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Overview

Christian A. Sidor is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a significant body of work in Paleontology. Additional fields of study include Environmental Science, supported by a substantial number of publications.

Their subfields of expertise include Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Geology, and Geophysics. Main topics addressed in their work cover Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, as well as Geological and Geophysical Studies and Geological and Geochemical Analysis.

Christian A. Sidor has contributed extensively to a number of well-regarded scientific journals and publication venues. The most frequent venues of their publications include:

  • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • MorphoBank datasets
  • Nature
  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Journal of African Earth Sciences

The scientist has co-authored multiple papers with several frequent collaborators. Notable co-authors include:

  • Kenneth D. Angielczyk
  • Brandon R. Peecook
  • Roger M. H. Smith
  • Megan R. Whitney
  • Bryan M. Gee

Selected recent papers by Christian A. Sidor cover various aspects of paleontological research and related earth science topics:

  • Inner ear biomechanics reveals a Late Triassic origin for mammalian endothermy, 2022, Nature
  • Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic evolution and cyclo- and chrono-stratigraphy of upper Permian-Lower Triassic fluvial-lacustrine deposits in Bogda Mountains, NW China - Implications for diachronous plant evolution across the Permian-Triassic boundary, 2021, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Evidence of torpor in the tusks of Lystrosaurus from the Early Triassic of Antarctica, 2020, Communications Biology
  • Using Manual Ungual Morphology to Predict Substrate Use in the Drepanosauromorpha and the Description of a New Species, 2020, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • A Basal Nonmammaliaform Cynodont from the Permian of Zambia and the Origins of Mammalian Endocranial and Postcranial Anatomy, 2020, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Best Publications

  • Predatory Dinosaurs from the Sahara and Late Cretaceous Faunal Differentiation

    Paul C. Sereno;Didier B. Dutheil;M. Iarochene;Hans C. E. Larsson

  • A Long-Snouted Predatory Dinosaur from Africa and the Evolution of Spinosaurids

    Paul C. Sereno;Allison L. Beck;Didier B. Dutheil;Boubacar Gado

  • The Giant Crocodyliform Sarcosuchus from the Cretaceous of Africa

    Paul C. Sereno;Hans C. E. Larsson;Christian A. Sidor;Boubé Gado

  • Cretaceous Sauropods from the Sahara and the Uneven Rate of Skeletal Evolution Among Dinosaurs

    Paul C. Sereno;Allison L. Beck;Didier B. Dutheil;Hans C. E. Larsson

  • Evolutionary Patterns Among Permo-Triassic Therapsids *

    Bruce S. Rubidge;Christian A. Sidor

  • GHOST LINEAGES AND MAMMALNESS : ASSESSING THE TEMPORAL PATTERN OF CHARACTER ACQUISITION IN THE SYNAPSIDA

    Christian A. Sidor;James A. Hopson

  • Provincialization of terrestrial faunas following the end-Permian mass extinction

    Christian A. Sidor;Daril A. Vilhena;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Adam K. Huttenlocker

  • Simplification as a trend in synapsid cranial evolution.

    Christian A. Sidor

  • The oldest dinosaur? A Middle Triassic dinosauriform from Tanzania

    Sterling J. Nesbitt;Paul M. Barrett;Sarah Werning;Christian A. Sidor

  • A new notosuchian from the Early Cretaceous of Niger

    P. C. Sereno;C. A. Sidor;H. C. E. Larsson;B. Gado

  • Permian tetrapods from the Sahara show climate-controlled endemism in Pangaea

    Christian A. Sidor;F. Robin O'Keefe;Ross Damiani;J. Sébastien Steyer

  • Permian and Triassic Dicynodont (Therapsida: Anomodontia) Faunas of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Taxonomic Update and Implications for Dicynodont Biogeography and Biostratigraphy

    Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Jean-Sébastien Steyer;Christian A. Sidor;Roger M. H. Smith

  • The Triassic dicynodont Kombuisia (Synapsida, Anomodontia) from Antarctica, a refuge from the terrestrial Permian-Triassic mass extinction

    Jörg Fröbisch;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Christian A. Sidor

  • Tetrapod Burrows From the Triassic Of Antarctica

    Christian A. Sidor;Molly F. Miller;John L. Isbell

  • Taxonomic Revision and New Observations on the Postcranial Skeleton, Biogeography, and Biostratigraphy of the Dicynodont Genus Dicynodontoides, the Senior Subjective Synonym of Kingoria (Therapsida, Anomodontia)

    Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Christian A. Sidor;Sterling J. Nesbitt;Roger M. H. Smith

  • Evolutionary trends and the origin of the mammalian lower jaw

    Christian A. Sidor

  • Cranial anatomy of Ennatosaurus tecton (Synapsida: Caseidae) from the Middle Permian of Russia and the evolutionary relationships of Caseidae

    Hillary C. Maddin;Christian A. Sidor;Robert R. Reisz

  • A new specimen of Promoschorhynchus (Therapsida: Therocephalia: Akidnognathidae) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa and its implications for theriodont survivorship across the Permo-Triassic boundary

    Adam K. Huttenlocker;Christian A. Sidor;Roger M. H. Smith

  • A new galesaurid (Therapsida: Cynodontia) from the Lower Triassic of South Africa

    Christian A Sidor;Roger M H Smith

  • A New Silesaurid from the Upper Ntawere Formation of Zambia (Middle Triassic) Demonstrates the Rapid Diversification of Silesauridae (Avemetatarsalia, Dinosauriformes)

    Brandon R. Peecook;Christian A. Sidor;Sterling J. Nesbitt;Roger M. H. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth D. Angielczyk
Kenneth D. Angielczyk Field Museum of Natural History
Sterling J. Nesbitt
Sterling J. Nesbitt Virginia Tech
Neil J. Tabor
Neil J. Tabor Southern Methodist University
Roger M. H. Smith
Roger M. H. Smith University of the Witwatersrand
Bruce S. Rubidge
Bruce S. Rubidge University of the Witwatersrand
Jeffrey A. Wilson
Jeffrey A. Wilson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Paul M. Barrett
Paul M. Barrett Natural History Museum
John L. Isbell
John L. Isbell University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Martín D. Ezcurra
Martín D. Ezcurra University of Birmingham
Robert R. Reisz
Robert R. Reisz University of Toronto

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