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Research contributions [23]

Allison, P.A. and Briggs, D.E.G. 1991. Taphonomy of non-mineralized tissues. In Allison, P.A. and Briggs, D.E.G. (eds) Taphonomy: releasing the data locked in the fossil record. Plenum Press, New York, 25-70.

Allison, P.A. and Briggs, D.E.G. (eds) 1991. Taphonomy: releasing the data locked in the fossil record, xiv + 560 pp. Plenum Press, New York.

Allison, P.A. and Briggs, D.E.G. 1991. The taphonomy of soft-bodied animals. In Donovan, S.K. (ed.) The processes of fossilization, 120-140. Belhaven Press, London.

Benton, M.J. 1991. Polar dinosaurs and ancient climates. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 6, 28-30 (doi: 10.1016/0169-5347(91)90145-N).

Benton, M.J. 1991. What really happened in the Late Triassic? Historical Biology 5, 263-278 (doi: 10.1080/10292389109380406).

Benton, M.J. 1991. Amniote phylogeny. In Trueb, L. and Schultze, H.-P. (eds) Origins of the higher groups of tetrapods: controversy and consensus, pp. 317-330. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 720 pp.

Benton, M.J. 1991. Extinction, biotic replacements, and clade interactions. In Dudley, E. (ed.) The unity of evolutionary biology, pp. 89-102. Dioscorides Press, Portland, Oregon, 1160 pp.

Benton, M.J. 1991. Why is life so diverse? In Dudley, E. (ed.) The unity of evolutionary biology, pp. 255-261. Dioscorides Press, Portland, Oregon, 1160 pp.

Briggs, D.E.G., Clark, N.D.L. and Clarkson, E.N.K. 1991. The Granton “shrimp-bed”, Edinburgh – a Lower Carboniferous Konservat-Lagerstätte. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences 82, 65-85 (doi: 10.1017/S0263593300007525).

Briggs, D.E.G., Bottrell, S.H. and Raiswell, R. 1991. Pyritization of soft-bodied fossils: Beecher’s Trilobite Bed, Upper Ordovician, New York State. Geology 19, 1221-1224 (doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1991)019<1221:POSBFB>2.3.CO).

Briggs, D.E.G., Dalingwater, J.E. and Selden, P.A. 1991. Biomechanics of locomotion in fossil arthropods. In J.M.V. Rayner and R.J. Wootton (eds) Biomechanics and Evolution. Seminar Series, Soc. Exp. Biol. Cambridge University Press 36, 37-56.

Collins, M.J. 1991. Growth rate and substrate-related mortality of a benthic brachiopod population. Lethaia 24, 1-11 (doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1991.tb01175.x).

Collins, M.J., Muyzer, G., Westbroek, P., Curry, G.B., Sandberg, P.A., Xu, S.J., Quinn, R., Mackinnon, D. 1991. Preservation of fossil biopolymeric structures: Conclusive immunological evidence. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta55, 2253-2257 doi: 10.1016/0016-7037(91)90101-A).

Curry, G.B., Quinn, R., Collins, M.J., Endo, K., Ewing, S., Muyzer, G., and Westbroek, P. 1991. Immunological responses from brachiopod skeletal macromolecules – a new technique for assessing taxonomic relationships using shells. Lethaia 24, 399-407 (doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1991.tb01493.x).

Eglinton, G. and Logan, G.A. 1991. Molecular preservation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, Series B333, 315-328 (doi: 10.1098/rstb.1991.0081).

Elliott, D.K. and Dineley, D.L. 1991. Additional information on Alainaspis and Boothiaspis, cyathaspidids (Agnatha: Heterostraci) from the Upper Silurian of Northwest Territories, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 65, 308-313.

Savage, R.J.G. 1991. Building stones of Clifton. Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists’ Society 48, 85-104.

Storrs, G.W. 1991. Note on a second occurrence of thalattosaur remains (Reptilia: Neodiapsida) in British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 28, 2065-2068 (doi: 10.1139/e91-186).

Weedon, M.J. 1991. Microstructure and structure of the enigmatic Devonian tubular fossil TrypanoporaLethaia 24, 227-234 (doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1991.tb01471.x).

Whittaker, A., Cope, J.C.W., Cowie, J.W.et al. 1991. A guide to stratigraphical procedure. Journal of the Geological Society 148, 813-824 (doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.148.5.0813).

Wilkinson, M. 1991. The use of primitive character state distributions in the assessment of holophyly. Acta Biotheoretica 39, 37-46 (doi: 10.1007/BF00046406).

Wilkinson, M. 1991. Homoplasy and parsimony analysis. Systematic Zoology 40, 107-109 (doi: 10.1093/sysbio/40.1.105).

Wilkinson, M. 1991. Adult tooth crown morphology in the Typhlonectidae (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): a reinterpretation of variation and its significance. Zeitschrift für zoologische Systematische und Evolutionsforschung 29, 304-311 (doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.1991.tb00675.x).


Public understanding of science [12]

Benton, M.J. 1991. The rise of the mammals, The Apple Tree Press, London, 144 pp.; Crescent Books, New York, 144 pp; Eagle Editions, Royston (1998); L’épopée des mammifères, Edimages, Paris (1991); Intrinsèque, Quebec (1991).

Benton, M.J. 1991. Dawn of the dinosaurs, Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery, 25pp.

Benton, M.J. 1991. Picture Pocket Dinosaurs, Kingfisher, London, 96pp (paperback, 1993); Picture Pocket Dinosaurs. Simon and Schuster, New York, 96pp. (1992); Fragen und Wissen, Dinosaurier, Postreiter Verlag, Halle, 96pp (1992); Hirmulisko-kirja. Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö, Porvoo, Finland, 96pp (1992); Les Dinosaures, France Loisirs, Paris, 96pp. (1994); [Chinese edition] The China Times Publishing Co., Taiwan, 109 pp. (1994).

Benton, M.J. 1991. Archaeopteryx; Dinosaurs; Earth; Earthquakes; Evolution of living things; Evolution of people; Extinct animals; Fossils; Geological time; Glaciers; Prehistoric animals; Rocks. Oxford Childrens’ Encyclopaedia, 1: 66; 2: 65-69, 94-95, 96, 142-145, 146-148, 152-153, 218-219, 246-247; 3: 9; 4: 160-161, 219-221 respectively.

Benton, M.J. 1991. Ceratosaurus. Wildlife Fact File, 12, 1-4. International Masters Publ., London.

Benton, M.J. 1991. Extinct animals. In McFarlan, D. (ed.), The Guinness book of records 1992, pp. 47-50. Guinness Publishing, London, 320 pp.

Benton, M.J. 1991. The myth of the Mesozoic cannibals. New Scientist 132 (1790), 40-44.

Briggs, D.E.G. 1991. Extraordinary fossils. American Scientist 79, 130-141. (Reprinted in M. Slatkin (ed.) 1995 Exploring evolutionary biology, Readings from American Scientist. 43-54. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, Massachusetts.)

Savage, R.J.G. 1991. Evolucion de los mammiferos: Huia ilustrada, Los Berrocales del Jarama, Spain: Ediciones Akal S.A., 258 pp.

Savage, R.J.G. 1991. Mammal evolution, an illustrated guide, Tokyo, Japan: Terrahouse Co., 265 pp.

Savage, R.J.G. and Spencer, P.S. (eds) 1991. The illustrated history of earth sciences, Melion Publishing, Chippenham, Wiltshire, 160 pp.

Savage, R.J.G. 1991. Obituary of Walter Georg Kühne (1911-1991). Annual Report of the Geological Society of London, 1991, 26.