RIP Jennifer Clack and Robert L. Carroll

[lpetrich]

 Jenny Clack - Jennifer Alice Agnew Clack (3 November 1947 – 26 March 2020)

She was a vertebrate paleontologist who discovered the early tetrapods Acanthostega and Ichthyostega in an expedition in Greenland in 1987. These were real-life "Darwin Fish", essentially lobe-finned fish with the side fins turned into legs.

She wrote a popularization of this research: "Gaining Ground: the Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods" (2002)

 Robert L. Carroll (May 5, 1938–April 8, 2020)

He was a vertebrate paleontologist who specialized in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles.

 

[bilby]

 Jenny Clack - Jennifer Alice Agnew Clack (3 November 1947 – 26 March 2020)

She was a vertebrate paleontologist who discovered the early tetrapods Acanthostega and Ichthyostega in an expedition in Greenland in 1987. These were real-life "Darwin Fish", essentially lobe-finned fish with the side fins turned into legs.

She wrote a popularization of this research: "Gaining Ground: the Origin and Early Evolution of Tetrapods" (2002)

 Robert L. Carroll (May 5, 1938–April 8, 2020)

He was a vertebrate paleontologist who specialized in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles.

More specifically, both were mammalian paleontologists. Indeed, we can go so far as to suggest that both were human paleontologists. I am not aware of any non-human (much less invertebrate) paleontologists, so I find it odd that their status as vertebrates needed to be made explicit.

 

[lpetrich]

Then what is an invertebrate paleontologist?

 

[Keith&Co.]

Then what is an invertebrate paleontologist?

One without the fortitude to challenge the currently accepted theories even with countering evidence.