 His final scientific publication, a monograph on the Surrey dinosaur "Baryonyx", of which he was the senior author, was published at the end of June 1997.At the time of his death, two weeks later, Charig was working on several long-standing projects, notably the description of one of the earliest plant-eating dinosaurs, "Scelidosaurus", from Dorset, England.Alan Charig, whose wife, Marianne Charig, died in 1987, had three children, Nicola Norton, a dentist, Mark Charig, a radiologist and Francis Charig, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.