# Colin Patterson

> Colin Patterson FRS (1933-1998), was a British palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum in London from 1962 to his official retirement in 1993 who specialised in fossil fish and systematics, advocating the transformed cladistics school. Patterson's Gap, a fossil gap in fishes in the earliest part of the Cenozoic, was named after him.

*British paleontologist (1933-1998)*

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## Identity
- **Country:** United Kingdom
- **Born:** 1933-10-13
- **Died:** 1998-03-09
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

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