Professor Emeritus AW "Fuzz" Crompton

The following is adapted from a talk given by Catherine at the International Paleontology Conference in Paris, France, on July 10, 2018: Tracing the shape of the pterygoid bone in the path leading to extant mammals reveals some intriguing stories about...

The following is adapted from a presentation given at the Los Angeles meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in October 2013 by Dr. AW Crompton. The aim of this presentation is to discuss the first appearance of ossified respiratory turbinates...

AW Crompton's 60 years of research into the origins of mammals have focused on the evolution of the head. He turned for many years to extant animals in order to understand the complex functions of chewing, swallowing, suckling and other aspects of oral...

Adapted from a presentation given in Greifswald, Germany in August, 2008 by AW Crompton.\ A ubiquitous feature of both placental and marsupial grazers and folivores, such as the goat and koala, is that during the power stroke of mastication the working...

The following is adapted from a presentation given at the Berlin meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in November 2014 by Dr. AW Crompton. Living reptiles lack pharyngeal muscles. This was probably also true for primitive synapsids, or...

From the description of Diarthrognathus (1958), and the discovery of Heterodontosaurus (1962) to studies of the evolution of mammalian suckling (2018, in press), respiration and endothermy (2017), and other aspects of mammal evolution, Crompton and his...