Michael Foote

For the politician, see Mike Foote.

For other people with similar names, see Michael Foot (disambiguation).

Michael J. Foote (born 1963) is a paleontologist and co-author, with Arnold I. Miller, of Principles of Paleontology (2006).^[1]

He was awarded the Charles Schuchert Award of the Paleontological Society in 2000.^[2] He is currently on the faculty at the University of Chicago, where he is Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology.^[3]