Large-scale evolutionary patterns within Dinosauria; systematics of basal Theropoda; vertebrate paleoecology of Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems; the dinosaur fossil record.
Ph.D.
in Organismal Biology and Anatomy,
University of Chicago,
Organismal Biology and Anatomy,
The evolution of dinosaur locomotion: functional morphology, biomechanics, and modern analogs 1995 - 1998
M.S.
in Organismal Biology and Anatomy,
University of Chicago,
Organismal Biology and Anatomy,
Morphological indicators of foot posture in mammals: a statisticaland biomechanical analysis 1992 - 1995
B.S.
in Geology-Biology,
Brown University,
Geological Sciences,
Mesozoic ungulate parallels: an examination of hadrosaur morphology (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) with an evaluation of patterns of correlation between hadrosaurs and ungulates 1987 - 1991
Chiarenza, Alfio Alessandro, Mannion, Philip D., Farnsworth, Alex, Carrano, Matthew T., and Varela, Sara. 2022. "Climatic constraints on the biogeographic history of Mesozoic dinosaurs." Current Biology, 32, (3) 570–585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.11.061.
2022
Carrano, Matthew T., Oreska, Matthew P. J., Murch, Abree, Trujillo, Kelli C., and Chamberlain, Kevin R. 2021. "Vertebrate paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), III: a new species of Albanerpeton, with biogeographic and paleoecological implications." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Philadelphia; Pennsylvania: Taylor & Francis Incorporated. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2021.2003372.
2021
Close, Roger A., Benson, Roger B. J., Alroy, John, Behrensmeyer, Anna K., Benito, Juan, Carrano, Matthew T., Cleary, Terri J., Dunne, Emma M., Mannion, Philip D., Uhen, Mark D., and Butler, Richard J. 2019. "Diversity dynamics of Phanerozoic terrestrial tetrapods at the local-community scale." Nature Ecology & Evolution 3 (4):590-597. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0811-82019
Carrano, Matthew T., Loewen, Mark A., and Evers, Serjoscha W. 2018. "Comment (Case 3506) - Conservation of Allosaurus Marsh, 1877 (Dinosauria, Theropoda): additional data in support of the proposed neotype for its type species Allosaurus fragilis Marsh, 1877." The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75:59-64. https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v75.a0142018
Benson, Roger B. J., Hunt, Gene, Carrano, Matthew T., and Campione, Nicolas. 2018. "Cope's rule and the adaptive landscape of dinosaur body size evolution." Palaeontology 61 (1):13-48. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.123292018
Montoya-Sanhueza, Germ, Moreno, Karen, Bobe, René, Carrano, Matthew T., García, Marcelo, and Corgne, Alexandre. 2017. "Peltephilidae and Mesotheriidae (Mammalia) from late Miocene strata of Northern Chilean Andes, Caragua." Journal of South American Earth Sciences 75:51-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2017.01.0092017
Benson, Roger B. J., Butler, Richard J., Alroy, John, Mannion, Philip D., Carrano, Matthew T., and Lloyd, Graeme T. 2016. "Near-Stasis in the Long-Term Diversification of Mesozoic Tetrapods." PLoS Biology 14 (1):1-27. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.10023592016
Carrano, Matthew T. and Choiniere, Jonah. 2016. "New Information on the Forearm and Manus of Ceratosaurus Nasicornis Marsh, 1884 (Dinosauria, Theropoda), with Implications for Theropod Forelimb Evolution." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36 (2):https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2015.10544972016
Rauhut, Oliver W. M. and Carrano, Matthew T. 2016. "The theropod dinosaur Elaphrosaurusbambergi Janensch, 1920, from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178 (3):546-610. https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.124252016
Carrano, Matthew T., Oreska, Matthew P. J., and Lockwood, Rowan. 2016. "Vertebrate Paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Ii: Paleoecology." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36 (2):https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2015.10712652016
Aiello, B. R., Iriarte-Diaz, J., Blob, R. W., Butcher, M. T., Carrano, Matthew T., Espinoza, N. R., Main, R. P., and Ross, C. F. 2015. "Bone strain magnitude is correlated with bone strain rate in tetrapods: implications for models of mechanotransduction." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 282, (1810). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0321.
2015
Mannion, Philip D., Benson, Roger B. J., Carrano, Matthew T., Tennant, Jonathan P., Judd, Jack, and Butler, Richard J. 2015. "Climate constrains the evolutionary history and biodiversity of crocodylians." Nature Communications 6 (8438):https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms94382015
Carrano, Matthew T. and D'Emic, Michael D. 2015. "Osteoderms of the titanosaur sauropod dinosaur Alamosaurus sanjuanensis Gilmore, 1922." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 (1):https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2014.9013342015
Evans, David C., Barrett, Paul M., Brink, Kirstin S., and Carrano, Matthew T. 2015. "Osteology and bone microstructure of new, small theropod dinosaur material from the early Late Cretaceous of Morocco." Gondwana Research 27 (3):1034-1041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2014.03.0162015
Ksepka, Daniel T., Parham, James F., Allman, James F., Benton, Michael J., Carrano, Matthew T., Cranston, Karen A., Donoghue, Philip C. J., Head, Jason J., Hermsen, Elizabeth J., Irmis, Randall B., Joyce, Walter G., Kohli, Manpreet, Lamm, Kristin S., Leehr, Dan, Patané, José S. L., Polly, P. David, Phillips, Matthew J., Smith, N. Adam, Smith, Nathan D., van Tuinen, Marcel, Ware, Jessica L., and Warnock, Rachel C. M. 2015. "The Fossil Calibration Database, A New Resource for Divergence Dating." Systematic Biology 64 (5):853-859. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syv0252015
Campione, Nicolas E., Evans, David C., Brown, Caleb M., and Carrano, Matthew T. 2014. "Body mass estimation in non-avian bipeds using a theoretical conversion to quadruped stylopodial proportions." Methods in Ecology and Evolution 5 (9):913-923. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.122262014
Brusatte, Stephen L., Butler, Richard J., Barrett, Paul M., Carrano, Matthew T., Evans, David C., Lloyd, Graeme T., Mannion, Philip D., Norell, Mark A., Peppe, Daniel J., Upchurch, Paul, and Williamson, Thomas E. 2014. "The extinction of the dinosaurs." Biological Reviews 90 (2):628-642. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.121282014
Conrad, Jack L., Head, Jason J., and Carrano, Matthew T. 2014. "Unusual Soft-Tissue Preservation of a Crocodile Lizard (Squamata, Shinisauria) From the Green River Formation (Eocene) and Shinisaur Relationships." Anatomical Record : Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary Biology 297 (3):545-559. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.228682014
Uhen, Mark D., Barnosky, Anthony D., Bills, Brian, Blois, Jessica, Carrano, Matthew T., Carrasco, Marc A., Erickson, Gregory M., Eronen, Jussi T., Fortelius, Mikael, Graham, Russell W., Grimm, Eric C., O'Leary, Maureen A., Mast, Austin, Piel, William H., Polly, P. David, and Saila, Laura K. 2013. "From Card Catalogs to Computers: Databases in Vertebrate Paleontology." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (1):13-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2012.7161142013
Oreska, Matthew P. J., Carrano, Matthew T., and Dzikiewicz, Katherine M. 2013. "Vertebrate Paleontology of the Cloverly Formation (Lower Cretaceous), I: Faunal Composition, Biogeographic Relationships, and Sampling." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (2):264-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2012.7175672013
Benson, Roger B. J., Butler, Richard J., Carrano, Matthew T., and O'Connor, Patrick M. 2012. "Air-filled postcranial bones in theropod dinosaurs: physiological implications and the 'reptile'–bird transition." Biological Reviews 87 (1):168-193. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2011.00190.x2012
Burch, Sara H. and Carrano, Matthew T. 2012. "An Articulated Pectoral Girdle and Forelimb of the Abelisaurid Theropod Majungasaurus Crenatissimus from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 (1):1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2012.6220272012
Fitzgerald, Erich M. G., Carrano, Matthew T., Holland, Timothy, Wagstaff, Barbara E., Pickering, David, Rich, Thomas H., and Vickers-Rich, Patricia. 2012. "First ceratosaurian dinosaur from Australia." Naturwissenschaften 99 (5):397-405. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00114-012-0915-32012
Thomas, Daniel B., James, Helen F., Carrano, Matthew T., and Madden, Odile. 2012. "Searching for Evidence of Fossil Feather Color with Spectroscopy." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:183-184.
2012
Carrano, Matthew T., Benson, Roger B. J., and Sampson, Scott D. 2012. "The phylogeny of Tetanurae (Dinosauria: Theropoda)." Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10 (2):211-300. https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2011.6309272012
Mannion, Philip D., Benson, Roger B. J., Upchurch, Paul, Butler, Richard J., Carrano, Matthew T., and Barrett, Paul M. 2011. "A temperate palaeodiversity peak in Mesozoic dinosaurs and evidence for Late Cretaceous geographical partitioning." Global Ecology and Biogeography 21 (9):898-908. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00735.x2011
Wilson, Jeffrey A., Barrett, Paul M., and Carrano, Matthew T. 2011. "An associated partial skeleton of Jainosaurus cf. septentrionalis (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Chhota Simla, Central India." Palaeontology 54 (5):981-998. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01087.x2011
Hall, Margaret I., Kirk, E. C., Kamilar, Jason M., and Carrano, Matthew T. 2011. "Comment on "Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology"." Science 334 (6063):1641-1641. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.12084422011
Upchurch, P., Mannion, P. D., Benson, R. B. J., Butler, R. J., and Carrano, Matthew T. 2011. "Geological and anthropogenic controls on the sampling of the terrestrial fossil record: a case study from the Dinosauria." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 358 (1):209-240. https://doi.org/10.1144/SP358.142011
Butler, Richard J., Benson, Roger B. J., Carrano, Matthew T., Mannion, Philip D., and Upchurch, Paul. 2011. "Sea level, dinosaur diversity and sampling biases: investigating the 'common cause' hypothesis in the terrestrial realm." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 278, (1709) 1165–1170. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1754.
2011
Ksepka, Daniel T., Benton, Michael J., Carrano, Matthew T., Gandolfo, Maria A., Head, Jason J., Hermsen, Elizabeth J., Joyce, Walter G., Lamm, Kristin S., Patané, José S. L., Phillips, Matthew J., Polly, P. David, van Tuinen, Marcel, Ware, Jessica L., Warnock, Rachel C. M., and Parham, James F. 2011. "Synthesizing and databasing fossil calibrations: divergence dating and beyond." Biology Letters 7 (6):801-803. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2011.03562011
Carrano, Matthew T., Krause, D. W., O'Connor, P. M., and Sampson, S. D. 2009. "Case 3487: Megalosaurus crenatissimus Depéret, 1896 (currently Majungasaurus crenatissimus; Dinosauria, Theropoda): proposed replacement of the holotype by a neotype." The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 66 (3):261-264.
2009
Carrano, Matthew T. and Johnson, Kirk R. 2019. Visions of lost worlds: the paleoart of Jay Matternes. Smithsonian Books.
2019
Carrano, Matthew T., Loewen, Mark A., and Sertich, Joseph J. W. 2011. New materials of Masiakasaurus knopfleri Sampson, Carrano, and Forster, 2001, and implications for the morphology of the Noasauridae (Theropoda:Ceratosauria). Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 95. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810266.95.1.
2011
Carrano, Matthew T., Wilson, Jeffrey A., and Barrett, Paul M. 2010. "The history of dinosaur collecting in central India, 1828-1947." in Dinosaurs and other Extinct Saurians: a Historical Perspective, edited by Moody, R. T. J., Buffetaut, E., Naish, D., and Martill, D. M., 161-173. Geological Society.
2010
Carrano, Matthew T. 2007. "Walking and running dinosaurs." In Dinosaurs. Holtz, Thomas R., Jr., editor. 308. Random House Children's Books.
2007
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Carrano, Matthew T. 2017. "Jurassic Park—In Concert." Given at National Symphony Orchestra, Wolf Trap, 2017.
2017
Carrano, Matthew T. 2017. "Windows into the world of giants." Given at Dinosaur Weekend, Burke Museum, University of Washington, 2017.
2017
Carrano, Matthew T. 2016. "Vertebrate microfossil bonebeds as benchmarks for terrestrial vertebrate diversity and paleoecology through time." Given at Department of Integrated Biology, University of California, Berkeley, 2016.
2016
Carrano, Matthew T. 2015. "A curatorial perspective on the Deep Time exhibit renovation." Given at The Future of Museum and Gallery Design, Hong Kong University, 2015.
2015
Carrano, Matthew T. 2014. "Challenges and benefits of using vertebrate microfossil bonebeds for understanding terrestrial paleoecosystems." Given at 4th International Palaeontological Congress, 2014.
2014
Carrano, Matthew T. 2012. "Dinosaur detective stories: what do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it?." Given at Undergraduate Research and Design Symposium. Northern Arizona University., 2012.
2012
Carrano, Matthew T. 2012. "Paleoecology and biogeography of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation, Late Jurassic, western United States." Given at Tendaguru and Beyond : Vertebrates in Jurassic Ecosystems (Symposium), Centenary Meeting, Paläontologische Gessellschaft, 2012.
2012
Carrano, Matthew T. 2011. "The evolutionary history of basal tetanuran theropod dinosaurs." Given at IV Congreso Latinoamericano Paleontología de Vertebrados, .
2011
Carrano, Matthew T. 2009. "The phylogeny of megalosauroids (Dinosauria: Theropoda) with implications for the evolution of North African ecosystems." Given at First International Congress on North African Vertebrate Palaeontology, 2009.
2009
