Philip R. Bjork

Philip Reese Bjork is an American geologist and paleontologist known for his work in unearthing dinosaur species in America.

Career Bjork received his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan. He was a professor at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, South Dakota, as well as serving as director of their Museum of Geology from 1975 to 2000. 1985 He announced the find of remains of at least ten duck-billed dinosaurs in western South Dakota. 1989 Bjork reported the discovery of Dakotadon, originally believed to be the first remains of Iguanodon found in North America, in the Lakota Formation of South Dakota; the remains included the skull, partial mandible, and incomplete caudal and dorsal vertebrae.

Selected publications