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Allosaurus fragilis skull sculpted by David West Reynolds

MICHAEL J. RYAN, Ph.D.

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Current Research

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New Dinosaurs

Current Research
  • Leader of the Southern Alberta Dinosaur Research Group which is designed to explore and research the systematics and paleoecology of the vertebrate from the sedimentary package representing the transition between the faunal zones of the Alberta Belly River Group and the Montanan Two Medicine and Judith River formations
  • Phylogenetic analysis of the Ornithischia through the reconstruction of braincase anatomy via CT imagery
  • Description of a new dinosaur taxon from the Belly River Group
  • Systematic paleoecological and taphonomic analysis of hadrosaur and ceratopsian bone beds from the Belly River Group and Horseshoe Canyon Formations of Alberta
  • Evolutionary development of bony fishes across the K/T boundary of the western interior of north America
  • Trophic structure of Late Cretaceous Belly River Group based on stable nitrogen isotope analyses
    taphonomy of a Pinnacosaurus bone bed from the Nemget Formation of Mongolia
  • Description of new Avimimus material from China
  • Functional mechanics of the jaws of Dunkleosteous



 

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