Contributions by role
Contributions by subject area
Judd A Case
Summary
I received his Ph.D. in evolutionary biology from University of California, Riverside and my research has centered on vertebrate paleontology to answer questions in the evolution and biogeography. My emphasis has been on marsupials (the pouched mammals) in particular, but includes the evolution and biogeography Gondwanan plants and animals. I have extensive Antarctic field experience having conducted 9 field seasons in the Antarctic Peninsula, beginning in 1983, with his most recent trip coming in January to February 2005. My research team and I have found two new non-avian dinosaurs in Antarctica including a paravian raptor-like theropod (Ely and Case 2019) and a duck-billed dinosaur or hadrosaur (Case et al., 2000). We are currently describing a new ornithopod from Vega Island. The team has also uncovered critical fossils indicating that the Antarctica maybe the center for the origin of modern bird groups and many examples of marine reptiles including a unique skeleton of a baby plesiosaur. Additionally, I have had many field expeditions to Australia (since 1982) investigating both marsupials and dinosaurs, and it is on these trips that I have regularly taken both graduate and undergraduate students out into the field.