Niels Bonde

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Born 1940. Copenhagen University, student 1959 - 65 at Geological Museum, 1965-69 amanuensis same inst, 1970 moved to Geological Inst as Senior Lecturer, retired 2005, now emeritus at Zoological Museum (in State Nat-hist. Museum, Cph. Univ). 1970-80 also Ext. Lecturer in Geol. Inst., Aarhus Univ., 2023 emer. same place.
Paleogene and Cretac teleosts, espec. Eocene in DK; marine reptiles; pterosaurs-dinosaurs-early birds; Triassic East-Greenland; palaeoceanography; hominid phylogeny and classif.; cladistic classif. in general; palaeontol. species problems; outreach in evol. theory and Danish fossils and some exhibitions in Geol. Museum (hominids 1981 -2010). Chair of Palaeont Club (of Dan. Geol. Soc.) ca 25 y till 2005. Senior Scientist at Fur Museum, NW-Jutland.
Co-work: Smithsonian; NHM London; Mus. Paleont. Paris; Berlin, Karlsruhe; Verona, Bolca, Padua, Torino; Warsaw; Beijing & Beipiao China; Tyrrell Mus Canada; UNAM Mex. City; div. coll. Brazil; Lund & Stockholm Sweden.
Playing soccer since 1950 (and handball and badminton in periods). Married 1967-92.
Kids (girl 1967; boy 1975: latter 3 grandchildren), 2015 married to Maria Leal (Brazil, Cretac fish , turtles, pterosaurs, some co-work), son from 2016 (dino-freak).

Biodiversity Biogeography Developmental Biology Evolutionary Studies Paleontology Taxonomy Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

Fort Hays State University

University of Copenhagen

Work details

Emeritus Prof.

State Natural-history Museum of Denmark

Zoological Museum

Zoological Museum (of State Natural-history Museum = SNM), Copenhagen University. (via many changes of names: orig. Mineralogical Museum; Geological Mus.; Inst. Historical Geology; Inst. Geoscience - now back to Mus.)

PeerJ Contributions

September 29, 2020

Interpreting character variation in turtles: Araripemys barretoi (Pleurodira: Pelomedusoides) from the Araripe Basin, Early Cretaceous of Northeastern Brazil

Saulo Limaverde, Rodrigo Vargas Pêgas, Rafael Damasceno, Chiara Villa, Gustavo R. Oliveira, Niels Bonde, Maria E.C. Leal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9840 PubMed 33062413

September 19, 2019

Nurhachius luei, a new istiodactylid pterosaur (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea) from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province (China) and comments on the Istiodactylidae

Xuanyu Zhou, Rodrigo V. Pêgas, Maria E.C. Leal, Niels Bonde

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7688 PubMed 31579592

October 7, 2018 - Version: 1

Interpreting character variation in turtles: Araripemys barretoi (Pleurodira: Pelomedusoides) from the Araripe Basin, Early Cretaceous of Northeastern Brazil

Saulo Limaverde, Rodrigo Vargas Pêgas, Rafael Damasceno, Chiara Villa, Gustavo Oliveira, Niels Bonde, Maria E. C. Leal

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27262v1

October 2, 2015 - Version: 1

A new dinosaur ichnosite from the early Cretaceous Sousa Formation, Northeastern Brazil

Hebert Bruno Hebert Campos, Niels Bonde, Maria Eduarda Leal, Mário André Dantas

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1413v1

September 30, 2015 - Version: 1

Eocene tarpons from the North Sea region, Denmark and UK

Maria E. C. Leal, Bo P. Schultz, Henrik Madsen, Chiara Villa, Niels Lynnerup, Niels Jørgen Rosenkrants, Ulrich Veje, Niels Bonde

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1410v1

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January 2, 2025

A giant specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri and comments on the ontogeny of rhamphorhynchines

David W.E. Hone, Skye N. McDavid

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18587 PubMed 39763697