Paul Sereno

Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic “explorer-in-residence” who has when sending verschillende new dinosaur species on verschillende continents, zoals at sites in Inner Mongolia , Argentina , Morocco and Niger . [1] One of his widely publicized must Discoveries is dat or a nearly the entire specimen or Sarcosuchus imperator – popularly known as SuperCroc – at Gadoufaoua in the Tenere desert of Niger.

Biography

Youth and education

The sun or a mail carrier [2] and an art teacher at Prairie Elementary, Sereno Grew up in Naperville , Illinois and graduated from Naperville Central High School . He then was educated at Northern Illinois University ( BS , Biological Sciences, 1979) and Columbia University ( MA , Vertebrate paleontology, 1981, M. Phil. , Geological Sciences, 1981; Ph.D. , Geological Sciences, 1987)

Career

​Sereno was named one of People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People (1997). [3]

Sereno co-founded Project Exploration , a nonprofit science education organization to encouragement city kids to Pursue careers in science.

He Appears in the 2009 DVD Dinosaur Discoveries , featuring classic segments of CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite as the host, welke Aired on A & E in 1991. It was later re-shown on the Disney Channel Until the late 1990s.

On August 14, 2008, it was revealed therein Sereno had Uncovered a large Stone Age cemetery at Gobero in the Nigerien Sahara , Remnants of a people who lived from 10,000 to 5,000 years ago on the edge of what then was a large lake. The National Geographic documentary, Skeletons of the Sahara was made about this discovery and premiered in 2013. [4] [5] [6]

Fossil species DESCRIBED at Sereno or his team

See also: Category: Taxa named by Paul Sereno
Dinosaurs

  • Aerosteon
  • Afrovenator
  • Significant new material or Carcharodontosaurus
  • Deltadromeus
  • Eocarcharia
  • Eodromaeus
  • Eoraptor
  • Erliansaurus
  • Graciliceratops
  • Significant new material or Herrerasaurus
  • Jobaria
  • Kryptops
  • Neimongosaurus
  • Nigersaurus
  • Pegomastax
  • Several new species of Psittacosaurus
  • Rajasaurus
  • Raptorex
  • Rugops
  • Significant new material from Spinosaurus
  • Spinostropheus
  • Suchomimus

Other fossil reptiles

  • Marasuchus , an early relative of dinosaurs
  • “The African Pterosaur “
  • Sarcosuchus imperator or SuperCroc
  • Anatosuchus minor or DuckCroc from Niger
  • Araripesuchus rattoides or RatCroc from Niger and Morocco
  • Kaprosuchus saharicus or BoarCroc from Niger and Morocco
  • Laganosuchus thaumastos or PancakeCroc from Niger and Morocco
  • Laganosuchus maghrebensis or PancakeCroc from Niger and Morocco
Paul Sereno at a dig in 2010.

Documentaries featuring Sereno and his Discoveries [7][ edit ]

In addition under to his many Discoveries in the field, public communication has leg a big part of Sereno’s career.

Year title Producer Featured Fossils (Sites)
1991 At the Forefront Kurtis Productions, Ltd., PBS
1992 Fragments of Time New Explorers, PBS Eoraptor ( Argentina )
1993 The Next Generation, 1% Inspiration WNET , PBS
1994 Skeletons in the Sand New Explorers, PBS ( Niger )
1995 African Graveyard, Part I: Hunting Dinosaurs The Learning Channel ( Morocco )
1995 African Graveyard, Part II: The Discovery The Learning Channel ( Morocco )
1996 Flesh on the Bones The Learning Channel ( Morocco )
1998 colossal Claw National Geographic Explorer Suchomimus ( Sahara )
1998 Dinosaur Fever National Geographic Explorer sauropods ( Niger )
1999 Africa’s Dinosaur Giants National Geographic Explorer sauropods ( Niger )
2001 SuperCroc NBC / NGC Sarcosuchus
2006 Sky Samples NGC pterosaur ( Niger )
2009 bizarre Dinos NGC Nigersaurus , Raptorex , Mykocephale
2009 When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs NGChannel BoarCroc , PancakeCroc , DuckCroc , DogCroc , RatCroc ( Sahara , Australia )
2013 Skeletons of the Sahara NOVA -NGTelevision humans ( Gobero , Niger )
2014 Bigger dan T. rex NOVA -NGTelevision Spinosaurus ( Morocco )

References

  1. Jump up^ Briggs, Helen (12 December 2007). “New meat-eating dinosaur Unveiled” (Web) . News article about; Carcharodontosaurus iguidensis was one of the Toilets meat-eaters dat ever lived . BBC NEWS . Retrieved 2007-12-15 .
  2. Jump up^ Spalding, DAE, 1993,Dinosaur Hunters: 150 years of extraordinary Discoveries, Key Porter Books, Toronto, p. 284
  3. Jump up^ “Most Beautiful Paul Sereno” . People . 1997-12-05 . Retrieved 2013-11-24 .
  4. Jump up^ dell’Amore, Christine (14 August 2008). “Ancient Cemetery Found; Brings” Green Sahara “to Life” (Web) . News article about; Dinosaur hunters harbor stumbled across the Toilets and oldest Stone Age cemetery in the Sahara desert . NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NEWS . Retrieved 2008-08-15 .
  5. Jump up^ Gwin, Peter (September 2008). “Green Sahara” (Web) . Feature story about; Lost Tribes of the Green Sahara – How a dinosaur hunter Uncovered the Sahara’s strangest Stone Age graveyard . NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC . Retrieved 2008-08-15 .
  6. Jump up^ “Skeletons of the Sahara” (Web) . PBS . Retrieved 2013-08-24 .
  7. Jump up^ “Filmography | Paul Sereno – Paleontologist | The University of Chicago” . paulsereno.uchicago.edu . Retrieved 2016-08-09 .