Tom Rich

Thomas Rich (born c. 1940), generally known as Tom Rich, is an Australian palaeontologist. He is, as of 2019, Senior Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at Museums Victoria.
Personal life.
Rich is married to palaeontologist Patricia Arlene Vickers-Rich. Together the couple described the dinosaur genera "Leaellynasaura" and "Timimus", naming them after their daughter and son, Leaellyn and Tim Rich, respectively.
Thomas Rich is also honoured in the epithet of the ancient thylacinid species "Nimbacinus richi".