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Thomas H. Rich

Thomas H. Rich

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Earth Science

D-Index
39
Citations
5385
World Ranking
6193
National Ranking
311

Overview

Thomas H. Rich is affiliated with Museums Victoria in Australia and works primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research largely focuses on paleontology, with a significant number of publications related to the study of fossils and evolutionary biology.

Rich's scholarship spans several subfields, including Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Atmospheric Science. Their main research topics involve Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

They have authored multiple papers published in a range of scientific venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Palynological-age determination of Early Cretaceous vertebrate-bearing beds along the south Victorian coast of Australia, with implications for the spore-pollen biostratigraphy of the region, 2020, Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology
  • Primary or secondary? A dichotomy of the strontium isotope anomalies in the Ediacaran carbonates of Saudi Arabia, 2020, Precambrian Research
  • A review of monotreme (Monotremata) evolution, 2022, Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology
  • First elaphrosaurine theropod dinosaur (Ceratosauria: Noasauridae) from Australia - A cervical vertebra from the Early Cretaceous of Victoria, 2020, Gondwana Research
  • Ornithopod jaws from the Lower Cretaceous Eumeralla Formation, Victoria, Australia, and their implications for polar neornithischian dinosaur diversity, 2021, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Rich frequently collaborates with several other researchers, including Patricia Vickers-Rich, Alistair R. Evans, Stephen F. Poropat, Melissa Lowery, and Peter Trusler.

In terms of publication venues, Rich has contributed most extensively to Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, along with articles in the Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America, Nature, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, and Precambrian Research.

Their book publications include a work titled Dinosaurs of Darkness, published in 2020 by Indiana University Press.

Best Publications

  • The evolution of tribospheny and the antiquity of mammalian clades.

    Michael O Woodburne;Thomas Hewitt Rich;Mark S Springer

  • Australian cretaceous terrestrial faunas and floras: biostratigraphic and biogeographic implications

    M.E. Dettmann;R.E. Molnar;J.G. Douglas;D. Burger

  • New high-resolution age data from the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary indicate rapid, ecologically driven onset of the Cambrian explosion

    Ulf Linnemann;Maria Ovtcharova;Urs Schaltegger;Andreas Gärtner

  • A tribosphenic mammal from the Mesozoic of Australia.

    Thomas H. Rich;Thomas H. Rich;Patricia Vickers-Rich;Patricia Vickers-Rich;Andrew Constantine;Andrew Constantine;Timothy Fridtjof Flannery;Timothy Fridtjof Flannery

  • Polar dinosaurs and biotas of the Early Cretaceous of southeastern Australia

    Th Rich;Pv Rich;Thv Rich;PV Rich

  • The oldest platypus and its bearing on divergence timing of the platypus and echidna clades

    Timothy Rowe;Thomas H. Rich;Patricia Vickers-Rich;Mark Springer

  • A large Cretaceous theropod from Patagonia, Argentina, and the evolution of carcharodontosaurids

    Fernando Novas;Silvina de Valais;Patricia Vickers-Rich;Thomas Hewitt Rich

  • Oxygen isotopic composition of carbonate concretions from the lower Cretaceous of Victoria, Australia: implications for the evolution of meteoric waters on the Australian continent in a paleopolar environment

    R.T. Gregory;C.B. Douthitt;C.B. Douthitt;I.R. Duddy;P.V. Rich

  • Chubutemys, a New Eucryptodiran Turtle from the Early Cretaceous of Argentina, and the Relationships of the Meiolaniidae

    Eugene S Gaffney;Thomas Hewitt Rich;Patricia Vickers Rich;Andrew Constantine

  • Independent Origins of Middle Ear Bones in Monotremes and Therians

    Thomas H. Rich;Thomas H. Rich;James A. Hopson;Anne M. Musser;Tim Fridtjof Flannery

  • Evidence for low temperatures and biologic diversity in cretaceous high latitudes of australia.

    P. V. Rich;T. H. Rich;B. E. Wagstaff;J. Mc Ewen Mason

  • Paleontology. Polar dinosaurs.

    Thomas H Rich;Patricia Vickers-Rich;Roland A Gangloff

  • Tetrapods from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian–Maastrichtian) Bauru Group of Brazil: a reappraisal

    Carlos Roberto Candeiro;Carlos Roberto Candeiro;Agustin G Martinelli;Leonardo S Avilla;Leonardo S Avilla;Thomas Hewitt Rich;Thomas Hewitt Rich

  • Theropod Fauna from Southern Australia Indicates High Polar Diversity and Climate-Driven Dinosaur Provinciality

    Roger B. J. Benson;Roger B. J. Benson;Thomas H. Rich;Thomas H. Rich;Patricia Vickers-Rich;Patricia Vickers-Rich;Mike Hall

  • A new family of monotremes feom the Creataceous of Australia

    Timothy F. Flannery;Michael Archer;Thomas H. Rich;Robert Jones

  • Polar dinosaur bone histology

    Anusuya Chinsamy;T. Rich;P. Vickers-Rich

  • Dinosaur remains from the Lower Cretaceous of the Chubut Group, Argentina

    Oliver W M Rauhut;Gerardo Cladera;Patricia Vickers-Rich;Thomas Hewitt Rich

  • Early Cretaceous polar biotas of Victoria, southeastern Australia—an overview of research to date

    Stephen F. Poropat;Sarah K. Martin;Anne Marie P. Tosolini;Barbara E. Wagstaff

  • First spinosaurid dinosaur from Australia and the cosmopolitanism of Cretaceous dinosaur faunas

    Paul M. Barrett;Roger B. J. Benson;Thomas H. Rich;Thomas H. Rich;Patricia Vickers-Rich;Patricia Vickers-Rich

  • A New Sauropod Dinosaur from Chubut Province, Argentina

    Thomas H. Rich;Patricia VickersRich;Olga Gimenez;Ruben Cuneo

  • Evidence that monotremes and ausktribosphenids are not sistergroups

    Thomas H. Rich;Timothy F. Flannery;Peter Trusler;Lesley Kool

  • A Southern Tyrant Reptile

    Roger B. J. Benson;Paul M. Barrett;Tom H. Rich;Tom H. Rich;Pat Vickers-Rich;Pat Vickers-Rich

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Archer
Michael Archer University of New South Wales
Roger B. J. Benson
Roger B. J. Benson University of Oxford
Paul M. Barrett
Paul M. Barrett Natural History Museum
Mandy Hofmann
Mandy Hofmann Senckenberg Naturmuseum
Ulf Linnemann
Ulf Linnemann Senckenberg Naturmuseum
Ben Horan
Ben Horan Deakin University
Alan J. Kaufman
Alan J. Kaufman University of Maryland, College Park
Luis M. Chiappe
Luis M. Chiappe Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Philippe Claeys
Philippe Claeys Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Haibo Zou
Haibo Zou Auburn University

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