Research contributions: Science and Nature [1]
Briggs, D.E.G. 1986. How did eurypterids swim? Nature 320, 400 (doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1987.tb02036.x).
Research contributions: others [12]
Aldridge, R.J. and Briggs, D.E.G. 1986. Conodonts. in A. Hoffmann and M.H. Nitecki (eds.) Problematic fossil taxa, 227-239. Oxford University Press.
Aldridge, R.J., Briggs, D.E.G., Clarkson, E.N.K. and Smith, M.P. 1986. The affinities of conodonts – new evidence from the Carboniferous of Edinburgh, Scotland. Lethaia 19, 279-291 (doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1986.tb00741.x).
Allison, P.A. 1986. Soft-bodied animals in the fossil record: The role of decay in fragmentation during transport. Geology 14, 979-981 (doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1986)14<979:SAITFR>2.0.CO;2).
Batten, D.J. and Briggs, D.E.G. (eds.) 1986. Studies in palaeobotany and palynology in honour of N.F. Hughes. Special Papers in Palaeontology 35, iv + 178 pp.
Briggs, D.E.G. 1986. Walking trails of the giant arthropod Arthropleura. Bulletin, Société d’Histoire Naturelle, Autun 117, 141-148.
Briggs, D.E.G. and Conway Morris, S. 1986. Problematica from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. in A. Hoffman and M.H. Nitecki (eds.) Problematic fossil taxa, 167-183. Oxford University Press.
Cowie J.W. 1986. Guidelines for boundary stratotypes. Episodes 9, 78-82.
Cowie, J.W., Ziegler, W., Boucot, A.J., Bassett, M.G., and Remane, J. 1986. Guidelines and statutes of the International Commission on Stratigraphy. Courier des Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 83, 1-14.
Dineley, D.L. 1986. Cornubian quarter-century: advances in the geology of south-west England, 1960-1985. Proceedings of the Ussher Society 6, 275-290.
Macquaker, J.H.S., Farrimond, P., Brassell, S.C. 1986. Biological markers in the Rhaetian black shales of South West Britain. Organic Geochemistry 10, 93-100 (doi: 10.1016/0146-6380(86)90012-4).
Savage, R.J.G. 1986. Professor R.F.E.W. Peel (1912-85) – Obituary. Proceedings of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society 17, 194.
Williamson, P.G. and Savage, R.J.G. 1986. Early rift sedimentation in the Turkana basin, northern Kenya. In Frostick, L.E. et al. (eds) Sedimentation in the African rifts. Geological Society of London Special Publication 25, 267-283.
Public understanding of science [3]
Dineley, D.L. 1986. Want to know the time? Geology Today 2, 6-7.
Dineley, D.L. 1986. A tonic. Geology Today 2, 165.
Savage, R.J.G. and Long, M.R. 1986. Mammal Evolution: an Illustrated Guide. British Museum (Natural History), London, 259 pp.