Paleontology Research Lab, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Department of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University
Current Graduate Students
Haviv Avrahami
PhD expected 2022
"An exceptional assemblage of orodromine dinosaur remains, from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Mussentuchit Member of the CMF, Utah"
Josh Hedge
PhD expected 2024
"Ornamentation in Elongatoolithid Eggs and the Implications for Dinosaur Reproductive Ecology"
Kyla Beguesse
PhD expected 2023
“A new approach for identifying pathologic bone in extant and extinct archosaurian species”
Evan Jevnikar
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entering PhD spring 2023
Willie Freimuth
PhD expected 2025
therizinosaur systematics and paleobiology
Alumni
Khai Button
PhD 2018
"Quantifying Beak Shape and Soft Tissue Ecomorphology of Avian and Non-Avian Dinosaurs"
Lisa Herzog
MS 2019
"Morphological Characteristics and Variability of Helochelydrid Turtles in North America: evidence for a new species"
Susan Drymala
MS 2014
"A New Paracrocodylomorph (Archosauria, Suchia) from the Late Triassic of North Carolina"
Evan Jevnikar
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MS 2021
"A comprehensive ontogenetic analysis of Tarbosaurus bataar provides insights into intraskeletal and individual variation of tyrannosaurid growth"
Jens Kosch
MS 2020
"Sampling Impacts Assessments of Tooth Growth and Replacement Rates in Archosaurs: implications for paleontological studies"
Haviv Avrahami
MS 2019
"Paleobiodiversity of a new microvertebrate locality from the Upper Cretaceous Mussentuchit Member, Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah: testing morphometric multivariate approaches for quantifying shape variation in microvertebrate specimens"