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Larry Martin

Curator

Vertebrate Paleontology

Biodiversity Institute

Professor - EEB

Contact Information

Office Phone:

785.864.5639

Email:

ldmartin@ku.edu

Building:

Dyche Hall

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August 2, 2011

Recent Discovery in China Relates to KU Research

While a recent discovery may change textbooks and the way that many scientists...

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Research Projects

Active Projects

Wyoming Dinosaurs

Morrison Formation

Our excavations in northeastern Wyoming have produced one of the best collections of sauropod dinosaurs, including articulated, material that gives unique information about the appearance and functional morphology of these giant creatures.

Status: Active

Location: MY 140

All terms: dinosaurs, General Project, Jurassic, Morrison Formation, sauropods

Permian Kansas Fossils

The Permian of Kansas is producing a rich fauna of vertebrates from lakes marginal to the old seaway. Much of this fauna occurs in fossil burrows.

Status: Active

All terms: General Project, lungfish

2010

Naples, VL, Martin LD, Babiarz JP. 2010. The other saber-tooths : scimitar-tooth cats of the Western Hemisphere.

Martin, LD, Ford TL, Averianov A. 2010. Alternative Lifestyle of Psittacosaurus.

Gong, E, Martin LD, Burnham DA, Falk AR. 2010. Evidence for a Venomous Sinornithosaurus. Paläontologische Zeitschrift.

Burnham, DA, Feduccia A, Martin LD, Falk AR. 2010. Tree climbing - a fundamental avian adaptation. Systematic Palaeontology.

Alexander, DE, Gong E, Martin LD, Burnham DA, Falk AR. 2010. Model tests of gliding with different hindwing configurations in the four-winged dromaeosaurid Microraptor gui. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107:2972-2976. Abstract

2009

Martin, LD, Rinaldi C, Cole, T. III, Timm RM. 2009. Occlusal Wear Morphology of Giant Beaver (Castorides) Lower Incisors: Functional and Phylogenetic Implications. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts. 171A

Martin, LD, Naples VL, Babiarz JP. 2009. Muscle Maps as a Guide to Saber-Tooth Cat Behavior.

Martin, LD, Meehan TJ. 2009. An Astronomical Stratigraphy. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 112:1.

Martin, LD, McKay NR. 2009. Vinegar Faunas and Science Education. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 112:1.

Martin, LD, Knight JL. 2009. First Discussion of the Terrestrial Mammals of the Walrus Ditch Local Fauna (Blancac) of South Carolina. First Meeting of the Southeatern Association of Vertebrate Paleontology. Abstracts and Programs

Martin, LD, Falk AR. 2009. Tracking Cretaceous Birds Across the World. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology Abstracts. 93A

Martin, LD. 2009. Engineering Avian Flight.

Martin, LD. 2009. Paleogene Avifauna of the Holarctic.

Martin, LD. 2009. The Earliest North American Record of the Antilocapridae (Artdactyla, Mammalia). PaleoBios. 29:7.

Martin, LD. 2009. Mosasaur Lifestyles: Fluctuations of Stable Oxygen Isotopes in Tooth Enamel as a Proxy for Migratory Behavior. 41 (4):9

Martin, LD. 2009. Cyril Walker and the Other Half of Avian Evolution.. Journal of Paleontology Abstracts. 143A

Martin, LD. 2009. Did the Ice Age Contribute to the Evolution of Human Intelligence? 41:(4):9.

Barnett, R, Shapiro B, Barnes I, Ho SY, Burger J, Yamaguchi N, Higham TF, Wheeler HT, Rosendahl W, Sher AV et al.. 2009. Phylogeography of lions (Panthera leo ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity. Mol Ecol. 18:1668-77. Abstract

Bader, KS, Hasiotis ST, Martin LD. 2009. Application of Forensic Science Techniques to Trace Fossils on Dinosaur Bones from a Quarry in the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation, Northeastern Wyoming. Palaios. 24:140-158. Abstract

2008

Martin, LD, Rothschild BM, K. V. 2008. Documentation of Mycobacterium Bovis in the 'Alaskan' Refugium, Contrasted with Holarctic Persistence of Mycobacterium Tubercolosis. Journal of Paleopathology. 20:4.

Alumnus elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences

December 19, 2011

Among the 51 new members to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in December 2011 is Dr. Zhonghe Zhou, who earned his doctorate in 1999 at the University of Kansas.

Zhou is the Director of Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), CAS, Beijing, China, which is an internationally known paleontological research institution.

Zhou studied at KU between 1995 and 1999 with Larry Martin, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Biodiversity Institute and professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

A New Understanding in Bird Evolution

September 7, 2011

A new discovery by researchers from the University of Kansas and China pushes back by millions of years proof that birds’ digestive systems have ancient origins. The investigators found fossil evidence of a crop — the muscular pocket in the esophagus that most modern birds use to store and soften seeds — in two avian species from the Early Cretaceous, the most recent period of the Mesozoic Era, about 130 million years ago.