Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology

Ph.D., 2004, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Science
M.Sc., 1999, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Earth and Environmental Science
B.Sc., 1997, Hobart College, Departments of Geoscience and Biology, cum laude

Phone: 412.578.2696
Fax: 412.622.8837
Email: lamannam@carnegiemnh.org

Research Interests

Mesozoic vertebrate faunas and paleoecology; paleobiogeography as influenced by paleogeography and paleoenvironment; phylogenetic systematics and taxonomy, functional morphology.

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Selected Publications

• Lamanna, M. C., J. B. Smith, P. Dodson, and Y. S. Attia.  in press.  From dinosaurs to dyrosaurids (Crocodyliformes):  removal of the post-Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) record of Ornithischia from Africa.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
• Holtz, T. R. Jr., R. E. Chapman, and M. C. Lamanna.  in press.  Mesozoic biogeography of Dinosauria.  In D. B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska (eds.), The Dinosauria, Second Edition.  University of California Press, Berkeley.
• Martínez, R. D., O. Giménez, J. Rodríguez, M. Luna, and M. C. Lamanna.  2004.  An articulated specimen of the basal titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) Epachthosaurus sciuttoi from the early Late Cretaceous Bajo Barreal Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(1):107-120.
• Lacovara, K. J., J. R. Smith, J.B. Smith, and M. C. Lamanna.  2003.  The Ten Thousand Islands Coast of Florida: a modern analog to low-energy mangrove coasts of Cretaceous epeiric seas; pp. 1773-1784 in R. A. Davis, Jr. (ed.), Proceedings of the 5^th International Conference on Coastal Sediments, Clearwater Beach, Florida.
• Schweitzer, C. E., K. J. Lacovara, J. B. Smith, M. C. Lamanna, M. A. Lyon, and Y. Attia.  2003.  Mangrove-dwelling crabs (Decopoda: Brachyura: Necrocarcinidae) associated with dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Egypt.  Journal of Paleontology 77(5):888-894.
• Lamanna, M. C., R. D. Martínez, and J. B. Smith.  2002.  A definitive abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of Patagonia.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1):58-69.
• Smith, J. B., M. C. Lamanna,K. J. Lacovara, P. Dodson, J. R. Smith, J. C. Poole, R. F. Giegengack, and Y. Attia.  2001.  A giant sauropod dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous mangrove deposit in Egypt.  Science 292(5522):1704-1706.

• Nothdurft, W. E., with J. B. Smith, M. C. Lamanna, K. J. Lacovara, J. C. Poole, and J. R. Smith.  2002.  The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt.  Random House, New York, 256 p.

• Luna, M., G. Casal, R. Martínez, M. Lamanna, L. Ibiricu, and E. Ivany. in press.  La presencia de un Ornithopoda (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) en el Miembro Superior de la Formación Bajo Barreal (Campaniano-Maastrichtiano?) del sur de Chubut.  Resumenes - XIX Jornadas Argentinas de Paleontología de Vertebrados.
• Lamanna, M. C., A. M. Luna, G. A. Casal, R. D. Martínez, L. Ibiricu, and J. C. Sciutto.  2003.  New crocodyliform and dinosaur discoveries from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-?Maastrichtian) Upper Member of the Bajo Barreal Formation, southern Chubut Province, Argentina.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(3): 70A.
• Lacovara, K. J., J. R. Smith, J. B. Smith, and M. C. Lamanna. 2002.  Evidence of semi-diurnal tides along the African coast of the Cretaceous Tethys Seaway: Bahariya Oasis, Egypt.  Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 34(6):32.
• Lacovara, K. J., M. C. Lamanna, J. B. Smith, B. S. Grandstaff, and J. R. Smith.  2002.  Concentration and preservation potential of vertebrate fossils within coastal lithosomes: examples from the Upper Cretaceous Bahariya Formation of Egypt.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):77A.
• Lamanna, M. C., P. Dodson, J. B. Smith, K. J. Lacovara, and Y. Attia. 2002.  Skeletal anatomy of the giant titanosaur Paralititan (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the early Late Cretaceous of Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):77A.

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