Cyril Walker (palaeontologist)

Cyril Alexander Walker (1939–6 May 2009) was a British palaeontologist, curator of fossil birds in the Natural History Museum. He was also interested in fossil turtles.^[1]

Walker joined the Museum in 1958 and spent his entire career there, becoming curator in 1985.^[1]

Walker's most noteworthy finding was his recognition of a new subclass of fossils birds, the Enantiornithes.^[1]

Together with David Ward, he co-authored a best selling^[2] book, Smithsonian Handbook of Fossils. He has also contributed to many other books, including Garden Birds^[3], Field Guide to British Birds, Birds of the World, Nature Notebooks,^[4] and others.^[5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Former NHM Curator Cyril Walker Passed Away May 6 ", an obituary at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology website
2. ^ "Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter", by Mark Renz, p. viii
3. ^ [1]
4. ^ From the synopsis of the book, Cyril Walker, David Ward Fossils : Smithsonian Handbook, ISBN 0789489848 (2002, paperback, revisited), ISBN 1564580741 (1992, 1st edition)
5. ^ [2]

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Name	Walker, Cyril
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Date of birth	1939
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Date of death	2009
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