# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-prothero
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:28:29.936Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-prothero"
name: "Donald Prothero"
slug: "donald-prothero"
description: "Donald Ross Prothero is an American geologist, paleontologist, and author who specializes in mammalian paleontology and magnetostratigraphy, a technique to date rock layers of the Cenozoic era and its use to date the climate changes which occurred 30–40 million years ago. He is the author or editor of more than 30 books and over 300 scientific papers, including at least 5 geology textbooks."
tagline: "American paleontologist, geologist, and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ProtheroPhoto1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1954-02-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             12.11538461538461
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    title: "Donald R. Prothero"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump