Research Paleobiologist & Curator of Dinosaurs
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
PO Box 37012
NHB E-105 MRC-121
Washington, D.C. 20013-7012
Email: carranom at si.edu
Current Research Projects
1. Dinosaur diversity through time
2. Quantifying the dinosaur fossil record
3. Phylogeny of ceratosaurs and basal tetanurans (Theropoda)
4. Paleoecology of Jurassic and Cretaceous microvertebrate sites in western North America
Current or Projected Exhibits
Current:
Updated skeletal mounts of Stegosaurus and Camptosaurus in the main dinosaur hall.
Projected:
Total renovation of paleontology halls, including dinosaurs.
Recent Publications
1. Carrano, M. T. & S. D. Sampson. 2004. A review of coelophysoids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Early Jurassic of Europe, with comments on the late history of the Coelophysoidea. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paláontologie Monatshefte 2004(9):537-558.
2. O’Keefe, F. R. & M. T. Carrano. 2005. Correlated trends in the evolution of the plesiosaur locomotor system. Paleobiology 31(4):353-375
3. Carrano, M. T. 2005. The evolution of sauropod locomotion: morphological diversity of a secondarily quadrupedal radiation. In K. A. Curry Rogers & J. A. Wilson (eds.), The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology. University of California Press, Berkeley:229-251.
4. Carrano, M. T., J. R. Hutchinson & S. D. Sampson. 2005. New information on Segisaurus halli, a small theropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4):835-849
5. Carrano, M. T. 2006. Body-size evolution in the Dinosauria. In M. T. Carrano, R. W. Blob, T. J. Gaudin & J. R. Wible (eds.), Amniote Paleobiology: Perspectives on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles. University of Chicago Press, Chicago:225-268.
6. Carrano, M. T. & J. Velez-Juarbe. 2006. Paleoecology of the Quarry 9 vertebrate assemblage from Como Bluff, Wyoming (Morrison Formation, Late Jurassic). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 237(2-4):147-159.
7. Carrano, M. T., R. W. Blob, T. J. Gaudin & J. R. Wible (eds.). 2006. Amniote Paleobiology: Perspectives on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles. University of Chicago Press, Chicago:547 pp.
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