Cyril Walker
Cyril Alexander Walker (8 February 1939 – 6 May 2009) was a British palaeontologist, curator of fossil birds in the Natural History Museum. He was also interested in fossil turtles. Walker joined the Museum in 1958 and spent his entire career there, becoming curator in 1985.
Also recorded as Cyril Alexander Walker · Cyril A. Walker
Cyril Walker
- Born
- 1939 · London.
- Died
- 2009
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- paleontologist · ornithologist · writer
- Languages
- English
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Cyril Walker lived from 8 February 1939 to 6 May 2009 and was a “Paläontologe”.
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Cyril Walker was born on 8 February 1939. Cyril Walker died on 6 May 2009.
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Born at London in 1939, died in 2009.
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- 1."Former NHM Curator Cyril Walker Passed Away May 6 " , an obituary at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology website
- 2."Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter", by Mark Renz, p. viii
- 3.Proctor, Noble S. Garden Birds: How to Attract Birds to Your Garden. Rodale Press. 1986. 9780878575923.
- 4.From the synopsis of the book, Cyril Walker, David Ward Fossils : Smithsonian Handbook, (2002, paperback, revisited), (1992, 1st edition)
- 5.1. Boev, Z. 2018. A specimen of little bush moa Anomalopteryx didiformis (Owen, 1844), Emeidae Bonaparte, 1854 from the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia. – Historia naturalis bulgarica, 32: 3-5.
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