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List of works by François Therrien

A new tyrannosaurine (Theropoda:Tyrannosauridae) from the Campanian Foremost Formation of Alberta, Canada, provides insight into the evolution and biogeography of tyrannosaurids

scientific article published in June 2020

A specimen of Rhamphorhynchus with soft tissue preservation, stomach contents and a putative coprolite

scientific article

Accuracy of mandibular force profiles for bite force estimation and feeding behavior reconstruction in extant and extinct carnivorans.

scientific article published on 15 September 2016

Assignment ofYamaceratops dorngobiensisand associated redbeds at Shine Us Khudag (eastern Gobi, Dorngobi Province, Mongolia) to the redescribed Javkhlant Formation (Upper Cretaceous)

scientific article (publication date: 12 March 2009)

Continental fossil vertebrates from the mid-Cretaceous (Albian–Cenomanian) Alcântara Formation, Brazil, and their relationship with contemporaneous faunas from North Africa

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Cryodrakon boreas, gen. et sp. nov., a Late Cretaceous Canadian azhdarchid pterosaur

scientific article published on 4 May 2019

Description of juvenile specimens of Prosaurolophus maximus (Hadrosauridae: Saurolophinae) from the Upper Cretaceous Bearpaw Formation of southern Alberta, Canada, reveals ontogenetic changes in crest morphology

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Dinosaur eggshell assemblage from Japan reveals unknown diversity of small theropods

scientific article published in January 2016

Dinosaur eggshells from the Santonian Milk River Formation of Alberta, Canada

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Dinosaur eggshells from the lower Maastrichtian St. Mary River Formation of southern Alberta, Canada

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Dinosaur trackways from the Upper Cretaceous Oldman and Dinosaur Park formations (Belly River Group) of southern Alberta, Canada, reveal novel ichnofossil preservation style

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Eggshell Porosity Provides Insight on Evolution of Nesting in Dinosaurs

scientific article

Eggshell geochemistry reveals ancestral metabolic thermoregulation in Dinosauria

scientific article published on 14 February 2020

Evolution of olfaction in non-avian theropod dinosaurs and birds

scientific article (publication date: 22 December 2011)

Exceptional preservation of a Late Cretaceous dinosaur nesting site from Mongolia reveals colonial nesting behavior in a non-avian theropod

scholarly article by Kohei Tanaka et al published 5 July 2019 in Geology

Exceptionally small theropod eggs from the Lower Cretaceous Ohyamashimo Formation of Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan

scientific article published in October 2020

Feathered non-avian dinosaurs from North America provide insight into wing origins

scientific article

First fossil gravid turtle provides insight into the evolution of reproductive traits in turtles

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2008)

Fossil eggshells from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Fruitland Formation, New Mexico

High-resolution organic carbon isotope record across the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary in south-central Alberta: implications for the post-impact recovery rate of terrestrial ecosystems and use of δ13C as a boundary marker

scientific article

Introduction to the Special Issue commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, with a summary of the museum’s early history and its research contributions

scholarly article

Latest Cretaceous eggshell assemblage from the Willow Creek Formation (upper Maastrichtian – lower Paleocene) of Alberta, Canada, reveals higher dinosaur diversity than represented by skeletal remains

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Mandibular force profiles and tooth morphology in growth series of Albertosaurus sarcophagus and Gorgosaurus libratus (Tyrannosauridae: Albertosaurinae) provide evidence for an ontogenetic dietary shift in tyrannosaurids1

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Mandibular force profiles of extant carnivorans and implications for the feeding behaviour of extinct predators

scientific article (publication date: 18 October 2005)

My theropod is bigger than yours … or not: estimating body size from skull length in theropods

scientific article (publication date: 12 March 2007)

Nest substrate reflects incubation style in extant archosaurs with implications for dinosaur nesting habits.

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Olfactory acuity in theropods: palaeobiological and evolutionary implications

scientific article

Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous Sânpetru Formation (Haţeg Basin, Romania) using paleosols and implications for the “disappearance” of dinosaurs

scientific article (publication date: February 2009)

Palaeoenvironments of the latest Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) dinosaurs of Romania: insights from fluvial deposits and paleosols of the Transylvanian and Haţeg basins

scientific article published in 2005

Reassessment of a juvenile Daspletosaurus from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada with implications for the identification of immature tyrannosaurids

scientific article published on 28 November 2019

Testing size–frequency distributions as a method of ontogenetic aging: a life-history assessment of hadrosaurid dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada, with implications for hadrosaurid paleoecology

scientific article published on 07 September 2020

The range of bioinclusions and pseudoinclusions preserved in a new Turonian (~90 ma) amber occurrence from Southern Australia

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