# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-m-raup
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:58:14.511Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-m-raup"
name: "David M. Raup"
slug: "david-m-raup"
description: "David M. Raup was an American paleontologist at the University of Chicago. Raup studied the fossil record and the diversity of life on Earth. Raup contributed to the knowledge of extinction events along with his colleague Jack Sepkoski. They suggested that the extinction of dinosaurs 66 mya was part of a cycle of mass extinctions that may have occurred every 26 million years."
tagline: "American paleontologist (1933-2015)"
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birthDate: "1933-04-24"
deathDate: "2015-07-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
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  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump