Robert J. Gay

Robert J. Gay
Robert Gay in June 2016
Education
Alma materUniversity of Arizona
Philosophical work
InstitutionsIdaho Museum of Natural History

Robert Joseph Gay is an American Paleontologist known for his work in the Chinle and Kayenta Formations in the southwest United States. He is known for his studies of cannibalism in Coelophysis and sexual dimorphism in Dilophosaurus, and his fieldwork in Bears Ears National Monument. In 2017, he and coauthors formally published their study on the oldest known dinosaur from Utah, a neotheropod that is likely an animal similar to Coelophysis. Robert Gay is currently the Curator of Education at the Idaho Museum of Natural History