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Sterling Nesbitt (born March 25, 1982, in Mesa, Arizona) is an American paleontologist. ==Biography== Sterling Nesbitt received his B.A. in integrative biology with a minor in geology from University of California Berkeley in 2004. He received his Ph.D from Columbia University in 2009, completing the majority of his research at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He is widely regarded for his research on the rise of dinosaurs and Triassic archosaurs.〔NESBITT, S. J., IRMIS, R. B., and PARKER, W. G. 2007. A critical reevaluation of the Late Triassic dinosaur taxa of North America.''Journal of Systematic Paleontology'' 5: 209–243.〕 〔NESBITT, S.J. and STOCKER, M.R. The vertebrate assemblage of the Late Triassic Canjilon Quarry, (Northern New Mexico, USA) and the importance of apomorphy-based assemblage comparisons. ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology'' 28: 1063–1072.〕 Nesbitt is also known for his rediscovery of the archosaur ''Effigia okeeffeae'' that had remained unrecognized, encased in a plaster block at the American Museum of Natural History since its collection in the 1940s. This specimen was not described as a new species until recognized and prepared by Nesbitt in 2006.〔Nesbitt, S. (2007). The anatomy of ''Effigia okeeffeae'' (Archosauria, Suchia), theropod-like convergence, and the distribution of related taxa. ''Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History'', 302: 84 pp.〕 Nesbitt appears in the 2007 IMAX movie ''Dinosaurs Alive!'' and the re-worked 2008 version of ''Walking With Dinosaurs'' on the Discovery Channel. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sterling Nesbitt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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