David Bruce Norman (born 20 June 1952 in theUnited Kingdom) is a Britishpaleontologist, currently the main curator ofvertebrate paleontology at theSedgwick Museum,Cambridge University.^[1] From 1991 to 2011, Norman has also been the Sedgwick Museum's director.^[2]

Norman is a fellow atChrist's College, Cambridge, where he teaches Earth Sciences in the Natural Sciencestripos. A member of thePalaeontological Association,^[3] he has studiedIguanodon^[4] and also has participated in the studies and scientific surveys included in the dinosaur workThe Dinosauria (2nd edition, 2004). The species epithet ofEquijubus normani was named in honour of him.^[5]

In 2017, Norman was one of three British palaeontologists who proposed a radical new hypothesis for earlydinosaur evolution and interrelationships in a paper in the journalNature. In this work, Matthew Grant Baron, Norman and Paul Michael Barrett (2017) suggested thatOrnithischia andTheropoda were closely related as part of a new clade that they namedOrnithoscelida.^[6]

He also possesses a keen interest in rugby, and he regularly referees for Cambridge University.^[7]

• The Poster Book of Dinosaurs, Hodder Children's Books, 1988 (illustrations byJohn Sibbick)
• The Humongous Book of Dinosaurs, Publisher: Stewart, Tabori and Chang (April 1997) ;ISBN 978-1-55670-596-0
• The Big Book of Dinosaurs, Publisher: Welcome Books (April 2001) ;ISBN 978-0-941807-48-7
• Dinosaurs Sticker Book, Usborne Sticker Books, 2010,ISBN 978-1-4095-2061-0

• Spotter's Guide to Dinosaurs & Other Prehistoric Animals, Usborne Publishing, London, 1980 (illustrations by Bob Hersey)
• When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1985 (illustrations byJohn Sibbick)
• The Age of Dinosaurs,Hodder Wayland, November 1985
• Dinosaurs!, E.D.C. Publishing, December 1985 (illustrations by Ruth Thomson and Bob Hersey)
• Dinosaur, co-authored withAngela Milner,Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Books, London, 1989
• Dinosaur!, Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc., 1991,ISBN 978-0-13-218140-2 (the official companion toA&E's 1991 four-part television series hosted byWalter Cronkite)
• Prehistoric Life: the rise of the vertebrates, John Wiley & Sons, New York, December 1994 (illustrations by John Sibbick)
• The Smithsonian Handbook to Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, co-authored with Hazel Richardson,Dorling Kindersley, 2003,ISBN 978-0-7894-9361-3

• The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, Salamander Books, 1985 (illustrations byJohn Sibbick)
• Kenneth Carpenter, ed. (2001)."Scelidosaurus: The Earliest Complete Dinosaur".The armored dinosaurs. Indiana University Press.ISBN 978-0-253-33964-5.
• Basal Ornithischia andBasal Thyreophora (co-authored withLawrence Witmer andDavid Weishampel),Basal Ornithopoda (co-authored withHans-Dieter Sues,Lawrence Witmer andRodolfo Coria),Basal Iguanodontia (co-authored withDavid B. Weishampel,Halszka Osmólska andPeter Dodson) ; inThe Dinosauria, 2nd edition, 2004 (first edition was published in 1990), edited by David B. Weishampel, Halszka Osmólska and Peter Dodson, University of California Press,ISBN 978-0-520-24209-8
• Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, December 2005,ISBN 978-0-19-280419-8
• Butler, Richard J.; Upchurch, Paul; Norman, David B. (January 2008). "The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs".Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.6 (1):1–40.doi:10.1017/S1477201907002271.S2CID 86728076.

• Walking with Dinosaurs (six-part TV series documentary,BBC, 1999, scientific advisor for the episode "Giant of the Skies", credited as Dr. David Norman)
• Prehistoric Planet (a re-version ofWalking with Dinosaurs andWalking with Beasts, byDiscovery Channel andNBC, 2002, scientific advisor for the episode "Sky King", credited as Dr. David Norman)

• Dinosaur! (four-part TV series documentary, hosted byWalter Cronkite,A&E, 1991, Norman appears in all four episodes: "The Tale of a Tooth", "The Tale of a Bone", "The Tale of an Egg" and "The Tale of a Feather")
• The Dinosaurs! (television documentaryminiseries produced byPBS in 1992)
• Dinosaurs Myths & Reality (TV movie documentary, 1995, Produced by Castle Communications and Cromwell Productions Ltd.)
• The Making of Walking with Dinosaurs (TV movie documentary about the seriesWalking with Dinosaurs, 1999, "making of" produced and directed byJasper James for the BBC)

• Lost Worlds, Vanished Lives (TV series documentary, BBC, 1989, Norman is thanked in the episode titled "Dinosaur")
• Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life (TV movie documentary, BBC, 2009, Norman is acknowledged as Dr. David Norman)

• David B. Norman atIMDb

• English palaeontologists
• Living people
• Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge
• 1952 births

• Articles with short description
• Short description matches Wikidata
• Use British English from February 2020
• Use dmy dates from February 2020