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Published Articles Related to my Montana Research Program

Contact me (rogers@macalester.edu) if you would like a reprint of any of the following articles.

• Rogers, R.R. 1990. Taphonomy of three dinosaur bone beds in the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation, northwestern Montana: Evidence for drought-related mortality: Palaios 5: 394-413.
• Rogers, R.R. 1992. Non-marine borings in dinosaur bones from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation, northwestern Montana: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12: 528-531.
• Rogers, R.R., C.C. Swisher, and J.R. Horner. 1993. ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age and correlation of the non-marine Two Medicine Formation (Upper Cretaceous), northwestern Montana: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30, 1066-1075.
• Rogers, R.R. 1994. Nature and origin of through-going discontinuities in nonmarine foreland basin deposits, Upper Cretaceous, Montana: Implications for sequence analysis: Geology 22: 1119-1122.
• Rogers, R.R. 1998. Sequence analysis of the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine and Judith River formations, Montana: nonmarine response to the Claggett and Bearpaw marine cycles: Journal of Sedimentary Research 68: 615-631.
• Fricke, H.C., and R.R. Rogers. 2000. A multiple taxon/multiple locality approach to providing oxygen isotope evidence for endothermic homeothermy in theropod dinosaurs: Geology 28, 799-802.
• Fricke, H.C., and R.R. Rogers. 2001. A multiple taxon/multiple locality approach to providing oxygen isotope evidence for endothermic homeothermy in theropod dinosaurs: Comment and Reply: Geology 29, 566-567.
• Rogers, R.R., and S.M. Kidwell, 2000. Associations of vertebrate skeletal concentrations and discontinuity surfaces in nonmarine and shallow marine records: A test in the Cretaceous of Montana: Journal of Geology 108: 131-154.
• Blob, R., M. Carrano, R.R. Rogers, C. Forster, and L. Espinoza, 2001. A new fossil frog from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21: 190-194.
• Foreman, B.Z., R.R. Rogers, A.L. Deino, K.R. Wirth, and J.T. Thole. Geochemical characterization of bentonite beds in the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian, Montana), including a new ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar age. Cretaceous Research 29: 373-385.
• Fricke, H.C., R.R. Rogers, R. Backlund, C.N. Dwyer, S. Echt. Preservation of stable isotope signals in dinosaur remains, and environmental gradients in the Late Cretaceous of Montana and Alberta. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 266: 13-27.
• Trueman, C.N., M.R. Palmer, J. Field, K. Privat, N. Ludgate, V. Chavagnac, D.A. Eberth, R. Cifelli, R.R. Rogers. 2008. Comparing rates of recrystallisation and the potential for preservation of biomolecules from the distribution of trace elements in bones. Palevol 7: 145-158.
• Fricke, H.C., R.R. Rogers, and T.A. Gates. 2009. Hadrosaurid migration: inferences based on stable isotope comparisons among Late Cretaceous dinosaur localities. Paleobiology 35: 270-288.
• Koenig, A.E., R.R. Rogers, and C.N. Trueman. 2009. Visualizing fossilization using laser ablation – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry maps of trace elements in Late Cretaceous bones. Geology 37: 511-514.
• Rogers, R.R., and M.E. Brady. 2010. Origins of microfossil bonebeds: insights from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of north-central Montana. Paleobiology 36: 80-112.
• Rogers, R.R., H.C. Fricke, V. Addona, R.R. Canavan, C.N. Dwyer, C.L. Harwood, A.E. Koenig, R. Murray, J.T. Thole, and J. Williams. 2010. Using laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) to explore geochemical taphonomy of vertebrate fossils in the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine and Judith River Formations of Montana. Palaios 25: 183-195.
• Foreman, B.Z., H.C. Fricke, K.C. Lohmann, and R.R. Rogers. 2011. Reconstructing paleocatchments by integrating stable isotope records, sedimentology, and taphonomy: A Late Cretaceous case study (Montana, United States). Palaios 26:545-554.