Tom Rich

Thomas Rich (born c. 1940), generally known as Tom Rich, is an Australian palaeontologist. He is, as of 2019, Senior Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Museums Victoria.[1]

Education and career

    Career and professional positions

      Publications

        Personal life

        Rich is married to palaeontologist Patricia Arlene Vickers-Rich. Together the couple described the small herbivorous dinosaur Leaellynasaura, naming it after their daughter, Leaellyn Rich.

        Thomas Rich is also honoured in the epithet of the ancient thylacinid species Nimbacinus richi.[2]

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        gollark: They contain *wood*, which comes from *trees* (I mean, seriously?), some of them don't even have in-wall fibre optic/cat6 lines, they're excessively tightly coupled to local resources and not particularly mobile, they don't have convenient service ducts for extra cabling, there's no Prometheus metrics endpoint...
        gollark: I mean, current house design is just bad.
        gollark: If your coastal area becomes underwater, just shove the house on a house carrier truck and take it elsewhere.
        gollark: Anyway, the better solution is of course easily mobile houses.

        References
        1. "Dr Thomas Rich". Museums Victoria. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
        2. Murray, P.; Megirian, D. (2000). "Two New Genera and Three New Species of Thylacinidae (Marsupialia) from the Miocene of the Northern Territory, Australia". The Beagle : occasional papers of the Northern Territory Museum of Arts and Sciences. 16: 145–162.
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