Tyler Lyson’s general research interests are focused around his field
work in the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of southwestern North
Dakota. He is currently working on two sites from this area: a large
population of baenid turtles from a single locality and an exceptionally
well-preserved hadrosaur dinosaur.
Tyler is interested in the intraspecies variation found in
baenid turtles and how this influences the interrelationships of the
clade. Ultimately he plans to integrate this research with a more broad
scale phylogenetic analysis of the transition of all turtle groups
across the K/T boundary to determine the pattern of survival and
extinction around this boundary.
Tyler is also interested in soft tissue preservation found in
dinosaurs. He plans to work on the recently collected hadrosaur dinosaur
that has most of its integument preserved to determine how the soft
tissue was preserved.
