Robert l carroll biography of williams

When Robert L Carroll was born on 15 March 1897, in Texas, United States, his father, Felix Grundy Carroll, was 34 and his mother, Ella Wright, was 33. He had at least 4 sons and 3 daughters with Maudie Ethel Booe. He lived in Baylor, Texas, United States in 1935 and El Cajon Township, San Diego, California, United States in 1940. He died on 28 February 1973, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Greenwood Memorial Park, San Diego, San Diego, California, United States.

American–Canadian paleontologist (1938–2020)

Robert "Bob" Lynn CarrollCMFRSC (May 5, 1938 – April 7, 2020) was an American–Canadian vertebrate paleontologist who specialised in Paleozoic and Mesozoicamphibians and reptiles.^[1]

Biography

Carroll was an only child and grew up on a farm near Lansing, Michigan. He was introduced to paleontology by his father shortly after his fifth birthday, and by the time he was eight he had decided he wanted to be a vertebrate paleontologist. In that same year he received as a Christmas present the left femur of an Allosaurus, courtesy of Edwin H. Colbert, whom his father had told about his interest.^[2][3] In his teen years his parents took him on many fossil hunting trips to Wyoming and South Dakota.

After high-school, he went to Michigan State University, where he received a B.Sc. in 1959, majoring in Geology.^[3] From there he went to Harvard University where he studied biology and palaeontology under Alfred Sherwood Romer for his M.A. (1961) and Ph.D. degrees (1963); Carroll was Romer's last student.^[1][4] His doctoral thesis dealt with what is now known as Dissorophoidea, a group of Paleozoic amphibians that are often considered the closest rel

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