Sterling Nesbitt

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Sterling Nesbitt (born March 25, 1982, in Mesa, Arizona) is an American paleontologist best known for his work on the origin and early evolutionary patterns of archosaurs. He is currently an associate professor at Virginia Tech in the Department of Geosciences. [1]

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Biography

Sterling Nesbitt received his B.A. in integrative biology with a minor in geology from the University of California Berkeley in 2004. He received his PhD from Columbia University in 2009, completing the majority of his research at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. [2] He subsequently held postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Washington, and the Field Museum. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Geosciences at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He is also a research associate/affiliate of the American Museum of Natural History, the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab at The University of Texas at Austin, the Virginia Museum of Natural History, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and the National Museum of Natural History.

Nesbitt appears in the 2007 IMAX movie Dinosaurs Alive! and the re-worked 2008 version of Walking With Dinosaurs on the Discovery Channel.

Academic contributions

Nesbitt has over 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals with over 7,700 citations (per Google Scholar [3] ) and numerous papers in high-profile scientific journals, including Current Biology , Earth-Science Reviews , Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, Royal Society Open Science , Science, and Scientific Reports .

Below is a list of taxa that Nesbitt has contributed to naming:

YearTaxonAuthors
2024 Microzemiotes sonselaensis gen. et sp. nov.Burch, Eddins, Stocker, Kligman, Marsh, Parker, & Nesbitt [4]
2023 Samsarasuchus pamelae gen. et sp. nov.Ezcurra, Bandyopadhyay, Sengupta, Sen, Sennikov, Sookias, Nesbitt, & Butler [5]
2023 Mambachiton fiandohana gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Patellos, Kammerer, Ranivoharimanana, Wyss, & Flynn [6]
2022 Mbiresaurus raathi gen. et sp. nov.Griffin, Wynd, Munyikwa, Broderick, Zondo, Tolan, Langer, Nesbitt, & Taruvinga [7]
2022 Mambawakale ruhuhu gen. et sp. nov.Butler, Fernandez, Nesbitt, Leite, & Gower [8]
2022 Puercosuchus traverorum gen. et sp. nov.Marsh, Parker, Nesbitt, Kligman, & Stocker [9]
2021 Syntomiprosopus sucherorum gen. et sp. nov.Heckert, Nesbitt, Stocker, Schneider, Hoffman, & Zimmer [10]
2020 Kongonaphon kely gen. et sp. nov.Kammerer, Nesbitt, Flynn, Ranivoharimanana, & Wyss [11]
2020 Dynamosuchus collisensis gen. et sp. nov.Müller, Von Bacsko, Desoko, & Nesbitt [12]
2019 Suskityrannus hazelae gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Denton, Loewen, Brusatte, Smith, Turner, Kirkland, McDonald, & Wolfe [13]
2018 Mandasuchus tanyauchen gen. et sp. nov.Butler, Nesbitt, Charig, Gower, & Barrett [14]
2017 Avicranium renestoi gen. et sp. nov.Pritchard & Nesbitt [15]
2017 Teleocrater rhadinus gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt et al. [16]
2016 Litorosuchus somnii gen. et sp. nov.Li, Wu, Zhao, Nesbitt, Stocker, & Wang [17]
2016 Triopticus primus gen. et sp. nov.Stocker, Nesbitt, Criswell, Parker, Witmer, Rowe, Ridgely, & Brown [18]
2016 Vivaron haydeni gen. et sp. nov.Lessner, Stocker, Smith, Turner, Irmis, & Nesbitt [19]
2016 Calciavis grandei gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt & Clarke [20]
2015 Lepidus praecisio gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt & Ezcurra [21]
2015 Carnufex carolinensis gen. et sp. nov.Zanno, Drymala, Nesbitt, & Schneider [22]
2014 Nundasuchus songeaensis gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Sidor, Angielczyk, Smith, & Tsuji [23]
2013 Lutungutali sitwensis gen. et sp. nov.Peecook, Sidor, Nesbitt, Smith, Steyer, & Angielczyk [24]
2013 Asperoris mnyama gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Butler, & Gower [25]
2012 Nyasasaurus parringtoni gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Barrett, Werning, Sidor, & Charig [26]
2011 Diodorus scytobrachion gen. et sp. nov.Kammerer, Nesbitt, & Shubin [27]
2011 Albinykus baatar gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Clarke, Turner, & Norell [28]
2011 Daemonosaurus chauliodus gen. et sp. nov.Sues, Nesbitt, Berman, & Henrici [29]
2010 Azendohsaurus madagaskarensis sp. nov.Flynn, Nesbitt, Parrish, Ranivoharimanana, & Wyss [30]
2010 Aisilisaurus kongwe gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Sidor, Irmis, Angielczyk, Smith, & Tsuji [31]
2009 Limusaurus inextricabilis gen. et sp. nov.Xu et al. [32]
2009 Kol ghuva gen. et sp. nov.Turner, Nesbitt, & Norell [33]
2009 Tawa hallae gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Smith, Irmis, Turner, Downs, & Norell [34]
2007 Effigia okeeffeae gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt & Norell [35]
2005 Redondavenator quayensis gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt, Irmis, Lucas, & Hunt [36]
2004 Ammorhynchus navajoi gen. et sp. nov.Nesbitt & Whatley [37]

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  11. Kammerer, Christian F.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Flynn, John J.; Ranivoharimanana, Lovasoa; Wyss, André R. (2020-07-02). "A tiny ornithodiran archosaur from the Triassic of Madagascar and the role of miniaturization in dinosaur and pterosaur ancestry". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (30): 17932–17936. Bibcode:2020PNAS..11717932K. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1916631117 . ISSN   0027-8424. PMC   7395432 . PMID   32631980.
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  18. Stocker, Michelle R.; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Criswell, Katharine E.; Parker, William G.; Witmer, Lawrence M.; Rowe, Timothy B.; Ridgely, Ryan; Brown, Matthew A. (2016). "A Dome-Headed Stem Archosaur Exemplifies Convergence among Dinosaurs and Their Distant Relatives". Current Biology. 26 (19): 2674–2680. Bibcode:2016CBio...26.2674S. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.07.066 . ISSN   0960-9822. PMID   27666971.
  19. Lessner, Emily J.; Stocker, Michelle R.; Smith, Nathan D.; Turner, Alan H.; Irmis, Randall B.; Nesbitt, Sterling J. (2016-09-06). "A new rauisuchid (Archosauria, Pseudosuchia) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of New Mexico increases the diversity and temporal range of the clade". PeerJ. 4: e2336. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2336 . ISSN   2167-8359. PMC   5018681 . PMID   27651983.
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  21. Nesbitt, Sterling; Ezcurra, Martín (2015). "The early fossil record of dinosaurs in North America: A new neotheropod from the base of the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 60. doi: 10.4202/app.00143.2014 . ISSN   0567-7920.
  22. Zanno, Lindsay E.; Drymala, Susan; Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Schneider, Vincent P. (2015-03-19). "Early crocodylomorph increases top tier predator diversity during rise of dinosaurs". Scientific Reports. 5 (1): 9276. Bibcode:2015NatSR...5E9276Z. doi:10.1038/srep09276. ISSN   2045-2322. PMC   4365386 . PMID   25787306.
  23. Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Sidor, Christian A.; Angielczyk, Kenneth D.; Smith, Roger M. H.; Tsuji, Linda A. (2014-09-19). "A new archosaur from the Manda beds (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of southern Tanzania and its implications for character state optimizations at Archosauria and Pseudosuchia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (6): 1357–1382. Bibcode:2014JVPal..34.1357N. doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.859622. ISSN   0272-4634. S2CID   129558756.
  24. Peecook, R; Sidor, A; Nesbitt, J; Smith, M; Steyer, S; Anigelczyck, D (2014). "A New Silesaurid from the Upper Ntawere Formation of Zambia (Middle Triassic) Demonstrates the Rapid Diversification of Silesauridae (Avemetatarsalia, Dinosauriformes) (project)". doi:10.7934/p1046.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  25. Nesbitt, Sterling J.; Butler, Richard J.; Gower, David J. (2013-09-27). "A New Archosauriform (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Manda Beds (Middle Triassic) of Southwestern Tanzania". PLOS ONE. 8 (9): e72753. Bibcode:2013PLoSO...872753N. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072753 . ISSN   1932-6203. PMC   3785487 . PMID   24086264.
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