Martin Pickford

Martin Pickford (born 1943) is a lecturer in the Chair of Paleoanthropology and Prehistory at the Collège de France and honorary affiliate at the Département Histoire de la Terre in the Muséum national d'Histoire. In 2001, Martin Pickford together with Brigitte Senut and their team discovered Orrorin tugenensis, a hominid primate species dated between 5.8 and 6.2 million years ago and a potential ancestor of the genus Australopithecus.

Biographical details Pickford was born in 1943 in Wiltshire, England. He is the 4th child of Austin Joseph Pickford and Eleanor Margery Pickford née Holman. The family moved to Kenya in 1946. He read for his first degree between 1967 and 1971 in Dalhousie University and took a PhD at the University of London in 1975. Between 1978 and 2003 he worked at Kenya National Museums at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris and as a Fellow at the University of Mainz, Germany and has since held various visiting professorships. 2019 Eteketoni platycephalus gen. et sp. nov. Pickford 2019 Nanogale fragilis gen. et sp. nov. Pickford 2019 Damarachloris primaevus gen. et sp. nov. Pickford 2018 Promicrogale namibiensis gen. et sp. nov. Pickford 2018 Orycterochoerus alferezi gen. et sp. nov. Pickford & Morales 2015 Namapsitta praeruptorum gen. et sp. nov. Mourer-Chauviré, Pickford, & Senut 2015 Scopelortyx klinghardtensis gen. et sp. nov. Mourer-Chauviré, Pickford, & Senut 2011 Rusingapedetes tsujikawai gen. et sp. nov. Pickford & Mein 2011 Mioparadoxurus meini gen. et sp. nov. Morales & Pickford 2001 Orrorin tugenensis gen. et sp. nov. Senut, Pickford, Gommery, Mein, Cheboi, & Coppens 1983 Kenyapotamus ternani sp. nov. Pickford 1983 Kenyapotamus coryndoni gen. et sp. nov. Pickford