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David C. Evans

David C. Evans

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Earth Science

D-Index
34
Citations
5310
World Ranking
7868
National Ranking
402

Overview

David C. Evans is affiliated with the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Geometry and Topology, and Ecology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics such as Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Morphological variations and asymmetry, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Frequent coauthors of David C. Evans include Thomas M. Cullen, Michael J. Ryan, Caleb M. Brown, Nicolás E. Campione, and Kentaro Chiba.

They have published multiple papers in venues such as Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, Journal of Anatomy, The Anatomical Record, PeerJ, and Biology Letters.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Evans include:

  • The accuracy and precision of body mass estimation in non-avian dinosaurs, 2020, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs, 2021, PeerJ
  • Growth variability, dimensional scaling, and the interpretation of osteohistological growth data, 2021, Biology Letters
  • First case of osteosarcoma in a dinosaur: a multimodal diagnosis, 2020, The Lancet Oncology
  • The relationship between sternum variation and mode of locomotion in birds, 2021, BMC Biology

Best Publications

  • Correction: Corrigendum: The oldest North American pachycephalosaurid and the hidden diversity of small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs

    David C. Evans;Ryan K. Schott;Derek W. Larson;Caleb M. Brown

  • The extinction of the dinosaurs

    Stephen L. Brusatte;Richard J. Butler;Paul M. Barrett;Matthew T. Carrano

  • Evidence for taphonomic size bias in the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian, Alberta), a model Mesozoic terrestrial alluvial-paralic system

    Caleb Marshall Brown;David C. Evans;David C. Evans;Nicolás E. Campione;Lorna J. O'Brien

  • Body mass estimation in non-avian bipeds using a theoretical conversion to quadruped stylopodial proportions

    Nicolás E. Campione;Nicolás E. Campione;David C. Evans;David C. Evans;Caleb M. Brown;Caleb M. Brown;Matthew T. Carrano

  • Cranial growth and variation in edmontosaurs (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae): implications for latest Cretaceous megaherbivore diversity in North America.

    Nicolás E. Campione;David C. Evans

  • Megaherbivorous dinosaur turnover in the Dinosaur Park Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada

    Jordan C. Mallon;David C. Evans;Michael J. Ryan;Jason S. Anderson

  • ANATOMY AND RELATIONSHIPS OF LAMBEOSAURUS MAGNICRISTATUS, A CRESTED HADROSAURID DINOSAUR (ORNITHISCHIA) FROM THE DINOSAUR PARK FORMATION, ALBERTA

    David C. Evans;Robert R. Reisz

  • Dinosaur biostratigraphy of the Edmonton Group (Upper Cretaceous), Alberta, Canada: evidence for climate influence

    David A. Eberth;David C. Evans;Donald B. Brinkman;François Therrien

  • Dental Disparity and Ecological Stability in Bird-like Dinosaurs prior to the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction.

    Derek W. Larson;Caleb M. Brown;Caleb M. Brown;David C. Evans;David C. Evans

  • A new dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) with Asian affinities from the latest Cretaceous of North America

    David C. Evans;David C. Evans;Derek W. Larson;Philip J. Currie

  • Oldest known dinosaurian nesting site and reproductive biology of the Early Jurassic sauropodomorph Massospondylus

    Robert R. Reisz;David C. Evans;Eric M. Roberts;Hans-Dieter Sues

  • ‘ Glishades ericksoni ’, an indeterminate juvenile hadrosaurid from the Two Medicine Formation of Montana: implications for hadrosauroid diversity in the latest Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) of western North America

    Nicolás E. Campione;Nicolás E. Campione;Kirstin S. Brink;Elizabeth A. Freedman;Christopher T. McGarrity

  • New evidence on brain-endocranial cavity relationships in ornithischian dinosaurs

    D C Evans

  • AN EARLY PERMIAN VARANODONTINE VARANOPID (SYNAPSIDA: EUPELYCOSAURIA) FROM THE RICHARDS SPUR LOCALITY, OKLAHOMA

    Hillary C. Maddin;David C. Evans;Robert R. Reisz

  • New data on the diversity and abundance of small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta

    Caleb Marshall Brown;David C. Evans;Michael J. Ryan;Anthony P. Russell

  • Ontogeny reveals function and evolution of the hadrosaurid dinosaur dental battery

    Aaron R. H. LeBlanc;Robert R. Reisz;Robert R. Reisz;David C. Evans;Alida M. Bailleul

  • A new ankylosaurine dinosaur from the Judith River Formation of Montana, USA, based on an exceptional skeleton with soft tissue preservation

    Victoria M. Arbour;Victoria M. Arbour;David C. Evans;David C. Evans

  • Cranial Anatomy of New Specimens of Saurornitholestes langstoni (Dinosauria, Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) of Alberta.

    Philip J. Currie;David C. Evans;David C. Evans

  • Spiclypeus shipporum gen. et sp. nov., a Boldly Audacious New Chasmosaurine Ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian) of Montana, USA

    Jordan C. Mallon;Christopher J. Ott;Peter L. Larson;Edward M. Iuliano

  • Embryonic Skeletal Anatomy of the Sauropodomorph Dinosaur Massospondylus from the Lower Jurassic of South Africa

    Robert R. Reisz;David C. Evans;Hans-Dieter Sues;Diane Scott

  • New leptoceratopsids from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta, Canada

    Michael J. Ryan;David C. Evans;David C. Evans;Philip J. Currie;Caleb M. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert R. Reisz
Robert R. Reisz University of Toronto
David A. Eberth
David A. Eberth Royal Tyrrell Museum
Philip J. Currie
Philip J. Currie University of Alberta
Hans-Dieter Sues
Hans-Dieter Sues National Museum of Natural History
Paul M. Barrett
Paul M. Barrett Natural History Museum
Daniel R. Brooks
Daniel R. Brooks University of Toronto
Michael J. Ryan
Michael J. Ryan The University of Texas at Austin
Niklas Wahlberg
Niklas Wahlberg Lund University
Eric M. Roberts
Eric M. Roberts James Cook University
Michael Buckley
Michael Buckley University of Manchester

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