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Carrano Lab
My lab is broadly focused on questions about dinosaur evolution, from their origins in the Triassic through to the end-Cretaceous extinction event. We regularly conduct fieldwork across the US, in the Western Interior as well as along the East Coast. Previous expeditions have visited Madagascar, Chile, and Zimbabwe.
Current research foci include:
- Vertebrate microfossil bonebeds: their composition, formation, and paleoecology
- Dinosaur temporal and geographic distributions, and fossil sampling
- Faunal, paleoecological, and taxonomic studies in the Morrison, Cloverly, Judith River formations, as well as Cretaceous formations along the US East Coast
Past research topics:
- Theropod dinosaur phylogeny and evolution
- Madagascan ceratosaurs and their relationships
- Dinosaur locomotor function and evolution