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6 unusual facts about Mark Norell


Mark Norell

Norell is credited with the discoveries, as well as the nomenclature of the species Apsaravis, Byronosaurus, and Achillonychus.

Mark Norell is the direct discoverer of enigmatic theropods Shuvuuia and Mononykus, the discovery of Ukhaa Tolgod, the richest Cretaceous fossil locality in the world, the first embryo of a theropod dinosaur, the description of dinosaurs with feathers, and the first indication of dinosaur nesting.

Mark A. Norell (born July 26, 1957) is an American paleontologist and molecular geneticist, acknowledged as one of the most important living vertebrate paleontologists.

His work regularly appears in major scientific journals (including cover stories in Science and Nature) and was listed by Time magazine as one of the ten most significant science stories of 1993, 1994 and 1996.

Zaraasuchus

Zaraasuchus ("hedgehog crocodile") was a gobiosuchid crocodyliform described in 2004 by Diego Pol and Mark Norell.

Zosuchus

It was discovered by expeditions organized by the American Museum of Natural History, and described by palaeontologists Diego Pol and Mark Norell.


Effigia

Nesbitt and Mark Norell, curator at the museum, named it Effigia okeeffeae in January 2006 after Georgia O'Keeffe, who spent many years at Ghost Ranch.


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