Richard John Aldridge (16 December 1945 – 4 February 2014) was a British palaeontologist and academic, who was Bennett Professor of Geology at the University of Leicester.
He then joined the University of Nottingham where he remained until 1989, having reached the rank of Reader in Palaeontology.
Following the Oxburgh Review of Earth Sciences, he moved to the University of Leicester.
[1] Aldridge's research has been focused primarily on the conodont biostratigraphy[3][4] and palaeobiology and one of his seminal contributions has been to uncover the vertebrate nature of the long-enigmatic conodont animal, principally in collaboration with Derek Briggs and Euan Clarkson.
[5][6][7] This led naturally to Aldridge's later research focus which was fossil Lagerstätten.