Anthony Romilio primarily conducts research and visualisation of organic and fossiliferous material. He aims to advance our palaeo-zoological knowledge by using quantitative methods in revealing the diversity of extinct taxa, their behaviour, and distribution.
Researcher biography
Books
Romilio, Anthony (2021). Guide to the Extinct Animals of Ancient Egypt. Columbia, South Carolina, United States: Amazon.
Romilio, Anthony (2020). An Instructional Guide to Visualising Dinosaur Tracks. Columbia, South Carolina, United States: Amazon.
Journal Articles
Romilio, A. (2021). Assessing 'Meidum Geese' species identification with the ‘Tobias criteria’. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 36 102834. doi: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102834
Milner, Andrew R.C., Irmis, Randall B., Lockley, Martin G., Klein, Hendrik, Slauf, David and Romillio, Anthony (2021). First report of "Chirotherium" lulli from the Upper Triassic Chinle formation of San Juan county, Utah. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 82, 275-284.
Xing, L.D., Lockley, M.G., Zhang, L.J., Romilio, A., Namier, N., Wang, M.Y. and Persons, W.S.IV. (2021). Tetrapod track assemblages from midwestern Inner Mongolia, China: Review and new observations. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 82, 525-541.
Lockley, M., Klein, H., McHugh, J.B. and Romilio, A. (2021). Fruita’s first fossil footprint exhibit: The discovery of forgotten specimens in an historic former museum building. . New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 82, 219-226.
Xing, L.D., Lockley, M.G., Romilio, Anthony, Persons, W.S.IV., Wang, M.Y., Tang, Y.G. and Wang, X.L (2021). Multiple sauropod-dominated track sites from the Lower Cretaceous Dasheng Group of Eastern China: morphology, preservation and paleontology. . New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, 82, 543-567.
Kim, Kyung Soo, Lockley, Martin G., Lim, Jong Deock, Bae, Seul Mi and Romilio, Anthony (2020). Trackway evidence for large bipedal crocodylomorphs from the Cretaceous of Korea. Scientific Reports, 10 (1) 8680, 8680. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66008-7
Romilio, Anthony (2020). Evidence of ornithischian activity from the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian–Sinemurian) Precipice Sandstone, Callide Basin, Queensland, Australia — preliminary findings. Historical Biology. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1846033
Xing, Lida, Lockley, Martin G., Romilio, Anthony, Klein, Hendrik, Peng, Guangzhao, Persons, W. Scott, Ye, Yong, Jiang, Shan and Wang, Miaoyan (2020). An historic theropod-dominated track assemblage from the Upper Jurassic of Sichuan, China. Historical Biology, 1-7. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1830278
Xing, Lida, Klein, Hendrik, Lockley, Martin G., Wu, Xiao-chun, Benton, Michael J., Zeng, Rong and Romilio, Anthony (2020). Footprints of marine reptiles from the Middle Triassic (Anisian-Ladinian) Guanling Formation of Guizhou Province, southwestern China: the earliest evidence of synchronous style of swimming. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 558 109943, 109943. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109943
Lockley, Martin, Kim, Kyung Soo, Lim, Jong Deock and Romilio, Anthony (2020). Bird tracks from the Green River Formation (Eocene) of Utah: ichnotaxonomy, diversity, community structure and convergence. Historical Biology, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1771559
Romilio, Anthony, Salisbury, Steven W. and Jannel, Andréas (2020). Footprints of large theropod dinosaurs in the Middle–UpperJurassic (lower Callovian–lower Tithonian) Walloon Coal Measures of southern Queensland, Australia. Historical Biology, 1-12. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1772252
Xing, L., Niu, K., Zhang, L., Yang, T.-R., Zhang, J., Persons, W.S., Romilio, A., Zhuang, Y. and Ram, H. (2020). Dinosaur Eggs Associated with Crustacean Trace Fossils from the Upper Cretaceous of Jiangxi, China: Evidence for Foraging Behavior? . Biosis: Biological Systems, 1 (2), 54-59. doi: 10.37819/biosis.001.002.0058
Romilio, Anthony (2020). Additional notes on the Mount Morgan dinosaur tracks from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) Razorback beds, Queensland, Australia. Historical Biology, 1-3. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1755853
Lockley, Martin G., Lim, Jong Deock, Park, Hong Deock, Romilio, Anthony, Yoo, Jae Sang, Choi, Ji Won, Kim, Kyung Soo, Choi, Yeongi, Kang, Seung-Hyeop, Kim, Dong Hee and Kim, Tae Hyeong (2020). First reports of Crocodylopodus from Asia: implications for the paleoecology of the Lower Cretaceous. Cretaceous Research, 111 104441, 104441. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104441
Xing, Lida, Lockley, Martin G., Du, Tianming, Zhang, Lijun, Klein, Hendrik, Romilio, Anthony, Persons, W. Scott, Wang, Kuan, Li, Zhenyu and Wan, Xiaoqiao (2020). Dinosaur tracks from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary Tuchengzi Formation (Hebei Province, China) used as building stones in the Chengde imperial summer resort: age, ichnology, and history. Cretaceous Research, 107 104310, 104310. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104310
Romilio, Anthony, Dick, Roslyn, Skinner, Heather and Millar, Janice (2020). Archival data provides insights into the ambiguous track-maker gait from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) Razorback beds, Queensland, Australia: evidence of theropod quadrupedalism?. Historical Biology, 1-7. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2020.1720014
Xing, Lida, Lockley, Martin G., Qin, Zuohuan, Klein, Hendrik, Romilio, Anthony, Persons, W. Scott, Nie, Xin and Wan, Xiaoqiao (2019). Dinosaur tracks from the Lower Cretaceous Xiguayuan Formation in the Luanping Basin, Hebei Province, China. Cretaceous Research, 103 104163, 104163. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2019.06.009
Xing, Lida, Niu, Kecheng, Lockley, Martin G., Klein, Hendrik, Romilio, Anthony, Scott Persons, W. and Brusatte, Stephen L. (2019). A probable tyrannosaurid track from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China. Science Bulletin, 64 (16), 1136-1139. doi: 10.1016/j.scib.2019.06.013
Xing, Lida, Lockley, Martin G. and Romilio, Anthony (2019). An unusual dinosaur track assemblage from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary, Anning formation, Lufeng Basin, China. Historical Biology, 1-13. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2019.1642335
Jannel, Andréas, Nair, Jay P., Panagiotopoulou, Olga, Romilio, Anthony and Salisbury, Steven W. (2019). “Keep your feet on the ground”: simulated range of motion and hind foot posture of the Middle Jurassic sauropod Rhoetosaurus brownei and its implications for sauropod biology. Journal of Morphology, 280 (6) jmor.20989, 849-878. doi: 10.1002/jmor.20989
Xing, Lida, Lockley, Martin G., Tong, Kui, Peng, Guangzhao, Romilio, Anthony, Klein, Hendrik, Persons, W. Scott, Ye, Yong and Jiang, Shan (2019). A diversified dinosaur track assemblage from the Lower Cretaceous Xiaoba Formation of Sichuan Province, China: implications for ichnological database and census studies. Cretaceous Research, 96, 120-134. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.11.026
Li, Da-Qing, Xing, Li-Da, Lockley, Martin G., Romilio, Anthony, Yang, Jing-Tao and Li, Long-Feng (2019). The first theropod tracks from the Middle Jurassic of Gansu, Northwest China: new and rare evidence of quadrupedal progression in theropod dinosaurs. Journal of Palaeogeography, 8 (1) 10. doi: 10.1186/s42501-019-0028-4
Kim, Kyung Soo, Lim, Jong Deock, Lockley, Martin G., Xing, Lida, Kim, Dong Hee, Pinuele, Laura, Romilio, Anthony, Yoo, Jae Sang, Kim, Jin Ho and Ahn, Jaehong (2018). Smallest known raptor tracks suggest microraptorine activity in lakeshore setting. Scientific Reports, 8 (1) 16908, 16908. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-35289-4
Xing, Lida, Lockley, Martin G., Guo, Ying, Klein, Hendrik, Zhang, Junqiang, Zhang, Li, Persons, W. Scott, Romilio, Anthony, Tang, Yonggang and Wang, Xiaoli (2018). Multiple parallel deinonychosaurian trackways from a diverse dinosaur track assemblage of the Lower Cretaceous Dasheng Group of Shandong Province, China. Cretaceous Research, 90, 40-55. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.04.005
Xing, Li-Da, Chou, Chun-Yong, Lockley, Martin G., Romilio, Anthony, Klein, Hendrik, Li, Nan and Scott Persons, W. (2018). Lower Cretaceous sauropod trackways from Lishui City and an overview of dinosaur dominated track assemblages from Zhejiang Province, China. Journal of Palaeogeography, 7 (1) 9. doi: 10.1186/s42501-018-0011-5
Falkingham, Peter L., Bates, Karl T., Avanzini, Marco, Bennett, Matthew, Bordy, Emese M., Breithaupt, Brent H., Castanera, Diego, Citton, Paolo, Díaz-Martínez, Ignacio, Farlow, Jim O., Fiorillo, Anthony R., Gatesy, Stephen M., Getty, Patrick, Hatala, Kevin G., Hornung, Jahn J., Hyatt, James A., Klein, Hendrik, Lallensack, Jens N., Martin, Anthony J., Marty, Daniel, Matthews, Neffra A., Meyer, Christian A., Milàn, Jesper, Minter, Nicholas J., Razzolini, Novella L., Romilio, Anthony, Salisbury, Steven W., Sciscio, Lara, Tanaka, Ikuko ... Belvedere, Matteo (2018). A standard protocol for documenting modern and fossil ichnological data. Palaeontology, 61 (4), 469-480. doi: 10.1111/pala.12373
Xing, Lida, Lockley, Martin G., Tang, Yongzhong, Romilio, Anthony, Xu, Tao, Li, Xingwen, Tang, Yu and Li, Yizhao (2018). Tetrapod track assemblages from Lower Cretaceous desert facies in the Ordos Basin, Shaanxi Province, China, and their implications for Mesozoic paleoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 507, 1-14. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.05.016
Xing, Lida, Lockley, Martin G., Romilio, Anthony, Klein, Hendrik, Zhang, Junqiang, Chen, Haiying, Zhang, Jiajie, Burns, Michael E. and Wang, Xiaoli (2018). Diverse sauropod-theropod-dominated track assemblage from the Lower Cretaceous Dasheng Group of Eastern China: testing the use of drones in footprint documentation. Cretaceous Research, 84, 588-599. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.12.012
Xing, Li-Da, Ba, Jin, Lockley, Martin G., Klein, Hendrik, Yan, Sheng-Wu, Romilio, Anthony, Chou, Chun-Yong and Persons, W. Scott (2018). Late Triassic sauropodomorph and Middle Jurassic theropod tracks from the Xichang Basin, Sichuan Province, southwestern China: First report of the ichnogenus Carmelopodus. Journal of Palaeogeography, 7 (1), 1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.jop.2017.11.004
Xing, Lida, Lockley, Martin G., Zhang, Junqiang, Romilio, Anthony, Klein, Hendrik, Wang, Yan, Tang, Yonggang, Burns, Michael E. and Wang, Xiaoli (2017). A diversified vertebrate ichnite fauna from the Dasheng Group (Lower Cretaceous) of southeast Shandong Province, China. Historical Biology, 31 (3), 1-10. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2017.1370588
Salisbury, Steven W., Romilio, Anthony, Herne, Matthew C., Tucker, Ryan T. and Nair, Jay P. (2017). The Dinosaurian ichnofauna of the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of the Walmadany Area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 36 (sup1), 1-152. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2016.1269539
Casewell, Nicholas R., Visser, Jeroen C., Baumann, Kate, Dobson, James, Han, Han, Kuruppu, Sanjaya, Morgan, Michael, Romilio, Anthony, Weisbecker, Vera, Mardon, Karine, Ali, Syed A., Debono, Jordan, Koludarov, Ivan, Que, Ivo, Bird, Gregory C., Cooke, Gavan M., Nouwens, Amanda, Hodgson, Wayne C., Wagstaff, Simon C., Cheney, Karen L., Vetter, Irina, van der Weerd, Louise, Richardson, Michael K. and Fry, Bryan G. (2017). The Evolution of Fangs, Venom, and Mimicry Systems in Blenny Fishes (vol 27, pg 1184, 2017). Current Biology, 27 (10), 1549-1550. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.05.009
Debono, Jordan, Dobson, James, Casewell, Nicholas R., Romilio, Anthony, Li, Bin, Kurniawan, Nyoman, Mardon, Karine, Weisbecker, Vera, Nouwens, Amanda , Kwok, Hang Fai and Fry, Bryan G. (2017). Coagulating colubrids: evolutionary, pathophysiological and biodiscovery implications of venom variations between boomslang (Dispholidus typus) and twig snake (Thelotornis mossambicanus). Toxins, 9 (5) 171, 171. doi: 10.3390/toxins9050171
Xing, Lida, Dai, Hui, Lockley, Martin G. , Romilio, Anthony, Klein, Hendrik, Li, Zhongdong, Hu, Xufeng, Peng, Guangzhao, Ye, Yong and Persons IV, W. Scott (2017). Two new dinosaur tracksites from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation of Sichuan Basin, China: specific preservation and ichnotaxonomy. Historical Biology, 30 (7), 976-984. doi: 10.1080/08912963.2017.1326113
Romilio, Anthony, Hacker, Jorg M., Zlot, Robert, Poropat, George, Bosse, Michael and Salisbury, Steven W. (2017). A multidisciplinary approach to digital mapping of dinosaurian tracksites in the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian-Barremian) Broome sandstone of the Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. PeerJ, 2017 (3) e3013, e3013. doi: 10.7717/peerj.3013
Casewell, Nicholas R., Visser, Jeroen C., Baumann, Kate, Dobson, James, Han, Han, Kuruppu, Sanjaya, Morgan, Michael, Romilio, Anthony, Weisbecker, Vera, Ali, Syed A., Debono, Jordan, Koludarov, Ivan, Que, Ivo, Bird, Gregory C., Cooke, Gavan M., Nouwens, Amanda, Hodgson, Wayne C., Wagstaff, Simon C., Cheney, Karen L., Vetter, Irina, van der Weerd, Louise, Richardson, Michael K. and Fry, Bryan G. (2017). The evolution of fangs, venom, and mimicry systems in blenny fishes. Current Biology, 27 (8), 1184-1191. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2017.02.067
Romilio, Anthony and Salisbury, Steven W. (2014). Large dinosaurian tracks from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) portion of the Winton Formation, Lark Quarry, central-western Queensland, Australia: 3D photogrammetric analysis renders the 'stampede trigger' scenario unlikely. Cretaceous Research, 51, 186-207. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2014.06.003
Romilio, Anthony, Tucker, Ryan T. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2013). Reevaluation of the Lark Quarry Dinosaur Tracksite (Late Albian-Cenomanian Winton Formation, Central-Western Queensland, Australia): No Longer a Stampede?. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33 (1), 102-120. doi: 10.1080/02724634.2012.694591
Romilio, Anthony and Salisbury, Steven W. (2011). A reassessment of large theropod dinosaur tracks from the mid-Cretaceous (late Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation of Lark Quarry, central-western Queensland, Australia: A case for mistaken identity. Cretaceous Research, 32 (2), 135-142. doi: 10.1016/j.cretres.2010.11.003
Conference Papers
Jannel, A., Panagiotopoulou, O., Romilio, A., Nair, J. P. and Salisbury, S. W. (2016). Simulated range of motion and hindfoot posture of Rhoetosaurus brownei Longman, 1926 (Sauropoda, Gravisauria). Palaeo Down Under 2, Adelaide Australia, July 2016. Sydney, NSW Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Jannel, Andréas, Panagiotopoulou, Olga, Romilio, Anthony , Nair, Jay P. and Salisbury, Steven W. (2016). Reconstruction of the motion and hindfoot posture of Rhoetosaurus brownei Longman, 1926 (Sauropoda, Gravisauria). The Palaeontological Association 60th Annual Meeting, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Lyon, France, 79, 14-17 December, 2016.
Gray, S., Romilio, A., Hacker, J., Chamberlain, P. and Salisbury, S. W. (2016). Palaeoenvironmental setting of non-avian dinosaur tracks in the Lower Cretaceous (Valanginian–Barremian) Broome Sandstone of Reddell Beach, Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. Palaeo Down Under 2, Adelaide, Australia, July 2016. Sydney, Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Salisbury, S. W., Romilio, A. and Hacker, J. (2016). 3D digital analysis of non-avian dinosaur tracksites at Lark Quarry and Minyirr: implications for understanding Australia's Cretaceous dinosaurian fauna. Palaeo Down Under 2, Adelaide, SA, Australia, July 2016. Sydney Australia: Geological Society of Australia.
Romilio, A., Hacker, J. and Salisbury, S. W. (2016). New approaches to evaluating the Australian dinosaur tracksites of Lark Quarry, Queensland and of the Broome Sandstone, Western Australia. Spring Meeting of the Korean Earth Science Society and Gyeongnam Goseong International Dinosaur Symposium, Gyeongnam, South Korea, 2016. Seoul, South Korea: Gyeongnam Educational Welfare Center.
Romilio, Anthony and Salisbury, Steven (2014). Ichnological evidence for diverse pedal postures in ornithopodan dinosaurs. The 74th Annual Meeting of Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) conference, Berlin, Germany, 5–8 November 2014. doi: 10.13140/2.1.1953.2485
Salisbury, Steven W., Romilio, Anthony, Herne, Matthew C., Tucker, Ryan T. and Nair, Jay P. (2013). Dinosaur tracks from the Walmadany area (James Price Point), Dampier Peninsula, Western Australia. 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 30 September - 4 October 2013. Adelaide South Australia: Flinders University.
Romilio, A. and Salisbury, S. W. (2013). Three-dimensional analysis of the largest tracks from the Lark Quarry dinosaur tracksite, central-western Queensland. CAVEPS Flinders University, Adelaide 2013, 14th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution, Palaeontology and Systematics, Adelaide, Australia, 30 September - 4 October 2013. Adelaide, Australia: Flinders University.
Romilio, Anthony and Salisbury, S. W. (2012). Re-interpretation of the dinosaur track-maker identities and tracksite scenario at Lark Quarry, of the mid-Cretaceous (late Albian-Cenomanian) Winton Formation, central-western Queensland, Australia. Dinosaur Tracks 2011. An International Symposium, Obernkirchen, April 14–17, 2011. Abstract Volume and Field Guide to Excursions, Obernkirchen, Germany, 14–17 April 2011. Gottingen, Germany: Universitatsverlag Gottingen.
Romilio, A. and Salisbury, S. (2011). Re-examination of the Lark Quarry dinosaur tracksite reveals an absence of tracks referable to nonavian theropods. Geological Survey of Western Australia 2011, CAVEPS Perth 2011, 13th Conference on Australasian Vertebrate Evolution Palaeontology and Systematics, Perth, Australia, 27–30 April 2011. Perth, Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Record 2011/9.
Thesis
Romilio, Anthony (2014). The ichnological record of Australian Cretaceous ornithopodan dinosaurs: diversity, behaviour, and implications for the evolution of pedal posture. PhD Thesis, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2019.494