In college I studied geology and minored in biology at Rutgers University. I volunteered at the Rutgers University Geology Museum, helping the curator, Bill Selden, organize the collections. I've also spent time as a Fossil Explainer at the American Museum of Natural History.
In 2005, I met Dr. Jack Horner at the New Jersey State Museum. Now I am working towards my PhD under Jack's guidance.
I get to spend every day with dinosaurs and other extinct creatures.
It's pretty much everything I dreamed of when I was three.
Academics:
BS Geological Sciences, Rutgers University, 2002
PhD Earth Sciences, Montana State University, current
Publications
Scannella, J.B. and Horner, J.R. 2011. 'Nedoceratops': an example of a transitional morphology. PLoS ONE 6(12): e28705. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028705
Fowler, D.W., Freedman, E.A., Scannella, J.B., and Kambic, R.E. 2011. The predatory ecology of Deinonychus and the origin of flapping in birds. PLoS ONE 6(12): e28964. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028964
Scannella, J.B. and Horner, J.R. 2010. Torosaurus Marsh 1891 is Triceratops Marsh 1889 (Ceratopsidae: Chasmosaurinae): synonymy through ontogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(4): 1157-1168.
Fowler, D.W., Freedman, E.A., and Scannella J.B. 2009. Predatory functional morphology in raptors: interdigital variation in talon size is related to prey restraint and immobilisation technique. PLoS ONE 4(11): e7999. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0007999
Abstracts
Scannella, J., Fowler, D., Trevethan, I., Roberts, D., Horner, J. 2011. Individual variation in Triceratops from the Hell Creek Formation, Montana: implications for dinosaur taxonomy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstracts Book 2011: 187A.
Fowler, D., Scannella, J., Horner, J. 2011. Reassessing ceratopsid diversity using unified frames of reference. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstracts Book 2011: 111A.
Baker, K., Scannella, J., Hall, L., Horner, J. 2011. Biogeographic implications of a partial ceratopsid skeleton from the lower Two Medicine Formation (Campanian), Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstracts Book 2011: 65A-66A.
Fowler, D.W., Freedman, E.A., Scannella, J.B., Kambic, R. E. 2011. The predatory ecology of Deinonychosauria: foot use compared among dromaeosaurids, troodontids and basal birds. Dinosaur Track Symposium, Obenkirchen, Germany (abstracts volume).
Scannella, J. 2010. Triceratops: a model organism for deciphering dinosaur heterochrony. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstracts Book 2010: 158A.
Trevethan, I., Scannella, J. 2010. A morphometric analysis of cranial sexual variation in the extant phylogenetic bracket of the Dinosauria: implications for fossil studies. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstracts Book 2010: 176A.
Padian, K., Horner, J., Fowler, D., Scannella, J. 2010. How a synergy of species recognition and social signaling explains cranial anatomy and ontogeny in several groups of dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstract Book 2010: 143A.
Scannella, J.B. 2009. And then there was one: synonymy consequences of Triceratops cranial ontogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, SVP Program and Abstract Book 2009: 128A.
Scannella, J.B. and D.W. Fowler. 2009. Anagenesis in Triceratops: evidence from a newly resolved stratigraphic framework for the Hell Creek Formation. North American Paleontological Convention, abstracts volume: 148-9.
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