Holman, J. Alan

J. Alan Homan was Curator Emeritus of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Michigan State University Museum, Emeritus Professor of Geology and Zoology at Michigan State University, and a museum associate at the University of Nebraska State Museum. Holman is considered the leading authority of New World fossil snakes and published more than 260 works in paleoherpetology, herpetology, and vertebrate paleontology. Al Holman died in August, 2006.