2002

Research contributions: Science and Nature [2]

Briggs, D.E.G. 2002. Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002). Nature 417, 706 (doi: 10.1038/417706a).

Pearson, P.N., Ditchfield, P., and Shackleton, N.J. 2002. Palaeoclimatology – Tropical temperatures in greenhouse episodes – Reply. Nature 419, 898 (doi: 10.1038/419898a).


Research contributions: others [32]

Arratia, G., Kriwet, J., and Heinrich, W.-D. 2002. Selachians and actinopterygians from the Upper Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania. Mitteilungen der Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Geowissenschaftlichen Reihe 5, 207-230.

Benton, M.J., Cook, E., and Turner, P. 2002. Permian and Triassic red beds and the Penarth Group of Great Britain.Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, xvi + 337 pp.

Benton, M.J. 2002. Cope’s Rule. Pp. 209-210 in Pagel, M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of evolution. Oxford University Press, New York.

Benton, M.J. and Gower, D.J. 2002. Alick Walker 1925-1999: an appreciation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136, 1-5 (doi: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.1999.00022.x).

Benton, M.J. and Walker, A.D. 2002. Erpetosuchus, a crocodile-like basal archosaur from the Late Triassic of Elgin, Scotland. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136, 25-47 (doi: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2002.00024.x).

Braddy, S.J. and Briggs, D.E.G. 2002. New Lower Permian nonmarine arthropod trace fossils from New Mexico and South Africa. Journal of Paleontology 76, 546-557 (doi: 10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0546:NLPNAT>2.0.CO;2).

Braddy, S.J., Selden, P.A., and Thuong, D.N. 2002. A new carcinosomatid eurypterid from the Upper Silurian of northern Vietnam. Palaeontology 45, 897-915 (doi: 10.1111/1475-4983.00267).

Briggs, D.E.G. and Bartels, C. 2002. Magnoculocaris, a new name for the arthropod Magnoculus Briggs and Bartels, 2001 from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany. Palaeontology 45, 419 (doi: DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00243).

Burrow, C.J., Braddy, S.J., and Douglas, J. 2002. Pterygotid eurypterid chelicera from the Lower Devonian of Victoria. Alcheringa 25, 263-268 (doi: 10.1080/03115510108527803).

Dunlop, J.A., Braddy, S.J. and Tetlie, O.E. 2002. The Early Devonian eurypterid Grossopterus overathi (Gross, 1933) from Overath, Germany. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin: Geowissenschaftliche Reihe 5, 93-104.

Falcon-Lang, H.J. and Cantrill, D.J. 2002. Terrestrial ecology of an Early Cretaceous high-latitude, volcanic archipelago, Byers Peninsula and President Head, South Shetlands, Antarctica. Palaios 17, 535-549.

Fara, E. 2002. Sea-level variations and the quality of the continental fossil record. Journal of the Geological Society 159, 489-491 (doi: 10.1144/0016-764902-006).

Fara, E., Ouaja, M., Buffetaut, E., and Srarfi, D. 2002. First occurrence of thalattosuchian crocodiles in the Middle and Upper Jurassic of Tunisia. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 2002, 465-476.

Grimes, S.T., Davies, K.L., Butler, I.B., Brock, F., Edwards, D., Rickard, D., Briggs, D.E.G. and Parkes, R.J. 2002. Fossil plants from the Eocene London Clay: The use of pyrite textures to determine the mechanism of pyritisation. Journal of the Geological Society 159, 493-501 (doi: 10.1144/0016-764901-176).

Harcourt-Brown, K.G. 2002. Tree balance, time slices, and evolutionary turnover in Cretaceous planktonic foraminifera. Systematic Biology 51, 908-916 (doi: 10.1080/10635150290102618).

Jenkins, I., Thomason, J. J., and Norman, D.B. 2002. Primates and engineering principles: applications to craniodental mechanisms in ancient terrestrial predators. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 82, 223-240.

Kemp, R. 2002. Generation of the Solnhofen tetrapod accumulation. Archaeopteryx 19, 11-28.

Kriwet, J. 2002. Pycnodont fish remains (Neopterygii: Pycnodontiformes) from the Kimmeridgian (Upper Jurassic) of the Lusitanian Basin (Central Portugal). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 2002, 577-587.

MacNaughton, R.B., Cole, J.M., Dalrymple, R.W., Braddy, S.J., Briggs, D.E.G, and Lukie, T.D. 2002. First steps on land: arthropod trackways in Cambrian-Ordovician eolian sandstone, southeastern Ontario, Canada. Geology 30, 391-394 (doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(2002)_030<0391:FSOLAT>2.0.CO;2).

Martin, D., Briggs, D.E.G, and Parkes, R.J. 2002. Experimental mineralization of invertebrate eggs and the preservation of Neoproterozoic embryos. Geology 31, 39-42 (doi: 10.1130/0091-7613(2003)_031<0039:EMOIEA>2.0.CO;2).

Moreno, K. and Pina, M. 2002. Huellas de dinosaurios en la Formación Baños del Flaco (Titoniano-Jurásico Superior), VI Region, Chile: paleoetologia y paleoambiente. Revista Geologica de Chile 29, 191-206.

Orr P.J., Kearns S.L. and Briggs D.E.G. 2002. Backscattered electron imaging of fossils exceptionally preserved as organic compressions. Palaios 17, 110-117 (doi: doi: 10.1669/0883-1351(2002)017<0110:BEIOFE>2.0.CO;2).

Orr, P.J., Siveter, David J., Briggs, D.E.G. and Siveter, Derek J. 2002. Preservation of radiolarians in the Herefordshire Konservat-Lagerstätte (Wenlock, Silurian), England, and implications for the taphonomy of the biota. Special Papers in Palaeontology 67, 205-224.

Pearson, P.N. 2002. On the chemical purity of marine microfossils – Comment. Physics Today 55 (11), 99.

Pisani, D. and Wilkinson, M. 2002. Matrix representation with parsimony, taxonomic congruence, and total evidence. Systematic Biology 51, 151-155 (doi: 10.1080/106351502753475925).

Pisani, D., Yates, A.M., Langer, M.C. and Benton, M.J. 2002. A genus-level supertree of the Dinosauria. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 269, 915-921 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1942).

Sutton, M.D., Briggs, D.E.G., Siveter, David J., Siveter, Derek J. and Orr, P.J. 2002. The arthropod Offacolus kingi(Chelicerata) from the Silurian of Herefordshire, England: computer based morphological reconstructions and phylogenetic affinities. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 269, 1195-1203 (doi: 10.1098/rspb.2002.1986).

Tetlie, O.E. 2002. A new Baltoeurypterus (Eurypterida: Chelicerata) from the Wenlock of Norway. Norwegian Journal of Geology 82, 37-44.

Van Valkenburgh, B. and Jenkins, I. 2002. Evolutionary patterns in the history of Permo-Triassic and Cenozoic synapsid predators. In Kowalewski, M. and Kelley, P.H. (eds.), The Fossil Record of Predation. Paleontological Society Special Papers, 8, 267-288.

Wignall, P.B. and Twitchett, R.J. 2002. Extent, duration and nature of the Permian-Triassic superanoxic event. In, C. Koeberl and K.G. MacLeod (eds), Catastrophic events and mass extinctions: impacts and beyond, Geological Society of America Special Paper 356, 395-413.

Wignall, P.B. and Twitchett, R.J. 2002. Facies analysis of the latest Permian-Earliest Triassic of Jameson Land, East Greenland. Journal of the Geological Society of London 159, 691-703.

Yates, A.M. and Sengupta, D.P. 2002. A lapillopsid temnospondyl from the Early Triassic of India. Alcheringa 26, 201-208 (doi: 10.1080/03115510208619252).


Public understanding of science [9]

Benton, M.J. 2002. La grande guida ai dinosauri. Vallardi, Lainate (Milano), Italy.

Benton, M.J. 2002. Extinctions – past, present, and future. Transactions of the Leicester Literary & Philosophical Society 96, 8-11.

Benton, M.J. 2000. How bad is the fossil record? Open University Geological Society Journal 23, 29-35.

Benton, M.J. 2002. Discovering dinosaurs: weird and wonderful. Zigzag, London, 32 pp.

Benton, M.J. 2002. Discovering dinosaurs: mighty giants. Zigzag, London, 32 pp.

Briggs, D.E.G. 2002. Death and construction. Chemistry in Britain 38(8), 34-37.

McLeod, M.J. and Braddy, S.J. 2002. Invasion Earth! New Scientist 2346 (8 June. 2002), pp. 38-41.

Morrissey, L.B. 2002. The biological affinity of the enigmatic ichnotaxon Beaconites in association with a nonmarine ichnofauna from the Early Devonian of southwest Wales. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 50, 51-54.

Yates, A. 2002. A re-examination of the phylogenetic position of the unusual sauropodomorph, AnchisaurusPalaeontological Association Newsletter 50, 55.