Michael J. Benton

1956 -

country of citizenship: United Kingdom

languages spoken, written or signed: English

occupation: paleontologist, herpetologist, university teacher, non-fiction writer

award received: Lyell Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Royal Society, Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal

official website: www.bristol.ac.uk/earthsciences/people/mike-j-benton, research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/e41eaef1-135d-40db-9b7f-e81f7d290f72

Michael James Benton (born 8 April 1956) is a British palaeontologist, and professor of vertebrate palaeontology in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol. His published work has mostly concentrated on the evolution of Triassic reptiles but he has also worked on extinction events and faunal changes in the fossil record. Source: Wikipedia (en)