Mary Ruth Dawson

Mary Ruth Dawson (1931–2020)

Mary Ruth Dawson (1931–2020), U.S. Vertebrate Paleontologist

Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology (1972–2003), Curator Emeritus (2003–2020), Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, U.S.A.

Taxon names authored

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• 2 taxon names authored by Mary Ruth Dawson

Publications

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1989

• Black, C.C. & Dawson, M.R. (eds.) 1989. Papers on fossil rodents: in honor of Albert Elmer Wood. Science Series No. 33. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: Los Angeles. xxi + 192 p. Reference page. 

2007

• Dawson, M.R. & Harington, C.R. 2007. Boreameryx, an unusual new artiodactyl (Mammalia) from the Pliocene of Arctic Canada and endemism in Arctic fossil mammals. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 44(5): 585–592. DOI: 10.1139/e06-111 Reference page.