Geier Center

Glenn W. Storrs, Ph.D., Yale University, 1986

Assistant Vice President for Natural History & Science and the Withrow Farny Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology

Dr. Glenn W. Storrs is Assistant Vice President for Natural History & Science and the Withrow Farny Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at Cincinnati Museum Center, and Adjunct Professor of Geology at the University of Cincinnati.  He formerly served as Director of Science Research at Cincinnati Museum Center (2001-2004). Dr. Storrs joined Museum Center in 1995 as Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology. He was promoted to Associate Curator in 1998, and appointed to a full curatorial chair in 2001. He administers the education, research, registration, preservation and conservation efforts and staff of the Museum of Natural History & Science at Cincinnati Museum Center.  These include programs at Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, the nearby Geier Collections and Research Center, The Richard and Lucile Durrell Edge of Appalachia Preserve System in Adams County, Ohio, and the Museum's Dinosaur Field School in Red Lodge, Montana. In his curatorial role, he oversees the Museum's fossil vertebrate research program and collections and is an international authority on the anatomy and evolution of fossil reptiles, particularly marine varieties.

Dr Storrs was born in Poughkeepsie, New York and educated at Syracuse University (B.S., 1979), The University of Texas at Austin (M.A., 1981), and Yale University (M.Phil., 1983; Ph.D., 1986). Before coming to Cincinnati, he was a Research Associate (later Visiting Senior Research Fellow) in the Department of Geology at the University of Bristol, England. 

Dr. Storrs is the author of many scientific papers, book chapters, and popular articles on fossil vertebrates, as well as two books for children.   He is an active member of The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, The Paleontological Society, The Geological Curators Group, The Systematics Association, and The Yellowstone - Bighorn Research Association.  Dr. Storrs was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London in 1993 and serves on numerous professional committees. 

Selected Publications

Benton, M.J., Juul, L., Storrs, G.W., & Galton, P.M., 2000, Anatomy and Systematics of the Prosauropod Dinosaur Thecodontosaurus Antiquus from the Upper Triassic of Southwest England, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(1):77–108.

Farlow, J.O., Sunderman, J.A., Havens, J.J., Swinehart, A.L., Holman, J.A., Richards, R.L., et al., 2000, The Pipe Creek Sinkhole Biota, a Diverse Late Tertiary Continental Fossil Assemblage from Grant County, Indiana, in American Midland Naturalist 145:367–378.

Garcia, W.J., Storrs, G.W., & Greb, S.F., 2006, The Hancock County Tetrapod Locality: A New Mississippian (Chesterian) Wetlands Fauna from Western Kentucky (USA), in Greb, S.F., and DiMichele, W.A., Wetlands through time: Geological Society of America Special Paper 399, p. 155–167.

Meyers, T.S. & Storrs, G.W., 2007, Taphonomy of the Mother's Day Quarry, Upper Jurassic Morrison formation, South-central Montana, USA, in PALAIOS, 2007, v. 22, p. 651–666.

Rieppel, O., Sander, P.M. & Storrs, G.W., 2002, The skull of the Pistosaur Augustasaurus from the Middle Triassic of Northwestern Nevada, in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):577-592.

Rothschild, B.M. & Storrs, G.W., 2003, Decompression Syndrome in Plesiosaurs (Sauropterygia: Reptilia), in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(2):324–328.

Sato, T. and Storrs, G.W., 2000, An Early Polycotylid Plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Cretaceous of Hokkaido, Japan, in Journal of Paleontology 74(5):907-914.

Spencer, P.S. & Storrs, G.W., 2002, A Re-evaluation of Small Tetrapods from the Middle Triassic Otter Sandstone Formation of Devon, England, in Palaeontology 45(3):447-467.

Storrs, G.W., 1994, Fossil Vertebrate Faunas of the British Rhaetian (Latest Triassic), in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 112:217-259.

Contact Information

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E-mail: storrsg@cincymuseum.org