Home      Discussion      Topics      Dictionary      Almanac
Signup       Login
Ralph Molnar

Ralph Molnar

Overview
Ralph E. Molnar is a paleontologist who had been Curator of Mammals at the Queensland Museum
Queensland Museum
The Queensland Museum is a museum at South Bank in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The museum is funded by the State Government of Queensland.Two affiliate museums are in regional centres Toowoomba and Townsville.-History:...

 and more recently associated with the Museum of Northern Arizona. He is also a research associate at the Texas natural Science Centre. He co-authored descriptions of the dinosaurs Muttaburrasaurus
Muttaburrasaurus
Muttaburrasaurus is a genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur related to Camptosaurus and Iguanodon, from what is now northeastern Australia between 100 and 98 million years ago during the early Cretaceous Period...

, Kakuru
Kakuru
Kakuru is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period. It is believed to have been carnivorous, was bipedal and about 2.4 meters in length. It is known primarily from a single fossilized tibia, which, unusually, had been fossilized through a rare process in which the bone...

, Minmi
Minmi (dinosaur)
Minmi, named for Minmi Crossing, Australia , is a genus of small ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 119 to 113 million years ago. The type species, M...

and Ozraptor
Ozraptor
Ozraptor was an abelisaurian dinosaur that lived during the Middle Jurassic period of Australia. Only known from one partial leg bone, Ozraptor is difficult to classify. When first discovered in 1967, the bone was thought to belong to a turtle. Re-evaluation of the bone by Long and Molnar showed...

, as well as the mammal Steropodon
Steropodon
Steropodon galmani was a prehistoric species of monotreme, or egg-laying mammal, that lived during the middle Albian stage, in the Lower Cretaceous period...

.
Discussion
Ask a question about 'Ralph Molnar'
Start a new discussion about 'Ralph Molnar'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum
 
Encyclopedia
Ralph E. Molnar is a paleontologist who had been Curator of Mammals at the Queensland Museum
Queensland Museum
The Queensland Museum is a museum at South Bank in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The museum is funded by the State Government of Queensland.Two affiliate museums are in regional centres Toowoomba and Townsville.-History:...

 and more recently associated with the Museum of Northern Arizona. He is also a research associate at the Texas natural Science Centre. He co-authored descriptions of the dinosaurs Muttaburrasaurus
Muttaburrasaurus
Muttaburrasaurus is a genus of herbivorous ornithopod dinosaur related to Camptosaurus and Iguanodon, from what is now northeastern Australia between 100 and 98 million years ago during the early Cretaceous Period...

, Kakuru
Kakuru
Kakuru is a genus of theropod dinosaur from the early Cretaceous Period. It is believed to have been carnivorous, was bipedal and about 2.4 meters in length. It is known primarily from a single fossilized tibia, which, unusually, had been fossilized through a rare process in which the bone...

, Minmi
Minmi (dinosaur)
Minmi, named for Minmi Crossing, Australia , is a genus of small ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous Period, about 119 to 113 million years ago. The type species, M...

and Ozraptor
Ozraptor
Ozraptor was an abelisaurian dinosaur that lived during the Middle Jurassic period of Australia. Only known from one partial leg bone, Ozraptor is difficult to classify. When first discovered in 1967, the bone was thought to belong to a turtle. Re-evaluation of the bone by Long and Molnar showed...

, as well as the mammal Steropodon
Steropodon
Steropodon galmani was a prehistoric species of monotreme, or egg-laying mammal, that lived during the middle Albian stage, in the Lower Cretaceous period...

.