Alick Donald Walker (26 October 1925 – 4 December 1999) was a British palaeontologist, after whom the Alwalkeria genus of dinosaur is named.
He was born in Skirpenbeck, near York and attended Pocklington School from 1936 to 1943. He began a degree course in engineering at Cambridge, but dropped out in 1944. In 1948 he returned to university after national service, reading Geology at the University of Bristol. On graduation, he joined the research group of Professor Stanley Westoll at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, working on the fossil reptiles of the Late Triassic found in Elgin. He was appointed Lecturer in Geology in 1954, while working on his PhD.
The bony remains of the Elgin reptile fossils were poor, sometimes just indentations in rocks. Walker devised a new casting method to capture the anatomical information in these fossils, using PVC; many of the resulting casts are now in the National Museum of Scotland and the Natural History Museum. His early work was also notable for reclassifying and naming the English theropod dinosaurs Eustreptospondylus and Metriacanthosaurus.
In the late 1960s Walker studied the origin of crocodilians and of birds, which became controversial in 1972 with his publication of a paper in Nature arguing for a close relationship between sphenosuchian crocodylomorphs and birds. He later accepted that this hypothesis might be incorrect in a 1985 paper on Archaeopteryx.
Alick Donald Walker (26 October 1925 – 4 December 1999) was a British palaeontologist, after whom the Alwalkeria genus of dinosaur is named. He was born...
concluded it was a species of Altispinax, A. parkeri. In 1964, scientist AlickWalker decided these fossils were too different from Altispinax, as they lacked...
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considered it a species of Megalosaurus: Megalosaurus cuvieri. In 1964, Alick Donald Walker clarified matters by erecting a separate genus and species for the...
Alwalkeria (/ˌælwɔːˈkɪəriə/; "for AlickWalker") is a genus partly based on basal saurischian dinosaur remains from the Late Triassic, living in India...
related to Lagosuchus. Michael Benton, continuing the studies of the late AlickWalker redescribing the fossil in 2011, found it to be a dinosauriform more...
titanosaurid armor, crocodile teeth and theropod hindlimb material. In 1964 AlickWalker chose the scutes as the lectotype, thus removing the teeth and the bones...
described in 1972 by the British palaeontologist AlickWalker, in a paper in the journal Nature. Walker suggested, based on detailed (but still preliminary...
wrists of Archaeopteryx and Deinonychus. In 1972, British paleontologist AlickWalker hypothesized that birds arose not from 'thecodonts' but from crocodile...
Abelisauridae, it was originally assigned by von Huene to the Allosauridae. AlickWalker thought in 1964 it was a member of the Tyrannosauridae. The discovery...
Tyrannosauroidea was first published in a 1964 paper by the British paleontologist AlickWalker. The suffix -oidea, commonly used in the name of animal superfamilies...
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the origin of the M.biceps muscle. Makovicky & Sues (1998) followed AlickWalker (1990) in asserting that it is, instead, probably the origin of the M...
Clark and Hans-Dieter Sues. The type species is K. walkeri in memory of AlickWalker, a well-known paleontologist. Most parts of the skeleton are represented...
Jurassic, ~164 million years old). MNHN 1920-7 was reevaluated in 1964 by AlickWalker as part of his work on Ornithosuchus and the evolution of the Carnosauria...
– John Skelton, letter-cutter and sculptor (born 1923) 4 December – AlickWalker, palaeontologist (born 1925) 5 December – Kendall Taylor, pianist (born...
after taxonomic authorities named Walker. Alick Donald Walker (A. Walker, 1925–1999), British palaeontologist Bryant Walker (1856–1936), American amateur...
Stegomosuchidae, in the Pseudosuchia. Its classification was further reassessed by AlickWalker over forty-five years later, who reinterpreted Stegomosuchus as a close...
England. Retrieved 7 February 2013. Benton, Michael J; Walker, David J (2002). "Alick D. Walker 1925–1999: an appreciation" (PDF). Zoological Journal of...
consistently placed the animal within Coelurosauria until 1970, when AlickWalker published his re-description and concluded that Hallopus was in fact...
dinosaurs, in this case being in honour of the British palaeontologist AlickWalker. When it was realised that the name had previously been used and was...
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remains from Alashan, Inner Mongolia. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 8: pp. 42-63. Walker, A.D. 1964. Triassic Reptiles from the Elgin area: Ornithosuchus and the...
to similarities in skull structure and other skeletal features. When AlickWalker described Ornithosuchus in 1964, he suggested that Teratosaurus and Sinosaurus...
Magnolia Cup for a UK Charity. Her engagement to entrepreneur Alexander 'Alick' Dru, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Dru and great-great-grandson of Henry...
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