Karen Chin
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American paleontologist and taphonomist
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Karen Chin's Degrees
- PhD Geology University of Colorado Boulder
- Masters Geology University of Colorado Boulder
- Bachelors Geology University of Colorado Boulder
Why Is Karen Chin Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karen Chin is an American paleontologist and taphonomist who is considered one of the world's leading experts in coprolites. Biography Chin loved studying living things as a child, and enjoyed memorizing the names of species that she read about. As a college student, she worked as a nature interpreter for the National Park Service.
Karen Chin's Published Works
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- Dinosaurs, dung beetles, and conifers; participants in a Cretaceous food web (1996) (160)
- A king-sized theropod coprolite (1998) (157)
- Remarkable Preservation of Undigested Muscle Tissue Within a Late Cretaceous Tyrannosaurid Coprolite from Alberta, Canada (2003) (103)
- THE PALEOBIOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF HERBIVOROUS DINOSAUR COPROLITES FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS TWO MEDICINE FORMATION OF MONTANA: WHY EAT WOOD? (2007) (102)
- Coprolite morphotypes from the Upper Cretaceous of Sweden: novel views on an ancient ecosystem and implications for coprolite taphonomy (2011) (78)
- Bacterial Residues in Coprolite of Herbivorous Dinosaurs: Role of Bacteria in Mineralization of Feces (2001) (54)
- Analyses of Coprolites Produced by Carnivorous Vertebrates (2002) (51)
- Life in a temperate Polar sea: a unique taphonomic window on the structure of a Late Cretaceous Arctic marine ecosystem (2008) (49)
- Taxonomic composition, paleoecology and biostratigraphy of Late Cretaceous diatoms from Devon Island, Nunavut, Canadian High Arctic (2011) (45)
- Ostracods, plant tissues, and other inclusions in coprolites from the Late Cretaceous Lameta Formation at Pisdura, India: Taphonomical and palaeoecological implications (2015) (43)
- Probable Gut Contents Within A Specimen Of Brachylophosaurus Canadensis (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) From the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation Of Montana (2008) (43)
- Fossil wood from the middle Cretaceous Moreno Hill Formation: Unique expressions of wood mineralization and implications for the processes of wood preservation (2009) (36)
- CHIN — ANALYSES OF COPROLITES PRODUCED BY VERTEBRATES 43 ANALYSES OF COPROLITES PRODUCED BY CARNIVOROUS VERTEBRATES (2002) (34)
- New interpretations of Ignotornis, the first-reported Mesozoic avian footprints: implications for the paleoecology and behavior of an enigmatic Cretaceous bird (2009) (33)
- Comparative osteohistology of Hesperornis with reference to pygoscelid penguins: the effects of climate and behaviour on avian bone microstructure (2014) (31)
- Fossil Worm Burrows Reveal Very Early Terrestrial Animal Activity and Shed Light on Trophic Resources after the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction (2013) (29)
- Opportunistic exploitation of dinosaur dung: fossil snails in coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana (2009) (27)
- Coprolites from the Pipe Creek Sinkhole (Late Neogene, Grant County, Indiana, U.S.A.) (2010) (26)
- THE ROLE OF BACTERIALLY MEDIATED PRECIPITATION IN THE PERMINERALIZATION OF BONE (2010) (25)
- Consumption of crustaceans by megaherbivorous dinosaurs: dietary flexibility and dinosaur life history strategies (2017) (20)
- Late Cretaceous climate in the Canadian Arctic: Multi-proxy constraints from Devon Island (2018) (18)
- Exploited Twice Bored Bone in a Theropod Coprolite from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of Utah, U.S.A. (2007) (16)
- A high latitude hesperornithiform (Aves) from Devon Island: palaeobiogeography and size distribution of North American hesperornithiforms (2011) (16)
- Thin Section Analysis of Lithified Coprolites (Fossil Feces) (2007) (12)
- Early angiosperm woods from the mid-Cretaceous (Turonian) of New Mexico, USA: Paraphyllanthoxylon, two new taxa, and unusual preservation (2019) (8)
- A new hesperornithiform (Aves) specimen from the Late Cretaceous Canadian High Arctic with comments on high-latitude hesperornithiform diet (2016) (8)
- A new hexactinellid sponge from the Cretaceous of Devon Island, Canadian High Arctic (2007) (7)
- Gastrointestinal Parasites of Ancient Nonhuman Vertebrates: Evidence from Coprolites and Other Materials (2021) (4)
- Trace fossils of possible parasites inside the gut contents of a hadrosaurid dinosaur, Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation, Montana (2016) (3)
- Tiny, ornamented eggs and eggshell from the Upper Cretaceous of Utah represent a new ootaxon with theropod affinities (2021) (3)
- The late Barremian ecosystem of Las Hoyas sustained by fishes and shrimps as inferred from coprofabrics (2020) (2)
- Probable Dung Beetle Burrows Associated with Daemonelix (Beaver Burrows) in the Miocene Harrison Formation, Nebraska, U.S.A. (2007) (2)
- Triple oxygen isotopes and clumped isotopes in modern vertebrate and dinosaur biominerals: Records of paleoecology, paleoaridity, and paleo-carbon-cycling (2015) (1)
- ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS (2004) (1)
- UNUSUAL FOSSILIFEROUS CONCRETIONS FROM LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS IN THE LOWER JURASSIC MOENAVE FORMATION IN ST. GEORGE, UTAH, USA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ANCIENT FISH MASS MORTALITIES (2020) (1)
- Pest friends in the Cretaceous (2008) (0)
- Bioactive potential of Diadema Mauritius (2017) (0)
- EXPLOITATION OF CRETACEOUS CRUSTACEANS: COPROLITIC EVIDENCE FOR OMNIVOROUS FEEDING BEHAVIOR IN LARGE, HERBIVOROUS DINOSAURS (2016) (0)
- RARE HERBIVOROUS DINOSAUR COPROLITES AND WHAT THEY CAN TELL US ABOUT THE ROLE OF BACTERIA IN FOSSILIZATION AND CARBONATE PRECIPITATION (2022) (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)
- Trace fossil evidence for some of the earliest known animal activity by survivors of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, Mud Buttes locality, southwestern North Dakota (2011) (0)
- Proxy Constraints on a Warm, Fresh Late Cretaceous Arctic Ocean (2015) (0)
- Consumption of crustaceans by megaherbivorous dinosaurs: dietary flexibility and dinosaur life history strategies (2017) (0)
- UNTANGLING THE DIET OF HERBIVOROUS DINOSAURS FROM THE MINERALIZATION OF THEIR DUNG: A STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS OF COPROLITES (2017) (0)
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