Long Beach State University (AB) San Diego State University (MS in Geology) Yale University (PhD)
Awards
Orbis Pictus Award, Scientific American's Young Readers Book of the Year Award, New York City Leader of the Year
Scientific career
Fields
paleontology, cladistics, molecular genetics
Institutions
American Museum of Natural History
Mark Allen Norell (born July 26, 1957) is an American vertebrate paleontologist.[2] He is currently the chairman of paleontology and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History. He is best known as the discoverer of the first theropod embryo and for the description of feathered dinosaurs. Norell is credited with the naming of the genera Apsaravis, Byronosaurus, Citipati, Tsaagan, and Achillobator. 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. Norell is both a fellow of the Explorer's Club and the Willi Hennig Society. He was featured in the fourth installment of Miracle Planet—a six-part documentary series that was released in 2005.
^Mark Norell, Paleontologist Archived 2013-01-29 at the Wayback Machine. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
^Gardener, Ralph (June 28, 2011). "Mark Norell: The Coolest Dude Alive". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
Mark Allen Norell (born July 26, 1957) is an American vertebrate paleontologist. He is currently the chairman of paleontology and a research associate...
received an official decoration MarkNorell (born 1957), American paleontologist and molecular geneticist Michael Norell (born 1937), American screenwriter/actor...
paleontologist Altangerel Perle and North American paleontologists Mark A. Norell and James M. Clark. In terms of etymology, the generic name, Achillobator...
people of all ages, all cultures, and all nationalities". Paleontologists MarkNorell and Lowell Dingus have likewise called it "the most famous dinosaur of...
121 (8). doi:10.1073/pnas.2306639121. ISSN 0027-8424. Dyke, Gareth J.; Norell, Mark A. (2005). "Caudipteryx as a non-avialan theropod rather than a flightless...
and dromaeosaurid skulls were briefly described by the paleontologist Mark A. Norell and colleagues in 1993, who considered this oviraptorid embryo to be...
Shanag was named and described by Alan Turner, Sunny Hai-Ching Hwang and MarkNorell in 2007. The generic name refers to the black-hatted dancers in the Buddhist...
1032. PMC 4476167. PMID 26157616. Turner, Alan H.; Montanari, Shaena; Norell, Mark A. (2021). "A New Dromaeosaurid from the Late Cretaceous Khulsan Locality...
as large amounts of new evidence became available. As late as 2001, MarkNorell and colleagues analyzed a large survey of coelurosaur fossils and produced...
troodontids, such as Jianianhualong, lend support to this. In 2004, MarkNorell and colleagues described two partial troodontid skulls (specimen numbers...
genus. In December 2006 its type species was named and described by MarkNorell, James Clark, Alan Turner, Peter Makovicky, Rinchen Barsbold and Timothy...
that Variraptor is probably a chimaera and a nomen dubium. In 2004, MarkNorell and Peter Makovicky suggested that the specimens of Variraptor show no...
Peter J.; Li, Daqing; Gao, Ke-Qin; Lewin, Matthew; Erickson, Gregory M.; Norell, Mark A. (2010). "A giant ornithomimosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China"...
Balanoff, Amy M.; Sipla, Justin S.; Georgi, Justin A.; Walsh, Stig A.; Norell, Mark A.; Xu, Xing; Clark, James M.; Benson, Roger B. J. (7 May 2021). "Evolution...
described in 2013 by Jonah Choiniere, James Clark, Catherine Forster, MarkNorell, David Eberth, Gregory Erickson, Chu Hongjun and Xu Xing. The generic...
was recovered. It was discovered in and prepared in 2006 and 2007 by MarkNorell, Peter Makovicky, and a team of scientists from Beijing University. In...
(3): 381–388. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0047. S2CID 55220748. Xing Xu & Mark A. Norell (2004). "A new troodontid dinosaur from China with avian-like sleeping...
; Smith, Nathan D.; Irmis, Randall B.; Turner, Alan H.; Downs, Alex; Norell, Mark A. (11 December 2009). "A Complete Skeleton of a Late Triassic Saurischian...
version of Cau (2024), which shows Huaxiagnathus in bold. Hwang, S. H., Norell, M. A., Ji, Q., and Gao, K. (2004). "A large compsognathid from the Early...
Retrieved February 2, 2019. Rauhut, O. W. M.; Foth, C.; Tischlinger, H.; Norell, M. A. (2012). "Exceptionally preserved juvenile megalosauroid theropod...
original location, a second specimen was discovered, a skull. In 2000, MarkNorell, Peter Makovicky and James Clark named and described the type species...
function. Dinosaurs portal Timeline of oviraptorosaur research Clark, J. M.; Norell, M. A.; Barsbold, R. (2001). "Two new oviraptorids (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria)...
2002 named and described by Xu Xing, Peter Makovicky, Wang Xiaolin, MarkNorell and You Hailu. The generic name is derived from Liaoning and the Greek...
Corwin Sullivan; Jonah N. Choiniere; Qing Wei Tan; James M. Clark; Mark A. Norell; Wang Shuo (2015). "The taxonomic status of the Late Cretaceous dromaeosaurid...
support for S. junior in the same genus as S. mongoliensis was lacking. MarkNorell and colleagues re-classified the species in the new genus Zanabazar,...
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