# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mathew-j-wedel
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:07:01.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mathew-j-wedel"
name: "Mathew J. Wedel"
slug: "mathew-j-wedel"
description: "Mathew John Wedel is an American paleontologist. He is associate professor at the Western University of Health Sciences Department of Anatomy in California. Wedel studies sauropods and the evolution of pneumatic bones in dinosaurs. At Western University, Wedel teaches gross anatomy. He has authored papers naming Aquilops (2014), Brontomerus (2011), and Sauroposeidon (2000). He has published research exploring how some dinosaurs achieved large sizes. In 2016, he co-authored the book The Sauropod Dinosaurs."
tagline: "American paleontologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Argentinosaurus_LACM.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "2000"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.95
  momentum:             8.000000000000002
  historical:           5.671562666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Wedel"
    title: "Matt Wedel"
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  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Wedel"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%95_%D7%95%D7%93%D7%9C"
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  - url: "https://species.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_John_Wedel"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6006432"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump