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David Evans
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Preprint Author 35

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Paleontology
Taxonomy
Evolutionary Studies
Zoology
Biodiversity

David C Evans

PeerJ Author

Summary

Dr. David C. Evans holds the Temerty Chair in Vertebrate Palaeontology and oversees dinosaur research at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. David is an Ontario-born researcher who is recognized globally as an authority on the rich dinosaur fossil record of Canada, and on the mass extinction event that marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. As a curator, David helped develop the ROM's dinosaur galleries, and was Lead Curator of the major travelling exhibition Ultimate Dinosaurs. He has been featured on numerous television shows, and most recently, David was co-creator of the HISTORY series Dino Hunt Canada.

David’s research focuses on the evolution, ecology and diversity of dinosaurs, and their relationship to environmental changes leading up to the end Cretaceous mass extinction event. Active in the field, he has participated in expeditions all over the world, including the Africa, Mongolia, and Canada, and has helped discover 10 new dinosaur species in the last five years- including the remarkable horned dinosaur Wendiceratops from southern Alberta, and the wickedly armoured Zuul named after the Ghostbusters movie monster.

Anatomy & Physiology Biodiversity Biogeography Evolutionary Studies Paleontology Taxonomy

Editing Journals

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Toronto

Work details

Senior Curator, Vertebrate Palaeontology

Royal Ontario Museum
April 2007
Natural History

Websites

  • Google Scholar
  • Evans Lab

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 5
  • Preprints 1
December 9, 2021
The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs
Daniel Madzia, Victoria M. Arbour, Clint A. Boyd, Andrew A. Farke, Penélope Cruzado-Caballero, David C. Evans
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12362 PubMed 34966571
January 25, 2021
Description and rediagnosis of the crested hadrosaurid (Ornithopoda) dinosaur Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatus on the basis of new cranial remains
Terry A. Gates, David C. Evans, Joseph J.W. Sertich
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10669 PubMed 33552721
November 7, 2019
A new leptoceratopsid dinosaur from Maastrichtian-aged deposits of the Sustut Basin, northern British Columbia, Canada
Victoria M. Arbour, David C. Evans
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7926 PubMed 31720103
July 3, 2018
New insights into chasmosaurine (Dinosauria: Ceratopsidae) skulls from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) of Alberta, and an update on the distribution of accessory frill fenestrae in Chasmosaurinae
James A. Campbell, Michael J. Ryan, Claudia J. Schröder-Adams, David C. Evans, Robert B. Holmes
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5194 PubMed 30002987
February 9, 2016
The furculae of the dromaeosaurid dinosaur Dakotaraptor steini are trionychid turtle entoplastra
Victoria M. Arbour, Lindsay E. Zanno, Derek W. Larson, David C. Evans, Hans-Dieter Sues
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1691 PubMed 26893972
December 7, 2015 - Version: 1
The furculae of the dromaeosaurid dinosaur Dakotaraptor steini are trionychid turtle entoplastra
Victoria M. Arbour, Lindsay E. Zanno, Derek W. Larson, David C. Evans, Hans-Dieter Sues
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1570v1