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Kenneth D. Angielczyk is affiliated with the Field Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a considerable emphasis on the subfields of Paleontology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Geometry and Topology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology.

The scientist's main topics of work cover areas such as Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Morphological variations and asymmetry, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, and Bat Biology and Ecology Studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kenneth D. Angielczyk include:

  • Evidence from South Africa for a protracted end-Permian extinction on land, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Regionalization of the axial skeleton predates functional adaptation in the forerunners of mammals, 2020, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Adaptive landscapes challenge the "lateral-to-sagittal" paradigm for mammalian vertebral evolution, 2021, Current Biology
  • 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

Frequent co-authors in their publications include:

  • Christian A. Sidor
  • Christian F. Kammerer
  • Roger M. H. Smith
  • Stephanie E. Pierce
  • Brandon R. Peecook

Kenneth D. Angielczyk's scientific work has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • The Anatomical Record
  • Integrative Organismal Biology

Best Publications

  • Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations

    James F. Parham;James F. Parham;James F. Parham;Philip C. J. Donoghue;Christopher J. Bell;Tyler D. Calway

  • Ecologically distinct dinosaurian sister group shows early diversification of Ornithodira

    Sterling J. Nesbitt;Christian A. Sidor;Randall B. Irmis;Randall B. Irmis;Kenneth D. Angielczyk

  • Patterns of morphospace occupation and mechanical performance in extant crocodilian skulls: a combined geometric morphometric and finite element modeling approach.

    Stephanie E. Pierce;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Emily J. Rayfield

  • The earliest bird-line archosaurs and the assembly of the dinosaur body plan

    Sterling J. Nesbitt;Richard J. Butler;Martín D. Ezcurra;Martín D. Ezcurra;Paul M. Barrett

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

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

  • Trophic network models explain instability of Early Triassic terrestrial communities

    Peter D Roopnarine;Kenneth D Angielczyk;Steve C Wang;Rachel Hertog

  • Combining geometric morphometrics and finite element analysis with evolutionary modeling: towards a synthesis

    P. David Polly;C. Tristan Stayton;Elizabeth R. Dumont;Stephanie E. Pierce

  • A Comprehensive Taxonomic Revision of Dicynodon (Therapsida, Anomodontia) and Its Implications for Dicynodont Phylogeny, Biogeography, and Biostratigraphy

    Christian F. Kammerer;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Jörg Fröbisch

  • Shape and mechanics in thalattosuchian (Crocodylomorpha) skulls: implications for feeding behaviour and niche partitioning.

    S. E. Pierce;K. D. Angielczyk;E. J. Rayfield

  • Decoupling of morphological disparity and taxic diversity during the adaptive radiation of anomodont therapsids.

    Marcello Ruta;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Jörg Fröbisch;Michael J. Benton

  • Nocturnality in synapsids predates the origin of mammals by over 100 million years.

    K. D. Angielczyk;L. Schmitz

  • Bringing dicynodonts back to life: paleobiology and anatomy of a new emydopoid genus from the Upper Permian of Mozambique.

    Rui Castanhinha;Ricardo Araújo;Luís C. Júnior;Kenneth D. Angielczyk

  • Late Cretaceous restructuring of terrestrial communities facilitated the end-Cretaceous mass extinction in North America.

    Jonathan S. Mitchell;Jonathan S. Mitchell;Peter D. Roopnarine;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Kenneth D. Angielczyk

  • The Daptocephalus Assemblage Zone (Lopingian), South Africa: A proposed biostratigraphy based on a new compilation of stratigraphic ranges

    Pia A. Viglietti;Roger M.H. Smith;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Christian F. Kammerer;Christian F. Kammerer

  • Phylogenetic analysis of Russian Permian dicynodonts (Therapsida: Anomodontia): implications for Permian biostratigraphy and Pangaean biogeography

    Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Andrey A. Kurkin

  • 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

  • New specimens of the tanzanian dicynodont “Cryptocynodon” parringtoni Von Huene, 1942 (Therapsida, Anomodontia), with an expanded analysis of Permian dicynodont phylogeny

    Kenneth D. Angielczyk

  • Late Permian (Lopingian) terrestrial ecosystems: A global comparison with new data from the low-latitude Bletterbach Biota

    Massimo Bernardi;Fabio Massimo Petti;Evelyn Kustatscher;Matthias Franz

  • Morphospace occupation in thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs: skull shape variation, species delineation and temporal patterns

    Stephanie E. Pierce;Stephanie E. Pierce;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Emily J. Rayfield

  • Community stability and selective extinction during the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.

    Peter D. Roopnarine;Kenneth D. Angielczyk

  • Evidence from South Africa for a protracted end-Permian extinction on land.

    Pia A Viglietti;Pia A Viglietti;Roger B J Benson;Roger B J Benson;Roger M H Smith;Jennifer Botha

  • Preliminary phylogenetic analysis and stratigraphc congruence of the dicynodont anomodonts (Synapsida: Therapsida)

    Kenneth D Angielczyk

  • New Permian fauna from tropical Gondwana

    Juan C. Cisneros;Claudia Alicia Marsicano;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Roger M. H. Smith

  • Investigation of simulated tectonic deformation in fossils using geometric morphometrics

    Kenneth D. Angielczyk;Kenneth D. Angielczyk;H. David Sheets

  • Breeding Young as a Survival Strategy during Earth's Greatest Mass Extinction.

    Jennifer Botha-Brink;Daryl Codron;Adam K. Huttenlocker;Kenneth D. Angielczyk

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian A. Sidor
Christian A. Sidor University of Washington
Sterling J. Nesbitt
Sterling J. Nesbitt Virginia Tech
Roger M. H. Smith
Roger M. H. Smith University of the Witwatersrand
Bruce S. Rubidge
Bruce S. Rubidge University of the Witwatersrand
Randall B. Irmis
Randall B. Irmis University of Utah
Neil J. Tabor
Neil J. Tabor Southern Methodist University
James F. Parham
James F. Parham California State University, Fullerton
Conrad C. Labandeira
Conrad C. Labandeira Smithsonian Institution
Michael J. Benton
Michael J. Benton University of Bristol
Ziheng Yang
Ziheng Yang University College London

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