David C. Evans (paleontologist)

David Christopher Evans is a Canadian palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist who specializes in the evolution and paleobiology of Cretaceous dinosaurs in western North America. He received his B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.[1] He is a fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) and a member of the Royal Society of Canada (The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists)[2][3] and currently serves as the Senior Curator and Temerty Chair of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. He is also a faculty member in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto. Evans is particularly renowned for his work on the paleobiology of hadrosaur ("duck-billed") dinosaurs and has conducted international research on a wide variety of paleontological topics.

Canadian paleontologist David Evans.

Biography

David Evans was born in Ontario and raised in Kelowna, British Columbia.[1] He received his B.Sc. from the Integrated Sciences Program of the University of British Columbia in 2003, where he completed an undergraduate thesis on skull growth and variation in the hadrosaur Corythosaurus. Over the course of his undergraduate degree, Evans worked as a field technician at the Royal Tyrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller. He then completed his Ph.D. in 2007 under the supervision of Canadian paleontologist Robert Reisz at the University of Toronto in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology on development and phylogenetic relationships of lambeosaurine hadrosaurs (dissertation title: "Ontogeny and evolution of lambeosaurine dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae).").[4] Following the completion of his Ph.D., Evans was hired as a curator by the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada, where he currently serves as the Temerty Chair in Vertebrate Palaeontology.[5] He has been part of the faculty in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto since 2007 and currently holds the rank of Associate Professor.[6] He is also the owner of a male Shiba Inu named Doug.

Academic contributions

David Evans' research focuses primarily on the evolution and paleobiology of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs, particularly in North American ecosystems. He has published extensively on various aspects of hadrosaurs, following his undergraduate and doctoral dissertations, including phylogenetics,[7] development,[8][9] biostratigraphy,[10] and anatomy.[11][12][10][13] He has published more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and has several publications in leading scientific journals, including Biological Reviews, Current Biology, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, and Science, and has contributed book chapters to several edited volumes. Evans' current research interests focus primarily on the vast majority of the well-known Late Cretaceous dinosaur clades found in western North America, and he maintains active fieldwork programs in Alberta and Montana. He has also conducted research on dinosaur material from Mongolia[14][15] and tetrapod-bearing deposits in Sudan.[16][17][18] Evans has also been involved with both fieldwork and research of the Early Jurassic sauropodomorph Massospondylus from South Africa[19][20][21] and has conducted research on pelycosaurian-grade Permian synapsids,[22][23][24] Permian temnospondyls,[25] the iconic Pleistocene felid Smilodon,[26] and choristoderes.[27]

Evans has been a part of various teams that have named over a dozen new genera or species of dinosaurs. New ceratopsians named by Evans and colleagues include Xenoceratops foremostensis Ryan, Evans, & Shepherd, 2012;[28] Gryphoceratops morrisoni Ryan, Evans, Currie, Brown, & Brinkman, 2012;[29] Unescoceratops koppelhusi Ryan, Evans, Currie, Brown, & Brinkman, 2012;[29] Mercuriceratops gemini Ryan, Evans, Loewen, & Currie, 2014;[30] Wendiceratops pinhorensis Evans & Ryan, 2015;[31] Spiclypeus shipporum Mallon, Ott, Larson, Iuliano, & Evans, 2016;[32] and Ferrisaurus sustutensis Arbour & Evans, 2019.[33] Evans was also involved in the naming of the ornithopods Albertadromeus syntarsus Brown, Evans, Ryan, & Russell, 2013;[34] Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis Tsogtbaatar, Weishampel, Evans, & Watabe, 2014;[35] and Gobihadros mongoliensis Tsogtbaatar, Weishampel, Evans, & Watabe, 2019;[36] the pachycephalosaurians Acrotholus audeti Evans, Schott, Larson, Brown, & Ryan, 2013;[37] and Foraminacephale brevis Schott & Evans, 2016;[38] the dromaeosaurid Acheroraptor temertyorum Evans, Currie, & Larson, 2013;[39] the ankylosaurid Zuul crurivastator Arbour & Evans, 2017; and the troodontid Albertavenator curriei Evans, Cullen, Larson, & Rego, 2017.[40] Evans has also been involved with the naming of various new non-dinosaurian taxa, such as the Devonian onychodontiform fish Onychodus eriensis Mann, Rudkin, Evans, & Laflamme, 2017;[41] the Carboniferous parareptile Erpetonyx arsenaultorum Modesto, Scott, MacDougall, Sues, Evans, & Reisz, 2015;[42] and the Cretaceous baenid turtle Neurankylus lithographicus Larson, Longrich, Evans, & Ryan, 2013.[43]

As a professor at the University of Toronto, Evans supervises numerous graduate students in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology. Former M.Sc. students include Arjan Mann (Carleton University); Ryan Schott (National Museum of Natural History); Chris McGarrity (Field Museum); and Collin Van Buren (Ohio State University). Former Ph.D. students include Nicolas Campione (University of New England); Caleb Brown (Royal Tyrell Museum); Kirstin Brink (University of Manitoba); Thomas Cullen (North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences); Mateusz Wosik (Misericordia University), and Kentaro Chiba (Okayama University of Science).[1] Evans also serves on the editorial board of several academic journals, including FACETS[44] and Biology Letters,[45] and has previously served as an editor at PLOS ONE.

Outreach and public media

Evans has been featured in numerous documentaries, including the History Channel's 2015 documentary Dino Hunt Canada[46] and various episodes of Daily Planet and radio and TV interviews, as well as appeared in the TVOKids series Dino Dan: Trek's Adventures. He has also helped to develop several exhibits, including the traveling "Ultimate Dinosaurs" exhibit in 2012,[47] the permanent James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM),[48] and temporary exhibits at the ROM, including "Dinosaur Eggs & Babies: Remarkable Fossils from South Africa" (2014)[49] and "Zuul, Life of an Armoured Dinosaur" (2018-2019).[50] Evans has also served on numerous committees of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.

References
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  3. King, Perry (2019-09-10). "Three U of T faculty appointed members of the Royal Society of Canada's college for new scholars". University of Toronto News.
  4. Laurin, Michel; Sues, Hans-Dieter (2013-11-01). "Robert R. Reisz – Renaissance paleontologist". Comptes Rendus Palevol. A tribute to Robert R. Reisz / Un hommage à Robert R. Reisz. 12 (7): 393–404. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2012.09.001. ISSN 1631-0683.
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  7. Evans, David C.; Reisz, Robert R. (2007-06-12). "Anatomy and Relationships ofLambeosaurus magnicristatus, a crested hadrosaurid dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the Dinosaur Park Formation, Alberta". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (2): 373–393. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[373:aarolm]2.0.co;2. ISSN 0272-4634.
  8. Evans, David C.; Forster, Catherine A.; Reisz, Robert R. (2005). "The type specimen of Tetragonosaurus erectofrons (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) and the identification of juvenile lambeosaurines". In Currie, Philip J.; Koppelhus, Eva B. (eds.). Dinosaur Provincial Park : a spectacular ancient ecosystem revealed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 349-366. ISBN 0-253-34595-2. OCLC 57965735.
  9. Evans, David C.; Reisz, Robert R.; Dupuis, Kevin (2007-09-12). "A juvenileParasaurolophus(Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) Braincase from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, with comments on crest ontogeny in the genus". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (3): 642–650. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[642:ajpohb]2.0.co;2. ISSN 0272-4634.
  10. Evans, David C.; Bavington, Rebecca; Campione, Nicolás E. (2009). "An unusual hadrosaurid braincase from the Dinosaur Park Formation and the biostratigraphy of Parasaurolophus (Ornithischia: Lambeosaurinae) from southern Alberta". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 46 (11): 791–800. Bibcode:2009CaJES..46..791E. doi:10.1139/e09-050. ISSN 0008-4077.
  11. Evans, D. C. (2006-01-01). "Nasal cavity homologies and cranial crest function in lambeosaurine dinosaurs". Paleobiology. 32 (1): 109–125. doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2006)032[0109:nchacc]2.0.co;2. ISSN 0094-8373.
  12. Evans, David C.; Ridgely, Ryan; Witmer, Lawrence M. (2009). "Endocranial Anatomy of Lambeosaurine Hadrosaurids (Dinosauria: Ornithischia): A Sensorineural Perspective on Cranial Crest Function". The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology. 292 (9): 1315–1337. doi:10.1002/ar.20984. ISSN 1932-8486. PMID 19711466. S2CID 15177074.
  13. Evans, David C. (2010-05-26). "Cranial anatomy and systematics of Hypacrosaurus altispinus, and a comparative analysis of skull growth in lambeosaurine hadrosaurids (Dinosauria: Ornithischia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 159 (2): 398–434. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00611.x. ISSN 0024-4082.
  14. Evans, David C.; Brown, Caleb Marshall; Ryan, Michael J.; Tsogtbaatar, Khishigjav (2011-02-10). "Cranial ornamentation and ontogenetic status ofHomalocephale calathocercos(Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauria) from the Nemegt Formation, Mongolia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 31 (1): 84–92. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.546287. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 84908604.
  15. Evans, David C.; Hayashi, Shoji; Chiba, Kentaro; Watabe, Mahito; Ryan, Michael J.; Lee, Yuong-Nam; Currie, Philip J.; Tsogtbaatar, Khishigjav; Barsbold, Rinchen (2018). "Morphology and histology of new cranial specimens of Pachycephalosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Nemegt Formation, Mongolia". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 494: 121–134. Bibcode:2018PPP...494..121E. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.029. ISSN 0031-0182.
  16. Salih, Khalaf Allah O.; Evans, David C.; Bussert, Robert; Klein, Nicole; Nafi, Mutwakil; Müller, Johannes (2015-12-30). "First record ofHyposaurus(Dyrosauridae, Crocodyliformes) from the Upper Cretaceous Shendi Formation of Sudan". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 36 (1): e1115408. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1115408. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 86299028.
  17. Klein, Nicole; Bussert, Robert; Evans, David; Salih, Khalaf Allah O.; Eisawi, Ali A. M.; Nafi, Mutwakil; Müller, Johannes (2016-02-22). "Turtle remains from the Wadi Milk Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Northern Sudan". Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments. 96 (2): 281–303. doi:10.1007/s12549-015-0225-9. ISSN 1867-1594. S2CID 131157664.
  18. Owusu Agyemang, Prince C.; Roberts, Eric M.; Bussert, Robert; Evans, David; Müller, Johannes (2019). "U-Pb detrital zircon constraints on the depositional age and provenance of the dinosaur-bearing Upper Cretaceous Wadi Milk formation of Sudan". Cretaceous Research. 97: 52–72. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.01.005. ISSN 0195-6671.
  19. Reisz, Robert R.; Scott, Diane; Sues, Hans-Dieter; Evans, David C.; Raath, Michael A. (2005-07-29). "Embryos of an Early Jurassic Prosauropod Dinosaur and Their Evolutionary Significance". Science. 309 (5735): 761–764. Bibcode:2005Sci...309..761R. doi:10.1126/science.1114942. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 16051793. S2CID 37548361.
  20. Reisz, Robert R.; Evans, David C.; Sues, Hans-Dieter; Scott, Diane (2010-12-02). "Embryonic skeletal anatomy of the sauropodomorph dinosaur Massospondylus from the Lower Jurassic of South Africa". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 30 (6): 1653–1665. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.521604. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 84599991.
  21. Reisz, R. R.; Evans, D. C.; Roberts, E. M.; Sues, H.-D.; Yates, A. M. (2012-01-24). "Oldest known dinosaurian nesting site and reproductive biology of the Early Jurassic sauropodomorph Massospondylus". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109 (7): 2428–2433. Bibcode:2012PNAS..109.2428R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1109385109. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 3289328. PMID 22308330.
  22. Maddin, Hillary C.; Evans, David C.; Reisz, Robert R. (2006-12-11). "An Early Permian varanodontine varanopid (Synapsida: Eupelycosauria) from the Richards Spur locality, Oklahoma". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26 (4): 957–966. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[957:aepvvs]2.0.co;2. ISSN 0272-4634.
  23. Evans, David C.; Maddin, Hillary C.; Reisz, Robert R. (2009). "A re-evaluation of sphenacodontid synapsid material from the Lower Permian fissure fills near Richards Spur, Oklahoma". Palaeontology. 52 (1): 219–227. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00837.x. ISSN 0031-0239.
  24. Brink, Kirstin S.; Maddin, Hillary C.; Evans, David C.; Reisz, Robert R. (2015). "Re-evaluation of the historic Canadian fossil Bathygnathus borealis from the Early Permian of Prince Edward Island". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 52 (12): 1109–1120. Bibcode:2015CaJES..52.1109B. doi:10.1139/cjes-2015-0100. ISSN 0008-4077.
  25. Maddin, Hillary C.; Fröbisch, Nadia B.; Evans, David C.; Milner, Andrew R. (2013). "Reappraisal of the Early Permian amphibamid Tersomius texensis and some referred material". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 12 (7–8): 447–461. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2013.06.007. ISSN 1631-0683.
  26. Reynolds, Ashley R.; Seymour, Kevin L.; Evans, David C. (2019). "Late Pleistocene records of felids from Medicine Hat, Alberta, including the first Canadian record of the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 56 (10): 1052–1060. Bibcode:2019CaJES..56.1052R. doi:10.1139/cjes-2018-0272. hdl:1807/96725. ISSN 0008-4077.
  27. Dudgeon, Thomas W.; Maddin, Hillary C.; Evans, David C.; Mallon, Jordan C. (2020-01-06). "Computed tomography analysis of the cranium of Champsosaurus lindoei and implications for choristoderan neomorphic ossification". Journal of Anatomy. 236 (4): 630–659. doi:10.1111/joa.13134. ISSN 0021-8782. PMC 7083570. PMID 31905243.
  28. Ryan, Michael J.; Evans, David C.; Shepherd, Kieran M. (2012-10-01). Sues, Hans (ed.). "A new ceratopsid from the Foremost Formation (middle Campanian) of Alberta". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 49 (10): 1251–1262. Bibcode:2012CaJES..49.1251R. doi:10.1139/e2012-056. ISSN 0008-4077.
  29. Ryan, Michael J.; Evans, David C.; Currie, Philip J.; Brown, Caleb M.; Brinkman, Don (2012). "New leptoceratopsids from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada". Cretaceous Research. 35: 69–80. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.11.018.
  30. Ryan, Michael J.; Evans, David C.; Currie, Philip J.; Loewen, Mark A. (2014). "A new chasmosaurine from northern Laramidia expands frill disparity in ceratopsid dinosaurs". Naturwissenschaften. 101 (6): 505–512. Bibcode:2014NW....101..505R. doi:10.1007/s00114-014-1183-1. ISSN 0028-1042. PMID 24859020. S2CID 13957187.
  31. Evans, David C.; Ryan, Michael J. (2015-07-08). "Cranial Anatomy of Wendiceratops pinhornensis gen. et sp. nov., a Centrosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Oldman Formation (Campanian), Alberta, Canada, and the Evolution of Ceratopsid Nasal Ornamentation". PLOS ONE. 10 (7): e0130007. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1030007E. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0130007. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4496092. PMID 26154293.
  32. Mallon, Jordan C.; Ott, Christopher J.; Larson, Peter L.; Iuliano, Edward M.; Evans, David C. (2016-05-18). "Spiclypeus shipporum gen. et sp. nov., a Boldly Audacious New Chasmosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian) of Montana, USA". PLOS ONE. 11 (5): e0154218. Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1154218M. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154218. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4871577. PMID 27191389.
  33. Arbour, Victoria M.; Evans, David C. (2019-11-07). "A new leptoceratopsid dinosaur from Maastrichtian-aged deposits of the Sustut Basin, northern British Columbia, Canada". PeerJ. 7: e7926. doi:10.7717/peerj.7926. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 6842559. PMID 31720103.
  34. Brown, Caleb Marshall; Evans, David C.; Ryan, Michael J.; Russell, Anthony P. (2013). "New data on the diversity and abundance of small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 33 (3): 495–520. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.746229. ISSN 0272-4634. S2CID 129160518.
  35. Tsogtbaatar, Khishigjav; Weishampel, David B.; Evans, David C.; Watabe, Mahito (2014). "A new hadrosauroid (Plesiohadros djadokhtaensis) from the Late Cretaceous Djadokhtan Fauna of southern Mongolia". Hadrosaurs. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 108–135.
  36. Tsogtbaatar, Khishigjav; Weishampel, David B.; Evans, David C.; Watabe, Mahito (2019-04-17). "A new hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous Baynshire Formation of the Gobi Desert (Mongolia)". PLOS ONE. 14 (4): e0208480. Bibcode:2019PLoSO..1408480T. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0208480. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 6469754. PMID 30995236.
  37. Evans, David C.; Schott, Ryan K.; Larson, Derek W.; Brown, Caleb M.; Ryan, Michael J. (2013). "The oldest North American pachycephalosaurid and the hidden diversity of small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs". Nature Communications. 4 (1): 1828. Bibcode:2013NatCo...4.1828E. doi:10.1038/ncomms2749. ISSN 2041-1723. PMID 23652016.
  38. Schott, Ryan K.; Evans, David C. (2016). "Cranial variation and systematics of Foraminacephale brevis gen. nov. and the diversity of pachycephalosaurid dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Cerapoda) in the Belly River Group of Alberta, Canada". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. doi:10.1111/zoj.12465.
  39. Evans, David C.; Larson, Derek W.; Currie, Philip J. (2013). "A new dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) with Asian affinities from the latest Cretaceous of North America". Naturwissenschaften. 100 (11): 1041–1049. Bibcode:2013NW....100.1041E. doi:10.1007/s00114-013-1107-5. ISSN 0028-1042. PMID 24248432. S2CID 14978813.
  40. Evans, David C.; Cullen, Thomas M.; Larson, Derek W.; Rego, Adam (2017). "A new species of troodontid theropod (Dinosauria: Maniraptora) from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation (Maastrichtian) of Alberta, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54 (8): 813–826. Bibcode:2017CaJES..54..813E. doi:10.1139/cjes-2017-0034. ISSN 0008-4077.
  41. Mann, Arjan; Rudkin, David; Evans, David C.; Laflamme, Marc (2017). "A large onychodontiform (Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii) apex predator from the Eifelian-aged Dundee Formation of Ontario, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 54 (3): 233–241. Bibcode:2017CaJES..54..233M. doi:10.1139/cjes-2016-0119. hdl:1807/75619. ISSN 0008-4077.
  42. Modesto, Sean P.; Scott, Diane M.; MacDougall, Mark J.; Sues, Hans-Dieter; Evans, David C.; Reisz, Robert R. (2015-02-22). "The oldest parareptile and the early diversification of reptiles". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282 (1801): 20141912. doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1912. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 4308993. PMID 25589601.
  43. Larson, Derek W.; Longrich, Nicholas R.; Evans, David C.; Ryan, Michael J. (2013), Brinkman, Donald B.; Holroyd, Patricia A.; Gardner, James D. (eds.), "A New Species of Neurankylus from the Milk River Formation (Cretaceous: Santonian) of Alberta, Canada, and a Revision of the Type Species N. eximius", Morphology and Evolution of Turtles, Springer Netherlands, pp. 389–405, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4309-0_21, ISBN 978-94-007-4308-3
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