David B. Weishampel
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Professor '''David B. Weishampel''' (born [[November 16]], [[1952]]) is an American [[palaeontologist]] in the [[Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]] School of Medicine. Weishampel received his Ph.D. in Geology from the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in [[1981]]. His research focuses include [[dinosaur]] systematics, European dinosaurs of the Late [[Cretaceous]], jaw mechanics and [[herbivory]], [[cladistics]] and [[heterochrony]] and the history of [[evolutionary biology]]. Weishampel's most well known published work is ''The Dinosauria'' University of California Press; 2nd edition ([[December 1]], [[2004]]). He consulted for [[Jurassic Park]] and is a good friend of [[Steven Spielberg]]. He has received an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical work.
==Selected 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.
== External links ==
* http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/FAE/DBW.htm
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