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David W. Krause

Education:

B. S. Zoology, University of Alberta - Edmonton
M.S. Zoology, University of Alberta - Edmonton
Ph.D. Geology, University of Michigan

Current Position:

Distinguished Service Professor, Dept. of Anatomical Sciences, Stony Brook University
Founder, The Madagascar Ankizy Fund (http://www.ankizy.org)

Email:

dkrause(at)notes.cc.som.sunysb.edu

Research Sites:

Mahajanga province, northwestern Madagascar

Research Project:

Late Cretaceous vertebrate fossils from the Mahajanga Basin, Madagascar: Implications for the Biogeographic and Plate Tectonic History of Gondwana. Short title: The Mahajanga Basin Project.

Research Focus:

The objective of our project is to discover and collect fossils of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrates from Late Cretaceous rocks in the Mahajanga Basin of northwestern Madagascar and to employ these discoveries in studies of systematics, functional morphology, biostratigraphy, paleoecology, and biogeography. Through the course of eight, large-scale expeditions, beginning in 1993, the Mahajanga Basin Project has more than quintupled the species richness of Late Cretaceous vertebrates from Madagascar and profoundly altered concepts concerning the plate tectonic breakup of the southern supercontinent Gondwana, and how that fragmentation affected the distributions of vertebrate animals. Another mission is to build schools and clinics in remote areas of the island through the Madagascar Ankizy Fund (www.ankizy.org), an organization established in 1998.

Research
Assistants:

Professional Colleagues Involved in Fieldwork Aspects of Project:
Gregory Buckley (Roosevelt U.), Matthew Carrano (SBU), Kristi Curry Rogers (Science Museum of Minnesota), Catherine Forster (SBU), Peter Dodson (U. Pennsylvania), Michael Gottfried (Michigan State U.), Joseph Hartman (U. North Dakota), Patrick O'Connor (Ohio U.), Robin O’Keefe (NY College of Osteopathic Medicine), Raymond Rogers (Macalester College), Scott Sampson (U. Utah), Neil Wells (Kent State U.), and Robin Whatley (Columbia College).

Graduate Students Involved in Fieldwork Aspects of Project:
Raelinavalanora Andriamahazo (U. Antananarivo), Douglas Boyer (SBU), Sara Burch (SBU), Kristina Curry Rogers (now at Science Museum of Minnesota), Andrew Farke (SBU), Charles Lockwood (Institute of Human Origins), Mark Loewen (U. Utah), Keith Metzger (SBU), Patrick O’Connor (now at Ohio U.), Prosper (U. Antananarivo), Augustin Rabarison (U. Antananarivo), Lydia Rahantarisoa (U. Antananarivo), Lydia Raharivony (U. Antananarivo), Gilbert Rakotondratsaemba (U. Antananarivo), Mirya Ramarolahy (U. Antananarivo), Laurent Randriamiaramanana (U. Antananarivo), Nirina Ratsimbaholison (U. Antananarivo), Lova Raveloson (U. Antananarivo), Florent Ravoavy (U. Antananarivo), Karen Samonds (SBU), Joseph Sertich (U. Utah, now at SBU), Gina Sorrentino (SBU), Nancy Stevens (SBU- Now at Ohio U.), Christine Wall (SBU - now at Duke U.), Robin Whatley (U. California - Santa Barbara, now at Columbia College), Roshna Wunderlich (SBU - now at James Madison U.).

Undergraduate Students Involved in Fieldwork Aspects of Project: Sophia Kast (Macalester College), Joshua Miller (Macalester College), Eric Roberts (Cornell College), Rebecca Terry (Macalester College).

Publications:

Krause, D. W., J. H. Hartman, and N. A. Wells. 1997. Late Cretaceous vertebrates from Madagascar: Implications for biotic change in deep time. Pp. 3-43 in S. D. Goodman and B. D. Patterson (eds.), Natural Change and Human Impact in Madagascar. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Krause, D. W., G. V. R. Prasad, W. von Koenigswald, A. Sahni, and F. E. Grine. 1997. Cosmopolitanism among Late Cretaceous Gondwanan mammals. Nature 390:504-507.

Krause, D. W., R. R. Rogers, C. A. Forster, J. H. Hartman, G. A. Buckley, and S. D. Sampson. 1999. The Late Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of Madagascar: Implications for Gondwanan paleobiogeography. GSA Today 9(8):1-7.

Krause, D. W. 2000. A fossil bonanza. National Geographic Magazine (August issue), pp. 52-57.

Krause, D. W. 2001. Fossil molar from a Madagascan marsupial. Nature 412:497-498.

Rogers, R. R., D. W. Krause, and K. Curry Rogers. 2003. Cannibalism in the Madagascan dinosaur Majungatholus atopus. Nature 422:515-518.

Krause, D. W., S. E. Evans, and K.-Q. Gao. 2003. First definitive record of Mesozoic lizards from Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23:842-856.

Krause, D. W. 2003. Late Cretaceous vertebrates of Madagascar: A window into Gondwanan biogeography at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Pp. 40-47 in S. M. Goodman and J. P. Benstead (eds.), The Natural History of Madagascar. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Krause, D. W., P. M. O’Connor, K. Curry Rogers, S. D. Sampson, G. A. Buckley, and R. R. Rogers. 2006. Late Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrates from Madagascar: implications for Latin American biogeography. In Latin American Biogeography – Causes and Effects . 51st Annual Systematics Symposium, Missouri Botanical Garden, Latin American Biogeography – Causes and Effects. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 93:178-208.

Krause, D. W., P. M. O’Connor, A. H. Rasomiaramanana, G. A. Buckley, D. Burney, M. T. Carrano, P. S. Chatrath, J. J. Flynn, C. A. Forster, L. Godfrey, W. L. Jungers, R. R. Rogers, K. E. Samonds, E. Simons, and A. Wyss. 2006. Preserving Madagascar’s natural heritage: the importance of keeping the island’s vertebrate fossils in the public domain. Madagascar Conservation & Development 1(1):43-47.

Rogers, R. R., and D. W. Krause. 2007. Tracking an ancient killer. Scientific American 296(2):42-51.

Sampson, S. D. and D. W. Krause (eds.). 2007. Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir, 184 pp.

Krause, D. W., S. D. Sampson, M. T. Carrano, and P. M. O’Connor. 2007. Overview of the history of discovery, taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography of Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Pp. 1-20 in S. D. Sampson and D. W. Krause (eds.), Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 8.

Project Sponsors:

National Science Foundation, National Geographic Society, The Dinosaur Society.

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