Karen Chin

Karen Chin is an American paleontologist and taphonomist who is considered one of the world's leading experts in coprolites.[2][3][4][5]

Karen Chin
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
Known forcoprolite research[1]
Scientific career
Fieldspaleontology
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado, Boulder and Curator of Paleontology, University of Colorado Museum
Doctoral advisorBruce H. Tiffney

Selected publications
  • Chin, Karen; Feldmann, Rodney M.; Tashman, Jessica N. "Consumption of crustaceans by megaherbivorous dinosaurs: dietary flexibility and dinosaur life history strategies". Scientific Reports. 7.
  • Chin, K., Hartman, J.H., and Roth, B. 2009. Opportunistic exploitation of dinosaur dung: fossil snails in coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana. Lethaia 42: 185–198.
  • Chin, K., Bloch, J.D., Sweet, A.R., Tweet, J.S., Eberle, J.J., Cumbaa, S.L., Witkowski, J., and Harwood, D.M. 2008. Life in a temperate polar sea: a unique taphonomic window on the structure of a Late Cretaceous Arctic marine ecosystem. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 2675–2685.
  • Tweet, J.S., Chin, K., Braman, D.R., and Murphy, N.L. 2008. Probable gut contents within a specimen of Brachylophosaurus canadensis (Dinosauria: Hadrosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana. Palaios 23: 625–636.
  • Chin, K. 2007. The paleobiological implications of herbivorous dinosaur coprolites from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana: why eat wood? Palaios 22: 554–566.
  • Chin, K., and Bishop, J. 2007. Exploited twice: bored bone in a theropod coprolite from the Jurassic Morrison Formation of Utah, USA. In: Bromley, R.G., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Genise, J.F., and Melchor, R.N. [eds.], Sediment-Organism Interactions: A Multifaceted Ichnology. SEPM Special Publications, v. 88, pp. 377–385.
  • Chin, K., Tokaryk, T.T., Erickson, G.M., Calk, L.C., 1998, A king-sized theropod coprolite, Naturev. 393, pp. 680–682.

References
  1. Human, Katy (October 30, 2006). "Inside dinosaur poop". Denver Post.
  2. Wright, Karen (June 1, 1996). "What the Dinosaurs Left Us". Discover Magazine.
  3. "The Paleontology Portal". paleoportal.org.
  4. "UCSB Science Line sqtest". ucsb.edu.
  5. Markey, Sean (March 12, 2003). "Dino Dung: Paleontology's Next Frontier?". National Geographic News.


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