Mark A. Norell

American Museum of Natural History — United States

Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology(13), Evolution and Paleontology Studies(12), Morphological variations and asymmetry(5), Ichthyology and Marine Biology(4), Amphibian and Reptile Biology(3)

Publications19 total

Reorganization of the theropod wrist preceded the origin of avian flight
Nature·2025· 3 cited
The dinosaurian femoral head experienced a morphogenetic shift from torsion to growth along the avian stem
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
tableS1_femora list_20220610.xlsx from The dinosaurian femoral head experienced a morphogenetic shift from torsion to growth along the avian stem
Figshare·2022Open Access
tableS1_femora list_20220610.xlsx from The morphogenetic process for the dinosaurian femoral head shape shifted in evolution
Figshare·2022Open Access
tableS1_femora list_20220610.xlsx from The femoral head of birds evolved via a shift from torsion to growth along the avian stem
Figshare·2022Open Access
Selection for Decreased BRCA2 Functional Activity in <i>Homo sapiens</i> After Divergence from the Chimpanzee-Human Last Common Ancestor
2020Open Access
Decelerated dinosaur skull evolution with the origin of birds
PLoS Biology·2020· 31 citedOpen Access
Potential for Powered Flight Neared by Most Close Avialan Relatives, but Few Crossed Its Thresholds
Current Biology·2020· 123 citedOpen Access
Estimating Flight Style of Early Eocene Stem Palaeognath Bird<i>Calciavis grandei</i>(Lithornithidae)
The Anatomical Record·2019· 8 citedOpen Access
Complex Overlapping Joints between Facial Bones Allowing Limited Anterior Sliding Movements of the Snout in Diplodocid Sauropods
American Museum Novitates·2018· 4 citedOpen Access
Convergent Evolution of a Eusuchian-Type Secondary Palate within Shartegosuchidae
American Museum Novitates·2018· 24 citedOpen Access
A Second Specimen of<i>Citipati Osmolskae</i>Associated With a Nest of Eggs from Ukhaa Tolgod, Omnogov Aimag, Mongolia
American Museum Novitates·2018· 44 citedOpen Access
The Endocranial Cavity of Oviraptorosaur Dinosaurs and the Increasingly Complex, Deep History of the Avian Brain
Brain Behavior and Evolution·2018· 20 cited
Indications for a horny beak and extensive supraorbital connective tissue in diplodocid sauropods
2018· 2 cited
Gradual Assembly of Avian Body Plan Culminated in Rapid Rates of Evolution across the Dinosaur-Bird Transition
Current Biology·2014· 311 citedOpen Access
“Dinosaurian Life History Strategies, Growth Rates, and Character Evolution; New Insights Garnered from Bone Histology and Developmental Mass Extrapolation.”
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology·2003· 1 cited
Stratigraphic Tests of Cladistic Hypotheses
Palaeobiology II·2001· 2 cited
A revised look at the osteology of Dromaeosaurs Evidence from new specimens of Velociraptor
1998· 5 cited
Late Cenozoic lizards of the Anza Borrego Desert, California
Contributions in science·1989· 36 citedOpen Access

Frequent Co-authors

Bhart‐Anjan S. Bhullar(6), Shiro Egawa(4), Christopher T. Griffin(4), Peter J. Bishop(4), Romain Pintore(4), Henry P. Tsai(4), João Francisco Botelho(4), Daniel Smith‐Paredes(4), Shigeru Kuratani(4), Sterling J. Nesbitt(4), John R. Hutchinson(4), Stephen L. Brusatte(2), Xing Xu(2), Amy M. Balanoff(2), Gregory M. Erickson(2), Emanuel Tschopp(2), Octávio Mateus(2), Graeme T. Lloyd(1), Steve C. Wang(1), Rui Pei(1)