Peter Galton


Peter Malcolm Galton is a British vertebrate paleontologist who has to date written or co-written about 190 papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs.
With Robert Bakker in a joint article published in Nature in 1974, he argued that dinosaurs constitute a natural monophyletic group, in contrast to the prevailing view that considered them polyphyletic and consisting of two different unrelated orders, thus initiating a revolution in dinosaur studies and contributing to the revival of the popularity of dinosaurs in the field of paleontology.

Publications

  • Galton, P.M., 1974, "The ornithischian dinosaur Hypsilophodon from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight". British Museum, Bulletin, Geology, London, 25: 1‑152c.
  • Bakker, R.T. and Galton, P.M.. "Dinosaur monophyly and a new class of vertebrates". Nature 248:168-172.
  • Galton, P.M.. "The postcranial anatomy of stegosaurian dinosaur Kentrosaurus from the Upper Jurassic of Tanzania, East Africa". Geologica et Palaeontologica 15:139-165.
  • Galton, P.M.. "Cranial anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus from the Knollenmergel of Germany. I. Two complete skulls from Trossingen/Württ. With comments on the diet". Geologica et Palaeontologica 18:139-171.
  • Galton, P.M.. "Cranial anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus from the Knollenmergel of Germany. II. All the cranial material and details of soft-part anatomy". Geologica et Palaeontologica 19:119-159.
  • Galton, P.M.. "Prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus from the Upper Triassic of Switzerland". Geologica et Paleontologica 20:167-183.
  • Galton, P.M.. "Skull bones and endocranial casts of stegosaurian dinosaur Kentrosaurus HENNIG, 1915 from Upper Jurassic of Tanzania, East Africa". Geologica et Palaeontologica 22:123-143.
  • Galton, P.M.. "Basal Sauropodomorpha-Prosauropoda". pp. 320–344 in Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P. and Osmólska, H. : The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Galton, P.M.. "The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837. I: The syntypes of P. engelhardti Meyer, 1837, with notes on other European prosauropods with "distally straight" femora". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 216:233-275.
  • Galton, P.M.. "The prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus Meyer, 1837. II. Notes on the referred species". Revue Paléobiologie, Genève 20:435-502.
  • Galton, P.M. and Upchurch, P.. "Prosauropoda". pp. 232–258 in Weishampel Weishampel, D.B., Dodson, P. and Osmólska, H. : The Dinosauria 2nd Edition. University of California Press, Berkeley.