Dr. David B. Weishampel

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E-Mail: DWEISHAM(at)jhmi.edu
Phone: 410-955-7145

1830 E. Monument St., Room 306
Baltimore, MD 21205 USA






  • Education:


  • Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1981
    M.Sc., University of Toronto, 1978
    B.Sc., The Ohio State University, 1975

  • Research Focuses:
  • Dinosaur systematics
    European dinosaurs of the Late Cretaceous
    jaw mechanics and herbivory
    cladistics and heterochrony
    history of evolutionary biology

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  • Recent/Noteworthy Publications:
  • Weishampel, D. B., Dodson, P., and Osmólska, H. (eds.). 2004. The Dinosauria. 2nd edition. Univ. California Press, Berkeley. 833 pp.

    Weishampel, D. B. & White, N. (eds.). 2003. The Dinosaur Papers: 1676-1906. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D. C. 524 pp.

    Weishampel, D.B., C.-M. Jianu, Z. Csiki, and D.B. Norman. 2003. Osteology and phylogeny of Zalmoxes (n.g.), an unusual ornithopod dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of Romania. J. Syst. Palentol. 1: 123-143. DOWNLOAD PDF (visit Cambridge Journals page)

    Jianu, C. M. & Weishampel, D. B. 1999. The smallest of the largest: a new look at possible dwarfing in sauropod dinosaurs. Geol. Mijnbouw 78: 335-343.

    Weishampel, D. B. 1996. Fossils, phylogeny, and discovery: a cladistic study of the history of tree topologies and ghost lineage durations. J. Vert. Paleont. 16: 191 197.

    Weishampel, D. B. 1995. Fossils, function, and phylogeny. In: Thomason, J. (ed.). Functional Morphology in Vertebrate Paleontology. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York. pp. 34-54.

    Weishampel, D. B. & Horner, J. R. 1994. Life history syndromes, heterochrony, and the evolution of Dinosauria. In: Carpenter, K., Horner, J. R., & Hirsch, K. (eds.). Dinosaur Eggs and Babies. Cambridge Univ. Press, New York. pp. 229 243.

    Heinrich, R. E., Ruff, C. B., & Weishampel, D. B. 1993. Femoral ontogeny and locomotor biomechanics of Dryosaurus lettowvorbecki (Dinosauria, Iguanodontia). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 108: 179 196.

    Weishampel, D. B., Norman, D. B., & Grigorescu, D. 1993. Telmatosaurus transsylvanicus from the Late Cretaceous of Romania: the most basal hadrosaurid. Palaeontology 36: 361 385.

    Weishampel, D. B. 1993. Beams and machines: modeling approaches to analysis of skull form and function. In: Hanken, J. & Hall, B. K. (eds.) The Vertebrate Skull. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago. pp. 303 344.

    Weishampel, D. B., Grigorescu, D., & Norman, D. B. 1991. The dinosaurs of Transylvania: island biogeography in the Late Cretaceous. Natl. Geogr. Res. 7: 68 87.

    Weishampel, D. B. 1991. A theoretical morphologic approach to tooth replacement in lower vertebrates. In: Vogel, K. & Schmidt Kittler, N. (eds.). Constructional Morphology and Biomechanics: Concepts and lmplications. Springer Verlag, Berlin. pp. 295 310.

  • Current Students:
  • Frank J. Varriale, Michael B. Habib, Michael P. Yashinski

               
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