Kristina Curry Rogers 4045043 192482795 2008-02-19T04:37:20Z J. Spencer 568400 KCR is now at Macalester full-time '''Kristina A. Curry Rogers''' is a graduate of the [[State University of New York at Stony Brook]] in New York, and currently Assistant Pofessor in geology and biology at [[Macalester College]]. Her work focuses on questions of dinosaur biology, [[bone histology]], growth, and evolution, especially the [[Titanosauria]], on which she wrote her doctoral dissertion. Together with [[Catherine Forster]], Associate Professor and her teacher at Stony Brook, she discovered and described ''[[Rapetosaurus]]'', the most complete [[Cretaceous]] [[sauropod]] and titanosaur found to date. Through [[cladistic]] analysis of ''Rapetosaurus'' and other titanosaurs, Curry Rogers was able to revise the phylogeny of the titanosaurs (see Curry Rogers 2005). ==Partial bibliography== * Curry, K. A. 1999. Ontogenetic histology of Apatosaurus (Dinosauria: Sauropoda): New insights on growth rates and longevity. ''[[Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology]]'' 19:(654-665). * Castanet, J., K. Curry Rogers, J. Cubo, and J. J. Boisard. 2000. Quantification of periosteal osteogenesis in ostrich and emu: Implications for studies of extinct dinosaurian bone histology. ''Comptes Rendus l'Academie des Sciences''. * Erickson, G.M., K. Curry Rogers, and S. A. Yerby. 2001. Dinosaurian growth patterns and rapid avian growth rates. ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' 412: 429-433. * Curry Rogers, K. and [[Catherine Forster|C. A. Forster]]. 2001. The last of the dinosaur titans: a new sauropod from Madagascar. ''Nature'' 412: 530-534. * Curry Rogers, K. 2001. "Growth Rates among the dinosaurs" in ''The Scientific American Book of Dinosaurs'' ([[Gregory Paul|Paul, G.]], ed.). pp. 297-309. * Curry Rogers, K and Forster, C. A. (2004) The skull of Rapetosaurus krausei (Sauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology'' 24(1): 121-143. * Curry Rogers, K. A. and [[Jeffrey A. Wilson|Wilson, J.A.]], 2005, ''The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology'', [[University of California Press]], Berkeley, ISBN 0-520-24623-3 * Curry Rogers, K. A., 2005, "Titanosauria: A Phylogenetic Overview" ''in'' Curry Rogers and Wilson (eds), ''The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology'' pp.50-103 ==External links== * [http://ltc.smm.org/buzz/museum/ask/rogers She studies dinos in Madagascar] Questions and answers about Roger's research from Science Museum of Minnesota visitors. * [http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/08/0801_madagascardino.html Skeleton of New Dinosaur "Titan" Found in Madagascar] - D.L. Parsell - National Geographic News, August 1, 2001 {{DEFAULTSORT:Curry Rogers, Kristina A.}} [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Year of birth missing (living people)]] [[Category:American paleontologists]] [[Category:State University of New York at Stony Brook alumni]] {{scientist-stub}} [[sv:Kristina Curry Rogers]]