Matthew C. Lamanna

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Summary

My research focuses on the morphology, evolution, and paleobiogeography of Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs and birds, particularly those from the Gondwanan (Southern Hemisphere) continents. I am especially interested in deciphering the role that Gondwanan fragmentation played in driving the evolution of terrestrial vertebrate faunas on its component landmasses. To that end, I have conducted fieldwork at Cretaceous localities in South America (Argentina), Africa (Egypt), Australia, and Antarctica.

Anatomy & Physiology Biogeography Evolutionary Studies Paleontology Taxonomy

Work details

Associate Curator

Carnegie Museum of Natural History

June 2004

Section of Vertebrate Paleontology

Matthew Lamanna is a paleontologist and the principal dinosaur researcher at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, which houses one of the world’s largest dinosaur collections. Lamanna received his PhD in 2004 and his MS in 1999 from the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Earth and Environmental Science. His research focuses on dinosaurs, birds, and crocodilians that lived during the Cretaceous Period—the third and final time period of the Mesozoic Era, or Age of Dinosaurs.

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PeerJ Contributions

Articles 2

January 9, 2020

New mammalian and avian records from the late Eocene La Meseta and Submeseta formations of Seymour Island, Antarctica

Sarah N. Davis, Christopher R. Torres, Grace M. Musser, James V. Proffitt, Nicholas M.A. Crouch, Ernest L. Lundelius, Matthew C. Lamanna, Julia A. Clarke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8268 PubMed 31942255

July 10, 2019

An avian femur from the Late Cretaceous of Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula: removing the record of cursorial landbirds from the Mesozoic of Antarctica

Abagael R. West, Christopher R. Torres, Judd A. Case, Julia A. Clarke, Patrick M. O'Connor, Matthew C. Lamanna

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7231 PubMed 31333904