David J. Varricchio
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David J. Varricchio's Degrees
- PhD Geology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Geology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Geology University of California, Berkeley
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- Predatory Dinosaurs from the Sahara and Late Cretaceous Faunal Differentiation (1996) (393)
- An integrative approach to understanding bird origins (2014) (229)
- Nest and egg clutches of the dinosaur Troodon formosus and the evolution of avian reproductive traits (1997) (190)
- Evidence for Avian Intrathoracic Air Sacs in a New Predatory Dinosaur from Argentina (2008) (169)
- Growth patterns in brooding dinosaurs reveals the timing of sexual maturity in non-avian dinosaurs and genesis of the avian condition (2007) (141)
- First trace and body fossil evidence of a burrowing, denning dinosaur (2007) (132)
- EMBRYOS AND EGGS FOR THE CRETACEOUS THEROPOD DINOSAUR TROODON FORMOSUS (2002) (129)
- Avian Paternal Care Had Dinosaur Origin (2008) (118)
- Bone microstructure of the Upper Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Troodon formosus (1993) (108)
- A nesting trace with eggs for the Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Troodon formosus. (1999) (91)
- Marine transgressions and the evolution of Cretaceous dinosaurs (1992) (89)
- Hadrosaurid and lambeosaurid bone beds from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana: taphonomic and biologic implications (1993) (80)
- Palaeontology: Parental care in an ornithischian dinosaur (2004) (80)
- A new tyrannosaur with evidence for anagenesis and crocodile-like facial sensory system (2017) (74)
- Mud-Trapped Herd Captures Evidence of Distinctive Dinosaur Sociality (2008) (74)
- A New Troodontid Theropod, Talos sampsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of North America (2011) (73)
- GUT CONTENTS FROM A CRETACEOUS TYRANNOSAURID: IMPLICATIONS FOR THEROPOD DINOSAUR DIGESTIVE TRACTS (2001) (68)
- Taphonomy of Jack's Birthday Site, a diverse dinosaur bonebed from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana (1995) (64)
- A PHYLOGENETIC ASSESSMENT OF PRISMATIC DINOSAUR EGGS FROM THE CRETACEOUS TWO MEDICINE FORMATION OF MONTANA (2004) (64)
- Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco (2020) (64)
- New Oviraptorid Embryos from Bugin-Tsav, Nemegt Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Mongolia, with Insights into Their Habitat and Growth (2008) (63)
- Comparison of water vapor conductance in a titanosaur egg from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina and a Megaloolithus siruguei egg from Spain (2008) (62)
- Fossil Eggs and Eggshell from the Lowermost Two Medicine Formation of Western Montana, Sevenmile Hill Locality (2010) (56)
- A Second Soundly Sleeping Dragon: New Anatomical Details of the Chinese Troodontid Mei long with Implications for Phylogeny and Taphonomy (2012) (55)
- Reproduction in Mesozoic birds and evolution of the modern avian reproductive mode (2016) (52)
- Porosity and water vapor conductance of two Troodon formosus eggs: an assessment of incubation strategy in a maniraptoran dinosaur (2013) (49)
- Anatomy of the Early Cretaceous Bird Rapaxavis Pani, A New Species From Liaoning Province, China (2009) (46)
- Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinosaurs (2009) (45)
- The First Dictyoolithus Egg Clutches from the Lishui Basin, Zhejiang Province, China (2010) (43)
- A distinct dinosaur life history? (2011) (41)
- The first dinosaur egg was soft (2020) (40)
- A study of a Troodon egg containing embryonic remains using epifluorescence microscopy and other techniques (2010) (39)
- Giant dinosaur eggs from the Tiantai basin, Zhejiang Province, China (2007) (38)
- Dinosaur Footprints and Other Ichnofauna from the Cretaceous Kem Kem Beds of Morocco (2014) (37)
- Revisiting Sabath's “Larger Avian Eggs” from the Gobi Cretaceous (2014) (35)
- A New Enantiornithine Bird From the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana (1995) (29)
- The First In Situ Turtle Clutch From the Cretaceous Tiantai Basin, Zhejiang Province, China (2008) (28)
- ABNORMAL, MULTILAYERED EGGSHELL IN BIRDS: IMPLICATIONS FOR DINOSAUR REPRODUCTIVE ANATOMY (2003) (27)
- Reidentification of Avian Embryonic Remains from the Cretaceous of Mongolia (2015) (27)
- TAPHONOMY OF A JUVENILE LAMBEOSAURINE BONEBED FROM THE TWO MEDICINE FORMATION (CAMPANIAN) OF MONTANA, UNITED STATES (2010) (25)
- Paleoecological utility of insect trace fossils in dinosaur nesting sites of the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian), Choteau, Montana (2011) (24)
- Theropod dinosaurs from the Albian–Cenomanian Wayan Formation of eastern Idaho (2017) (24)
- Dinosaurs and dunes! Sedimentology and paleontology of the Mesozoic in the Valley of Fire State Park (2008) (22)
- Fossil Egg and Eggshells from the Upper Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation, Montana (2016) (20)
- A new Late Cretaceous iguanomorph from North America and the origin of New World Pleurodonta (Squamata, Iguania) (2017) (19)
- TAPHONOMY OF EXTANT DESERT TORTOISE (GOPHERUS AGASSIZII) AND LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLE (CARETTA CARETTA) NESTING SITES: IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERPRETING THE FOSSIL RECORD (2015) (19)
- Eggs and clutches of the Spheroolithidae from the Cretaceous Tiantai basin, Zhejiang Province, China (2014) (17)
- A new microraptorine theropod from the Jehol Biota and growth in early dromaeosaurids (2020) (16)
- Tracing the Manson impact event across the Western Interior Cretaceous Seaway (2010) (16)
- Early mammalian social behaviour revealed by multituberculates from a dinosaur nesting site (2020) (15)
- Morphometric Analysis of the Forelimb and Pectoral Girdle of the Cretaceous Ornithopod Dinosaur Oryctodromeus cubicularis and Implications for Digging (2015) (15)
- Origins of avian reproduction: Answers and questions from dinosaurs (2003) (15)
- An Intermediate Incubation Period and Primitive Brooding in a Theropod Dinosaur (2018) (14)
- SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF EGGSHELL TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION: IMPLICATION AND APPLICATION TO EGGSHELL TAPHONOMY (2015) (14)
- The Evolution of Diapsid Reproductive Strategy with Inferences about Extinct Taxa (2016) (14)
- Nest taphonomy of common terns (Sterna hirundo) on Poplar Island, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland (2014) (12)
- An Oviraptorosaur Adult-Egg Association from the Cretaceous of Jiangxi Province, China (2019) (11)
- Taphonomy and taxonomy of a vertebrate microsite in the mid-Cretaceous (Albian–Cenomanian) Blackleaf Formation, southwest Montana (2011) (11)
- Ontogenetic changes in the long bone microstructure in the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) (2019) (11)
- Avian Eggs from the Eocene Willwood and Chadron Formations of Wyoming and Nebraska (2013) (11)
- EXPERIMENTAL MODELING OF A POSSIBLE ORYCTODROMEUS CUBICULARIS (DINOSAURIA) BURROW (2011) (10)
- Insect trace fossils elucidate depositional environments and sedimentation at a dinosaur nesting site from the Cretaceous (Campanian) Two Medicine Formation of Montana (2019) (10)
- Microstructural overlap of Macroelongatoolithus eggs from Asia and North America expands the occurrence of colossal oviraptorosaurs (2018) (9)
- Montana Climatic Changes Associated with the Cretaceous Claggett and Bearpaw Transgressions (1993) (9)
- Reconstruction of the Forelimb Musculature of the Cretaceous Ornithopod Dinosaur Oryctodromeus cubicularis: Implications for Digging (2016) (8)
- Systematic reinterpretation of Piksi barbarulna Varricchio, 2002 from the Two Medicine Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of Western USA (Montana) as a pterosaur rather than a bird (2012) (7)
- Evaluating deformation in Spheroolithus dinosaur eggs from Zhejiang, China (2014) (7)
- A new bird from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana (2002) (7)
- Lay, Brood, Repeat: Nest Reuse and Site Fidelity in Ecologic Time for Two Cretaceous Troodontid Dinosaurs (2015) (7)
- Mammal‐bearing gastric pellets potentially attributable to Troodon formosus at the Cretaceous Egg Mountain locality, Two Medicine Formation, Montana, USA (2021) (7)
- Taphonomy of and new burrows from Oryctodromeus cubicularis, a burrowing neornithischian dinosaur, from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian) of Idaho and Montana, U.S.A. (2019) (6)
- Horseshoe crab trace fossils from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana, USA, and a brief review of the xiphosurid ichnological record (2020) (6)
- FROM EGGS TO HATCHLINGS: NEST SITE TAPHONOMY OF AMERICAN CROCODILE (CROCODYLUS ACUTUS) AND BROAD-SNOUTED CAIMAN (CAIMAN LATIROSTRIS) (2017) (6)
- Preservation of aragonite in Late Cretaceous (Campanian) turtle eggshell (2021) (5)
- Jack's birthday site, a diverse dinosaur bonebed from the Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana (1995) (5)
- A THEROPOD NESTING TRACE WITH EGGS FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS (CAMPANIAN) TWO MEDICINE FORMATION OF MONTANA (2015) (5)
- Paleoecological implications of two closely associated egg types from the Upper Cretaceous St. Mary River Formation, Montana (2017) (4)
- New Multituberculate Mammals from The Mid-Cretaceous (Lower Cenomanian) Wayan Formation of Southeastern Idaho and Implications for The Early Evolution of Cimolodonta (2019) (4)
- A new terrestrial trace fossil Feoichnus martini n. isp. from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation (USA) (2020) (4)
- Tiny, ornamented eggs and eggshell from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah represent a new ootaxon with theropod affinities (2021) (3)
- Do paleontologists dream of electric dinosaurs? Investigating the presumed inefficiency of dinosaurs contact incubating partially buried eggs (2020) (3)
- Nest site taphonomy of colonial ground-nesting birds at Bowdoin National Wildlife Refuge, Montana (2018) (2)
- Photogrammetry of the Oryctodromeus cubicularis type locality burrow and the utility of preexisting, standard field photographs for three dimensional digital reconstruction (2020) (2)
- An integrative approach to understanding bird origins AVIAN EVOLUTION (2014) (2)
- Correction: Dinosaur Footprints and Other Ichnofauna from the Cretaceous Kem Kem Beds of Morocco (2014) (2)
- TAPHONOMIC PATHWAYS IN VERTEBRATE FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGES ILLUSTRATED BY A BOVINE MASS DROWNING EVENT (2018) (2)
- Microstructural description of the maniraptoran egg Protoceratopsidovum (2022) (2)
- Taphonomic assessment of material generated by an Arboreal Nesting Colony of Great Blue Herons (Ardea herodias) (2020) (2)
- Reply to: Triassic sauropodomorph eggshell might not be soft (2022) (2)
- New occurrence of Neurankylus sp. (Testudines: Paracryptodiria: Baenidae) in the Upper Cretaceous Frontier Formation of south western Montana (USA) (2020) (1)
- Ichnology and sedimentology of the Coniacian non-marine Frontier Formation, western Centennial Mountains, southwestern Montana, USA (2021) (1)
- Welcome to papers from the 4th International Symposium on Dinosaur Eggs and Babies (2011) (1)
- Soot and palynologic analysis of Manson impact-related strata (Upper Cretaceous) of Iowa and South Dakota, USA (2009) (1)
- Revisiting Russell’s troodontid: autecology, physiology, and speculative tool use (2021) (1)
- Histology of the right tibia and fibula of Mei long, DNHM D2514. (2012) (0)
- TRACKS OF ORNITHOPODS PUTTING THEIR BEST FEET FORWARD IN THE FRONTIER FORMATION (CONIACIAN), MONTANA (2021) (0)
- Microstructural and crystallographic evolution of palaeognath (Aves) eggshells (2022) (0)
- Nevadadromeus schmitti (gen. et sp. nov.), a New Basal Neornithischian with Affinities to the Thescelosaurinae, from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Willow Tank Formation of Southern Nevada (2022) (0)
- An Intermediate Incubation Period and Primitive Brooding in a Theropod Dinosaur (2018) (0)
- Peer Review #3 of "Preservation of latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)—Paleocene frogs (Eorubeta nevadensis) of the Sheep Pass Formation of east-central Nevada and implications for paleogeography of the Nevadaplano (v0.1)" (2020) (0)
- ICHNOLOGY, PALEODEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS AND PALEOHYDROLOGY OF THE NON-MARINE UPPER CRETACEOUS (CONIACIAN) FRONTIER FORMATION DEPOSITS OF THE WESTERN CENTENNIAL MOUNTAINS, MONTANA (2020) (0)
- Peer Review #3 of "Preservation of latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian)—Paleocene frogs (Eorubeta nevadensis) of the Sheep Pass Formation of east-central Nevada and implications for paleogeography of the Nevadaplano (v0.2)" (2020) (0)
- Dinosaur tracks from the Frontier Formation, Montana: preservation, distribution and palaeoecological significance for the middle Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems of North America (2023) (0)
- Developmental strategies underlying gigantism and miniaturization in non-avialan theropod dinosaurs (2023) (0)
- INSECT TRACE FOSSILS AND THEIR PALEONTOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE IN THE TWO MEDICINE FORMATION (CAMPANIAN), CHOTEAU, MONTANA (2019) (0)
- New theropods from Middle Cretaceous deposits of the Tenere dessert, Niger Republic (1998) (0)
- PELVIC COEVOLUTION WITH EGG SIZE AND SHAPE IN MODERN BIRDS: IMPLICATION FOR REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY OF EXTINCT DINOSAURS (2017) (0)
- Early mammalian social behaviour revealed by multituberculates from a dinosaur nesting site (2020) (0)
- Supplementary background text, figures, and morphological and phylogenetic data used for interpretations in the main text from A new Late Cretaceous iguanomorph from North America and the origin of New World Pleurodonta (Squamata, Iguania) (2017) (0)
- An exceptional adult-clutch-embryo association and its implications for dinosaur reproduction. (2021) (0)
- The Birthday Site. (1997) (0)
- Autopod and track morphology elucidate on the putative producer in hadrosauriform ornithopods: a case study of manus tracks from the Frontier Formation (Coniacian), Montana (2023) (0)
- PALEOENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF INVERTEBRATE FECAL PELLETS (EDAPHICHNIUM ISP.) AT AN ICHNOFOSSIL-RICH DINOSAUR NESTING LOCALITY, UPPER CRETACEOUS TWO MEDICINE FORMATION, MONTANA, USA (2021) (0)
- Sereno Skeletal Evolution Among Dinosaurs Cretaceous Sauropods from the Sahara and the Uneven Rate of (2013) (0)
- Cranial Elements [CTImageSeries] [CT] (2021) (0)
- Mid cervical vertebrae of the theropod Aerosteon riocoloradensis. (2013) (0)
- The first dinosaur egg was soft (2020) (0)
- Body-size measurements of extant and extinct lizards. from A new Late Cretaceous iguanomorph from North America and the origin of New World Pleurodonta (Squamata, Iguania) (2017) (0)
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