PUBLICATIONS FROM THE ROGERS LAB (arranged by region/topic)
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MONTANA CRETACEOUS (Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Taphonomy, etc.)
(1) Rogers, R.R., D.A. Eberth, and J. Ramezani, 2023. The "Judith River-Belly River problem" revisited (Montana-Alberta-Saskatchewan): New perspectives on the correlation of Campanian dinosaur bearing strata based on a revised stratigraphic model updated with CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb geochronology. The Geological Society of America Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B36999.1
(2) Regan, A.K.*, R.R. Rogers, and S.M. Holland. 2022. Quantifying controls on the occurrence of nonmarine fossils. Geology 50:1287–1290, https://doi.org/10.1130/G50254.1
(3) Ramezani, J., T.L. Beveridge, R.R. Rogers, D.A. Eberth, and E.M. Roberts*. 2022. Calibrating the zenith of dinosaur diversity in the Campanian of the Western Interior Basin by CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb geochronology. Scientific Reports 12:16026.
(4) Taylor, P.D., and R.R. Rogers. 2021. A new cheilostome bryozoan from a dinosaur site in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation of Montana. Journal of Paleontology 95:965-973.
(5) Rogers, R.R., A.K. Regan*, L.N. Weaver*, J.T. Thole, H.C. Fricke. 2020. Tracking authigenic mineral cements in fossil bones from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Two Medicine and Judith River formations of Montana. PALAIOS 35:135-150.
(6) Rogers, R.R., K.A. Curry Rogers, B.B. Bagley, J.J. Goodin*, J.H. Hartman, J.T. Thole, and M. Zaton, 2018. Pushing the record of trematode parasitism of bivalves upstream and back to the Cretaceous. GEOLOGY 46:431-434. PDF coming soon.
(7) Rogers, R.R., K.A. Curry Rogers, M.T. Carrano, M. Perez*, and A. Regan*. 2017. Isotaphonomy in concept and practice: An exploration of vertebrate microfossil bonebeds in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation, north-central Montana. PALEOBIOLOGY 43:248-273. PDF coming soon.
(8) Rogers, R.R., S.M. Kidwell, A. Deino, J.P. Mitchell, and K. Nelson*. 2016. Age, correlation, and lithostratigraphic revision of the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation in its type area (north-central Montana), with a comparison of low- and high-accommodation alluvial records. JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 124: 99-135. (get the PDF)
(9) 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. (get the PDF)
(10) 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. (get the PDF)
(11) Foreman*, B.Z., R.R. Rogers, A.L. Deino, K.R. Wirth, and J.T. Thole. 2008. Geochemical characterization of bentonite beds in the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian, Montana), including a new 40Ar/39Ar age. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH 29: 373-385.
(get the PDF)
(12) 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. (get the PDF)
(13) 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. (get the PDF)
(14) 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.
(get the PDF)
(15) 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. (get the PDF)
(16) Rogers, R.R. 1993. Systematic patterns of time-averaging in the terrestrial vertebrate record: A Cretaceous case study, in S. M. Kidwell and A. K. Behrensmeyer (eds.), Taphonomic Approaches to Time Resolution in Fossil Assemblages, Short Courses in Paleontology Number 6:228-249. (get the PDF)
(17) Rogers, R.R. 1993. Marine facies of the Judith River Formation (Campanian) in the type area, north-central Montana. Montana Geological Society, 1993 Fieldguide: 61-69. (get the PDF)
(18) 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. (get the PDF)
(19) 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. (get the PDF)
(20) 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. (get the PDF) my first paper...
MADAGASCAR CRETACEOUS (Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Taphonomy, etc.)
(21) Krause, D.W., P.M. O’Connor, J.W. Sertich, K. Curry Rogers, R.R. Rogers, and B. Rakotozafy. 2022. Late Cretaceous Vertebrates of Madagascar: A window into Gondwanan biogeography. Pp. 59-68. in S.M. Goodwin (ed.), The New Natural History of Madagascar, Princeton University Press.
(22) Krause, D.W., J.R. Groenke, S. Hoffman, R.R. Rogers, and L.J. Rahantarisoa. 2020. Introduction to Adaltherium hui(Gonodwanatheria, Mammalia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40, supplement to no. 2, Memoir 21:4-18.
(23) O’Connor, P.M., A.H. Turner, J.R. Groenke, R.N. Felice, R.R. Rogers, D.W. Krause, and L.J. Rahantarisoa. 2020. Late Cretaceous bird from Madagascar reveals unique development of beaks. NATURE 588: 272-276.
(24) Krause, D.W., S. Hoffmann, Y. Hu, J.R. Wible, G.W. Rougier, E.C. Kirk, J.R. Groenke, R.R. Rogers, J.B. Rossie, J.A. Schultz, A.R. Evans, W. von Koenigswald, and L.J. Rahantarisoa. 2020. Skeleton of Cretaceous mammal from Madagascar reflects long-term insularity. NATURE 581:421-427.
(25) Krause, D.W, J.W. Sertich, P.M. O’Connor, K.A. Curry Rogers, and R.R. Rogers. 2019. The Mesozoic biogeographic history of Gondwanan terrestrial vertebrates: Insights from Madagascar’s fossil record. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences 47:519-553.
(26) Krause, D.W., J.W. Sertich, P.M. O'Connor, K.A. Curry Rogers, and R.R. Rogers. 2019. The Mesozoic biogeographic history of Gondwanan terrestrial vertebrates: Insights from Madagascar's fossil record. ANNUAL REVIEWS OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES 47:519-553.
(27) Obrist-Farner, J., P. J. Ball, T.A. McGilvery, and R.R. Rogers. 2017. A prograding margin during global sea-level maxima: an example from the Mahajanga Basin, northwest Madagascar. BASIN RESEARCH doi: 10.1111/bre.12270. (get the PDF)
(28) Krause, D.W., R.R. Rogers, L.J. Rahantarisoa, J.G. Groenke, and H. Anriamiason 2014. Introduction, systematic paleontology, and geological context of Vintana sertichi (Mammalia: Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 34, supplement to no. 6, Memoir 6: 4-13. (get the PDF)
(29) Krause, D.W., S. Hoffmann, J.R. Wible, E.C. Kirk, J.A. Schultz, W.v. Koenigswald, J.R. Groenke, J.B. Rossie, P.M. O’Connor, E.R. Seiffert, E.R. Dumont, W.L. Holloway, R.R. Rogers, L.J. Rahantarisoa, A.D. Kemp, and H. Andriamialison. 2014. First cranial remains of gondwanatherian mammal reveal remarkable mosaicism. NATURE 515: 512–517 [doi.10.1038/nature13922]. (get the PDF)
(30) Rogers, R. R., D.W. Krause, S.C. Kast*, M.S. Marshall*, L.Rahantarisoa, C.R. Robins, J.J.W. Sertich. 2013. A new, richly fossiliferous member comprised of tidal deposits in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, northwestern Madagascar. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH 44: 12-29. (get the PDF)
(31) Marshall*, M.S., and R.R. Rogers. 2012. Lungfish burrows from the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar. PALAIOS 12: 857-866. (get the PDF)
(32) Curry Rogers, K., M. D’Emic, R. Rogers, M. Vickaryous, and A. Cagan*. 2011. Sauropod dinosaur osteoderms from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 2: 564 doi: 10.1038/ncomms1578. (get the PDF)
(33) Krause, D.W., J.J.W. Sertich, R.R. Rogers, S.C. Kast*, A.H. Rasoamiaramanana, and G.A. Buckley. 2010. Overview of the discovery, distribution, and geological context of Simosuchus clarkii (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 30(6): 4-12. (get the PDF)
(34) Samonds, K.E., I.S. Zalmout, M.T. Irwin, D.W. Krause, R.R. Rogers, and L.L. Raharivony. 2009. Eotheroides lambondrano, new middle Eocene seacow (Mammalia, Sirenia) from the Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 29: 1233-1243. (get the PDF)
(35) Rogers, R.R., D.W. Krause, K. Curry Rogers, A.H. Rasoamiaramanana, L. Rarahantarisoa. 2007. Paleoenvironment and paleoecology of Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 27, supplement to no. 2, Memoir 8: 21-31. (get the PDF)
(36) Roberts*, E.M., R.R. Rogers, and B.Z. Foreman*. 2007. Continental insect borings in dinosaur bone: examples from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar and Utah. JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY 81: 201-208. (get the PDF)
(37) Rogers, R.R., and D.W. Krause. 2007. Tracking an Ancient Killer. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (feature article in February 2007 issue): 42-51. (get the PDF) (get the Polish version)
(38) Rogers, R.R. 2006. Meat eating dinosaurs: Teeth marks tell of cannibalism. DIG (an archaeology magazine for children) 8: 22-23.
(39) Krause, D.W., P.M. O’Connor, K. Curry Rogers, S.D. Sampson, G.A. Buckley, R.R. Rogers. 2006. Late Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrates from Madagascar: Implications for Latin American biogeography. ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 93: 178-208.
(40) Rogers, R.R. 2005. Fine-grained debris flows and extraordinary vertebrate burials in the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. GEOLOGY 33: 297-300. (get the PDF)
(41) Gottfried, M.D., K. Curry Rogers, and R. Rogers. 2004. First record of Late Cretaceous coelacanths from Madagascar. In: Recent advances in the origin and early radiation of vertebrates (G. Arratia, ed.) (Festschrift volume for H.-P. Schultze). F. Pfeil, Berlin: 687-691.
(42) Rogers, R.R., D.W. Krause, and K. Curry Rogers, 2003. Cannibalism in the Madagascan dinosaur Majungatholus atopus. NATURE 422: 515-518. (get the PDF)
(43) Rogers, R.R., J.H. Hartman, and D.W. Krause. 2001. Stratigraphic analysis of Upper Cretaceous Rocks in the Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar: Implications for ancient and modern faunas: REPLY: JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 109(5): 674-676. (get the PDF)
(44) Rogers, R.R., J.H. Hartman, and D.W. Krause. 2000. Stratigraphic analysis of Upper Cretaceous Rocks in the Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar: Implications for ancient and modern faunas: JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 108: 275-301. (get the PDF)
(45) Schweitzer, M.H., J.A. Watt, R. Avci, C.A. Forster, D.W. Krause, L. Knapp, R.R. Rogers, I. Beech, and M. Marshall. 1999. Keratin immunoreactivity in the Late Cretaceous bird Rahonavis ostromi: JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 19: 712-722. (get the PDF)
(46) 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: 1-7. (get the PDF)
ARGENTINA MESOZOIC (Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Taphonomy, etc.)
(47) Colombi, C.E., R.R. Rogers, and O. Alcober. 2013. Vertebrate taphonomy of the Ischigualasto Formation. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY MEMOIR 12, Volume 32, Supplement to Number 6: 31-50. (get the PDF)
(48) Salgado, L., R.A. Coria, C.M. Magalhaes Ribeiro, A. Garrido, R. Rogers, M.E. Simón, A.B. Arcucci, K. Curry Rogers, A.P. Carabajal, S. Apesteguía, M. Fernández, R.A. García, and M. Talevi. 2007. Upper Cretaceous dinosaur nesting sites of Río Negro (Salitral Ojo de Agua and Salinas de Trapalcó-Salitral de Santa Rosa), northern Patagonia, Argentina. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH 28: 392-404.
(get the PDF)
(49) Lopéz-Arbarello, A., R. Rogers, and P. Puerta. 2006. Freshwater actinopterygians of the Los Rastros Formation (Triassic), Bermejo Basin, Argentina. FOSSIL RECORD 9: 238-258. (get the PDF)
(50) Rogers, R.R., A.B. Arcucci, F. Abdala, P.C. Sereno, C.A. Forster, and C.L. May. 2001. Paleoenvironment and taphonomy of the Chañares Formation tetrapod assemblage (Middle Triassic), Northwestern Argentina: Spectacular preservation in volcanogenic concretions: PALAIOS 16(5): 461-481. (get the PDF)
(51) Rogers, R.R., C.C. Swisher III, P.C. Sereno, A.M. Monetta, C.A. Forster, and R.N. Martinez. 1993. The Ischigualasto tetrapod assemblage (Late Triassic, Argentina) and the 40Ar/39Ar dating of dinosaur origins: SCIENCE 260: 794-797. (get the PDF)
(52) Sereno, P.C., C.A. Forster, R.R. Rogers, and A.M. Monetta. 1993. Primitive dinosaur skeleton from Argentina and the early evolution of Dinosauria: NATURE 361: 64-66. (get the PDF)
TAPHONOMY AND ISOTOPES AND DIAGENESIS AND MORE
(5*) Rogers, R.R., A.K. Regan*, L.N. Weaver*, J.T. Thole, H.C. Fricke. 2020. Tracking authigenic mineral cements in fossil bones from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Two Medicine and Judith River formations of Montana. PALAIOS 35:135-150.
(53) Vietti*, L., J. Bailey, D. Fox, and R. Rogers. 2015. Rapid formation of framboidal sulfides on bone surfaces from a simulated marine carcass fall. PALAIOS 30: 327-334. (get the PDF)
(54) 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. (get the PDF)
(55) Kosnik, M.A., A.K. Behrensmeyer, F.T. Fürsich, R.A. Gastaldo, S.M. Kidwell, M. Kowalewski, R.E. Plotnick, R.R. Rogers,, P.J. Wagner and J. Alroy. 2011. Changes in the shell durability of common marine taxa through the Phanerozoic: evidence for biological rather than taphonomic drivers. PALEOBIOLOGY 37: 303-331. (get the PDF)
(9*) 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. (get the PDF) *also listed under Montana Cretaceous research
(56) 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. (get the PDF)
(57) 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. (get the PDF)
(58) 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. COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL 7: 145-158. (get the PDF)
(59) Fricke, H.C., R.R. Rogers,, R. Backlund, C.N. Dwyer*, S. Echt. 2008. Preservation of primary stable isotope signals in dinosaur remains, and environmental gradients of the Late Cretaceous of Montana and Alberta. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY, PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY, PALAEOECOLOGY 266: 13-27.(get the PDF)
(60) Behrensmeyer, A.K., F.T. Fürsich, R.A. Gastaldo, S.M. Kidwell, M.A. Kosnik, M. Kowalewski, R.E. Plotnick, R.R. Rogers,, J. Alroy. 2005. Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record? PALEOBIOLOGY 31: 607-623. (get the PDF)
(61) Rogers, R.R., K.A. Curry Rogers, D. Munyikwa, D., R.C. Terry*, B.S. Singer. 2004. Sedimentology and taphonomy of the Karoo-equivalent Mpandi Formation in the Tuli Basin of Zimbabwe, with a new 40Ar/39Ar age for the Tuli basalts. JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES 40: 147-161. (get the PDF)
(62) 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. (get the PDF)
(63) 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. (get the PDF)
(64) Rogers, R.R. 1994. Collecting taphonomic data from vertebrate localities, in P. Leiggi and P. May (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontological Techniques, Cambridge University Press: 47-58.
(65) Rogers, R.R., and M. LaBarbera. 1993. Contribution of internal bony trabeculae to the mechanical properties of the humerus of the pigeon (Columba livia): JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, LONDON 230: 433-441. (get the PDF)
BONEBEDS BOOK PROJECT
Rogers, R.R., D.A. Eberth, and A.R. Fiorillo (editors). 2007. Bonebeds: Genesis, Analysis, and Paleobiological Significance. University of Chicago Press. Chicago.
My contributions include:
•Preface
(66) Rogers, R.R., and S.M. Kidwell. Chapter 1: A conceptual framework for the genesis and analysis of vertebrate skeletal concentrations. (pages 1-63) (get the PDF)
(67) Eberth, D.A., R.R. Rogers, and A.R. Fiorillo. Chapter 5: A practical approach to the study of bonebeds. (pages 265-332) (get the PDF)
COPYRIGHT NOTICE: Reprints of published articles are provided as a service to enhance accessibility and the exchange of information. In downloading, you agree to comply with United States copyright law (Title 17, United States Code) such that the reprints are not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research.” All copyrights remain with the original publishers of the articles. Please make only a single copy of any article, for personal use only.
STUDENT CO-AUTHORS (current and previous students) are marked with an asterisk*.
*************************************************************************************************************************************************
MONTANA CRETACEOUS (Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Taphonomy, etc.)
(1) Rogers, R.R., D.A. Eberth, and J. Ramezani, 2023. The "Judith River-Belly River problem" revisited (Montana-Alberta-Saskatchewan): New perspectives on the correlation of Campanian dinosaur bearing strata based on a revised stratigraphic model updated with CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb geochronology. The Geological Society of America Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1130/B36999.1
(2) Regan, A.K.*, R.R. Rogers, and S.M. Holland. 2022. Quantifying controls on the occurrence of nonmarine fossils. Geology 50:1287–1290, https://doi.org/10.1130/G50254.1
(3) Ramezani, J., T.L. Beveridge, R.R. Rogers, D.A. Eberth, and E.M. Roberts*. 2022. Calibrating the zenith of dinosaur diversity in the Campanian of the Western Interior Basin by CA-ID-TIMS U-Pb geochronology. Scientific Reports 12:16026.
(4) Taylor, P.D., and R.R. Rogers. 2021. A new cheilostome bryozoan from a dinosaur site in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation of Montana. Journal of Paleontology 95:965-973.
(5) Rogers, R.R., A.K. Regan*, L.N. Weaver*, J.T. Thole, H.C. Fricke. 2020. Tracking authigenic mineral cements in fossil bones from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Two Medicine and Judith River formations of Montana. PALAIOS 35:135-150.
(6) Rogers, R.R., K.A. Curry Rogers, B.B. Bagley, J.J. Goodin*, J.H. Hartman, J.T. Thole, and M. Zaton, 2018. Pushing the record of trematode parasitism of bivalves upstream and back to the Cretaceous. GEOLOGY 46:431-434. PDF coming soon.
(7) Rogers, R.R., K.A. Curry Rogers, M.T. Carrano, M. Perez*, and A. Regan*. 2017. Isotaphonomy in concept and practice: An exploration of vertebrate microfossil bonebeds in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation, north-central Montana. PALEOBIOLOGY 43:248-273. PDF coming soon.
(8) Rogers, R.R., S.M. Kidwell, A. Deino, J.P. Mitchell, and K. Nelson*. 2016. Age, correlation, and lithostratigraphic revision of the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Judith River Formation in its type area (north-central Montana), with a comparison of low- and high-accommodation alluvial records. JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 124: 99-135. (get the PDF)
(9) 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. (get the PDF)
(10) 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. (get the PDF)
(11) Foreman*, B.Z., R.R. Rogers, A.L. Deino, K.R. Wirth, and J.T. Thole. 2008. Geochemical characterization of bentonite beds in the Two Medicine Formation (Campanian, Montana), including a new 40Ar/39Ar age. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH 29: 373-385.
(get the PDF)
(12) 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. (get the PDF)
(13) 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. (get the PDF)
(14) 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.
(get the PDF)
(15) 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. (get the PDF)
(16) Rogers, R.R. 1993. Systematic patterns of time-averaging in the terrestrial vertebrate record: A Cretaceous case study, in S. M. Kidwell and A. K. Behrensmeyer (eds.), Taphonomic Approaches to Time Resolution in Fossil Assemblages, Short Courses in Paleontology Number 6:228-249. (get the PDF)
(17) Rogers, R.R. 1993. Marine facies of the Judith River Formation (Campanian) in the type area, north-central Montana. Montana Geological Society, 1993 Fieldguide: 61-69. (get the PDF)
(18) 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. (get the PDF)
(19) 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. (get the PDF)
(20) 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. (get the PDF) my first paper...
MADAGASCAR CRETACEOUS (Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Taphonomy, etc.)
(21) Krause, D.W., P.M. O’Connor, J.W. Sertich, K. Curry Rogers, R.R. Rogers, and B. Rakotozafy. 2022. Late Cretaceous Vertebrates of Madagascar: A window into Gondwanan biogeography. Pp. 59-68. in S.M. Goodwin (ed.), The New Natural History of Madagascar, Princeton University Press.
(22) Krause, D.W., J.R. Groenke, S. Hoffman, R.R. Rogers, and L.J. Rahantarisoa. 2020. Introduction to Adaltherium hui(Gonodwanatheria, Mammalia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40, supplement to no. 2, Memoir 21:4-18.
(23) O’Connor, P.M., A.H. Turner, J.R. Groenke, R.N. Felice, R.R. Rogers, D.W. Krause, and L.J. Rahantarisoa. 2020. Late Cretaceous bird from Madagascar reveals unique development of beaks. NATURE 588: 272-276.
(24) Krause, D.W., S. Hoffmann, Y. Hu, J.R. Wible, G.W. Rougier, E.C. Kirk, J.R. Groenke, R.R. Rogers, J.B. Rossie, J.A. Schultz, A.R. Evans, W. von Koenigswald, and L.J. Rahantarisoa. 2020. Skeleton of Cretaceous mammal from Madagascar reflects long-term insularity. NATURE 581:421-427.
(25) Krause, D.W, J.W. Sertich, P.M. O’Connor, K.A. Curry Rogers, and R.R. Rogers. 2019. The Mesozoic biogeographic history of Gondwanan terrestrial vertebrates: Insights from Madagascar’s fossil record. Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences 47:519-553.
(26) Krause, D.W., J.W. Sertich, P.M. O'Connor, K.A. Curry Rogers, and R.R. Rogers. 2019. The Mesozoic biogeographic history of Gondwanan terrestrial vertebrates: Insights from Madagascar's fossil record. ANNUAL REVIEWS OF EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES 47:519-553.
(27) Obrist-Farner, J., P. J. Ball, T.A. McGilvery, and R.R. Rogers. 2017. A prograding margin during global sea-level maxima: an example from the Mahajanga Basin, northwest Madagascar. BASIN RESEARCH doi: 10.1111/bre.12270. (get the PDF)
(28) Krause, D.W., R.R. Rogers, L.J. Rahantarisoa, J.G. Groenke, and H. Anriamiason 2014. Introduction, systematic paleontology, and geological context of Vintana sertichi (Mammalia: Gondwanatheria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 34, supplement to no. 6, Memoir 6: 4-13. (get the PDF)
(29) Krause, D.W., S. Hoffmann, J.R. Wible, E.C. Kirk, J.A. Schultz, W.v. Koenigswald, J.R. Groenke, J.B. Rossie, P.M. O’Connor, E.R. Seiffert, E.R. Dumont, W.L. Holloway, R.R. Rogers, L.J. Rahantarisoa, A.D. Kemp, and H. Andriamialison. 2014. First cranial remains of gondwanatherian mammal reveal remarkable mosaicism. NATURE 515: 512–517 [doi.10.1038/nature13922]. (get the PDF)
(30) Rogers, R. R., D.W. Krause, S.C. Kast*, M.S. Marshall*, L.Rahantarisoa, C.R. Robins, J.J.W. Sertich. 2013. A new, richly fossiliferous member comprised of tidal deposits in the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, northwestern Madagascar. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH 44: 12-29. (get the PDF)
(31) Marshall*, M.S., and R.R. Rogers. 2012. Lungfish burrows from the Upper Cretaceous Maevarano Formation, Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar. PALAIOS 12: 857-866. (get the PDF)
(32) Curry Rogers, K., M. D’Emic, R. Rogers, M. Vickaryous, and A. Cagan*. 2011. Sauropod dinosaur osteoderms from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 2: 564 doi: 10.1038/ncomms1578. (get the PDF)
(33) Krause, D.W., J.J.W. Sertich, R.R. Rogers, S.C. Kast*, A.H. Rasoamiaramanana, and G.A. Buckley. 2010. Overview of the discovery, distribution, and geological context of Simosuchus clarkii (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 30(6): 4-12. (get the PDF)
(34) Samonds, K.E., I.S. Zalmout, M.T. Irwin, D.W. Krause, R.R. Rogers, and L.L. Raharivony. 2009. Eotheroides lambondrano, new middle Eocene seacow (Mammalia, Sirenia) from the Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 29: 1233-1243. (get the PDF)
(35) Rogers, R.R., D.W. Krause, K. Curry Rogers, A.H. Rasoamiaramanana, L. Rarahantarisoa. 2007. Paleoenvironment and paleoecology of Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 27, supplement to no. 2, Memoir 8: 21-31. (get the PDF)
(36) Roberts*, E.M., R.R. Rogers, and B.Z. Foreman*. 2007. Continental insect borings in dinosaur bone: examples from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar and Utah. JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY 81: 201-208. (get the PDF)
(37) Rogers, R.R., and D.W. Krause. 2007. Tracking an Ancient Killer. SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (feature article in February 2007 issue): 42-51. (get the PDF) (get the Polish version)
(38) Rogers, R.R. 2006. Meat eating dinosaurs: Teeth marks tell of cannibalism. DIG (an archaeology magazine for children) 8: 22-23.
(39) Krause, D.W., P.M. O’Connor, K. Curry Rogers, S.D. Sampson, G.A. Buckley, R.R. Rogers. 2006. Late Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrates from Madagascar: Implications for Latin American biogeography. ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 93: 178-208.
(40) Rogers, R.R. 2005. Fine-grained debris flows and extraordinary vertebrate burials in the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. GEOLOGY 33: 297-300. (get the PDF)
(41) Gottfried, M.D., K. Curry Rogers, and R. Rogers. 2004. First record of Late Cretaceous coelacanths from Madagascar. In: Recent advances in the origin and early radiation of vertebrates (G. Arratia, ed.) (Festschrift volume for H.-P. Schultze). F. Pfeil, Berlin: 687-691.
(42) Rogers, R.R., D.W. Krause, and K. Curry Rogers, 2003. Cannibalism in the Madagascan dinosaur Majungatholus atopus. NATURE 422: 515-518. (get the PDF)
(43) Rogers, R.R., J.H. Hartman, and D.W. Krause. 2001. Stratigraphic analysis of Upper Cretaceous Rocks in the Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar: Implications for ancient and modern faunas: REPLY: JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 109(5): 674-676. (get the PDF)
(44) Rogers, R.R., J.H. Hartman, and D.W. Krause. 2000. Stratigraphic analysis of Upper Cretaceous Rocks in the Mahajanga Basin, northwestern Madagascar: Implications for ancient and modern faunas: JOURNAL OF GEOLOGY 108: 275-301. (get the PDF)
(45) Schweitzer, M.H., J.A. Watt, R. Avci, C.A. Forster, D.W. Krause, L. Knapp, R.R. Rogers, I. Beech, and M. Marshall. 1999. Keratin immunoreactivity in the Late Cretaceous bird Rahonavis ostromi: JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY 19: 712-722. (get the PDF)
(46) 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: 1-7. (get the PDF)
ARGENTINA MESOZOIC (Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, Taphonomy, etc.)
(47) Colombi, C.E., R.R. Rogers, and O. Alcober. 2013. Vertebrate taphonomy of the Ischigualasto Formation. JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY MEMOIR 12, Volume 32, Supplement to Number 6: 31-50. (get the PDF)
(48) Salgado, L., R.A. Coria, C.M. Magalhaes Ribeiro, A. Garrido, R. Rogers, M.E. Simón, A.B. Arcucci, K. Curry Rogers, A.P. Carabajal, S. Apesteguía, M. Fernández, R.A. García, and M. Talevi. 2007. Upper Cretaceous dinosaur nesting sites of Río Negro (Salitral Ojo de Agua and Salinas de Trapalcó-Salitral de Santa Rosa), northern Patagonia, Argentina. CRETACEOUS RESEARCH 28: 392-404.
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(49) Lopéz-Arbarello, A., R. Rogers, and P. Puerta. 2006. Freshwater actinopterygians of the Los Rastros Formation (Triassic), Bermejo Basin, Argentina. FOSSIL RECORD 9: 238-258. (get the PDF)
(50) Rogers, R.R., A.B. Arcucci, F. Abdala, P.C. Sereno, C.A. Forster, and C.L. May. 2001. Paleoenvironment and taphonomy of the Chañares Formation tetrapod assemblage (Middle Triassic), Northwestern Argentina: Spectacular preservation in volcanogenic concretions: PALAIOS 16(5): 461-481. (get the PDF)
(51) Rogers, R.R., C.C. Swisher III, P.C. Sereno, A.M. Monetta, C.A. Forster, and R.N. Martinez. 1993. The Ischigualasto tetrapod assemblage (Late Triassic, Argentina) and the 40Ar/39Ar dating of dinosaur origins: SCIENCE 260: 794-797. (get the PDF)
(52) Sereno, P.C., C.A. Forster, R.R. Rogers, and A.M. Monetta. 1993. Primitive dinosaur skeleton from Argentina and the early evolution of Dinosauria: NATURE 361: 64-66. (get the PDF)
TAPHONOMY AND ISOTOPES AND DIAGENESIS AND MORE
(5*) Rogers, R.R., A.K. Regan*, L.N. Weaver*, J.T. Thole, H.C. Fricke. 2020. Tracking authigenic mineral cements in fossil bones from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Two Medicine and Judith River formations of Montana. PALAIOS 35:135-150.
(53) Vietti*, L., J. Bailey, D. Fox, and R. Rogers. 2015. Rapid formation of framboidal sulfides on bone surfaces from a simulated marine carcass fall. PALAIOS 30: 327-334. (get the PDF)
(54) 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. (get the PDF)
(55) Kosnik, M.A., A.K. Behrensmeyer, F.T. Fürsich, R.A. Gastaldo, S.M. Kidwell, M. Kowalewski, R.E. Plotnick, R.R. Rogers,, P.J. Wagner and J. Alroy. 2011. Changes in the shell durability of common marine taxa through the Phanerozoic: evidence for biological rather than taphonomic drivers. PALEOBIOLOGY 37: 303-331. (get the PDF)
(9*) 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. (get the PDF) *also listed under Montana Cretaceous research
(56) 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. (get the PDF)
(57) 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. (get the PDF)
(58) 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. COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL 7: 145-158. (get the PDF)
(59) Fricke, H.C., R.R. Rogers,, R. Backlund, C.N. Dwyer*, S. Echt. 2008. Preservation of primary stable isotope signals in dinosaur remains, and environmental gradients of the Late Cretaceous of Montana and Alberta. PALAEOGEOGRAPHY, PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY, PALAEOECOLOGY 266: 13-27.(get the PDF)
(60) Behrensmeyer, A.K., F.T. Fürsich, R.A. Gastaldo, S.M. Kidwell, M.A. Kosnik, M. Kowalewski, R.E. Plotnick, R.R. Rogers,, J. Alroy. 2005. Are the most durable shelly taxa also the most common in the marine fossil record? PALEOBIOLOGY 31: 607-623. (get the PDF)
(61) Rogers, R.R., K.A. Curry Rogers, D. Munyikwa, D., R.C. Terry*, B.S. Singer. 2004. Sedimentology and taphonomy of the Karoo-equivalent Mpandi Formation in the Tuli Basin of Zimbabwe, with a new 40Ar/39Ar age for the Tuli basalts. JOURNAL OF AFRICAN EARTH SCIENCES 40: 147-161. (get the PDF)
(62) 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. (get the PDF)
(63) 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. (get the PDF)
(64) Rogers, R.R. 1994. Collecting taphonomic data from vertebrate localities, in P. Leiggi and P. May (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontological Techniques, Cambridge University Press: 47-58.
(65) Rogers, R.R., and M. LaBarbera. 1993. Contribution of internal bony trabeculae to the mechanical properties of the humerus of the pigeon (Columba livia): JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY, LONDON 230: 433-441. (get the PDF)
BONEBEDS BOOK PROJECT
Rogers, R.R., D.A. Eberth, and A.R. Fiorillo (editors). 2007. Bonebeds: Genesis, Analysis, and Paleobiological Significance. University of Chicago Press. Chicago.
My contributions include:
•Preface
(66) Rogers, R.R., and S.M. Kidwell. Chapter 1: A conceptual framework for the genesis and analysis of vertebrate skeletal concentrations. (pages 1-63) (get the PDF)
(67) Eberth, D.A., R.R. Rogers, and A.R. Fiorillo. Chapter 5: A practical approach to the study of bonebeds. (pages 265-332) (get the PDF)
Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument (J. Thole photo)
