New Mexico museum of Natural History and sciences, USA
Biography
Spencer G. Lucas received a B. A. from the University of New Mexico (1976) and a M. S. (1979) and Ph. D. (1984) from Yale University. As a paleontologist and stratigrapher, he specializes in the study of late Paleozoic, Mesozoic and early Cenozoic vertebrate fossils and continental deposits, particularly in the American Southwest. Lucas has extensive field experience in the western United States as well as in northern Mexico, Costa Rica, Kazakhstan, Nicaragua, Soviet Georgia and the People's Republic of China. He has published more than 1000 scientific articles, co-edited 14 books and authored three books.