# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kay-behrensmeyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:03:20.618Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kay-behrensmeyer"
name: "Kay Behrensmeyer"
slug: "kay-behrensmeyer"
description: "Anna Katherine \"Kay\" Behrensmeyer is an American taphonomist and paleoecologist. She is a pioneer in the study of the fossil records of terrestrial ecosystems and engages in geological and paleontological field research into the ecological context of human evolution in East Africa. She is Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology in the Department of Paleobiology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). At the museum, she is co-director of the Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems program and an associate of the Human Origins Program."
tagline: "American taphonomist and paleoecologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kay_Behrensmeyer_2018_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             2.28448275862069
  historical:           7.876926666666666
  currentAttention:     0
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Kay Behrensmeyer"
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    title: "Anna K. Behrensmeyer"
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    title: "Kay Behrensmeyer"
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    title: "Anna K. Behrensmeyer"
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    title: "Беренсмайер, Анна"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump