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Kenneth Carpenter
Born
(1949-09-21) 21 September 1949 (age 74)
Tokyo, Occupied Japan
Nationality
American
Education
University of Colorado Boulder
Kenneth Carpenter (born 21 September 1949, in Tokyo, Japan) is an American paleontologist. He is the former director of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum and author or co-author of books on dinosaurs and Mesozoic life. His main research interests are armored dinosaurs (Ankylosauria and Stegosauria), as well as the Early Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Cedar Mountain Formation in eastern Utah.
KennethCarpenter (born 21 September 1949, in Tokyo, Japan) is an American paleontologist. He is the former director of the USU Eastern Prehistoric Museum...
"after the late Thag Simmons". The term was picked up initially by KennethCarpenter, then a paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science...
chief medical officer KennethCarpenter (b. 1949), paleontologist Kenneth G. Caulton, inorganic chemist and professor Kenneth Chenault (b. 1951), former...
tongue-in-cheek speculative articles about Godzilla's biology, with KennethCarpenter tentatively classifying it as a ceratosaur based on its skull shape...
maintain the two as distinct genera, some authors such as Thomas Holtz, KennethCarpenter, and Thomas Carr argue that the two species are similar enough to...
specimen was discovered. Gojirasaurus was described and named by KennethCarpenter in 1997 and the type species is Gojirasaurus quayi. Gojirasaurus is...
specimens or to classify). To address this situation, Gregory S. Paul and KennethCarpenter (2010) submitted a petition to the ICZN to have the name A. fragilis...
1878 description. More recently, it was suggested by paleontologist KennethCarpenter that the species is a rebbachisaurid, rather than a diplodocid sauropod...
genus for the gracile iguanodont from the Wealden of England". In Carpenter, Kenneth (ed.). Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs. Indiana...
and an adult and juvenile of a sauropod. In 2001, Virginia Tidwell, KennethCarpenter, and Susanne Meyer described the sauropod remains as a new genus and...
high-energy sandstorms and used it for successful hunts. In 1998, KennethCarpenter suggested another scenario in which the multiple wounds delivered...
Virginia; Carpenter, Kenneth; Brooks, William (1999). "New sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah, USA". Oryctos 2: 21–37. Tidwell, V., Carpenter, K. &...
ten centimeters in length. In 2001 Frank Sanders, Kim Manley, and KennethCarpenter published a study on 115 gastroliths discovered in association with...
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science...
thrower) (William KennethCarpenter), Olympic discus winner William Kyle Carpenter, (born 1989), Medal of Honor recipient William L. Carpenter (1844–1898),...
type species Hesperosaurus mjosi was named and described in 2001 by KennethCarpenter, Clifford Miles, and Karen Cloward. The generic name is derived from...
renders the name "Natronasaurus" invalid, and Peter Malcolm Galton and KennethCarpenter gave the genus another name, Alcovasaurus, in 2016, as part of a revision...
separate genus of ankylosaur. In 2015, Lucy G. Leahey, Ralph E. Molnar, KennethCarpenter, Lawrence M. Witmer and Steven W. Salisbury named and described the...
(sometimes classified as Troodon bakkeri), known only from teeth. In 1982, KennethCarpenter named a number of theropod teeth from the late Maastrichtian aged...
large individual of Allosaurus fragilis. In 2010, Gregory S. Paul and KennethCarpenter noted that the E. amplexus specimen comes from higher in the Morrison...
marginocephalians. Historically used for forms lacking large vertical plates, KennethCarpenter proposed in 1997 the first informal definition of the group, as all...
Tanycolagreus topwilsoni. It was actually named and described by KennethCarpenter, Clifford Miles and Karen Cloward in 2005. The etymology of the generic...
giganticus, and CV 00207 Chungkingosaurus magnus. Peter Malcolm Galton and KennethCarpenter later identified both as nomina dubia, referring both to C. jiangbeiensis...
Hypsirhophus to be a synonym of Stegosaurus, or a nomen dubium, though KennethCarpenter and Peter Galton have suggested that it is distinct and valid based...
Alzadasaurus colombiensis before being moved into its current genus by KennethCarpenter in 1999. Callawayasaurus is named in honor of the paleontologist Jack...
of any known dinosaur and sauropod–were largely ignored. In 2018, KennethCarpenter renamed Amphicoelias fragillimus as the new genus Maraapunisaurus...
overall body length of 30 metres (98 ft) were published. In 2006, KennethCarpenter reconstructed Argentinosaurus using the more complete Saltasaurus...
type species is "A. brevicollum". In 2016, Peter Malcolm Galton and KennethCarpenter declared it a nomen nudum, establishing it as an indeterminate stegosaur...