A CONSIDERATION OF THE PALEONTOLOGICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF WILL DOWNS WITH A GENERAL CORRELATION OF CHINESE NEOGENE LOCALITIES

作     者：Catherine BADGLEY,Lawrence J. FLYNN,Louis L. JACOBS,Louis H. TAYLOR 

作者机构：Museum of Paleontology University of Michigan Ann Arbor Peabody Museum Harvard University Cambridge Department of Geological Sciences Southern Methodist University Dallas Denver Museum of Nature and Science Denver Michigan 48109-1079 USA Massachusetts 02138 USA Texas 75275 USA Colorado 801280-6419 USA 

出 版 物：《古脊椎动物学报(中英文）》 (Vertebrata Palasiatica)

年 卷 期：2004年第42卷第4期

页      面：340-344页

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学科分类：070903[理学-古生物学与地层学(含：古人类学)] 0709[理学-地质学] 07[理学] 

主　　题：China Neogene fossil mammals Will Downs 

摘      要：William R. Downs, Ⅲ, known as Dong Weilin to many friends, died a relatively young man ( 1950 ～ 2002) at the height of his career in *** career began at the Museum of Northern Arizona in 1975. One of his early tasks was the preparation of Triassic cynodonts from Antarctica for Edwin ***, then Curator Emeritus of the American Museum of Natural History and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Museum of Northern Arizona (Colbert and Kitching, 1977). Will prepared the Early Jurassic armored ornithischian Scutellosaurus for Colbert (1981), and he collected and prepared a skull of Pentaceratops from the Cretaceous of the San Juan Basin (Rowe et al., 1981 ).One of his early ventures into screen-washing was near the Pentaceratops site in the San Juan Basin (Flynn, 1986) where mammals were poorly represented. In the mid-1980 s, Will left the Museum of Northern Arizona to become affiliated with Northern Arizona University, also in Flagstaff. In addition, he was briefly employed to revamp the fossil preparation laboratories at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, during which time he joined in excavations of a large series of small primitive ornithopods in Texas (Winkler et al.,1988). He maintained an office at the Bilby Research Center, and then the Department of Geology,at Northern Arizona University until the time of his death