Emily Rayfield

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Emily Rayfield is a British palaeontologist, Lecturer of paleobiology at Bristol University.

Rayfield’s research primarily has focused on the functional anatomy of extinct vertebrates, especially dinosaurs, using computational methods such as finite element analysis.

[edit] Selected publications

Rayfield, E. J. 2004. Cranial mechanics and feeding in Tyrannosaurus rex. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 271: 1451-1459.

Rayfield, E. J. 2007. Finite element analysis in vertebrate morphology. Annual Reviews in Earth and Planetary Sciences 35: 541–576.

Rayfield, E. J., Norman, D. B., Horner, C. C., Horner, J. R., Smith, P. M., Thomason, J. J. and Upchurch, P. 2001. Cranial design and function in a large theropod dinosaur. Nature 409: 1033-1037.