Marcus R. Ross

Marcus R. Ross
Born1976 (age 47–48)
Alma materPennsylvania State University (BS)
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (MS)
University of Rhode Island (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsGeosciences
InstitutionsLiberty University
Discovery Institute

Marcus R. Ross (born 1976) is an American young earth creationist and vertebrate paleontologist. Ross was featured in a February 2007 New York Times article about the conflict between his young Earth creationist beliefs (which hold the Earth to be only thousands of years old) and his doctoral dissertation (which involved animals extinct for millions of years). His dissertation was on tracking the diversity, biostratigraphy, and extinction of mosasaurs, an extinct group of marine reptiles whose remains are found in Late Cretaceous period (100–66 Ma) deposits around the world.[1][2]

  1. ^ "The Cambrian Explosion" Video Study Kit Archived 2007-10-27 at the Wayback Machine, Access Research Network. Accessed 19 October 2007.
  2. ^ Marcus R. Ross (2006). "Richness trends of mosasaurs (diapsida, squamata) during the late Cretaceous". University of Rhode Island. Retrieved 15 Dec 2020.