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:
  • Fastovsky, D. E., Weishampel, D. B. in press. Dinosaurs: a Concise Natural History. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

    Weishampel, D. B. 2007. La evolution de la dieta herbivora en dinosaurios: una aproximacion historica. In: Sanz, J. L. (ed.). Los Dinosaurios en el Siglo XXI. Metatemas, Barcelona. pp. 164-185.

    Weishampel, D. B. 2006. Another look at the dinosaurs of the East Coast of North America. In: Coletivo Arqueológico-Paleontológico Salense (eds.). Actas III Jorn. Dinosaurios Entorno. Salas de los Infantes, Burgos, Spain. pp. 129-168.

    Prieto Márquez, A., Weishampel, D. B., Horner, J. R. 2006. The dinosaur Hadrosaurus foulkii, from the Campanian of the east coast of North America and a revision of the genus Acta Palaeont. Polonica 51: 77- 99.

    Fastovsky, D. E., Weishampel, D. B. 2004. The Evolution and Extinction of Dinosaurs. 2nd edition. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge.

    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.

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

               
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