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Thomas Carr

b. 1950

Canadian paleontologist

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Born 1950. Thomas Carr is a Canadian botanist and paleontologist.

Thomas D. Carr is a vertebrate paleontologist who received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2005. He is now a member of the biology faculty at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Much of his work centers on tyrannosauroid dinosaurs. Carr published the first quantitative analysis of tyrannosaurid ontogeny in 1999, establishing that several previously recognized genera and species of tyrannosaurids were in fact juveniles of other recognized taxa. Carr shared the Lanzendorf Prize for scientific illustration at the 2000 Society of Vertebrate Paleontology conference for the artwork in this article. In 2005, he and two colleagues described and named Appalachiosaurus, a late-surviving basal tyrannosauroid found in Alabama. He is also scientific advisor to the Dinosaur Discovery Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Below is a list of taxa that Carr has contributed to naming: YearTaxonAuthors2020Jinbeisaurus wangi gen. et sp. nov.Wu, Shi, Dong, Carr, Yi, & Xu 2017Daspletosaurus horneri sp. nov.Carr, Varricchio, Sedlmayr, Roberts, & Moore 2012Thylacodon montanensis sp. nov.Williamson, Brusatte, Carr, Weil, & Standhardt 2011Teratophoneus curriei gen. et sp. nov.Carr, Williamson, Britt, & Stadtman 2010Bistahieversor sealeyi gen. et sp. nov.Carr & Williamson 2009Alioramus altai sp. nov.Brusatte, Carr, Erickson, Bever, & Norell 2005Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis gen. et sp. nov.Carr, Williamson, & Schwimmer 2003Sphaerotholus goodwini gen. et sp. nov.Williamson & Carr

Selected publications Carr, Thomas D. (1999). "Craniofacial ontogeny in Tyrannosauridae (Dinosauria, Coelurosauria)." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19 (3): 497–520. Carr, Thomas D.; Williamson, Thomas E.; & Schwimmer, David R. (2005). "A new genus and species of tyrannosauroid from the Late Cretaceous (middle Campanian) Demopolis Formation of Alabama." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 (1): 119–143.

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Born
1950
Birth century
Nationality
Education
University of Toronto
Employers
Royal Ontario Museum
Also known as
Thomas D. Carr

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Canadian paleontologist

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Thomas Carr was born in 1950.

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Thomas Carr is a botanist and paleontologist.

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