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Dr.
Rinchen Barsbold (
Rinchyengiin Barsbold) is a
Mongolian
paleontologist and
geologist. He works with the Institute of Geology, at
Ulaanbaatar,
Mongolia. He is world-renowned and an acknowledged leader in
vertebrate paleontology and
Mesozoic stratigraphy.
He has been instrumental in the discovery and recovery of one of the largest
dinosaur collections in the world. His work has projected Mongolian paleontology into world prominence and helped to form a more modern understanding of the later stages of dinosaur evolution in
Eurasia.
He has become a leading authority on the
theropods of the
Gobi Desert, starting with his doctoral dissertation on these dinosaurs. As early as 1983, he noted that in different lineages of theropods, many features hitherto only known from
birds had evolved in various combinations (Barsbold 1983). He postulated that as a result of this "ornithization", one or several lineages of theropods that happened to acquire the proper combination of such traits went on to evolve into actual birds.
Only since the late 1990s, starting with the discovery of
feathered dinosaurs, can Barsbold's ideas be fully appreciated. When he published his conclusions - a list of generally rather obscure
anatomical features - in 1983, there was fairly little exchange between the Mongolian scientific community and that of Western countries. Moreover, Barsbold's early papers were usually published in
Russian, which few Western scientists have any fluency in, and in addition,
Evgeny Kurochkin - probably the leading specialist on bird paleontology in the then-Communist world - was critical of the theropod-bird link, working with and teaching mostly
Neozoic bird paleontology. Barsbold's theories initially had most impact among "dinosaur" paleontologists in Mongolia, the
USSR, and allied countries.
On the other hand, his influence on dinosaur paleontology in the Communist world was considerable. Barsbold's scientific work has, all in all, been a major factor for our analysis and interpretation of the novel Cretaceous theropods advancing as rapidly as it does.
The dinosaur
genera and
families named by Barsbold are, in alphabetical order:
Barsboldia (Maryanska et Osmolska, 1981) and
Rinchenia (Osmolska et al., 2004) were named to honour Rinchen Barsbold.
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