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Catherine A. Forster is affiliated with George Washington University in the United States and has contributed to multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences, focusing predominantly on Paleontology. Their research spans several main topics including Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Morphological Variations and Asymmetry, and Geology and Paleoclimatology Research.

The scientist's subfields of study include Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Social Psychology, Geometry and Topology, and Atmospheric Science.

Recent scholarly works authored or coauthored by Catherine A. Forster include:

  • The osteology of the Late Cretaceous paravian Rahonavis ostromi from Madagascar (2020), published in Palaeontologia Electronica
  • Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa (2022), published in The Anatomical Record

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Karen E. Poole
  • Xing Xu
  • Jinfeng Hu
  • Fenglu Han
  • Patrick M. O'Connor

Catherine A. Forster's publications appear regularly in several venues, among which the most frequent are:

  • The Anatomical Record
  • Palaeontologia Electronica
  • The FASEB Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • Predatory Dinosaur Remains from Madagascar: Implications for the Cretaceous Biogeography of Gondwana

    Scott D. Sampson;Lawrence M. Witmer;Catherine A. Forster;David W. Krause

  • THE OSTEOLOGY OF MASIAKASAURUS KNOPFLERI, A SMALL ABELISAUROID (DINOSAURIA: THEROPODA) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MADAGASCAR

    Matthew T. Carrano;Scott D. Sampson;Catherine A. Forster

  • The Ischigualasto Tetrapod Assemblage (Late Triassic, Argentina) and 40Ar/39Ar Dating of Dinosaur Origins

    Raymond R. Rogers;Carl C. Swisher;Paul C. Sereno;Alfredo M. Monetta

  • A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies.

    Xing Xu;James M. Clark;Jinyou Mo;Jonah Choiniere

  • The last of the dinosaur titans: a new sauropod from Madagascar

    Kristina Curry Rogers;Kristina Curry Rogers;Kristina Curry Rogers;Catherine A. Forster

  • A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China

    Xing Xu;James M. Clark;Catherine A. Forster;Mark A. Norell

  • New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah Provide Evidence for Intracontinental Dinosaur Endemism

    Scott D. Sampson;Mark A. Loewen;Andrew A. Farke;Eric M. Roberts

  • A Basal Alvarezsauroid Theropod from the Early Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China

    Jonah N. Choiniere;Xing Xu;James M. Clark;Catherine A. Forster

  • The postcranial skeleton of the ornithopod dinosaur Tenontosaurus tilletti

    Catherine A. Forster

  • Paleoenvironment and Taphonomy of the Chañares Formation Tetrapod Assemblage (Middle Triassic), Northwestern Argentina: Spectacular Preservation in Volcanogenic Concretions

    Raymond R. Rogers;Andrea B. Arcucci;Fernando Abdala;Paul C. Sereno

  • A basal ceratopsian with transitional features from the Late Jurassic of northwestern China.

    Xing Xu;Catherine A Forster;James M Clark;Jinyou Mo

  • THE SKULL OF RAPETOSAURUS KRAUSEI (SAUROPODA: TITANOSAURIA) FROM THE LATE CRETACEOUS OF MADAGASCAR

    Kristina Curry Rogers;Catherine A. Forster

  • A Middle Jurassic ‘sphenosuchian’ from China and the origin of the crocodylian skull

    James M. Clark;Xing Xu;Xing Xu;Catherine A. Forster;Yuan Wang

  • "The Late Cretaceous Vertebrate Fauna of Madagascar: Implications for Gondwanan Paleobiogeography."

    Raymond Rogers;D.W. Krause;C.A. Forster;J.H. Hartman

  • The first Cretaceous bird from Madagascar

    Catherine A. Forster;Luis M. Chiappe;David W. Krause;Scott D. Sampson

  • New information on Nqwebasaurus thwazi, a coelurosaurian theropod from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation in South Africa

    Jonah N. Choiniere;Jonah N. Choiniere;Jonah N. Choiniere;Catherine A. Forster;William J. de Klerk

  • A new coelurosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of South Africa

    William J. De Klerk;Catherine A. Forster;Scott D. Sampson;Anusuya Chinsamy

  • A juvenile specimen of a new coelurosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle–Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China

    Jonah N. Choiniere;James M. Clark;Catherine A. Forster;Mark A. Norell

  • A new carnivorous cynodont from the Ischigualasto Formation (Late Triassic, Argentina), with comments on eucynodont phylogeny

    Ricardo N. Martinez;Cathleen L. May;Catherine A. Forster

  • New information on the skull of Triceratops

    Catherine A. Forster

  • Implications of ecological energetics and biophysical and developmental constraints for life-history variation in dinosaurs

    Arthur E. Dunham;Karen L. Overall;Warren P. Porter;Catherine A. Forster

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond R. Rogers
Raymond R. Rogers Macalester College
Xing Xu
Xing Xu Chinese Academy of Sciences
David W. Krause
David W. Krause Stony Brook University
Luis M. Chiappe
Luis M. Chiappe Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
David A. Eberth
David A. Eberth Royal Tyrrell Museum
John J. Flynn
John J. Flynn American Museum of Natural History
Mark A. Norell
Mark A. Norell American Museum of Natural History
Callum F. Ross
Callum F. Ross University of Chicago
Mark S. Marshall
Mark S. Marshall Indiana University
David A. Burney
David A. Burney National Tropical Botanical Garden

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