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Hans-Dieter Sues

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The photograph shows Hans-Dieter Sues with the cast of a reconstructed skull of Brontosaurus at the Smithsonian.
Hans Sues with a cast of a Brontosaurus skull at the Smithsonian

Hans-Dieter Sues (Rheydt, 1956) is a German-born American palaeontologist who is Senior Scientist and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

He received his education at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (University of Mainz), University of Alberta, and Harvard University (Ph.D., 1984). Before assuming his present position, Sues worked as Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology and as Vice-President for Collections and Research at the Royal Ontario Museum and Professor of Zoology at the University of Toronto and as Associate Director for Research and Collections at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.

He is interested in the diversity, palaeoecology, and evolutionary history of Paleozoic and Mesozoic tetrapods, especially archosaurian reptiles and cynodont therapsids, and the history of biology and palaeontology. Sues has discovered numerous new dinosaurs and other extinct terrestrial vertebrates in Paleozoic and Mesozoic continental strata in North America and Europe.

He has authored or co-authored over 150 articles and book chapters on vertebrate paleontology and paleoecology. Sues has written The Rise of Reptiles (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) and Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition (with N. C. Fraser; Columbia University Press, 2010). He has edited Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000) and co-edited Terrestrial Ecosystems through Time (with A. K. Behrensmeyer et al.; Univ. of Chicago Press, 1992), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods (with N. C. Fraser; Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994), Major Transitions in Vertebrate Evolution (with J. S. Anderson; Indiana Univ. Press, 2007), and Terrestrial Conservation Lagerstätten: Windows into the Evolution of Life on Land (with N. C. Fraser; Dunedin Academic Press, 2017). He is also active in promoting the value of natural history collections for addressing major questions in current science.

Sues was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2003 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1998.[1][2] The pachycephalosaur Hanssuesia is named for him.

Below is a list of taxa that Sues has contributed to naming:

Year Taxon Authors
2024 Wirtembergia hauboldae gen. et sp. nov. Sues & Schoch[3]
2023 Rutiotomodon tytthos gen. et sp. nov. Sues & Schoch[4]
2023 Melanedaphodon hovaneci gen. et sp. nov. Mann, Henrici, Sues, & Pierce[5]
2020 Polymorphodon adorfi gen. et sp. nov. Sues, Schoch, Sobral, & Irmis[6]
2020 Vinitasaura lizae gen. et sp. nov. Sues & Kligman[7]
2019 Hassiacoscutum munki gen. et sp. nov. Witzman, Sues, Kammerer, & Fröbisch[8]
2008 Postosuchus alisonae sp. nov. Peyer, Carter, Sues, Novak, & Olsen[9]
2003 Teraterpeton hrynewichorum gen. et sp. nov. Sues[10]
2001 Sauropareion anoplus gen. et sp. nov. Modesto, Sues, & Damiani[11]
1999 Plinthogomphodon herpetairus gen. et sp. nov. Sues, Olsen, & Carter[12]
1992 Euscolosuchus olseni gen. et sp. nov. Sues[13]
1986 Dinnebitodon amarali gen. et sp. nov. Sues[14]
1978 Saurornitholestes langstoni gen. et sp. nov. Sues[15]

Selected works

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  • Sues, Hans-Dieter; Fraser, Nicholas C. (2010). Triassic life on land: the great transition. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231135221.
  • Sues, Hans-Dieter (2019). The rise of reptiles: 320 million years of evolution. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1421428673.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Who's Who in Canada. Univ. of Toronto Press, Toronto, 1997-present.
  2. ^ "HTTP 404: The webpage cannot be found: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History". Archived from the original on 2015-12-23. Retrieved 2009-07-03.
  3. ^ Sues, Hans‐Dieter; Schoch, Rainer R. (April 2024). "The oldest known rhynchocephalian reptile from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Germany and its phylogenetic position among Lepidosauromorpha". The Anatomical Record. 307 (4): 776–790. doi:10.1002/ar.25339. ISSN 1932-8486. Retrieved 2 February 2025 – via Wiley Online Library.
  4. ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter; Schoch, Rainer R. (22 March 2023). "A new Middle Triassic (Ladinian) trilophosaurid stem-archosaur from Germany increases diversity and temporal range of this clade". Royal Society Open Science. 10 (3). doi:10.1098/rsos.230083. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 10031418. PMID 36968237.
  5. ^ Mann, Arjan; Henrici, Amy C.; Sues, Hans-Dieter; Pierce, Stephanie E. (5 April 2023). "A new Carboniferous edaphosaurid and the origin of herbivory in mammal forerunners". Scientific Reports. 13 (1): 4459. doi:10.1038/s41598-023-30626-8. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 10076360. PMID 37019927.
  6. ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter; Schoch, Rainer R.; Sobral, Gabriela; Irmis, Randall B. (2 January 2020). "A new archosauriform reptile with distinctive teeth from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Germany". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (1): e1764968. Bibcode:2020JVPal..40E4968S. doi:10.1080/02724634.2020.1764968. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 8 January 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  7. ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter; Kligman, Ben T. (10 December 2020). "A new lizard-like reptile from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of Virginia and the Triassic record of Lepidosauromorpha (Diapsida, Sauria)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 40 (6): e1879102. doi:10.1080/02724634.2021.1879102. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 1 February 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  8. ^ Witzmann, Florian; Sues, Hans-Dieter; Kammerer, Christian F.; Fröbisch, Jörg (4 July 2019). "A new bystrowianid from the upper Permian of Germany: first record of a Permian chroniosuchian (Tetrapoda) outside Russia and China". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39 (4): e1667366. doi:10.1080/02724634.2019.1667366. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 2 February 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  9. ^ Peyer, Karin; Carter, Joseph G.; Sues, Hans-Dieter; Novak, Stephanie E.; Olsen, Paul E. (12 June 2008). "A new suchian archosaur from the Upper Triassic of North Carolina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 28 (2): 363–381. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2008)28[363:ANSAFT]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 8 January 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  10. ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter (1 April 2003). "An unusual new archosauromorph reptile from the Upper Triassic Wolfville Formation of Nova Scotia". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 40 (4): 635–649. doi:10.1139/e02-048. ISSN 0008-4077. Retrieved 1 February 2025 – via Canadian Science Publishing.
  11. ^ Modesto, Sean; Sues, Hans-Dieter; Damiani, Ross (7 October 2001). "A new Triassic procolophonoid reptile and its implications for procolophonoid survivorship during the Permo-Triassic extinction event". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences. 268 (1480): 2047–2052. doi:10.1098/rspb.2001.1766. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 1088847. PMID 11571052.
  12. ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter; Olsen, Paul E.; Carter, Joseph G. (14 June 1999). "A Late Triassic traversodont cynodont from the Newark Supergroup of North Carolina". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 19 (2): 351–354. doi:10.1080/02724634.1999.10011146. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 8 January 2025 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  13. ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter (10 June 1992). "A remarkable new armored archosaur from the Upper Triassic of Virginia". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 12 (2): 142–149. doi:10.1080/02724634.1992.10011444. ISSN 0272-4634. Retrieved 29 December 2024 – via Taylor and Francis Online.
  14. ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter (May 1986). "Dinnebitodon amarali , a new tritylodontid (Synapsida) from the Lower Jurassic of western North America". Journal of Paleontology. 60 (3): 758–762. doi:10.1017/S0022336000022277. ISSN 0022-3360. Retrieved 11 January 2025 – via Cambridge Core.
  15. ^ Sues, Hans-Dieter (April 1978). "A new small theropod dinosaur from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Alberta Canada". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 62 (4): 381–400. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1978.tb01049.x. Retrieved 10 January 2025 – via Oxford Academic.
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