Bruce_Runnegar
Bruce Norman Runnegar (born 2 February 1941, Brisbane) is an Australian-born paleontologist and professor at UCLA. His research centers on using the fossil record to determine how, where, and when life originated and evolved. He has published on a wide variety of topics, including the phylogeny of molluscs,[1] Dickinsonia fossils and oxygen levels,[2] and molecular clock techniques.[3]
One of the earliest species of molluscs, Pojetaia runnegari, is named after him.[4]