American paleontologist
Richard Hall Tedford
Born (1929-04-25 ) April 25, 1929Died July 15, 2011(2011-07-15) (aged 82) Education Chemistry B.A., University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D., 1959, University of California, Berkeley Known for Curator Emeritus, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York City Scientific career Fields Paleontology
Richard Hall Tedford (April 25, 1929[ 1] Emeritus in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology of theAmerican Museum of Natural History inNew York City , having been named as curator in 1969.[ 2]
Born inEncino, California , he received a bachelor's degree from theUniversity of California, Los Angeles with a major in chemistry and earned his Ph.D. from theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1959.[ 3]
Tedford was one of the foremost authorities on the evolution ofCarnivores and had been working, often with Prof.Xiaoming Wang , on the fossil history of theCanidae establishing the basis on the evolutionary relationship of canids over the past 40 million years.[ 3]
Tedford was a resident ofDemarest, New Jersey at the time of his death on July 15, 2011, having earlier lived in nearbyCresskill . After suffering from colon cancer, his death followed a skull fracture that resulted from an accidental fall in his home.[ 3]
For his work on tertiary mammals uncovered at theAustralian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh) , he was commemorated in the epithet of anEocene microbat speciesRhinonicteris tedfordi [ 4]
Phylogenetic systematics of the North American fossil Caninae (Carnivora, Canidae) 2009[1] Dogs: Their Fossil Relatives and Evolutionary History . Xiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford,ISBN 978-0-231-13529-0 Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora, Canidae) / Xiaoming Wang, Richard H. Tedford, Beryl E. Taylor. New York : American Museum of Natural History, c1999.The terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene transition in North America, 433–452. New York: Cambridge University Press, Wang, X.-M., and R.H. Tedford. 1996. Canidae. In D.R. Prothero and R.J. Emry (editors) Ancestry: evolutionary history, molecular systematics, and evolutionary ecology of Canidae . The biology and conservation of wild canids. New York: Oxford University Press, Wang, X.-M., R.H. Tedford, B. Van Valkenburgh, and R.K. Wayne. 2004.Review of some Carnivora (Mammalia) from the Thomas Farm local fauna (Hemingfordian, Gilchrist County, Florida) by Richard H. Tedford, American Museum of Natural History, 1976Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals, Richard Tedford, Zhan-Xiang Qiu, Lawrence Flynn 2012
^ Richard H. Tedford Obituary at tributes.com . Accessed October 27, 2011.^ Staff."14 ARE APPOINTED AT MUSEUM HERE" ,The New York Times ^a b c Levin, Jay."Richard H. Tedford, 82; paleontologist and author" Archived 2011-08-21 at theWayback Machine ,The Record (Bergen County) ^ Long, J.A.; Archer, M. (2002).Prehistoric Mammals of Australia and New Guinea: One Hundred Million Years of Evolution ISBN 9780868404356
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