Anthony R. Fiorillo

Dr. Anthony R. Fiorillo

Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
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Academic Career Length

37Years (1990-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 December 1991 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
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1 January 1991 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
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1 January 2010 in PALAIOS
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RGRoland A. Gangloff
Roland A. Gangloff
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Anthony R. Fiorillo
The late Campanian–Maastrichtian Liscomb Bonebed is the richest source of dinosaur remains thus far documented in the polar regions. This bed is formally defined herein and assigned to the upper part of the Prince Creek Formation; the bonebed and several other organic-rich beds are part of a 178 m sequence of fluvial and volcaniclastic deposits. The Liscomb Bonebed is a mudstone rich in clay, comminuted plant remains, and palynomorphs with a total organic carbon (TOC) of 6.80%–10.55%. It contains a multitaxic, low-diversity, dinosaur assemblage, dominated by Edmontosaurus sp., which is primarily represented by late juveniles. Four theropod taxa are almost exclusively represented by isolated teeth. With >6000 specimens collected, the assemblage is characterized by a Minimum Number of Individuals (MNI) of 36, dominance of Voorhies Groups I and II, and an underrepresentation of teeth, skulls, and girdles. Bones are highly fragmented and exhibit low weathering and abrasion indices. Bite marks occur on slightly more than 1% of elements. The densest accumulations of bone are typically found in the middle third of the bed with the largest bones at the bottom. The Liscomb Bonebed assemblage resulted from mass mortality associated with overbank floods that formed floodplain mires and ponds. Data from the current study clearly establish the Alaskan Arctic as the year-round residence of a rich dinosaur fauna and add further support to the hypotheses that even high-latitude hadrosaurids were gregarious and formed social groups.

1 April 2009 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
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TMTimothy S. Myers
Timothy S. Myers
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31 March 1994 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
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PCPhilip J. Currie
Philip J. Currie
Theropod teeth are some of the most diagnostic fossils from dinosaur assemblages, with taxonomic utility to the genus or even species level. One hundred and twenty-nine teeth, representing five theropod taxa, have been recovered from eight localities along a 75 km east-west transect in the Judith River Formation of south-central Montana. Unlike the pattern of distribution observed for the Judith River Formation in Alberta, no geographic or temporal differentiation of the theropod faunas seems to have occurred in this formation in south-central Montana.

17 February 2012 in The Anatomical Record
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ATAllison R. Tumarkin‐Deratzian
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