Research contributions: Science and Nature

Briggs, D.E.G. 2002. Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002). Nature 417, 706.

Pearson, P.N., Ditchfield, P., and Shackleton, N.J. 2002. Palaeoclimatology - Tropical temperatures in greenhouse episodes - Reply. Nature 419, 898.

Research contributions: others

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.

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.

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.

Braddy, S.J., Selden, P.A., and Doan Nhat, T. 2002. A new carcinosomatid eurypterid from the Upper Silurian of northern Vietnam. Palaeontology 45, 897-915.

Briggs, D.E.G. and Bartels, C. 2002. Magnoculocaris, a new name for the arthropod Magnoculus Briggs and Bartels, 2001 from the Lower Devonian HunsrŸck Slate, Germany. Palaeontology 45, 419.

Burrow, C.J., Braddy, S.J., and Douglas, J. 2002. Pterygotid eurypterid chelicera from the Lower Devonian of Victoria. Alcheringa 25, 263-268.

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.

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.

Jenkins, I., Thomason, J. J., and Norman, D.B. 2002. Primates and engineering principles: applications to craniodental mechanisms in ancient terrestrial predators. In. Gudo, M., Gutmann, M., & Scholz, J (Eds) Functional, engineering and constructional morphology: Biomechanical approaches on fossil and Recent organisms. Senckenbergiana Lethaea, Special Volume 82, 1. 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.

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.

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.

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 Ð 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.

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.

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.

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.

Public understanding of science

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, Anchisaurus. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 50, 55.