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<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading mw-first-heading"><span class="mw-page-title-main">David Fastovsky</span></h1>
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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>David E. Fastovsky</b> (* <a href="18._Dezember" title="18. Dezember">18. Dezember</a> <a href="1954" title="1954">1954</a>) ist ein <a href="Vereinigte_Staaten" title="Vereinigte Staaten">US-amerikanischer</a> Wirbeltier-<a href="Pal%C3%A4ontologe" class="mw-redirect" title="Paläontologe">Paläontologe</a>, der sich mit <a href="Dinosaurier" title="Dinosaurier">Dinosauriern</a> befasst.
</p><p>Fastovsky studierte Biologie am <a href="Reed_College" title="Reed College">Reed College</a>, Paläontologie an der <a href="University_of_California%2C_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California, Berkeley</a> mit dem Master-Abschluss und wurde 1985 an der <a href="University_of_Wisconsin%E2%80%93Madison" title="University of Wisconsin–Madison">University of Wisconsin–Madison</a> promoviert. Er ist Professor an der <a href="University_of_Rhode_Island" title="University of Rhode Island">University of Rhode Island</a>.
</p><p>Er untersuchte unter anderem das <a href="Aussterben" title="Aussterben">Aussterben</a> der Dinosaurier an der Wende Kreide-Tertiär in der <a href="Hell-Creek-Formation" title="Hell-Creek-Formation">Hell-Creek-Formation</a> in <a href="Montana" title="Montana">Montana</a> und <a href="North_Dakota" title="North Dakota">North Dakota</a> und folgerte auf ein abruptes Aussterben.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Außer in den USA grub er auch in <a href="Mexiko" title="Mexiko">Mexiko</a> aus und in der <a href="Mongolei" title="Mongolei">Mongolei</a>. Dort fand er ein 70 Millionen Jahre altes Nest mit 15 jungen <a href="Protoceratops" title="Protoceratops">Protoceratops</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Es war das erste Nest von Protoceratops, das gefunden wurde.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Schriften">Schriften</h2></div>
<ul><li>mit <a href="David_Weishampel" class="mw-redirect" title="David Weishampel">David Weishampel</a>: <i>The evolution and extinctions of Dinosaurs</i>, Cambridge University Press, 1996, 2. Auflage 2005</li>
<li>mit Weishampel: <i>Dinosaurs: a concise natural history</i>, Cambridge University Press, 2. Auflage 2012</li>
<li><i>Dinosaur Ecology</i> (mit Joshua B. Smith), <i>Dinosauria Extinction</i> (mit J. David Archibald), in: Weishampel, Osmolska, Dodson: <i><a href="The_Dinosauria" title="The Dinosauria">The Dinosauria</a></i>, University of California Press, 2. Auflage 2004</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cels.uri.edu/geo/GEO_ProfileView.aspx?id=8">Homepage</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">P. M. Sheehan, Fastovsky, R. G. Hoffmann, C. B. Berghaus, D. L. Gabriel: <i>Sudden extinction of the dinosaurs: latest Cretaceous, upper Great Plains, USA</i>, Science 254, 1991, S. 835–839</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://earthsky.org/earth/large-nest-of-fossilized-baby-dinosaurs-found-in-mongolia">Fossilized nest of 15 baby dinosaurs found in Mongolia, Earthsky, 23. November 2011</a></span>
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