Richard H. Tedford

Richard Hall Tedford
Richard Hall Tedford
Born	April 25, 1929; Encino, California
Died	July 15, 2011 (aged 82); Demarest, New Jersey
Education	Chemistry B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; Ph.D., 1959, University of California, Berkeley;
Known for	Curator Emeritus, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York City
	Scientific career
Fields	Paleontology

Richard Hall Tedford (April 25, 1929^[1] – July 15, 2011) was Curator Emeritus in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, having been named as curator in 1969.^[2]

Born in Encino, California, he received a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles with a major in chemistry and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1959.^[3]

Tedford was one of the foremost authorities on the evolution of Carnivores and had been working, often with Prof. Xiaoming Wang, on the fossil history of the Canidae establishing the basis on the evolutionary relationship of canids over the past 40 million years.^[3]

Tedford was a resident of Demarest, New Jersey at the time of his death on July 15, 2011, having earlier lived in nearby Cresskill. After suffering from colon cancer, his death followed a skull fracture that resulted from an accidental fall in his home.^[3]

For his work on tertiary mammals uncovered at the Australian Fossil Mammal Sites (Riversleigh), he was commemorated in the epithet of an Eocene microbat species Rhinonicteris tedfordi.^[4]

^ Richard H. Tedford Obituary at tributes.com. Accessed October 27, 2011.
^ Staff. "14 ARE APPOINTED AT MUSEUM HERE", The New York Times, August 13, 1969. Accessed July 22, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c Levin, Jay. "Richard H. Tedford, 82; paleontologist and author" Archived 2011-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, The Record (Bergen County), July 21, 2001. Accessed July 22, 2011. "Richard H. Tedford of Demarest, whose eminent, decades-long career as a vertebrate paleontologist took him on fossil explorations of Australia, China and the American West, died last Friday. He was 82."
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[1] Richard H. Tedford Obituary at tributes.com. Accessed October 27, 2011.

[2] Staff. "14 ARE APPOINTED AT MUSEUM HERE", The New York Times, August 13, 1969. Accessed July 22, 2011.

[RecordObit-3] Levin, Jay. "Richard H. Tedford, 82; paleontologist and author" Archived 2011-08-21 at the Wayback Machine, The Record (Bergen County), July 21, 2001. Accessed July 22, 2011. "Richard H. Tedford of Demarest, whose eminent, decades-long career as a vertebrate paleontologist took him on fossil explorations of Australia, China and the American West, died last Friday. He was 82."

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Richard Hall Tedford
Born	(1929-04-25)April 25, 1929 Encino, California
Died	July 15, 2011(2011-07-15) (aged 82) Demarest, New Jersey
Education	Chemistry B.A., University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D., 1959, University of California, Berkeley
Known for	Curator Emeritus, Department of Vertebrate Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York City
Scientific career
Fields	Paleontology