David M. Raup
David M. Raup | |
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| Born | April 24, 1933 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | July 9, 2015 (aged 82) |
| Education | University of Chicago Harvard University |
| Awards | Charles Schuchert Award (1973) Paleontological Society Medal (1997) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Paleontology Paleobiology |
| Institutions | University of Chicago |
David M. Raup (April 24, 1933 – July 9, 2015) was an American paleontologist at the University of Chicago. Raup studied the fossil record and the diversity of life on Earth. Raup contributed to the knowledge of extinction events along with his colleague Jack Sepkoski. They suggested that the extinction of dinosaurs 66 mya was part of a cycle of mass extinctions that may have occurred every 26 million years.