Scientific Publications
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Grandstaff, B.S., Joshua B. Smith, M.C. Lamanna, K.J. Lacovara, and M.S. Abdel-Ghani, 2012, Bawitius gen. nov., a giant polypterid (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii) from the Upper Cretaceous Bahariya Formation of Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32(1):17-26. (doi) (pdf)
Smith, Joshua B., M.C. Lamanna, S.O. Tshakreen, A.S. Askar, K.A. Bergig, M.M. Abugares, O. Sliman, and D. Tab Rasmussen, 2010, A large abelisauroid theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Libya. Journal of Paleontology 84(5): 927-934. (doi) (pdf)
Godfrey, Stephen J. and Joshua B. Smith, 2010, Shark-bitten vertebrate coprolites from the Miocene of Maryland. Naturwissenschaften 97(5):461-467. (doi) (pdf)
Rasmussen, David Tab, S.O. Tshakreen, M.M. Abugares, and Joshua B. Smith, 2008, Return to Dor al-Talha: Paleontological Reconnaissance of the Early Tertiary of Libya; pp. 181-196, in J.G. Fleagle and C.C. Gilbert (eds.), Elwyn Simons: A Search for Origins. Springer, New York. (doi) (pdf)
Smith, Joshua B., 2007, Dental morphology and variation in Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar; pp. 103-126, in Scott D. Sampson and David W. Krause (eds.), Majungasaurus crenatissimus (Theropoda: Abelisauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 8. (doi) (pdf)
Smith, Joshua B., B.S. Grandstaff, and M.S. Abdel-Ghani, 2006, Microstructure of polypterid scales (Osteichthyes: Actinopterygii: Polypteridae) from the Upper Cretaceous Bahariya Formation, Bahariya Oasis, Egypt. Journal of Paleontology 80(6):1179-1185. (doi) (pdf)
Smith, Joshua B. and F.M. Dalla Vecchia, 2006, An abelisaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) tooth from the Lower Cretaceous Chicla Formation of Libya. Journal of African Earth Sciences 46:240-244. (doi) (pdf)
Smith, Joshua B. and M.C. Lamanna, 2006, An abelisaurid from the Late Cretaceous of Egypt: implications for theropod biogeography. Naturwissenschaften 93(5): 242-245. (doi) (pdf) (sup)
Smith, Joshua B., M.C. Lamanna, H. Mayr, and K.J. Lacovara, 2006, New information regarding the holotype of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus Stromer, 1915. Journal of Paleontology 80(2):400-406. (doi) (pdf)
Smith, Joshua B., 2005, Heterodonty in Tyrannosaurus rex: implications for the taxonomic and systematic utility of theropod dentitions. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(4):865-887. (doi) (pdf)
Smith, Joshua B., David R. Vann, and P. Dodson, 2005, Dental morphology and variation in theropod dinosaurs: implications for the taxonomic identification of isolated teeth. The Anatomical Record 285A:699-736. (pdf)
Fastovsky, David E. and Joshua B. Smith, 2004, Dinosaur Paleoecology; pp. 614-626, in D.B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska (eds.), The Dinosauria, Second Edition. University of California Press, Berkeley. (doi)
Lamanna, M.C., Joshua B. Smith, P. Dodson, and Y. Attia, 2004, From dinosaurs to dyrosaurids (Crocodyliformes: Neosuchia): removal of the post-Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) record of Ornithischia from Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(3):764-768. (doi) (pdf)
Lacovara, K.J., J.R. Smith, Joshua B. Smith, and M.C. Lamanna, 2003, The Ten Thousand Islands coast of Florida: a modern analog to low-energy mangrove coasts of Cretaceous epeiric seas; pp. 1773-1784, in R.A. Davis, Jr. (ed.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Coastal Sediments, Clearwater Beach, Florida. World Scientific Publishing Corporation, Corpus Christi (ISBN 981-238-422-7). (pdf)
Schweitzer, Carrie E., K.J. Lacovara, Joshua B. Smith, M.C. Lamanna, M.A. Lyon, and Y. Attia, 2003, Mangrove-dwelling crabs (Decopoda: Brachyura: Necrocarcinidae) associated with dinosaurs from the Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Egypt. Journal of Paleontology 77(5):888-894. (doi) (pdf)
Smith, Joshua B. and James O. Farlow, 2003, Osteometric approaches to trackmaker assignment for the Newark Supergroup ichnogenera Grallator, Anchisauripus, and Eubrontes; pp. 273-292, in Peter M. LeTourneau and Paul E. Olsen (eds.), The Great Rift Valleys of Pangea in Eastern North America, Volume 2: Sedimentology and Paleontology. Columbia University Press, New York. (pdf)
Smith, Joshua B. and P. Dodson, 2003, A proposal for a standard terminology of anatomical notation and orientation in fossil vertebrate dentitions. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(1):1-12. (doi) (pdf)
Lamanna, M.C., R.D. Martínez, and Joshua B. Smith, 2002, A definitive abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(1):58-69. (doi) (pdf)
Smith, Joshua B., J.D. Harris, G.I. Omar, P. Dodson, and You H., 2001, Biostratigraphy and avian origins in northeastern China; pp. 549-589, in J.A. Gauthier and L.F. Gall (eds.), New Perspectives on the Origin and Early Evolution of Birds: Proceedings of the International Symposium in Honor of John H. Ostrom. Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven.
Smith, Joshua B. and J.D. Harris, 2001, A taxonomic problem concerning two diapsid genera from the Lower Yixian Formation of Liaoning Province, northeastern China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(2):389-391. (doi) (pdf)
Smith, Joshua B., M.C. Lamanna, K.J. Lacovara, P. Dodson, J.R. Smith, J.C. Poole, R. Giegengack, and Y. Attia, 2001, A giant sauropod dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous mangrove deposit in Egypt. Science 292:1704-1706. (doi) (pdf)
Olsen, Paul E, Joshua B. Smith, and N.G. McDonald, 1998, Type material of the type species of the classic theropod footprint genera Eubrontes, Anchisauripus, and Grallator (Early Jurassic, Hartford and Deerfield basins, Connecticut and Massachusetts, U.S.A.). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(3):586-601. (doi) (pdf)