Lance Grande (born February 16, 1951), U.S. biologist and paleoichthyologist.

Authored taxa

• 13 taxon names authored by Lance Grande (List may be incomplete)

plus:

• Acipenseristomi
• Aerugoamnis paulus
• Afairiguana
• Afairiguana avius
• Amia pattersoni
• Amiida
• Amiista
• Amiopsinae
• Amyzon gosiutensis
• Antarctiberyx
• Antarctiberyx seymouri
• Asterotrygon
• Asterotrygon maloneyi
• Asterotrygonidae
• Atractosteus messelensis
• Bechleja rostrata
• Calamopleurini
• Calamopleurus africanus
• Chandlerichthys
• Chandlerichthys strickeri
• Chimaera seymourensis
• Clupeomorpha Division 1
• Clueomorpha Division 2
• Cuneatini
• Cuneatus wileyi
• Cyrilavis colburnorum
• Ellimichthyidae
• Engraulis tethensis
• Eohiodon falcatus
• Eocypselus rowei
• Esox kronneri
• Gosiutichthys
• Gosiutichthys parvus
• Hiodon falcatus
• Hypsidoris oregonensis
• Hypsidoroidea
• Hypsidoridae
• Hypsiprisca
• Lepisosteus beamisi
• Masillosteinae
• Masillosteus janeae
• McConichthyidae
• McConichthys
• McConichthys longipinnis
• Notogoneus montanensis
• Obaichthys africanus
• Pachyamia mexicana
• Paleopsephurinae
• Paleopsephurini
• Paleoamphiuma
• Paleoamphiuma tetradactylum
• Peipiaosteoidei
• Polyodon tuberculate
• Polyodontinae
• Polyodonti
• Polyodontini
• Protopsephurinae
• Priscosturion
• Priscosturion longipinnus
• Psammorhynchinae
• Psammorhynchus longipinnus (=Priscosturion longipinnus)
• Pseudoscaphirhynchinae
• Psephurini
• Solnhofenamia
• Solnhofenamiinae
• Spherosteinae
• Stichopterinae
• Vadaravis
• Vadaravis brownae

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Grande, L. 1979 Eohiodon falcatus, a new species of hiodontid (Pisces) from the late Early Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology vol. 53: 103–111. Reference page. 

• Grande, L. 1982. A revision of the fossil genus †Diplomystus, with comments on the interrelationships of clupeomorph fishes. American Museum Novitates 2728: 1–34. PDF. Reference page. 

• Grande, L. 1982. A revision of the fossil genus †Knightia, with a description of a new genus from the Green River Formation (Teleostei, Clupeidae). American Museum Novitates 2731, pp. 1–22. Reference page.

• Grande, L. 1985. Recent and fossil clupeomorph fishes with materials for revision of the subgroups of clupeoids. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 181: 231–272. Reference page. 

• Grande, L. & G. Nelson 1985. Interrelationships of fossil and recent anchovies (Teleostei: Engrauloidea) and a description of a new species from the Miocene of Cyprus. American Museum Novitates 2826, pp. 1–16. Handle and PDF link. Reference page. 

• Grande, L. & Bemis, W.E. 1998. A comprehensive phylogenetic study of amiid fishes (Amiidae) based on comparative skeletal anatomy: an empirical search for interconnected patterns of natural history. Soc. Vert. Paleont. Mem. (Suppl. J. Vert. Paleont.) 4: 1–690. Reference page. 

• Grande, L. 2010. An empirical synthetic pattern study of gars (Lepisosteiformes) and closely related species, based mostly on skeletal anatomy. The resurrection of Holostei. Copeia 2A: 1–863. Abstract. Reference page. 

• Yabumoto, Y. & Grande, L. 2013. A New Miocene Amiid Fish, Amia godai from Kani, Gifu, Central Japan. Paleontological Research 17(2): 113–126. DOI: 10.2517/1342-8144-17.2.113 Reference page. 
• Feldman, R.M., Grande, L., Birkhimer, C., Hannibal, J.T. & McCoy, D. 1981. Decapod fauna of the Green River Formation (Eocene) of Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology 55: 788–799.
• Grande, L., Eastman, J. & Cavender, T. 1982. Amyzon gosiutensis, a new catostomid fish from the Green River Formation. Copeia no. 3, pp. 523–532.
• Grande, L. 1986. The first articulated teleost described from Cretaceous freshwater deposits of North America. Palaeontology vol. 29, part 2, pp. 365–371.
• Grande, L. 1987. Redescription of †Hypsidoris farsonensis (Teleostei: Siluriformes) with a reassessment of its phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 24–54.
• Grande, L. & Chatterjee, S. 1987. New Cretaceous fish fossils from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Palaeontology vol. 30, part 4, pp. 829–837, London.
• Grande, L. 1988. A well preserved paracanthopterygian fish (Teleostei) from freshwater Middle Paleocene deposits of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology vol. 8: 117–130.
• Ward, D.J. & Grande, L. 1991. Chimaeroid fishes from Seymour Island, Antarctica (Holocephali: Chondrichthys). Antarctic Science vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 323–330.
• Grande, L. & Bemis, W. 1991. Osteology and phylogenetic relationships of fossil and Recent paddlefishes (Polyodontidae) with comments on the interrelationships of Acipenseriformes. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 1 (supplement to vol. 11, no. 1, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology) pp. i–viii, 1–121.

• Grande, L. & Bemis, W. 1996. Interrelationships of Acipenseriformes, with comments on "Chondrostei". Pp. 85–115 in Stiassny, M., Parenti, L. & Johnson, D (eds.) Interrelationships of Fishes. Reference page. 
• Grande, L. & Bemis, W. 1996. Interrelationships of Acipenseriformes, with comments on "Chondrostei". Pp. 85-115 in Stiassny, M., L. Parenti & D. Johnson}} (eds.) Interrelationships of Fishes .
• Grande, L.. & Pinna, M. de, 1998. Description of a second species of the catfish †Hypsidoris, and a reevaluation of the genus and family †Hypsidoridae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3): 451–474.
• Forey, P. & Grande, L. 1998. An African twin to the Brazilian †Calamopleurus (Actinopterygii: Amiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 123: 179–195.
• Rieppel, O. & Grande, L. 1998. A well-preserved fossil amphiumid from the Eocene Green River Formation of Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18: 700–708.
• Grande, L. 1999. The first †Esox (Esocidae: Teleostei) from the Green River Formation, and a brief review of esocid fishes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2): 271–292.
• Grande, L. & Grande, T. 1999. A new species of †Notogoneus (Teleostei: Gonorynchidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana, and the poor Cretaceous record of freshwater fishes from North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19(4): 612–622.
• Carvalho, M.R., Maisey, J.G. & Grande, L. 2004. Freshwater stingrays of the Green River Formation of Wyoming (Early Eocene), with the description of a new genus and species and an analysis of its phylogenetic relationships (Chondrichthyes: Myliobatiformes). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 284: 1–136.
• Grande, L., & Hilton, E.J. 2006. An exquisitely preserved fossil sturgeon (Acipenseriformes: Acipenseridae: gen. et sp. nov.) from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana. Memoir 4, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 80: 1–40.
• Conrad, J.L., Rieppel, O. & Grande, L. 2007. A Green River (Eocene) polychrotid (Squamata: Reptilia) and a re-examination of iguanian systematics. Journal of Paleontology 81: 1365–1373.
• Hilton, E.J. & Grande, L. 2008. Fossil Mooneyes (Teleostei: Hiodontiformes, Hiodontidae) from the Eocene of western North America, with a reassessment of their taxonomy. In Calvin L., Longbottom A., and Richter, M. (eds.) Fishes and the Break-up of Pangaea. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 295, 221–251.
• Brito, P.M., Yabumoto, Y. & Grande, L. 2008. New amiid fish from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Formation, Araripe Basin, northeast Brazil. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28: 1–7.
• Grande, L. & Hilton, E.J. 2009. A replacement name for Psammorhynchus Grande and Hilton, 2006 (Actinopterygii, Acipenseriformes, Acipenseridae). Journal of Paleontology 83: 317–318.
• Hilton, E., Grande, L. & Bemis, W.E. 2011. Skeletal anatomy of the shortnose sturgeon, Acipenser brevirostrum Lesueur, 1818, and the systematics of sturgeons (Acipenseriformes, Acipenseridae). Fieldiana, Life and Earth Sciences no. 3: 1–185.
• Ksepka, D.T., Clarke, J.A. & Grande, L. 2011. Stem Parrots (Aves, Halcyornithidae) From the Green River Formation and a Morphological Phylogeny of Pan-psittaciformes. Journal of Paleontology 85: 835–854.
• Grande, L. 2013. The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time. University of Chicago Press, 440 pp.
• Smith, N., Grande, L., & Clarke, J.L. 2013. A new species of Threskiornithidae-like bird (Aves, Ciconiiformes) from the Green River Formation (Eocene) of Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33: 363–381.
• Ksepka, D.T., Clarke, J.A., Nesbitt, S.J. & Grande, L. 2013. Fossil Evidence of Wing Shape in a Stem Relative of Swifts and Hummingbirds (Aves, Panapodiformes). Proceedings of the Royal Society B 2013: 1–8.
• Henrici, A.C., Baez, A.M. & Grande, L. 2013. Aerugoamnis paulus gen. et sp. nov. (Anura: Anomocoela): First reported anuran from the Early Eocene (Wasatchian) Fossil Butte Member of the Green River Formation, Wyoming. Annals of Carnegie Museum 81: 295–309.