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- PhD Geosciences Stony Brook University
- Masters Geosciences Stony Brook University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Christian Alfred Sidor is an American vertebrate paleontologist. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Biology, University of Washington in Seattle, as well as Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Associate Director for Research and Collections at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture. His research focuses on Permian and Triassic tetrapod evolution, especially on therapsids.
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- Predatory Dinosaurs from the Sahara and Late Cretaceous Faunal Differentiation (1996) (393)
- The Giant Crocodyliform Sarcosuchus from the Cretaceous of Africa (2001) (257)
- Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira (2010) (240)
- Evolutionary Patterns Among Permo-Triassic Therapsids* (2001) (174)
- Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction (2013) (134)
- The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan (2017) (133)
- Ghost lineages and “mammalness”: assessing the temporal pattern of character acquisition in the Synapsida (1998) (128)
- SIMPLIFICATION AS A TREND IN SYNAPSID CRANIAL EVOLUTION (2001) (127)
- A NEW NOTOSUCHIAN FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF NIGER (2003) (99)
- The oldest dinosaur? A Middle Triassic dinosauriform from Tanzania (2013) (97)
- Permian tetrapods from the Sahara show climate-controlled endemism in Pangaea (2005) (86)
- Permian and Triassic Dicynodont (Therapsida: Anomodontia) Faunas of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Taxonomic Update and Implications for Dicynodont Biogeography and Biostratigraphy (2014) (74)
- A New Silesaurid from the Upper Ntawere Formation of Zambia (Middle Triassic) Demonstrates the Rapid Diversification of Silesauridae (Avemetatarsalia, Dinosauriformes) (2013) (57)
- The Triassic dicynodont Kombuisia (Synapsida, Anomodontia) from Antarctica, a refuge from the terrestrial Permian-Triassic mass extinction (2010) (54)
- Tetrapod Burrows From the Triassic Of Antarctica (2008) (54)
- Cranial Anatomy of Ennatosaurus tecton (Synapsida: Caseidae) from the Middle Permian of Russia and the Evolutionary Relationships of Caseidae (2008) (50)
- Tetrapod Fauna of the Lowermost Usili Formation (Songea Group, Ruhuhu Basin) of Southern Tanzania, with a New Burnetiid Record (2010) (50)
- A new galesaurid (Therapsida: Cynodontia) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa (2004) (49)
- A New Specimen of Promoschorhynchus (Therapsida: Therocephalia: Akidnognathidae) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa and its Implications for Theriodont Survivorship Across the Permo-Triassic Boundary (2011) (49)
- THE VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE UPPER PERMIAN OF NIGER. IV. NIGERPETON RICQLESI (TEMNOSPONDYLI: COCHLEOSAURIDAE), AND THE EDOPOID COLONIZATION OF GONDWANA (2006) (47)
- Evolutionary trends and the origin of the mammalian lower jaw (2003) (44)
- A New Archosaur from the Manda Beds (Anisian, Middle Triassic) of Southern Tanzania and Its Implications for Character State Optimizations at Archosauria and Pseudosuchia (2014) (43)
- Taxonomic Revision and New Observations on the Postcranial Skeleton, Biogeography, and Biostratigraphy of the Dicynodont Genus Dicynodontoides, the Senior Subjective Synonym of Kingoria (Therapsida, Anomodontia) (2009) (42)
- A SECOND SPECIMEN OF LEMUROSAURUS PRICEI (THERAPSIDA: BURNETIAMORPHA) (2003) (42)
- Age rank/clade rank metrics--sampling, taxonomy, and the meaning of "stratigraphic consistency". (2000) (41)
- A SECOND BURNETIAMORPH THERAPSID FROM THE PERMIAN TEEKLOOF FORMATION OF SOUTH AFRICA AND ITS ASSOCIATED FAUNA (2007) (39)
- ELLIOTHERIUM KERSTENI, A NEW TRITHELEDONTID FROM THE LOWER ELLIOT FORMATION (UPPER TRIASSIC) OF SOUTH AFRICA (2006) (38)
- A second varanopseid skull from the Upper Permian of South Africa: implications for Late Permian ‘pelycosaur’ evolution (2001) (38)
- Tapinocephalids (Therapsida, Dinocephalia) from the Permian Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Lower Karoo, Mid-Zambezi Basin) of Southern Zambia (2014) (37)
- THE VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE UPPER PERMIAN OF NIGER—III, MORPHOLOGY AND ONTOGENY OF THE HINDLIMB OF MORADISAURUS GRANDIS (REPTILIA, CAPTORHINIDAE) (2005) (35)
- First Record of a Tapinocephalid (Therapsida: Dinocephalia) from the Ruhuhu Formation (Songea Group) of Southern Tanzania (2010) (35)
- Bivalve network reveals latitudinal selectivity gradient at the end-Cretaceous mass extinction (2013) (34)
- The Permian Moradi Formation of northern Niger: Paleosol morphology, petrography and mineralogy (2011) (34)
- A NEW BURNETIID (THERAPSIDA: BIARMOSUCHIA) FROM THE UPPER PERMIAN OF SOUTH AFRICA AND ITS BIOGEOGRAPHIC IMPLICATIONS (2006) (34)
- Sedimentology and vertebrate taphonomy of the Moradi Formation of northern Niger: A Permian wet desert in the tropics of Pangaea (2015) (33)
- On the cranial morphology of the basal therapsids Burnetia and Proburnetia (Therapsida: Burnetiidae) (2002) (33)
- A New Triassic Temnospondyl from Antarctica and a Review of Fremouw Formation Biostratigraphy (2008) (32)
- A NEW BURNETIAMORPH THERAPSID FROM THE TEEKLOOF FORMATION, PERMIAN, OF SOUTH AFRICA (2004) (32)
- A review of the Guadalupian (middle Permian) global tetrapod fossil record (2017) (31)
- A new captorhinid reptile from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma showing remarkable dental and mandibular convergence with microsaurian tetrapods (2015) (31)
- New Dicynodonts (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and Updated Tetrapod Stratigraphy of the Permian Ruhuhu Formation (Songea Group, Ruhuhu Basin) of Southern Tanzania (2014) (31)
- A NEW BURNETIAMORPH (THERAPSIDA: BIARMOSUCHIA) FROM THE MIDDLE PERMIAN OF SOUTH AFRICA (2006) (28)
- The Braincase and Endocast of Parringtonia gracilis, a Middle Triassic Suchian (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) (2017) (28)
- PAROTOSUCHUS (TEMNOSPONDYLI: MASTODONSAURIDAE) FROM THE TRIASSIC OF ANTARCTICA (2007) (27)
- Taphonomy and Paleoenvironments of Middle Triassic Bone Accumulations in the Lifua Member of the Manda Beds, Songea Group (Ruhuhu Basin), Tanzania (2017) (27)
- THE NARIS AND PALATE OF LYCAENODON LONGICEPS (THERAPSIDA: BIARMOSUCHIA), WITH COMMENTS ON THEIR EARLY EVOLUTION IN THE THERAPSIDA (2003) (27)
- The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Permian of Niger — II, Preliminary description of a new pareiasaur (2003) (26)
- Unusual crocodyliform teeth from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of southeastern Morocco (1999) (26)
- Effects of testosterone administration and castration on the forelimb musculature of male leopard frogs, Rana pipiens. (1998) (26)
- The Vertebrate Fauna of the Upper Permian of Niger—IX. The Appendicular Skeleton of Bunostegos akokanensis (Parareptilia: Pareiasauria) (2015) (25)
- The Vertebrate Fauna of the Upper Permian of Niger—VII. Cranial Anatomy and Relationships of Bunostegos akokanensis (Pareiasauria) (2013) (25)
- Eunotosaurus africanus from the Ecca-Beaufort contact in Northern Cape Province, South Africa — implications for Karoo Basin development (1999) (25)
- The First Karenitid (Therapsida, Therocephalia) from the Upper Permian of Gondwana and the Biogeography of Permo-Triassic Therocephalians (2016) (24)
- A novel archosauromorph from Antarctica and an updated review of a high-latitude vertebrate assemblage in the wake of the end-Permian mass extinction (2018) (24)
- New Materials of the Enigmatic Dicynodont Abajudon kaayai (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Lower Madumabisa Mudstone Formation, Middle Permian of Zambia (2017) (23)
- A New Eutherocephalian (Therapsida, Therocephalia) from the Upper Permian Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Luangwa Basin) of Zambia (2015) (23)
- Paleosols of the Permian-Triassic: Proxies for Rainfall, Climate Change, and Major Changes in Terrestrial Tetrapod Diversity (2017) (22)
- Cricodon metabolus (cynodontia: Gomphodontia) from the Triassic Ntawere Formation of Northeastern Zambia: Patterns of Tooth replacement and a Systematic Review of the Trirachodontidae (2017) (21)
- THE VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE UPPER PERMIAN OF NIGER. V. THE PRIMITIVE TEMNOSPONDYL SAHARASTEGA MORADIENSIS (2006) (20)
- New Middle Triassic Tetrapods from the Upper Fremouw Formation of Antarctica and Their Depositional Setting (2014) (20)
- Introduction to Vertebrate and Climatic Evolution in the Triassic Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia (2017) (19)
- Evolution and homology of the astragalus in early amniotes: New fossils, new perspectives (2006) (19)
- The First Occurrence of Cynognathus crateronotus (Cynodontia: Cynognathia) in Tanzania and Zambia, with Implications for the Age and Biostratigraphic Correlation of Triassic Strata in Southern Pangea (2017) (19)
- Evolution of viviparous reproduction in Paleozoic and Mesozoic reptiles. (2014) (19)
- A New Capitosauroid Temnospondyl from the Middle Triassic Upper Fremouw Formation of Antarctica (2014) (19)
- Taxonomic Revision of Therocephalians (Therapsida: Theriodontia) from the Lower Triassic of Antarctica (2012) (19)
- Biological and physical evidence for extreme seasonality in central Permian Pangea (2016) (18)
- The Vertebrate Fauna Of the Upper Permian Of Niger. Vi. First Evidence Of a Gorgonopsian Therapsid (2008) (17)
- Evidence of torpor in the tusks of Lystrosaurus from the Early Triassic of Antarctica (2020) (16)
- Theropod hind limb disparity revisited: comments on Gatesy and Middleton (1997) (1999) (15)
- Permo-Triassic arthropod trace fossils from the Beardmore Glacier area, central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica (2009) (15)
- A new record of Procynosuchus delaharpeae (Therapsida: Cynodontia) from the Upper Permian Usili Formation, Tanzania (2009) (14)
- The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia. Edited by M. J. Benton, M. A. Shishkin, D. M. Unwin, and E. N. Kurochkin. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2000. 696 pages. Cloth $140.00 (2002) (13)
- The First Dinosaur from Washington State and a Review of Pacific Coast Dinosaurs from North America (2015) (13)
- Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic evolution and cyclo- and chrono-stratigraphy of upper permian-Lower triassic fluvial-lacustrine deposits in Bogda Mountains, NW China – Implications for diachronous plant evolution across the permian-triassic boundary (2021) (13)
- The first biarmosuchian from the upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Luangwa Basin) of Zambia (2015) (12)
- The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Permian of Niger – VIII. Nigerpeton ricqlesi (Temnospondyli: Cochleosauridae) and tetrapod biogeographic provinces (2013) (12)
- The vertebrate fauna of the Upper Permian of Niger—X. The mandible of the captorhinid reptile Moradisaurus grandis (2018) (11)
- Laosuchus naga gen. et sp. nov., a new chroniosuchian from South-East Asia (Laos) with internal structures revealed by micro-CT scan and discussion of its palaeobiology (2018) (11)
- A New Therapsid from the Permian Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Mid-Zambezi Basin) of Southern Zambia (2016) (10)
- Histological and developmental insights into the herbivorous dentition of tapinocephalid therapsids (2019) (10)
- Pathology in a Permian parareptile: congenital malformation of sacral vertebrae (2018) (9)
- Odontoma in a 255-Million-Year-Old Mammalian Forebear (2017) (9)
- Inner ear biomechanics reveals a Late Triassic origin for mammalian endothermy (2021) (8)
- Using Manual Ungual Morphology to Predict Substrate Use in the Drepanosauromorpha and the Description of a New Species (2020) (8)
- The original boneheads: histologic analysis of the pachyostotic skull roof in Permian burnetiamorphs (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) (2019) (7)
- A Basal Nonmammaliaform Cynodont from the Permian of Zambia and the Origins of Mammalian Endocranial and Postcranial Anatomy (2020) (6)
- Investigation of a bone lesion in a gorgonopsian (Synapsida) from the Permian of Zambia and periosteal reactions in fossil non-mammalian tetrapods (2020) (6)
- DIFFERENTIAL TESTOSTERONE SENSITIVITY OF FORELIMB MUSCLES OF MALE LEOPARD FROGS, RANA PIPIENS : TEST OF A MODEL SYSTEM (1995) (6)
- Replacement names for the therapsid genera Criocephalus Broom 1928 and Olivieria Brink 1965. (2002) (5)
- A new non-mammalian eucynodont from the Chinle Formation (Triassic: Norian), and implications for the early Mesozoic equatorial cynodont record (2020) (5)
- Resolving the age of Madumabisa fossil vertebrates: Palynological evidence from the mid-Zambezi Basin of Zambia (2016) (5)
- Tetrapod turnover during the Permo-Triassic transition explained by temperature change (2021) (5)
- Living fast in the Triassic: New data on life history in Lystrosaurus (Therapsida: Dicynodontia) from northeastern Pangea (2021) (4)
- First Record of the Amphibamiform Micropholis stowi from the Lower Fremouw Formation (Lower Triassic) of Antarctica (2021) (3)
- Upside down: ‘Cryobatrachus’ and the lydekkerinid record from Antarctica (2021) (3)
- Histology of the Preparietal: A Neomorphic Cranial Element in Dicynodont Therapsids (2020) (3)
- A new drepanosauromorph, Ancistronychus paradoxus n. gen. et sp., from the Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA (2019) (2)
- A new burnetiid from the middle Permian of Zambia and a reanalysis of burnetiamorph relationships (2021) (2)
- New data on the Triassic temnospondyls from the Karoo rift basins of Tanzania and Zambia (2021) (2)
- A Kannemeyeriiform (Synapsida: Dicynodontia) Occipital Plate from the Middle Triassic Upper Fremouw Formation of Antarctica (2020) (2)
- The Vertebrate Fauna of the Upper Permian of Niger—XI. Cranial Material of a Juvenile Moradisaurus grandis (Reptilia: Captorhinidae) (2021) (1)
- A new burnetiid from the mid-Permian of Zambia and a reanalysis of burnetiamorph relationships (project) (2020) (1)
- A new bauriamorph therocephalian adds a novel component to the Lower Triassic tetrapod assemblage of the Fremouw Formation (Transantarctic Basin) of Antarctica (2021) (1)
- A New Late Permian Burnetiamorph From Zambia Confirms Exceptional Levels of Endemism in Burnetiamorpha (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) and an Updated Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (2021) (1)
- Reconstruction of the historical dynamics of thermal regime from Întorsura Buzăului area through dendroclimatology techniques. (2009) (1)
- The evolution of the synapsid tusk: insights from dicynodont therapsid tusk histology (2021) (0)
- A new burnetiid from the mid-Permian of Zambia and a reanalysis of burnetiamorph relationships [X26885] Biarmosuchian data matrix from Kammerer & Sidor (2020) (0)
- European pine sawfly (Neodiprion sertifer Geoffr.) and biological control using virus in SR Serbia (Yugoslavia). (1975) (0)
- Comment on the proposed precedence of Procynosuchus Broom, 1937 (Therapsida, Cynodontia) over Cyrbasiodon Broom, 1931 and Parathrinaxodon Parrington, 1936 (2009) (0)
- Author Correction: Inner ear biomechanics reveals a Late Triassic origin for mammalian endothermy (2023) (0)
- Peer Review #1 of "A proposed terminology for the dentition of gomphodont cynodonts and dental morphology in Diademodontidae and Trirachodontidae (v0.2)" (2019) (0)
- [Microbial control of Thaumetopoea pityocampa Schiff. (Lepid.: Thaumetopoeidae) in the pine-woods of Apulia [Italy]]. [Italian] (1982) (0)
- Sereno Skeletal Evolution Among Dinosaurs Cretaceous Sauropods from the Sahara and the Uneven Rate of (2013) (0)
- Freshwater fish faunas from two Permian rift valleys of Zambia, novel additions to the ichthyofauna of southern Pangea (2021) (0)
- A test of Bergmann's rule in the Early Triassic: latitude, body size, and sampling in Lystrosaurus (2022) (0)
- The stratigraphic and geographic occurrences of Permo-Triassic tetrapods in the Bogda Mountains, NW China — Implications of a new cyclostratigraphic framework and Bayesian age model (2022) (0)
- More than Just an Earful of Jaw (2012) (0)
- Nomenclature, comparative anatomy, and evolution of the reflected lamina of the angular in non-mammalian synapsids (2022) (0)
- A new captorhinid reptile from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma showing remarkable dental and mandibular convergence with microsaurian tetrapods (2015) (0)
- Peer Review #1 of "Gorgonopsian therapsids (Nochnitsa gen. nov. and Viatkogorgon) from the Permian Kotelnich locality of Russia (v0.2)" (2018) (0)
- BODY SIZE AND LIFE HISTORY IN LYSTROSAURUS: NEW INSIGHTS FROM THE EARLY TRIASSIC OF NORTHWESTERN CHINA (2020) (0)
- The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology. Kristina A. Curry Rogers, and Jeffrey A. Wilson, editors (2006) (0)
- More than Just an Earful of Jaw (2012) (0)
- Peer Review #1 of "Gorgonopsian therapsids (Nochnitsa gen. nov. and Viatkogorgon) from the Permian Kotelnich locality of Russia (v0.1)" (2018) (0)
- Peer Review #1 of "A proposed terminology for the dentition of gomphodont cynodonts and dental morphology in Diademodontidae and Trirachodontidae (v0.1)" (2019) (0)
- New information on gorgonopsian pedal morphology based on articulated material from Zambia. (2022) (0)
- Erratum (2019) (0)
- SHORT COMMUNICATION A NEW THERAPSID FROM THE PERMIANMADUMABISAMUDSTONE FORMATION (MID-ZAMBEZI BASIN) OF SOUTHERN ZAMBIA (2019) (0)
- Cold Capitosaurs and Polar Plagiosaurs: New Temnospondyl Records from the Upper Fremouw Formation (Middle Triassic) of Antarctica (2021) (0)
- HISTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF TRAUMA IN A TUSK OF LYSTROSAURUS (SYNAPSIDA: ANOMODONTIA) (2018) (0)
- STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF PALEOSOLS, MEAN ANNUAL RAINFALL ESTIMATES AND ITS CORRELATION WITH TETRAPOD DIVERSITY IN PERMO-TRIASSIC STRATA OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT (2016) (0)
- A new burnetiid from the mid-Permian of Zambia and a reanalysis of burnetiamorph relationships [X27054] Biarmosuchian data matrix from Kammerer & Sidor (2020) (0)
- Supplementary material from "A new non-mammalian eucynodont from the Chinle Formation (Triassic: Norian), and implications for the Early Mesozoic equatorial cynodont record" (2020) (0)
- Histology of the preparietal: a neomorphic cranial element in dicynodont therapsids. (project) (2020) (0)
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