Publications

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

• 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 

• 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

• 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

• 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