Robert "Bob" Lynn Carroll CM FRSC (May 5, 1938 – April 7, 2020) was an American–Canadian vertebrate paleontologist who specialised in Paleozoic and Mesozoic amphibians and reptiles.
In that same year he received as a Christmas present the left femur of an Allosaurus, courtesy of Edwin H. Colbert, whom his father had told about his interest.
[8][9][10] After obtaining his Ph.D., Carroll held a National Research Council (NRC) postdoctoral fellowship at Redpath Museum at McGill University in Montreal (1962-1963), and then a National Science Foundation (NSF) postdoctoral position at the Natural History Museum in London.
[1] During this time, he studied tetrapod remains from the Pennsylvanian lycopod “tree stumps” at Joggins, Nova Scotia (a variety of temnospondyls, microsaurs, and basal amniotes).
Most of this material was collected and first studied by Sir William Dawson, the first Principal of McGill University, in the nineteenth century.
[12] He was survived by his wife, Anna Di Turi, a retired business school teacher, and his one child, David and granddaughter Juliette.