Paleontology Publications

                                                               Department of Paleontology

Featured Publications

The Department of Paleontology is currently engaged in research on several of Earth’s time periods, both in the United States and abroad. The scope of the research projects ranges from broad, globally relevant topics such as climate change and phylogenetics to narrower, more specific topics such as species interaction and the dynamics of paleo animal communities. Our research efforts have already produced excellent results, including high resolution reconstructions of the Late Cretaceous environment, dinosaur predator/prey interactions, new biologically controlled fossil preparation techniques, and the discovery of new species. In addition to assisting scientists in reconstructing Earth’s exciting past, our research in paleontology is producing data that will create a better understanding of our modern world and trends that will shape Earth’s future. The recent publications and primary areas of current research are as follows:


Dakotaraptor dinosaur

The first giant raptor (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from the Hell Creek Formation

Paleontological Contributions Number 14
KU Paleontological Institute, University of Kansas
30 October, 2015

Robert A. DePalma, David A. Burnham, Larry D. Martin, Peter L. Larson, and Robert T. Bakker


Physical evidence of predatory behavior in Tyrannosaurus rex

Physical evidence of predatory behavior
in Tyrannosaurus rex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
15 July, 2013

Robert A. DePalma, David A. Burnham, Larry D. Martin,
Bruce M. Rothschild, and Peter L. Larson

hell Creek Insects in Amber

Preliminary Notes on the First Recorded Amber
Insects from the Hell Creek Formation

The Journal of Paleontological Sciences
JPS. C.10.0001

Robert A. DePalma, Frederich Chicocki, Manuel Dierick,
and Robert Feeney

Skin pathology in the Cretaceous:
Evidence for probable failed predation in a dinosaur

Cretaceous Research
20 May, 2013

Bruce M. Rothschild and Robert A. DePalma

A possible hemiphlebiid damselfly in Late Cretaceous
amber from South Dakota (Odonata: Zygoptera)

Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science
September 2010

Andre Nel, Robert A. DePalma, Michael S. Engel

Reduction of the Predentary Bone in
Paleogene Avians

University of Kansas Biodiversity institute

Robert A. Depalma, David A. Burnham, Amanda R. Falk,
and Fallon E. Cohen

New Bird from the Latest Maastrichtian
of North America

University of Kansas Biodiversity institute

Robert A. Depalma, David A. Burnham, Larry D. Martin,
and Amanda R. Falk,

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