Catherine Forster | |
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Nationality | American |
Fields | paleontology |
Institutions | George Washington University |
Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
Known for | dinosaur-bird evolution theories |
Catherine Ann Forster is an American paleontologist, taxonomist and expert in ornithopod evolution and Triceratops taxonomy. She is an associate professor of biology at George Washington University. She obtained a B.A. and B.S. from the University of Minnesota in 1982, followed by an M.Sc. in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Pennsylvania She is known in part for unique bird fossils she and her colleagues have found and described from Madagascar.