Senior Curator of Paleontology
Research Professor Emeritus, NCSU

Dale.Russell@ncdenr.gov
919.733.7450 x729

Ph.D. (Geology) Columbia University, 1964
M.A. (Paleontology) U. of California, Berkeley, 1960
B.A. (Biological sciences) U. of Oregon, Eugene, 1958

Research Interests

Research emphasis is focused on the completion of a manuscript, to be published in the “Life of the Past” series of the University of Indiana Press. It consists of an overview on the evolution of life on land, with special reference to long-term trends and implications for the evolution of life on Earth-like planets elsewhere.

Recent Publications

Peer Reviewed

1999. Atlasaurus imelakei, n.g., n. sp., a brachiosaurid-like sauropod from the middle Jurassic of Morocco. Comptes Rendus de L'Academie des Sciences, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 329: 519-526. (With M. Monbaron and P. Taquet.)

1999. A massively-constructed iguanodont from Gadoufaoua, Lower Cretaceous of Niger. Annales de Paleontologie 85: 85-96. (With P. Taquet.)

1998. New data on spinosaurid dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of the Sahara. Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Sciences de la Terre et des Planetes 327: 347-353. (With P. Taquet.)

1998. The Early Cretaceous microvertebrate locality of Anoual, Morocco: a glimpse at the small vertebrate assemblages of Africa. In Lucas, S. G., J. I. Kirkland and J. W. Estep, eds., Lower and Middle Cretaceous Terrestrial Ecosystems. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 14: 177-181. (With D. Sigogneau-Russell, S. E. Evens, and J. F. Levine.)

1998. The thermoregulatory functions of the Triceratops frill and horns: heat flow measured with oxygen isotopes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18: 746-750. (With R.E. Barrick, M. K. Stoskopf, J. D. Marcot, and W. Showers.)

1997. Redescription of the holotype of Dryptosaurus aquilunguis (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 17: 561-573. (With K. Carpenter, D. Baird and R. Denton.)

1997. Notes on dinosaurs down south. In Wolberg, D. L., E. Stump, and G. D. Rosenberg, eds., DinoFest International, Proceedings of a Symposium sponsored by Arizona State University, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, pp. 241-243.

1997. The place of dinosaurs in the history of life. In Wolberg, D. L., E. Stump, and G. D. Rosenberg, eds., DinoFest International, Proceedings of a Symposium sponsored by Arizona State University, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, pp. 399-401.

1997. Dinosaurian faunas of the later Mesozoic. In Brett-Surman, M. and J. O. Farlow, eds., The Complete Dinosaur. University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, pp. 644-661. (With J. F. Bonaparte.)

1997. The extinction of the dinosaurs: a dialogue between a catastrophist and a gradualist. In Brett-Surman, M. and J. O. Farlow, eds., The Complete Dinosaur. University of Indiana Press, Bloomington, pp. 662-672. (With P. Dodson.)

Abstracts

1998. Digestive evidence for metabolism from carnivore coprolites. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18, supplement to number 3:26-27A. (With J.A. Bartlett, R. E. Barrick, J. P. Lamb, and W. H. Straight.)

1998. How much did dinosaurs eat: metabolic evidence from isotopes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18, supplement to number 3:26A. (With R.E. Barrick and W. Showers.)

1998. The ponderous iguanodont from Gadoufaoua, Niger. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18, supplement to number 3: p. 81A. (With P. Taquet.)

1998. Dinosaurian environments in the Saharan Cretaceous. The DinoFest Symposium, Philadelphia, April 17-19, 1998, p. 50. The DinoFest Symposium, Philadelphia, April 17-19, 1998, p. 50. (With C. R. Scotese and E. A. Wheeler.)

1998. The context of Acrocanthosaurus. The DinoFest Symposium, Philadelphia, April 17-19, 1998, p. 50. The DinoFest Symposium, Philadelphia, April 17-19, 1998, p. 50.

Non-peer-reviewed

1999. Archaeopteryx, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, Triceratops, and Tyrannosaurus entries in the Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2000, CD ROM.

1998. Dinosaurs and the concept of fitness. National Forum 78(3): 28-31.

1997. Pleistocene amphibians and reptiles in North America, J. A. Holman. American Scientist 85 (July-August): 382 (book review).

1997. T. rex and the crater of doom, W. Alvarez. Los Angeles Times (book review). July 20, Home Edition, Book Reviews, p. 6.

1997. Dinosaur lives: unearthing an evolutionary saga, J. Horner and E. Dobb. Los Angeles Times (book review). July 20, Home Edition, Book Reviews, p. 6.

1997. Intelligence (in dinosaurs). In Currie, P. J. and K. Padian, eds., Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Academic Press, New York, pp. 370-372.

1997. Therizinosauria. In Currie, P. J. and K. Padian, eds., Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Academic Press, New York, pp. 729-730.

1997. Dinosaurs. In Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, CD ROM.

1997. Stable oxygen isotope test for diagenesis in a vertebrate fossil assemblage. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Boulder 29(6): 463. (With W. H. Straight, J. P. Lamb, R. E. Barrick, W. J. Showers and V. P. Schneider.)

Selected Past Publications

1996. The significance of the extinction of the dinosaurs. Geological Society of America, Special Paper 307: 381-388.

1996. Isolated dinosaur bones from the middle Cretaceous of the Tafilalt, Morocco. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 4th series, 18 section C, nos. 2-3: 349-402.

1995. Biodiversity and time scales for the evolution of extraterrestrial intelligence. Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Conference Series, 74: 143-151.

1994. Faunal change following the Cretaceous-Tertiary impact: using paleontological data to assess the hazards of impact. In Tom Gehrels, ed., Hazards due to Comets and Asteroids, University of Arizona Press, pp. 879-893. (With P. Sheehan.)

1991. Late Mesozoic stratigraphy and vertebrates of the Gobi Basin. Cretaceous Research 12: 345-377. (With T. Jerzykiewicz.)

1989. An Odyssey in Time: the Dinosaurs of North America. University of Toronto Press, 240 pp.