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Scott D. Sampson
Associate Professor of Geology & Geophysics
Chief Curator and Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology, Utah Museum of Natural History
Contact: Office: 354 GTB
Phone: (801) 585-0561x250
ssampson@umnh.utah.edu
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FIELD OF STUDY
Vertebrate paleontology, Dinosaurs, Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems, evolutionary theory
BACKGROUND
- B.A. Anthropology, 1985, University of British Columbia
- M.A. Applied Anthropology, 1988, University of Toronto
- Ph.D. Anthropology, 1993, University of Toronto
RESEARCH INTERESTS & PROJECTS
Paleoecology, Biogeography and Evolution of Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs from North America; Fossil Vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar and Africa; Osteology and Phylogeny of Basal Theropod Dinosaurs.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Sampson, S. D. and Krause, D. W. (eds.) in press. Majungatholus atopus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir Series.
Sampson, S. D. and Witmer, L. M. in press. Craniofacial anatomy of Majungatholus atopus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir Series.
Carrano, M. T., Hutchinson, J. R., and Sampson, S. D. 2005. New information on Segisaurus halli, a small theropod from the Early Jurassic of Arizona. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25(4): 835-849.
Kirkland, J. I., Zanno, L. E., Sampson, S. D., Clark, J. C., and Deblieux, D. 2005. A primitive therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah. Nature, 435: 84-87.
Sampson, S. D. and Loewen, M. A. 2005. Tyrannosaurus rex from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) North Horn Formation of Utah: biogeographic and paleoecologic implications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25(2): 469-472.
Zanno, L. E. and Sampson, S. D. 2005. A new oviraptorosaur (Theropoda: Maniraptora) from the late Campanian of Utah and the status of the North American Oviraptorosauria. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 25(4): 897-904
Carrano, M. T. and Sampson, S. D. 2004. A review of European Lower Jurassic coelophysoids (Dinosauria: Theropoda), with comments on the late history of the Coelophysoidea. Neues Jahrbuch. Geol. Palaeont. Mh., 9: 537-558.
Dodson, P. Forster, C. A. and Sampson, S. D. 2004. Ceratopsidae. Pp. 494-513 in D. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmolska (eds), The Dinosauria, 2nd Edition, University of California Press, Berkeley.
Sampson, S. D. and George, S. B. 2004. Reinventing a Natural History Museum for the 21st Century. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 55, Suppl. 1 (13): 283-294.
Carrano, M. T., Sampson, S. D., and Forster, C. A. 2002. The osteology of Masiakasaurus knopfleri, a new abelisauroid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22(3): 510-534.
Sampson, S. D. 2001. Speculations on the socioecology of ceratopsid dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Neoceratopsia). In D. Tanke and K. Carpenter (eds) Mesozoic Vertebrate Liife, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 263-276.
Sampson, S. D., Carrano, M. T., Forster, C. A. 2001. A bizarre predatory dinosaur from Madagascar: implications for the evolution of Gondwanan theropods. Nature, 409: 504-505.
