Michael Pittman

Summary

I am a multi-disciplinary vertebrate palaeontologist from Hong Kong. I pursued a PhD on ‘the evolution and biomechanics of dinosaurian tails’ with Profs. Paul Upchurch (UCL, UK) and John R. Hutchinson FRS (RVC, UK), completing in 2012. My primary interests are the palaeobiology of dinosaurs (especially theropods and their flight origins), laser-based fossil imaging and the evolutionary biomechanics of vertebrates (especially of flight). Much of my work is focused on Chinese and Argentine fossil material that I collect with my team.

Ecology Evolutionary Studies Paleontology Taxonomy Zoology

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