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Richard C. Fox
A pioneering vertebrate paleontologist, this author helped build Western Canada’s fossil research tradition and spent decades uncovering ancient mammals and reptiles. His work is especially tied to Alberta’s rich Late Cretaceous and Paleocene fossil record.
2 Audiobooks
The Adductor Muscles of the Jaw In Some Primitive Reptiles
by Richard C. Fox
Two New Pelycosaurs from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma
by Richard C. Fox
About the author
Richard C. Fox is an American-born Canadian paleontologist known for a long career at the University of Alberta. University of Alberta records say he joined the university in 1965 to establish teaching and research in vertebrate paleontology, and he went on to found and curate its Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology, the first institution of its kind in Western Canada.
His academic path took him from Hamilton College, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in 1955, to graduate study at SUNY and Syracuse University, and then to a PhD at the University of Kansas in 1965. Sources consistently describe his research as especially important to the study of fossil mammals and other vertebrates from Alberta and western Canada.
Colleagues and institutional sources credit him with naming a remarkable number of fossil vertebrate species and with helping shape the field through teaching, mentorship, and service, including editing the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology from 1996 to 1998. I couldn’t confirm a suitable portrait image from accessible page image data, so no profile image is included here.