Michael J. Foote (born 1963) is a paleontologist and co-author, with Arnold I. Miller, of Principles of Paleontology (2006).[1]
He was awarded the Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society in 2000.[2] He is currently on the faculty at the University of Chicago, where he is Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology.[3]