Gaffney, Eugene S.

Biographical Note

Eugene S. Gaffney (1942-) was appointed Assistant Curator of Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Birds in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History in 1970. In 1973, he became Associate Curator of the same department. Gaffney then became Curator Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Birds in 1980. He retired in 2007 as Curator Emeritus. He graduated from Rutgers University in 1965 and went on to get a PhD from Columbia University in 1969. He spent much of his early career teaching as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia. With over 100 citations in publications on turtle systematics and phylogeny, Gaffney is credited as being among the first to use cladistics in turtle research.

Selected Bibliography

Gaffney, Eugene S. and John D Dawson. Dinosaurs: A Golden Guide. New York: Golden Press, 1990.

Gaffney, Eugene S. Fossil Images : Personal Glimpses of Vertebrate Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History. Palo Alto: Mixbook, 2014.

Sources

Eugene S. Gaffney, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_S._Gaffney