1993

Research contributions: Science and Nature [3]

Benton, M.J. 1993. Late Triassic extinctions and the origin of the dinosaurs. Science 260, 769-770 (doi: 10.1126/science.260.5109.769).

Briggs, D.E.G. and Kear, A.J. 1993. Fossilization of soft-tissue in the laboratory. Science 259, 1439-1442 (doi: 10.1126/science.259.5100.1439).

Savage, R.J.G. 1993. Roots for the guinea pig. Nature 365, 392-393 (doi: 10.1038/365392a0).


Research contributions: others [32]

Aldridge, R.J., Briggs, D.E.G., Smith, M.P., Clarkson, E.N.K. and Clark, N.D.L. 1993. The anatomy of conodonts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London B340, 405-421 (doi: 10.1098/rstb.1993.0082).

Allison, P.A. and Briggs, D.E.G. 1993. Burgess Shale-type biotas burrowed away? Lethaia 26, 184-185 (doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1993.tb01813.x).

Allison, P.A. and Briggs, D.E.G. 1993. Exceptional fossil record: Distribution of soft-tissue preservation through the Phanerozoic. Geology 21, 527-530 (doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1993)021<0527:EFRDOS>2.3.CO;2).

Allison, P.A. and Briggs, D.E.G. 1993. Paleolatitudinal sampling bias, Phanerozoic species diversity, and the end-Permian extinction. Geology 21, 65-68 (doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(1993)021<0065:PSBPSD>2.3.CO;2).

Benton, M.J. 1993. The fossil record 2, Chapman and Hall, London, 845 pp (editor).

Benton, M.J. 1993. Preface. In Benton, M.J. (ed.) The fossil record 2, pp. xi-xvii. Chapman and Hall, London, 845 pp.

Benton, M.J. 1993. Basal deuterostomes (chaetognaths, hemichordates, calcichordates, cephalochordates and tunicates. In Benton, M.J. (ed.) The fossil record 2, pp. 529-535. Chapman and Hall, London, 845 pp.

Benton, M.J. 1993. Reptilia. In Benton, M.J. (ed.) The fossil record 2, pp. 681-715. Chapman and Hall, London, 845 pp.

Benton, M.J. and Erwin, D. H. 1993. Mollusca: Amphineura and ‘Monoplacophora’. In Benton, M.J. (ed.) The fossil record 2, pp. 125-130. Chapman and Hall, London, 845 pp.

Benton, M.J., Hart, M.B., and Clarey, T. 1993. A new rhynchosaur from the middle Triassic of Devon. Proceedings of the Ussher Society 8, 167-171.

Briggs, D.E.G., Fortey, R.A. and Wills, M.A. 1993. How big was the Cambrian explosion? A taxonomic and morphological comparison of Cambrian and Recent arthropods. in Edwards, D. and Lees, D. (eds) Evolutionary patterns and processes. 33-44. Linnean Society Symposium Series No 14, Academic Press, London.

Briggs, D.E.G. and Kear, A.J. 1993. Decay and preservation of polychaetes: taphonomic thresholds in soft-bodied organisms. Paleobiology 19, 107-135.

Briggs, D.E.G. and Kear, A.J. 1993. Decay of Branchiostoma: implications for soft-tissue preservation in conodonts and other primitive chordates. Lethaia 26, 275-287 (doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1993.tb01532.x).

Briggs, D.E.G.Kear, A.J., Martill, D.M., and Wilby, P.R. 1993. Phosphatization of soft-tissue in experiments and fossils. Journal of the Geological Society of London 150, 1035-1038 (doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.150.6.1035).

Briggs, D.E.G.Weedon, M.J. and Whyte, M.A. 1993. Crustacea, excluding Ostracoda. In Benton, M.J. (ed.) The fossil record 2, Chapman and Hall, London, 321-342.

Deeming, D.C., Halstead, L.B., Manabe, M., and Unwin, D.M. 1993. A true ichthyosaur embryo with comments on ichthyosaur ontogeny. Modern Geology, L. B. Halstead Memorial Volume, 18, 423-442.

Dineley, D.L. and Loeffler, E.J. 1993. Biostratigraphy of the Silurian and Devonian gnathostomes of the Euramerica province. In: Long, J.A. (Ed.) Palaeozoic Vertebrate Biostratigraphy and Biogeography. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press. Pp. 104-138.

Logan, G.A., Boon, J.J. and Eglinton, G. 1993. Structural biopolymer preservation in Miocene leaf fossils from the Clarkia site, northern Idaho. Proceedings of the National Academy of Scxiences, USA 90, 2246-2250 (doi: 10.1073/pnas.90.6.2246).

Metcalf, S.J., Vaughan, R.F., Benton, M.J., Cole, J., Simms, M.J. and Dartnall, D.L. 1993. A new Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) microvertebrate site, within the Chipping Norton Limestone Formation at Hornsleasow Quarry, Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 103, 321-342 (doi: 10.1016/S0016-7878(08)80129-0).

Raiswell, R., Whaler, K., Dean, S., Coleman, M.L. and Briggs, D.E.G. 1993. A simple three-dimensional model of diffusion-with-precipitation applied to localised pyrite formation in framboids, fossils and detrital iron minerals. Marine Geology 113, 89-100 (doi: 10.1016/0025-3227(93)90151-K).

Ross, A.J. and Briggs, D.E.G. 1993. Euthycarcinoidea and Myriapoda. In Benton, M.J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2, Chapman and Hall, London, 357-361.

Savage, R.J.G. 1993. Vertebrate fissure faunas with special reference to Bristol Channel Mesozoic faunas. Journal of the Geological Society of London 150, 1025-1034 (doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.150.6.1025).

Simms, M.J., Gale, A.S., Gilliland, P., Rose, E.P.F. and Sevastopulo, G.D. 1993. Echinodermata. In Benton, M.J. (ed.) The Fossil Record 2, Chapman and Hall, London, 491-528.

Simms, M.J. and Sevastopulo, G.D. 1993. The origin of articulate crinoids. Palaeontology, 36, 91-109.

Skelton, P.W. and Benton, M.J. 1993. Mollusca: Rostroconchia, Scaphopoda and Bivalvia. In Benton, M.J. (ed.) The fossil record 2, pp. 237-263. Chapman and Hall, London, 845 pp.

Storrs, G.W. 1993. Terrestrial components of the Rhaetian (uppermost Triassic) Westbury Formation of southwest Britain. In: Lucas, S.G. and Morales, M. (eds.), The Nonmarine Triassic. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin, 3, 447-451.

Storrs, G.W. 1993. The quality of the Triassic sauropterygian fossil record. Revue de Paléobiologie, Vol. spéc., No. 7, Proceedings, Second Georges Cuvier Symposium, Montbeliard, August, 1991, 217-228.

Storrs, G.W. 1993. Function and phylogeny in sauropterygian (Diapsida) evolution. In: Peter Dodson and Philip Gingerich (eds.), Functional Morphology and Evolution, a special volume of the American Journal of Science, 293-A: 63-90 (doi: doi: 10.2475/ajs.293.A.63).

Storrs, G.W. 1993. The systematic position of Silvestrosaurus and a classification of Triassic sauropterygians (Neodiapsida). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 67, 177-191 (doi: 10.1007/BF02985877).

Storrs, G.W. and Gower, D.J. 1993. The earliest possible choristodere (Diapsida) and gaps in the fossil record of semi-aquatic reptiles. Journal of the Geological Society of London 150, 1103-1107 (doi: 10.1144/gsjgs.150.6.1103).

Underwood, C.J. 1993. The position of graptolites within Lower Palaeozoic planktic ecosystems. Lethaia, 26, 189-202 (doi: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1993.tb01517.x).

Unwin, D.M. 1993. Aves. In: Benton, M.J. (ed.), The fossil record 2, pp. 717-737, Chapman and Hall, London.


Public understanding of science [17]

Benton, M.J. 1993. Pocket dinosaurs, Kingfisher, London, 188pp.

Benton, M.J. 1993. Focus on dinosaurs, Gloucester Press/ Watts Books, London, 32pp.; Pleins feu sur: La vie préhistorique, Gamma Jeunesse, Paris, 32 pp.

Benton, M.J. 1993. How do we know dinosaurs existed?, Simon and Schuster, London, 45pp.; Raintree Steck-Vaughn, Austin, Texas, 45pp.; Dinosaurierna – sa funkade de, Carlsen, Stockholm, 45pp.

Benton, M.J. 1993. The Shropshire rhynchosaur: clues about the origin of the dinosaurs. Shropshire Naturalist 1 (4), 14-18.

Benton, M.J. 1993. Articles ‘Life and time’, ‘The rise of the fishes’, ‘Four feet on the ground’, ‘Dinosaur summer’. Pp. 22-35, 65-77, 78-125, 126-167. In Gould, S.J. (ed.), The book of life, Ebury Hutchinson, London, 256 pp. Also: The Book of life, Norton, New York (1993, 2001); Le livre de la vie, Éditions Seuil, Paris (1993); Das Buch des Lebens, VGS, Köln (1993); El libro de la Vida, Crítica, Barcelona (1993).

Benton, M.J. 1993. Young world dinosaurs, Kingfisher, London, 125 pp. Also: First facts dinosaurs, Kingfisher, New York (1993); Ma première encyclopédie: les dinosaures, Larousse, Paris (1993).

Benton, M.J. 1993. Extinct animals. In P. Matthews (ed.) The Guinness book of records 1994, pp. 46-49. Guinness Publishing, London, 320 pp.

Benton, M.J. 1993. Diversity and evolution of the dinosaurs. NERC News 27, 30-33.

Benton, M.J. 1993. The Gloucestershire dinosaurs. Nonesuch 4(1), 10-13.

Briggs, D.E.G. 1993. Fossil biomolecules. The Biochemist 15, 8-12.

Briggs, D.E.G. 1993. Ancient biomolecules – their preservation and application. The Biochemist 15, 2.

Briggs, D.E.G. 1993. La produzione delle forme fossili. Un’Enciclopedia d’orientamento 51 125 pp. Jaca Book, Milan.

Briggs, D.E.G. 1993. Exceptional fossil deposits. in Kearey, P. (ed.) The encyclopedic dictionary of the solid-earth sciences. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 227-228.

Briggs, D.E.G. 1993. Arthropoda/ arthropods. in Kearey, P. (ed.) The encyclopedic dictionary of the solid-earth sciences. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford, 31-34.

Briggs, D.E.G. and Crowther, P.R. (eds) 1993. Palaeobiology – a synthesis, xiii + 583 pp (reprint with further corrections). Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford.

Briggs, D.E.G. and Edgecombe, G.D. 1993. Beecher’s Trilobite Bed. Geology Today 9, 97-102 (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2451.1993.tb01107.x).

Cowie, J.W. 1993. World Heritage. Report of the working Group on Geological and Palaeobiological sites. 34 pp. Bristol, U.K

Ruffell, A. and Simms, M.J. 1993. A Manicouagan for all seasons. Geology Today, 9, 12 (doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2451.1993.tb00964.x).