Tyler R. Lyson

Tyler Lyson is curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where he is responsible for the fossil reptiles collection. His research focuses on the early origin and evolution of reptiles, particularly turtles, as well as the driver(s) and tempo of the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction and subsequent ecosystem recovery. He is working on projects in the Denver Basin in Colorado, Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana, and Karoo Basin in South Africa.
Lyson received his Ph.D. and M.A. in geology and paleontology from Yale University, and his B.A. from Swarthmore College. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History before joining the Denver Museum in 2014.