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Faculty and Staff
John R. Horner
Regents Professor of Paleontology
Curator of Paleontology, Museum
of the Rockies
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Contact Information
Email:
jhorner(AT)montana.edu
Education
Geology/Paleontology, University of Montana
Honorary Doctorate, University of Montana
Honorary Doctorate, Pennsylvania State University, 2006
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Research Interests
I am presently interested in dinosaur evolution and ecology, with
emphases on growth and behavior. Studies are conducted in the field
where we host the largest paleontological field program in the country.
At the Museum of the Rockies we house one of the largest dinosaur
collections in the country, and maintain two laboratories, one for the
study of cellular and molecular paleontology, and the other for 3-D
imaging utilizing data from CT and 3-D scanners. Students committees
chaired by Jack Horner have full access to both laboratories, and are
encouraged to spend at least one summer in the field.
Current Graduate Students
Brian
Baziak
Denver
Fowler
Elizabeth
Freedman
Julie
Reizner
Laura Wilson
Christine
Wong
Holly
Woodward
Selected Publications
Horner, J. R, Padian, K, and Ricqles, A. de. 2005. How dinosaurs grew
so large and so small. Scientific American 293(4):32-39.
Schweitzer, M. H., J. L. Wittmeyer, J. R.
Horner, and J. B. Toporski. 2005. Soft-tissue vessels and cellular
preservation in Tyrannosaurus rex. Science 307:1952-1955.
Schweitzer, M. H., Wittmeyer, J. L., and
Horner, J. R. 2005. Gender-specific reproductive tissue in ratites and
Tyrannosaurus rex. Science 308:1456-1460.
Goodwin, M. and Horner, J. R. 2004. Cranial
histology of pachycephalosaurs (Ornithischia: Marginocephalia) reveals
transitory structures inconsistent with head-butting behavior.
Paleobiology 30(2):253-276.
Ricqlès, A. de, K. Padian, J. R.
Horner. 2003. On the histology of some Triassic pseudosuchian
archosaurs and related taxa. Annales de Paléontologie 89:67-101.
Ricqlès, A. de, K. Padian, J. R.
Horner, E. Lamm, N. Myhrvold. 2003. Osteohistology of Confuciousornis
anctus (Theropoda: Aves). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
23(2):373-386.
Horner, J. 2002. Evidence of dinosaur social
behavior. Chapter 9, pp 71-78 in Dinosaurs, The Science behind the
Stories, American Geological Institute, Alexandria, Virginia.
Padian, K. and Horner, J. R. 2002. Typology
versus transformation in the origin of birds. Trends in Ecology and
Evolution 17(3):120-124.
Horner, J. R., Padian, K., and
Ricqlès, A. de 2001. Comparative osteohistology of some
embryonic and perinatal archosaurs: developmental and behavioral
implications for dinosaurs. Paleobiology 27(1): 39-58.
Padian, K., A. J. de Ricqlès, and J.
R. Horner. 2001. Dinosaurian growth rates and bird origins. Nature
412:405-408.
Horner, J. R. 2001. Dinosaur Ethology, pp.
416-419 in Palaeobiology II, edited by Briggs and Crowther (Blackwell
Science, Oxford).
Horner, J. R. 2000. Dinosaur reproduction
and parenting. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences 28:19-45.
Horner, J. R., Ricqlès, A. de, and
Padian, K. 2000. Long bone histology of the hadrosaurid Maiasaura
peeblesorum: growth dynamics and physiology based on an ontogenetic
series of skeletal elements. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
20(1):109-123.
Horner, J. R., Ricqlès, A. de, and
Padian, K. 1999. Variation in dinosaur skeletochronology indicators:
implications for age assessment and physiology. Paleobiology
19(4):295-304.
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