Canadian palaeontologist and evolutionary biologist
David Christopher Evans (born 1980)[1] is a Canadianpalaeontologist and evolutionary biologist who specializes in the evolution and paleobiology of Cretaceousdinosaurs in western North America. He received his B.Sc. from the University of British Columbia and his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.[2] 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)[3][4] 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.
David Evans was born in Ontario and raised in Kelowna, British Columbia.[2] 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).").[5] 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.[6] 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.[7] He is also the owner of a male Shiba Inu named Doug.
Evans has been featured in numerous documentaries, including the History Channel's 2015 documentary Dino Hunt Canada[58] and various episodes of Daily Planet and radio and TV interviews, as well as appeared in the TVOKids shows Now You Know, Canada Crew, Dino Dana & Dino Dan: Trek's Adventures. He has also appeared in Dino Dana: The Movie. On top of that, he has helped to develop several exhibits, including the traveling "Ultimate Dinosaurs" exhibit in 2012,[59] the permanent James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM),[60] and temporary exhibits at the ROM, including "Dinosaur Eggs & Babies: Remarkable Fossils from South Africa" (2014)[61] and "Zuul, Life of an Armoured Dinosaur" (2018-2019).[62] Evans has also served on numerous committees of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and the Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
^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. ISSN0272-4634. S2CID86070917.
^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. ISSN0272-4634. S2CID85795794.
^ abEvans, 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. ISSN0008-4077.
^Lowi-Merri, Talia M.; Evans, David C. (2020-06-01). "Cranial variation in Gryposaurus and biostratigraphy of hadrosaurines (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 57 (6): 765–779. Bibcode:2020CaJES..57..765L. doi:10.1139/cjes-2019-0073. ISSN0008-4077. S2CID210619635.
^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. Bibcode:2011JVPal..31...84E. doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.546287. ISSN0272-4634. S2CID84908604.
^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. ISSN0031-0182.
^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. ISSN0272-4634. S2CID86299028.
^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. Bibcode:2016PdPe...96..281K. doi:10.1007/s12549-015-0225-9. ISSN1867-1594. S2CID131157664.
^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. Bibcode:2019CrRes..97...52O. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.01.005. ISSN0195-6671. S2CID134676587.
^ abSalih, Khalafallah O.; Evans, David C.; Bussert, Robert; Klein, Nicole; Mueller, Johannes (2021-07-07). "Brachiosuchus kababishensis , a new long-snouted dyrosaurid (Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous of north central Sudan". Historical Biology. 34 (5): 821–840. doi:10.1080/08912963.2021.1947513. ISSN0891-2963. S2CID237801202.
^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. Bibcode:2010JVPal..30.1653R. doi:10.1080/02724634.2010.521604. ISSN0272-4634. S2CID84599991.
^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. ISSN0272-4634. S2CID130455511.
^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. Bibcode:2013CRPal..12..447M. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2013.06.007. ISSN1631-0683.
^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. ISSN0008-4077. S2CID134586651.
^ abRyan, 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. Bibcode:2012CrRes..35...69R. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2011.11.018.
^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. Bibcode:2013JVPal..33..495B. doi:10.1080/02724634.2013.746229. ISSN0272-4634. S2CID129160518.
^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.
^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.
^Evans, David C.; Brown, Caleb M.; You, Hailu; Campione, Nicolás E. (2021). "Description and revised diagnosis of Asia's first recorded pachycephalosaurid, Sinocephale bexelli gen. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia, China". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 58 (10): 981–992. Bibcode:2021CaJES..58..981E. doi:10.1139/cjes-2020-0190. ISSN0008-4077. S2CID244227050.
^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. ISSN0008-4077.
^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, Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology, Springer Netherlands, pp. 389–405, doi:10.1007/978-94-007-4309-0_21, ISBN978-94-007-4308-3