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Dale Russell

American-Canadian geologist and palaeontologist (1937-2019) · Canada · Academics · Died at 81

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Dale Alan Russell was an American-Canadian geologist and palaeontologist. Throughout his career Russell worked as the Curator of Fossil Vertebrates at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Research Professor at the Department of Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS) at North Carolina State University, and Senior...

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Awards

Bancroft Award1996

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Dale Alan Russell was an American-Canadian geologist and palaeontologist. Throughout his career Russell worked as the Curator of Fossil Vertebrates at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Research Professor at the Department of Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (MEAS) at North Carolina State University, and Senior Paleontologist at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Dinosaurs he has described include Daspletosaurus and Dromiceiomimus, and he was amongst the first paleontologists to consider an extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event. Russell also helped lead the China-Canada Dinosaur Project from 1986 to 1991.

Country
Canada
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1937 to 2019 · aged 81

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