype (1992) (14)
Solution to the Hallopus enigma (1995) (14)
Procompsognathus --- Theropod or Thecodont? (1981) (13)
Leptoceratops gracilis from the "Lance" Formation of Wyoming (1978) (13)
The bird in the bush (1991) (13)
REPLY TO “DINOSAURS AS REPTILES” (1974) (12)
A second Jurassic pterosaur from North America (1977) (9)
Wing biomechanics and the origin of bird flight. (1995) (7)
Dinosaur stapes. American Museum novitates ; no. 1900 (1958) (6)
Startling finds prompt... a new look at dinosaurs (1978) (5)
ON THE SYSTEMATIC POSITION OF MACELOGNATHUS VAGANS (2009) (5)
The occurrence of chrysoberyl at Green-field, New York (1951) (4)
The systematic position of Hadrosaurus (Ceratops) paucidens Marsh (1964) (3)
A contribution to the Pleistocene fauna of New York State (1952) (2)
ROMANCING THE DINOSAURS (1987) (2)
A guide to the Rudolph F. Zallinger mural The age of mammals in the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University (1993) (1)
Williston: Fossils and Flies . The Life of a Compleat Scientist, Samuel Wendell Williston (1851- 1918). Elizabeth Noble Shor. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1971. xiv, 286 pp., illus. $8.95. (1971) (0)
K. W. Barthel, N. H. M. Swinburne, and S. Conway Morris: Solnhofen: A Study in Mesozoic Paleontology (1991) (0)
Evolution of the Earth [book review] (1972) (0)
Obstacles in the U.S.S.R.. (Book Reviews: The Medvedev Papers. Fruitful Meetings between Scientists of the World; Secrecy of Correspondence Is Guaranteed by Law) (1971) (0)
The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology [book review] (1974) (0)

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