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David C. Parris
A paleontologist and museum researcher whose work helped illuminate the fossil record of New Jersey and other Late Cretaceous sites, with a special interest in ancient birds, fishes, and marine reptiles. He has also edited and contributed to volumes that made regional paleontology more accessible to both specialists and dedicated amateurs.
1 Audiobook
The cretaceous birds of New Jersey
by Storrs L. Olson, David C. Parris
About the author
David C. Parris is an American paleontologist associated with the New Jersey State Museum. Published sources identify him as a museum researcher and paleontologist, and his work spans fossils from the Cretaceous through the Pleistocene, especially material from New Jersey.
He is best known in book form as the coauthor of The Cretaceous Birds of New Jersey with Storrs L. Olson, a Smithsonian publication that reexamined fossil birds from Late Cretaceous deposits in the state. Other sources link his research to topics such as fossil fish, marine deposits of the Dakotas, and notable New Jersey discoveries including the Ellisdale fossil site.
Parris has also been connected with The Mosasaur, a journal of the Delaware Valley Paleontological Society, reflecting a career that bridges formal museum science and the wider fossil-collecting community. Publicly accessible references suggest he later retired from the New Jersey State Museum, though biographical details beyond his research career are not consistently documented in the sources reviewed.