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Richard L. Cifelli is affiliated with the University of Oklahoma in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their research primarily centers on Paleontology, with additional focus on Nature and Landscape Conservation, Anthropology, Global and Planetary Change, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior, and Systematics.

Their recent scholarly output includes a variety of publications across multiple peer-reviewed venues. Some of the notable papers are:

  • Ontogenetic dietary shifts in Deinonychus antirrhopus (Theropoda; Dromaeosauridae): Insights into the ecology and social behavior of raptorial dinosaurs through stable isotope analysis, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • A new species of baenid turtle from the Early Cretaceous Lakota Formation of South Dakota, 2020, Fossil record
  • Molar occlusion and jaw roll in early crown mammals, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • A new vertebrate fauna from the Lower Cretaceous Holly Creek Formation of the Trinity Group, southwest Arkansas, USA, 2021, PeerJ
  • New insights into the cranial osteology of the Early Cretaceous paracryptodiran turtle Lakotemys australodakotensis, 2022, PeerJ

Cifelli's work is published frequently in journals including the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, PeerJ, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Fossil record, and Scientific Reports. The association with these venues reflects a consistent involvement in vertebrate paleontology and related disciplines.

Their research topics cover a broad spectrum within paleontological and evolutionary biology studies. Key areas of investigation include:

  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Turtle Biology and Conservation
  • Amphibian and Reptile Biology
  • Bat Biology and Ecology Studies

Collaborations have been an integral part of their research process. Frequent coauthors include Tyler Hunt, Brian M. Davis, Joseph Frederickson, Walter G. Joyce, and Yann Rollot, indicating a networked approach within multidisciplinary teams in paleontological sciences.

Best Publications

  • Osteology, paleobiology, and relationships of the sauropod dinosaur Sauroposeidon

    Mathew J. Wedel;Richard L. Cifelli;R. Kent Sanders

  • High-precision 40Ar/39Ar geochronology and the advent of North America’s Late Cretaceous terrestrial fauna

    Richard L. Cifelli;James I. Kirkland;Anne Weil;Alan L. Deino

  • Dinosaur Body Temperatures Determined from Isotopic (^(13)C-^(18)O) Ordering in Fossil Biominerals

    Robert A. Eagle;Robert A. Eagle;Thomas Tütken;Taylor S. Martin;Aradhna K. Tripati

  • Magnetic Polarity Stratigraphy And Mammalian Fauna Of The Deseadan (Late Oligocene-Early Miocene) Salla Beds Of Northern Bolivia

    Bruce J. MacFadden;Kenneth E. Campbell;Richard L. Cifelli;Oscar Siles

  • RADIATION OF CENOZOIC PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA

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  • Mammals from the age of dinosaurs

    Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska;Richard L. Cifelli;Zhe-Xi Luo

  • The Campanian Terlingua local fauna, with a summary of other vertebrates from the Aguja Formation, Trans-Pecos Texas

    Timothy Rowe;Richard L. Cifelli;Thomas M. Lehman;Anne Weil

  • Early Cretaceous mammal from North America and the evolution of marsupial dental characters.

    Richard L. Cifelli

  • The "condylarths" (archaic Ungulata, Mammalia) from the early Palaeocene of Tiupampa (Bolivia): implications on the origin of the South American ungulates

    Christian de Muizon;Richard L. Cifelli

  • SAUROPOSEIDON PROTELES, A NEW SAUROPOD FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS OF OKLAHOMA

    Mathew J. Wedel;Richard L. Cifelli;R. Kent Sanders

  • Tribosphenic mammal from the North American Early Cretaceous

    Richard L. Cifelli

  • Comparing rates of recrystallisation and the potential for preservation of biomolecules from the distribution of trace elements in fossil bones

    Clive N. Trueman;Martin R. Palmer;Judith Field;Karen Privat

  • Dentition and Jaw of Kokopellia juddi, a Primitive Marsupial or Near-Marsupial from the Medial Cretaceous of Utah

    Richard L. Cifelli;Christian de Muizon

  • Fossil evidence for the origin of the marsupial pattern of tooth replacement

    Richard L. Cifelli;Timothy B. Rowe;W. Patrick Luckett;James Banta

  • A Ceratopsian Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Western North America, and the Biogeography of Neoceratopsia.

    Andrew A. Farke;Andrew A. Farke;W. Desmond Maxwell;W. Desmond Maxwell;Richard L. Cifelli;Mathew J. Wedel;Mathew J. Wedel

  • Cretaceous mammals of southern Utah. I. Marsupials from the Kaiparowits Formation (Judithian)

    Richard L. Cifelli

  • Spalacotheriid symmetrodonts (Mammalia) from the medial Cretaceous (upper Albian or lower Cenomanian) Mussentuchit local fauna, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA

    Richard L. Cifelli;Scott K. Madsen

  • A new teiid lizard from the Cedar Mountain Formation (Albian–Cenomanian boundary) of Utah

    Randall L. Nydam;Richard L. Cifelli

  • Lizards from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) Antlers and Cloverly Formations

    Randall L. Nydam;Randall L. Nydam;Richard L. Cifelli

  • Protungulatum, Confirmed Cretaceous Occurrence of an Otherwise Paleocene Eutherian (Placental?) Mammal

    J. David Archibald;Yue Zhang;Yue Zhang;Tony Harper;Richard L. Cifelli

  • Cretaceous mammals of southern Utah. III. Therian mammals from the Turonian (early Late Cretaceous)

    Richard L. Cifelli

  • Manual of planktonic foraminifera

    Richard Cifelli

  • SAUROPOSEIDON PROTELES,A NEW SAUROPOD FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS

    Mathew J. Wedel;Richard L. Cifelli;R. Kent Sanders;Sam Noble

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhe-Xi Luo
Zhe-Xi Luo University of Chicago
Christian de Muizon
Christian de Muizon French National Museum of Natural History
Luis A. González
Luis A. González University of Kansas
Kenneth D. Rose
Kenneth D. Rose Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Michael Archer
Michael Archer University of New South Wales
Malcolm C. McKenna
Malcolm C. McKenna American Museum of Natural History
Aradhna Tripati
Aradhna Tripati University of California, Los Angeles
John M. Eiler
John M. Eiler California Institute of Technology
Walter G. Joyce
Walter G. Joyce University of Fribourg
Gloria Cuenca-Bescós
Gloria Cuenca-Bescós University of Zaragoza

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