Susannah Maidment Explained

Susannah Maidment
Other Names:Susie Maidment
Workplaces:Natural History Museum, London
University of Birmingham
Alma Mater:Imperial College London
University of Cambridge

Susannah "Susie" Catherine Rose Maidment is a British palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum, London.[1] She is also an honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham. She is internationally recognised for her research on ornithischian dinosaur evolution, and was awarded the 2016 Hodson Award[2] of the Palaeontological Association and the 2017 Lyell Fund of the Geological Society of London.[3] She was featured as a 2019 National Geographic Women of Impact.[4]

Education and career

Maidment studied geology at Imperial College London, graduating with an MSc in 2003. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2007, in which she studied the systematics of the dinosaur group Stegosauria.[5] [6] Her research was supervised by David Norman and Paul Upchurch.[7] Following time working as an exploration geologist in Vietnam, she moved in 2009 to work with Paul Barrett at the Natural History Museum, London, as a postdoctoral researcher co-investigator on a NERC-funded project[8] on ornithischian dinosaur locomotion.[9] [10]

In 2012 she returned to Imperial College London as a Research Fellow, before moving in 2016 to the University of Brighton as a Senior Lecturer. In 2018 she re-joined the Natural History Museum, where she works as a senior researcher. She is an honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham.[11]

Research

Maidment has published more than 50 scientific papers, primarily focused on the systematics, evolution and palaeobiology of ornithischian dinosaurs.[12] She has worked extensively on stegosaurs, and is considered the world leader on this group. Her contributions have included overall revisions of the systematics of the group,[13] [14] the description of the Portuguese stegosaur Miragaia,[15] the description of the oldest known stegosaur, Adratiklit, from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco,[16] [17] the oldest known ankylosaurian Spicomellus, also from Morocco,[18] anatomical and systematic revisions of Chinese stegosaurs,[19] [20] and work on the postcranial skeleton and body mass of Stegosaurus.[21] [22] [23] She has also published several papers on locomotion and the evolution of quadrupedality in ornithischian dinosaurs.[24]

In 2015, she was part of a team who reported evidence of original collagen fibres and blood cells in Cretaceous dinosaur specimens.[25] [26] [27] Her most recent research has focused on the stratigraphy of the Morrison Formation of the Western United States.[28] [29] She was one of the lead scientists for the "Mission Jurassic" dinosaur excavation project that began in 2019.[30] [31]

In 2023, she was scientific advisor for the tv series Prehistoric Planet.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dr Susannah Maidment Natural History Museum. www.nhm.ac.uk. 2018-10-09.
  2. Web site: Medal and Award Winners List The Palaeontological Association. www.palass.org. 2018-10-09.
  3. Web site: Dinosaur expert's double award. 10 May 2017.
  4. Web site: Women of Impact. @NatGeoUK. 2019-10-28. National Geographic. en-gb. 2019-12-02.
  5. Hodson Award: Dr Susannah C. R. Maidment. The Palaeontology Newsletter. 94. 12.
  6. Maidment. S.C.R.. Norman. D.B.. Barrett. P.M.. Upchurch. P. 2008. Systematics and phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria: Ornithischia). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6. 4. 367–407. 10.1017/S1477201908002459. 85673680.
  7. Web site: Dr David Norman — Department of Earth Sciences. www.esc.cam.ac.uk. 28 January 2015. 2018-10-09.
  8. Web site: GOTW - Grants on the Web. gotw.nerc.ac.uk. 2018-10-09.
  9. Maidment. S.C.R.. Bates. K.T.. Falkingham. P.L.. VanBuren. C.. Arbour. V.. Barrett. P.M.. 2013. Locomotion in ornithischian dinosaurs: an assessment using three-dimensional computational modelling. Biological Reviews. 89. 3. 588–617. 10.1111/brv.12071. 24251809. 2499006. 1464-7931. free.
  10. Maidment. S.C.R.. Barrett. P.M.. 2012. Does morphological convergence imply functional similarity? A test using the evolution of quadrupedalism in ornithischian dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences. 279. 1743. 3765–3771. 10.1098/rspb.2012.1040. 0962-8452. 3415913. 22719033.
  11. Web site: Vertebrate Palaeontology - Palaeobiology theme - Geosystems research - University of Birmingham. www.birmingham.ac.uk. 2019-07-28.
  12. Web site: Susannah Maidment - Google Scholar Citations. scholar.google.co.uk. 2018-10-09.
  13. Raven. T.J.. Maidment. S.C.R.. 2017. A new phylogeny of Stegosauria (Dinosauria, Ornithischia). Palaeontology. 60. 3. 401–408. 10.1111/pala.12291. 10044/1/45349. 55613546 . free.
  14. Maidment. S.C.R.. 2010. Stegosauria: a historical review of the body fossil record and phylogenetic relationships. Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 103. 2. 199–210. 10.1007/s00015-010-0023-3. 84415016.
  15. Mateus. O.. Maidment. S.C.R.. Christiansen. N.A.. 2009. A new long-necked 'sauropod-mimic'stegosaur and the evolution of the plated dinosaurs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 276. 1663. 1815–1821. 10.1098/rspb.2008.1909. 19324778. 2674496.
  16. Maidment. S. C. R.. Raven. T. J.. Ouarhache. D.. Barrett. P. M.. 2019. North Africa's first stegosaur: Implications for Gondwanan thyreophoran dinosaur diversity. Gondwana Research. 77. 82–97. 10.1016/j.gr.2019.07.007. 1342-937X. free. 10141/622706. free.
  17. Web site: The oldest stegosaur ever has been discovered in Morocco. www.nhm.ac.uk. en. 2019-08-20.
  18. Maidment. Susannah C. R.. Strachan. Sarah J.. Ouarhache. Driss. Scheyer. Torsten M.. Brown. Emily E.. Fernandez. Vincent. Johanson. Zerina. Raven. Thomas J.. Barrett. Paul M.. 2021-09-23. Bizarre dermal armour suggests the first African ankylosaur. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 5 . 12 . en. 1576–1581. 10.1038/s41559-021-01553-6. 34556830 . 237616095 . 2397-334X.
  19. Maidment. S.C.R.. Wei. G.. 2006. A review of the Late Jurassic stegosaurs (Dinosauria, Stegosauria) from the People's Republic of China. Geological Magazine. 143. 5. 621–634. 10.1017/S0016756806002500. 2006GeoM..143..621M. 83661067.
  20. Maidment. S.C.R.. Wei. G.. Norman. D.B.. 2006. Re-description of the postcranial skeleton of the middle Jurassic stegosaur Huayangosaurus taibaii. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 26. 4. 944–956. 10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[944:ROTPSO]2.0.CO;2. 85750667 .
  21. Maidment. S.C.R.. Brassey. C.. Barrett. P.M.. 2015. The Postcranial Skeleton of an Exceptionally Complete Individual of the Plated Dinosaur Stegosaurus stenops (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Wyoming, U.S.A.. PLOS ONE. 10. 10. e0138352. 10.1371/journal.pone.0138352. 26466098. 4605687. 2015PLoSO..1038352M. free.
  22. Brassey. C. Maidment. S.C.R.. Barrett. P.M.. 2015. Body mass estimates of an exceptionally complete Stegosaurus (Ornithischia: Thyreophora): comparing volumetric and linear bivariate mass estimation methods. Biology Letters. 11. 3. 20140984. 25740841. 4387493. 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0984.
  23. News: Scientists reveal the body weight of the world's most complete Stegosaurus Imperial News Imperial College London. Imperial News. 2018-10-09.
  24. Maidment. S.C.R.. Linton. D.H.. Upchurch. P.. Barrett. P.M.. 2012. Limb-Bone Scaling Indicates Diverse Stance and Gait in Quadrupedal Ornithischian Dinosaurs. PLOS ONE. 7. 5. e36904. 10.1371/journal.pone.0036904. 1932-6203. 3358279. 22666333. 2012PLoSO...736904M. free.
  25. Bertazzo. S.. Maidment. S.C.R.. Kallepitis. C.. Fearn. S.. Stevens. M.M.. Xie. H.-N.. 2015. Fibres and cellular structures preserved in 75-million–year-old dinosaur specimens. Nature Communications. 6. 7352. 26056764. 4468865. 10.1038/ncomms8352. 2015NatCo...6.7352B.
  26. News: 'Blood cells' found in dino fossils. Rincon. Paul. 2015-06-09. BBC News. 2018-10-09.
  27. News: 75-million-year-old dinosaur blood and collagen discovered in fossil fragments. Sample. Ian. 2015-06-09. The Guardian. 2018-10-09.
  28. 2019-08-15. To date a dinosaur. Knowable Magazine. 10.1146/knowable-081419-1. Poppick. Laura. 202435890 . free.
  29. Maidment. S. C. R.. Muxworthy. A.. 2019. A chronostratigraphic framework for the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, western U.S.A.. Journal of Sedimentary Research. en. 89. 10. 1017–1038. 10.2110/jsr.2019.54. 1527-1404. 2019JSedR..89.1017M. 10141/622707. 210343715 . free.
  30. Web site: Mission Jurassic excavation Natural History Museum. www.nhm.ac.uk. en. 2019-05-04.
  31. Web site: Mission Jurassic: Searching for dinosaur bones. BBC News. 2019-08-15.

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