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.

He would go on to take his PhD at UQ in 1967, under supervisor, Palaeozoic coral palaeontologist Professor Dorothy Hill.

In 1987, Runnegar took a position as Professor in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles.