Eamon N. Doyle

Not to be confused with the Irish photographer and music producer Eamonn Doyle, or the American singer, Eamon (Doyle).

Eamon Doyle is an Irish scientist, science promoter, and painter, based in County Clare, where he is the official geologist for The Burren and the Cliffs of Moher, and the geopark[1] encompassing them. In 2017, a new species of brittle star, that he discovered in fossil form from 435 million years ago, Crepidosoma doyleii, was named after him[2][3] and he identified a further new species in 2019.[4]

  1. ^ "Burren and Cliffs of Moher Geopark - Meet the team". Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  2. ^ "435 million-year-old starfish discovered". BBC News. 22 January 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  3. ^ Moonan, Niall (19 January 2018). "Meet the 435million-year-old starfish which lived in an ancient ocean in Galway: Species, named after Dr Eamon Doyle, has remained unchanged for half a billion years". Retrieved 19 January 2018.
  4. ^ Donovan, S.K., Doyle, E.N. (February 2019). "Utility of crinoid columnals in palaeontology illustrated by a new species: Clare Shale Formation (Carboniferous), Doolin, County Clare, western Ireland". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 130 (6): 696–700. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2019.02.004. ISSN 0016-7878. are from a float block of the Clare Shale Formation (Bashkirian stage) at Fisherstreet Bay, Doolin, County Clare ... Heloambocolumnus (col.) harperi gen. et sp. nov.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)