Lindsay Zanno Explained

Lindsay E. Zanno
Nationality:American
Field:paleontology
Work Institution:Natural History Museum of Utah
Field Museum of Natural History
North Carolina State University[1]
Alma Mater:University of New Mexico
University of Utah

Lindsay E. Zanno is an American vertebrate paleontologist and a leading expert on theropod dinosaurs and Cretaceous paleoecosystems. She is the Head of Paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University.

Education

Zanno received her B.Sc. in Biological Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1999, and her graduate degrees from the University of Utah in the department of Geology and Geophysics (M.Sc. in 2004, Ph.D. in 2008).[2] Her M.Sc. thesis was titled "The pectoral girdle and forelimb of a primitive therizinosauroid (Theropoda, Maniraptora) with phylogenetic and functional implications," which addressed the anatomy of Falcarius utahensis.[3] Her Ph.D. dissertation was titled "A taxonomic and phylogenetic reevaluation of Therizinosauria (Dinosauria: Theropoda): implications for the evolution of Maniraptora," which broadly addressed the relationships of therizinosaurs.

Academic contributions

Zanno has contributed to more than 200 technical publications,[4] [5] and her work has been cited more than 2,000 times. She has published in leading international journals, including Nature, Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Science Advances, Current Biology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, and Scientific Reports. Her primary focus is on the paleobiology of theropods from the Cretaceous of North America,[6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] but she has also published on ornithischian dinosaurs,[12] [13] [14] [15] crocodylomorphs,[16] [17] [18] avians,[19] aetosaur pseudosuchians,[20] [21] temnospondyls,[22] and trace fossils.[23] [24] Zanno has contributed to naming many new species of theropods, including the therizinosaur Falcarius, the troodontid Talos sampsoni,[25] the hadrosaur Velafrons coahuilensis, the oviraptorosaur Hagryphus giganteus,[26] the iguanodontian Choyrodon barsboldi, the allosauroid Siats meekerorum, and the tyrannosauroid Moros intrepidus.[27] Her work is supported by numerous awards, primarily from the National Science Foundation,[28] [29] [30] [31] and has been extensively covered by major news outlets, including the Science Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, the New York Times, NPR and the BBC.[32] [33] [34] [35] [36]

Zanno serves as the president of the Jurassic Foundation[37] and co-chair of the program committee for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology's annual meeting[38] and previously served as Science Advocate for the Walking With Dinosaurs Arena Spectacular and on-air host for The Ice Age Exhibition.

Outreach and science communication

Zanno is active in community and science outreach, including on Twitter and through ExpeditionLive!, a platform developed to connect with the public during fieldwork.[39] She has spearheaded several initiatives through the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, such as FossilPhiles, which invites students in grades 8–11 to work with museum paleontologists;[40] Shark Teeth Forensics, which provides primary school students with the opportunity to conduct research using shark teeth;[41] and Cretaceous Creatures, which will provide students with the opportunity to conduct research using microvertebrates. The last of these is part of the new Dueling Dinosaurs Program, an exhibit slated to open in 2023 that is centered around a remarkable specimen of a complete skeleton of Tyrannosaurus side-by-side with a skeleton of Triceratops.[42] The specimen of T. rex represents the only fully complete skeleton of this species that is known to date, and the specimens were donated to the museum by the affiliated Friends of the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, who purchased it for US$6 million from a private collector.[43] [44] The specimen had previously failed to sell at the seller's minimum price in 2013 and was subsequently the center of a lengthy legal battle over the ownership of the fossil.[45] [46] [47]

References

  1. Web site: Stone. Gavin. Restoring the world's rarest fossils . Technician Online . 19 November 2014. 25 December 2014 .
  2. Web site: Lindsay Zanno Staff . 2022-03-10 . North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
  3. Zanno . Lindsay E. . 2006-09-11 . http://dx.doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[636:tpgafo2.0.co;2 The pectoral girdle and forelimb of the primitive therizinosauroidFalcarius Utahensis(Theropoda, Maniraptora): analyzing evolutionary trends within Therizinosauroidea ]. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 26 . 3 . 636–650 . 10.1671/0272-4634(2006)26[636:tpgafo]2.0.co;2 . 86166623 . 0272-4634.
  4. Web site: Lindsay E. Zanno . 2022-03-10 . scholar.google.com.
  5. Web site: Lindsay Zanno . 2022-03-10 . Zanno Lab 2020 . en.
  6. Kirkland . James I. . Zanno . Lindsay E. . Sampson . Scott D. . Clark . James M. . DeBlieux . Donald D. . 2005 . A primitive therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah . Nature . 435 . 7038 . 84–87 . 10.1038/nature03468 . 15875020 . 2005Natur.435...84K . 4428196 . 0028-0836.
  7. Zanno . Lindsay E. . Gillette . David D. . Albright . L. Barry . Titus . Alan L. . 2009-07-15 . A new North American therizinosaurid and the role of herbivory in 'predatory' dinosaur evolution . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 276 . 1672 . 3505–3511 . 10.1098/rspb.2009.1029 . 19605396 . 2817200 . 0962-8452.
  8. Zanno . Lindsay E. . Makovicky . Peter J. . 2010-12-20 . Herbivorous ecomorphology and specialization patterns in theropod dinosaur evolution . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 108 . 1 . 232–237 . 10.1073/pnas.1011924108 . 21173263 . 3017133 . 0027-8424. free .
  9. Gates . Terry A. . Prieto-Márquez . Albert . Zanno . Lindsay E. . 2012-08-02 . Mountain Building Triggered Late Cretaceous North American Megaherbivore Dinosaur Radiation . PLOS ONE . 7 . 8 . e42135 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0042135 . 22876302 . 3410882 . 2012PLoSO...742135G . 1932-6203. free .
  10. Zanno . Lindsay E. . Makovicky . Peter J. . 2013-11-22 . Neovenatorid theropods are apex predators in the Late Cretaceous of North America . Nature Communications . 4 . 1 . 2827 . 10.1038/ncomms3827 . 24264527 . 2013NatCo...4.2827Z . 2041-1723. free .
  11. Zanno . Lindsay E. . Makovicky . Peter J. . 2013-01-22 . No evidence for directional evolution of body mass in herbivorous theropod dinosaurs . Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 280 . 1751 . 20122526 . 10.1098/rspb.2012.2526 . 23193135 . 3574415 . 0962-8452.
  12. Gates . Terry A. . Sampson . Scott D. . De Jesús . Carlos R. Delgado . Zanno . Lindsay E. . Eberth . David . Hernandez-Rivera . René . Martínez . Martha C. Aguillón . Kirkland . James I. . 2007-12-12 . http://dx.doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[917:vcanlh2.0.co;2 Velafrons coahuilensis, a new lambeosaurine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the late Campanian Cerro del Pueblo Formation, Coahuila, Mexico ]. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 27 . 4 . 917–930 . 10.1671/0272-4634(2007)27[917:vcanlh]2.0.co;2 . 86157621 . 0272-4634.
  13. McDonald . Andrew T. . Gates . Terry A. . Zanno . Lindsay E. . Makovicky . Peter J. . 2017-05-10 . Anatomy, taphonomy, and phylogenetic implications of a new specimen of Eolambia caroljonesa (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA . PLOS ONE . 12 . 5 . e0176896 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0176896 . 28489871 . 5425030 . 2017PLoSO..1276896M . 1932-6203. free .
  14. Gates . Terry A. . Tsogtbaatar . Khishigjav . Zanno . Lindsay E. . Chinzorig . Tsogtbaatar . Watabe . Mahito . 2018-08-03 . A new iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia . PeerJ . en . 6 . e5300 . 10.7717/peerj.5300 . 2167-8359 . 6078070 . 30083450 . free .
  15. Arbour . Victoria M. . Zanno . Lindsay E. . 2019-03-05 . Tail Weaponry in Ankylosaurs and Glyptodonts: An Example of a Rare but Strongly Convergent Phenotype . The Anatomical Record . 303 . 4 . 988–998 . 10.1002/ar.24093 . 30835954 . 73488683 . 1932-8486. free .
  16. Zanno . Lindsay E. . Drymala . Susan . Nesbitt . Sterling J. . Schneider . Vincent P. . 2015-03-19 . Early crocodylomorph increases top tier predator diversity during rise of dinosaurs . Scientific Reports . 5 . 1 . 9276 . 10.1038/srep09276 . 25787306 . 4365386 . 2015NatSR...5E9276Z . 2045-2322.
  17. Drymala . Susan M. . Zanno . Lindsay E. . 2016-06-15 . Osteology of Carnufex carolinensis (Archosauria: Psuedosuchia) from the Pekin Formation of North Carolina and Its Implications for Early Crocodylomorph Evolution . PLOS ONE . 11 . 6 . e0157528 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0157528 . 27304665 . 4909254 . 2016PLoSO..1157528D . 1932-6203. free .
  18. Schwab . Julia A. . Young . Mark T. . Neenan . James M. . Walsh . Stig A. . Witmer . Lawrence M. . Herrera . Yanina . Allain . Ronan . Brochu . Christopher A. . Choiniere . Jonah N. . Clark . James M. . Dollman . Kathleen N. . 2020-04-20 . Inner ear sensory system changes as extinct crocodylomorphs transitioned from land to water . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 117 . 19 . 10422–10428 . 10.1073/pnas.2002146117 . 32312812 . 7229756 . 2020PNAS..11710422S . 0027-8424. free .
  19. Ksepka . Daniel T. . Balanoff . Amy M. . Smith . N. Adam . Bever . Gabriel S. . Bhullar . Bhart-Anjan S. . Bourdon . Estelle . Braun . Edward L. . Burleigh . J. Gordon . Clarke . Julia A. . Colbert . Matthew W. . Corfield . Jeremy R. . 2020 . Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution . Current Biology . en . 30 . 11 . 2026–2036.e3 . 10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.060. 32330422 . 216095924 . free . 11336/141993 . free .
  20. Hoffman . Devin K. . Heckert . Andrew B. . Zanno . Lindsay E. . 2018-02-13 . Under the armor: X-ray computed tomographic reconstruction of the internal skeleton ofCoahomasuchus chathamensis(Archosauria: Aetosauria) from the Upper Triassic of North Carolina, USA, and a phylogenetic analysis of Aetosauria . PeerJ . 6 . e4368 . 10.7717/peerj.4368 . 29456892 . 5815331 . 2167-8359 . free .
  21. Hoffman . Devin K. . Heckert . Andrew B. . Zanno . Lindsay E. . 2018-11-29 . Disparate Growth Strategies within Aetosauria: Novel Histologic Data from the Aetosaur Coahomasuchus chathamensis . The Anatomical Record . 302 . 9 . 1504–1515 . 10.1002/ar.24019 . 30408334 . 53239179 . 1932-8486. free .
  22. Zanno . Lindsay E. . Heckert . Andrew B. . Krzyzanowski . Stan E. . Lucas . Spencer G. . 2002 . Diminutive metoposaurid skulls from the Upper Triassic Blue Hills (Adamanian: latest Carnian) of Arizona . New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin . 21 . 121–126.
  23. KING . M. RYAN . GATES . TERRY A. . GINGRAS . MURRAY K. . ZANNO . LINDSAY E. . PEMBERTON . S. GEORGE . Transgressive Erosion Expressed as a Glossifungites-Bearing Woodground: An Example from the Blackhawk Formation, Utah . 2018-01-16 . PALAIOS . 33 . 1 . 29–35 . 10.2110/palo.2016.111 . 2018Palai..33...29K . 135352052 . 0883-1351.
  24. King . M. Ryan . La Croix . Andrew D. . Gates . Terry A. . Anderson . Paul B. . Zanno . Lindsay E. . 2021-01-25 . Glossifungites gingrasi n. isp., a probable subaqueous insect domicile from the Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Utah . Journal of Paleontology . 95 . 3 . 427–439 . 10.1017/jpa.2020.115 . 233301939 . 0022-3360.
  25. Zanno . Lindsay E. . Varricchio . David J. . O'Connor . Patrick M. . Titus . Alan L. . Knell . Michael J. . 2011-09-19 . A New Troodontid Theropod, Talos sampsoni gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of North America . PLOS ONE . 6 . 9 . e24487 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0024487 . 21949721 . 3176273 . 2011PLoSO...624487Z . 1932-6203. free .
  26. Zanno . Lindsay E. . Sampson . Scott D. . 2005-12-30 . http://dx.doi.org/10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0897:anotmf2.0.co;2 A new Oviraptorosaur (Theropoda, Maniraptora) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Utah ]. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology . 25 . 4 . 897–904 . 10.1671/0272-4634(2005)025[0897:anotmf]2.0.co;2 . 131302174 . 0272-4634.
  27. Zanno . L.E. . Tucker . R.T. . Canoville . A. . Avrahami . H.M. . Gates . T.A. . Makovicky . P.J. . 2019 . Diminutive fleet-footed tyrannosauroid narrows the 70-million-year gap in the North American fossil record . Communications Biology . 2 . 64 . 64 . 10.1038/s42003-019-0308-7 . 6385174 . 30820466.
  28. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award # 1600545 - Collaborative Research GP-EXTRA: Engaging Diverse Two-Year College Geoscience Students: Expanding Opportunities Through Undergraduate Research and Mentoring . 2022-03-10 . www.nsf.gov.
  29. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award # 1560871 - CSBR: Natural History Collections: Critical Conservation of Paleontological Collections at the NCSM: A Platform to Engage Underserved Students in Citizen Science . 2022-03-10 . www.nsf.gov . en.
  30. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award # 1552328 - EAGER: Experimental Techniques for Discerning Female-specific Morphology in Non-avian Theropod Dinosaurs . 2022-03-10 . www.nsf.gov . en.
  31. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award # 1925973 - Collaborative Research: Time of Transformation: integrating the dynamic geologic, climatic and biotic systems of North America during the Early to Late Cretaceous transition . 2022-03-10 . www.nsf.gov . en.
  32. Web site: Bones From New Dinosaur Found In The Badlands . 2022-03-10 . NPR.org . en.
  33. News: Fleur . Nicholas St . 2019-02-21 . Tiny Tyrannosaur Hints at How T. Rex Became King . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-03-10 . 0362-4331.
  34. News: Bhanoo . Sindya N. . 2010-12-21 . T. Rex's Relatives Had More Items on Their Menu . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-03-10 . 0362-4331.
  35. News: 2019-02-21 . Teeny T. rex relative discovered in US . en-GB . BBC News . 2022-03-10.
  36. Web site: 2020-11-17 . 'Dueling Dinosaurs' fossil, hidden from science for 14 years, could finally reveal its secrets . https://web.archive.org/web/20210301184122/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/dueling-dinosaurs-fossil-finally-set-to-reveal-secrets . dead . March 1, 2021 . 2022-03-10 . Science . en.
  37. Web site: WHO WE ARE . 2022-03-10 . Jurassic Foundation . en.
  38. Web site: Program Committee . 2022-03-10 . Society of Vertebrate Paleontology . en-US.
  39. Web site: Connect With Us . 2022-03-10 . Zanno Lab 2020 . en.
  40. Web site: FossilPhiles . 2022-03-10 . FossilPhiles . en.
  41. Web site: admin . Shark Teeth Forensics . 2022-03-10 . Students Discover . en-US.
  42. Web site: Dueling Dinosaurs North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences . 2022-03-10 . Dueling Dinosaurs North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences . en-US.
  43. Web site: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences to receive the "Dueling Dinosaurs" Programs and Events Calendar . 2022-03-10 . en.
  44. Web site: Magazine . Smithsonian . Aridi . Rasha . The Mystery of the 'Dueling Dinosaurs' May Finally Be Solved Now That They've Found a Home . 2022-03-10 . Smithsonian Magazine . en.
  45. Web site: Not Sold! 'Dueling Dinos' Flop at Auction . 2022-03-10 . www.science.org . en.
  46. Web site: Court rules 'Dueling Dinos' belong to landowners, in a win for science . 2022-03-10 . www.science.org . en.
  47. News: Malo . Sebastien . 2020-06-17 . En banc 9th Circuit affirms mineral rights exclude dinosaur fossils . en . Reuters . 2022-03-10.

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