Jones, L. A., Dean, C. D., Allen, B. J. , Drage, H. B. , Flannery-Sutherland, J. T., Gearty, W., Chiarenza, A. A., Dillon, E. M., Farina, B. M., Godoy, P. L. In Press. Ten simple rules to follow when cleaning occurrence data in palaeobiology. Palaeontology. Preprint DOI: https://doi.org/10.32942/X2FS8M
Smith, J.A., […] 35 Authors, Chiarenza, A.A.,[…] 90 Authors…Kiessling, W. 2025. Identifying the big questions in paleontology: A community- driven project. Paleobiology. DOI: https://doi.org//10.1017/pab.2025.10042
Foffa, D.* , Dunne, E. M.*, Chiarenza, A. A.*, Wynd, B. M., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D. J., Valdes, P. J., Nesbitt, S. J., Kligman, B. T., Marsh, A. D., Parker, W. G., Butler, R. J., Fraser, N. C., Brusatte, S. L. & Barrett, P. M. 2025. Climate drivers of early pterosauromorph evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. *Co-leading first authors. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-025-02767-8
Galván, S., Gamboa, S., Chiarenza, A. A., Rotatori, F. M., Oliver, A., & Varela, S. 2025. Future palaeontologists will detect current mammal latitudinal biodiversity gradient. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34(6), e70075. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.70075
Dean C. D., Chiarenza A. A., Doser J. W., Farnsworth A., Jones L. A., Lyster S., Outhwaite C. L., Valdes P. J., Butler R. J., Mannion P. D. 2025. The structure of the end-Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record in North America. Current Biology 35, 1–16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2025.03.025
Chiarenza AA. 2024. The macroecology of Mesozoic dinosaurs. Biology Letters 20 (10): 20240392. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0392. LINK
Upchurch P, Chiarenza AA. 2024. A brief review of non-avian dinosaur biogeography: state-of-the-art and prospectus. Biology Letters 20 (10): 20240429. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0429. LINK
Muscioni M., Chiarenza A. A., Fernandez D. B. H., Dreossi D., Bacchia F., & Fanti F. 2024. Cranial anatomy of Acynodon adriaticus and extreme durophagous adaptations in Eusuchia (Reptilia: Crocodylomorpha). The Anatomical Record, 1–32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.25574. LINK. Cover Issue December 2024.
Chiarenza A. A., Cantalapiedra J. L., Jones L. A., Gamboa S., Galván S., Farnsworth A. J., Valdes P. J., Sotelo G., Varela S. 2024. Early Jurassic origin of avian endothermy and thermophysiological diversity in dinosaurs. Current Biology. 34 (11): 2517–2527. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.04.051. LINK. Cover Issue June 2024.
Chiarenza A. A. and Brusatte S. L. 2024. Dinosaurs, extinction theories for. In: Levin S., editor. Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, 3rd edition. Academic Press; Elsevier, London, UK: 2023. ISBN 9780128096338. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-822562-2.00108-0. LINK
Muscioni M., Chiarenza A. A., Delfino M., Fabbri M., Milocco K., Fanti F. 2023. Acynodon adriaticus from Villaggio del Pescatore (Campanian of Italy): anatomical and chronostratigraphic integration improves phylogenetic resolution in Hylaeochampsidae (Eusuchia). Cretaceous Research. 2023, 105631, ISSN 0195-6671, DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105631. LINK
Jones L.A., Gearty W., Allen B.J., Eichenseer K., Dean C.D., Galván S., Kouvari M., Godoy P.L., Nicholl C., Dillon E.M., Flannery-Sutherland J.T., Chiarenza A.A. 2023. palaeoverse: a community-driven R package to support palaeobiological analyses. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 00, 1–11. doi: 10.1111/2041-210X.14099. LINK. Cover Issue September 2023.
Chiarenza A. A., Waterson A. M., Schmidt D. N., Valdes P. J., Yesson C., Holroyd P. A., Collinson M. E., Farnsworth A., Nicholson D. B., Varela S., Barrett P. M. 2023. 100 million years of turtle palaeoniche dynamics enable prediction of latitudinal range shifts in a warming world. Current Biology. 33 (1): 109-121.E3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.056. LINK. Cover Issue January 2023.
García-Girón J., Chiarenza A. A., Alahuhta J., DeMar Jr D. G., Heino J., Mannion P. D., Williamson T. E., Wilson G. P., Brusatte S. L. 2022. Shifts in food webs and niche stability shaped survivorship and extinction at the end-Cretaceous. Science Advances. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.add504. LINK
Fiorillo A.R, Fanti F., Baucon A., Chiarenza A.A. 2022. Permian lobed Zoophycos as the product of the terrestrialization process: behavioral innovation in the Tahkandit Limestone Formation (Yukon River, Alaska, USA). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110931. LINK
Chiarenza A.A., Mannion P.D., Farnsworth A., Carrano M., Varela S. 2022. Climatic constraints on the biogeographic history of Mesozoic dinosaurs. Current Biology. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.11.061. LINK
Chiarenza A. A., Fabbri M., Consorti L., Muscioni M., Evans D., Cantalapiedra J., Fanti F. 2021. An Italian dinosaur Lagerstätte reveals the tempo and mode of hadrosauriform body size evolution. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-02490-x. LINK
Garcìa–Giròn J., Heino J., Alahuhta J., Chiarenza A.A., Brusatte S.L. 2021. Palaeontology meets metacommunity ecology: the Maastrichtian dinosaur fossil record of North America as a case study. Palaeontology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12526. LINK
Chiarenza A.A., Fiorillo A.R., Tykoski R.S., McCarthy P.J., Flaig P.P., Contreras D.L. 2020. The first juvenile dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Arctic Alaska. PLoS ONE 15(7): e0235078. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235078. LINK
Chiarenza A.A., Farnsworth A., Mannion P.D., Lunt D., Morgan J, Valdes P. and Allison P.A. 2020. Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction. PNAS. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2006087117. LINK
Dean C.D., Chiarenza A.A., Maidment S.C.R. 2020. Formation binning: a new method for increased temporal resolution in regional studies, applied to the Late Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record of North America. Palaeontology. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12492. LINK
Chiarenza A.A., Mannion P.D., Lunt D.J., Farnsworth A., Jones L.A., Kelland S.-J. and Allison P. A. 2019. Ecological niche modelling does not support climatically-driven dinosaur diversity decline before the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction. Nature communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08997-2. LINK
Mannion P.D., Chiarenza A.A., Godoy P.L. and Cheah Y.N. 2019. Spatiotemporal sampling patterns in the 230 million year fossil record of terrestrial crocodylomorphs and their impact on diversity. Palaeontology. pp. 1–23. DOI : 10.1111/pala.12419. LINK
Tennant J.P., Chiarenza A.A., Baron M. 2018. How has our knowledge of dinosaur diversity through geologic time changed through research history? PeerJ 6, p. e4417. LINK
Chiarenza A.A., Cau A. 2016. A large abelisaurid (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from Morocco and comments on the Cenomanian theropods from North Africa. PeerJ 4, p. e1754. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1754. LINK
Chiarenza A.A., Foffa D., Young M.T., Insacco G., Cau A., Carnevale G., Catanzariti R. 2015.
The youngest record of metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs, with implications for the extinction of Thalattosuchia. Cretaceous Research 56, pp. 608-616. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2015.07.001. LINK
Insacco G, Chiarenza A.A., Cau A. 2014. Temnodontosaurus and Stenopterygius (Diapsida: Ichthyosauria) specimens in the Comiso Natural History Museum (Sicily, Italy). Natura Rerum (Belvedere eds.) 3(1), p. 96. LINK
Dal Sasso C. Insacco G, Chiarenza A.A., Di Franco D., Reitano A. 2014. First record of Ichthyosaurs in Sicily (Upper Triassic of Monte Scalpello, Catania province). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 1 (120), pp. 71-82. DOI: 10.13130/2039-4942/6050. LINK
Chiarenza A.A., Dalla Vecchia F.M., Rosso A., Sanfilippo R. 2013. The Early Jurassic ichthyosaur Stenopterygius in the collections of the Museo di Scienze della Terra, Università di Catania (Italy). Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana 52 (1), 20. DOI: 10.4435/BSPI.2013.06. LINK