Research contributions: Science and Nature

Corfe, I.J. and Butler, R.J. 2006. Comment on "A Well-Preserved Archaeopteryx Specimen with Theropod Features". Science, 313, 1238b.

Donoghue, P. C. J., Bengtson, S., Dong, X. P., Gostling, N. J., Huldtgren, T., Cunningham, J. A., Yin, C., Yue, Z., Peng, F. and Stampanoni, M. 2006. Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos. Nature 442, 680-683.

Hagadorn, J. W., Xiao, S., Donoghue, P. C. J., Bengtson, S., Gostling, N. J., Pawlowska, M., Raff, E. C., Raff, R. A., Turner, F. R., Yin, C., Zhou, C., Yuan, X., McFeely, M. B., Stampanoni, M. and Nealson, K. H. 2006. Cellular and subcellular structure of Neoproterozoic animal embryos. Science 314, 291-294.

Roopnarine, P. D., Angielczyk, K. D. and Hertog, R. 2006. Comment on "Statistical independence of escalatory ecological trends in Phanerozoic marine invertebrates". Science 314, 925d.

Research contributions: others

Ahlberg, P.E., Smith Moya M. and Johanson, Z. 2006. Developmental plasticity and extreme disparity in early dipnoan (lungfish) dentitions. Evolution and Development 8, 331-349.

Angielczyk, K. D. and Fox, D. L. 2006. New uses for measures of the fit of phylogenetic hypotheses to the fossil record. Paleobiology 32, 147-165.

Barrett, P. M. & Rayfield, E. J. 2006. Ecological and evolutionary implications of dinosaur feeding behaviour. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21, 217-224.

Benton, M. J. 2006. The origin of the dinosaurs. In Actas de III Jornadas Internacionales sobre Paleontolog’a de Dinosaurios y su Entorno, pp. 11-19. Colectivo Arqueológico-Paleontológico de Salas, Burgos, Spain.

Benton, M. J., Minter, N. J. and Posmosanu, E. 2006. Dwarfing in ornithopod dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of Romania. In: Csiki, Z. (ed.) Mesozoic and Cenozoic Vertebrates and Paleoenvironments; Tributes to the Career of Prof. Dan Grigorescu, Ars Docendi, Bucharest, 79-87.

Bertling M., Braddy, S.J., Bromley, R.G., Demathieu, G.D, Mikulás, R., Nielsen, J.K., Nielsen, K.S.S., Rindsberg, A. K., Schlirf, M., and Uchman, A. 2006. Names for trace fossils: a uniform approach. Lethaia 39, 265-285.

Donoghue, P. C. J., Kouchinsky, A., Waloszek, D., Bengtson, S., Dong, X., Val'kov, A. K., Cunningham, J. A. and Repetski, J. E. 2006. Fossilized embryos are widespread but the record is temporally and taxonomically biased. Evolution and Development 8, 232-238.

Donoghue, P. C. J., Sansom, I. J. and Downs, J. P. 2006. Early evolution of vertebrate skeletal tissues and cellular interactions, and the canalization of skeletal development. Journal of Experimental Zoology - Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 306B, 278-294.

Falcon-Lang, H. J. 2006. A history of research at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, the world's finest Pennsylvanian section. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 117, 377-392.

Falcon-Lang, H. J. 2006. Vegetation ecology of Early Pennsylvanian alluvial fan and piedmont environments in southern New Brunswick, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 233, 34-50.

Falcon-Lang, H. J. 2006. Latest Mid-Pennsylvanian tree-fern forests in coastal plain deposits, Sydney Mines Formation, Nova Scotia, Canada. Journal of the Geological Society, London 163, 81-94.

Falcon-Lang, H. J., Benton, M. J., Braddy, S. J. and Davies, S.J. 2006. The Pennsylvanian tropical biome reconstructed from the Joggins Formation of Canada. Journal of the Geological Society, London 163, 561-576.

Fraser, G. J., Graham, A. and Smith, Moya M. 2006. Developmental and evolutionary origins of the vertebrate dentition: molecular controls for spatio-temporal organization of tooth sites in osteichthyans. Journal of Experimental Zoology: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 306B, 183-203.

Fraser, G. J., Berkovitz, B. K. B., Graham, A. and Smith, Moya M. 2006. Gene deployment for tooth replacement in the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): a developmental model for evolution of the osteichthyan dentition. Evolution and Development 8, 446-457.

Gallois, R.W. and Porter, R.J. 2006. The stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Dunscombe Mudstone Formation (late Triassic) of south-west England. Geoscience in south-west England 11, 174-182.

Gill, P. G., Säilä, L. K., Corfe, I. J., Challands, T., Williams, M. and Clemens, W. A. 2006. The fauna and palaeoenvironment of St. Bride's Island: evidence from the Lower Jurassic fissure fills of South Wales. 9th Symposium of Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Abstracts and Proceedings. Natural History Museum, London, 48-51.

Gregory, F. J., Armstrong, H. A., Boomer, I., Gersonde, R., Harding, I., Herrle, J. O, Lazarus, D., Schmidt, D. N., Schonfeld, J., and Young, J. R. 2006. Celebrating 25 years of advances in micropalaeontology: a review. Journal of Micropalaeontology 25, 97-112.

Gupta, N. S., Collinson, M. E., Briggs, D. E. G., Evershed, R. D. and Pancost, R. D. 2006. Reinvestigation of the occurrence of cutan in plants: implications for the leaf fossil record. Paleobiology 32, 432-449.

Gupta, N.S., Michels, R., Briggs, D.E.G., Evershed, R.P. and Pancost, R.D. 2006 The organic preservation of fossil arthropods: an experimental study. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B 273, 2777-2783.

Hautmann, M. 2006. Shell mineralogical trends in epifaunal Mesozoic bivalves and their relationship to seawater chemistry and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. Facies 52, 417-433.

Hautmann, M. 2006. Shell morphology and phylogenetic origin of oysters. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 240, 668-671.

Jasinoski, S.C., A.P. Russell and P.J. Currie. 2006. An integrative phylogenetic and extrapolatory approach to the reconstruction of dromaeosaur (Theropoda: Eumaniraptora) shoulder musculature. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146, 301-344.

Langer, M. C. and Benton, M. J. 2006. Early dinosaurs: a phylogenetic study. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4, 309-358.

Maas, A., Braun, A., Dong, X.-P., Donoghue, P. C. J., Muller, K. J., Olempska, E., Repetski, J. E., Siveter, D. J., Stein, M. and Waloszek, D. 2006. The 'Orsten'--More than a Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstatte yielding exceptional preservation. Palaeoworld 15, 266-282.

McIlroy, D. and Falcon-Lang, H. J. 2006. Discovery and palaeoenvironmental implications of a Zoophycos-group trace fossil (?Echinospira) in the Middle Pennsylvanian Sydney Mines Formation of Nova Scotia, and its palaeoenvironmental implications. Atlantic Geology 42, 31-35.

McNamara, M. E., Orr, P. J., Kearns, S., Alcalˆ, L., Anad—n, P. and Pe–alver-Moll‡, E, 2006. High fidelity preservation of bone marrow in c. 10 million year old amphibians, Geology 34, 641-644.

Minter, N. J. and Braddy, S. J. 2006. The fish and amphibian swimming traces Undichna and Lunichnium, with examples from the Lower Permian of New Mexico, USA. Palaeontology 49, 1123-1142.

Minter, N. J. and Braddy, S. J. 2006. Walking and jumping with Palaeozoic apterygote insects. Palaeontology 49, 827-835.

Minter, N. J., Buatois, L. A., Lucas, S. G., Braddy, S. J. and Smith, J. A. 2006. Spiral-shaped graphoglyptids from an Early Permian intertidal flat. Geology 34, 1057-1060.

Mitsiadis, T. and Smith, Moya M. 2006. How do genes make teeth to order throughout development? Journal of Experimental Zoology: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 306B, 177-182.

Pierce, S. and Benton, M. J. 2006. Pelagosaurus typus Bronn, 1841 (Mesoeucrocodylia: Thalattosuchia) from the Upper Lias (Toarcian, Lower Jurassic) of Somerset, England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26, 621-635.

Radley, J. D. 2006. Grazing bioerosion on oyster concentrations (Lower and Middle Jurassic, England). Ichnos 13, 47-50.

Radley, J. D. 2006. Response to Donovan et al., comment on 'bioerosion, preparation and curation'. Geological Curator 8, 179-180.

Radley, J. D. 2006. Trace fossils: a smaller museum's perspective. Geological Curator 8, 247-253.

Radley, J. D. 2006. Palaeoecology of Portlandian gastropods from the South Midlands. Mercian Geologist 16, 191-195.

Radley, J. D., Munt, M.C. and Barker, M.J. 2006. Wealden (non-marine Lower Cretaceous) molluscs from southern England: faunas, palaeogeography and palaeoenvironments. In: P. M. Barrett and S. E. Evans (eds.) Ninth International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Abstracts and Proceedings. Natural History Museum, London, 105-109.

Radley, J. D. and Pollard, J. E. 2006. Chirotherium footprints in Warwickshire: the Preston Bagot slab rediscovered. Geological Curator 8, 254.

Raff, E. C., Vilinski, J. T., Turner, F. R., Donoghue, P. C. J. and Raff, R. A. 2006. Experimental taphonomy shows the feasibility of fossil embryos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103, 5846-5851.

Ruta, M. and Bolt, J.R. 2006. A reassessment of the temnospondyl amphibian Perryella olsoni from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 97: 113-165.

Ruta, M. and Clack, J.A. 2006. A review of Silvanerpeton miripedes, a stem amniote from the Lower Carboniferous of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 97, 31Ð63.

Ruta, M., Wagner, P. J. and Coates, M. I. 2006. Evolutionary patterns in early tetrapods. I. Rapid initial diversification followed by decrease in rates of character change. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 273, 2107-2111.

Schmidt, D. N., Lazarus, D., Young, J. and Kucera, M., 2006. Biogeography and evolution of body-size of marine plankton. Earth-Science Reviews 78, 239-266.

Stayton, C. T. and Ruta, M. 2006. Geometric morphometrics of the skull roof of stereospondyls (Amphibia: Temnospondyli). Palaeontology 49, 307-337.

Tetlie, O. E. 2006a. Eurypterida (Chelicerata) from the Welsh Borderlands, England. Geological Magazine 143, 723Ð735.

Tetlie, O. E. 2006b. Two new Silurian species of Eurypterus (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from, Norway and Canada, and the phylogeny of the genus. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 4, 397Ð412.

Wagner, P. J., Ruta, M. and Coates, M. I. 2006. Evolutionary patterns in early tetrapods. II. Differing constraints on available character space among clades. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: Biological Sciences 273, 2113-2118.

Williams, M., Schmidt, D. N., Wilkinson, I. P., Miller, C. G. and Taylor, P. D. 2006. The type material of the Miocene to Recent species Globigerinoides sacculifer (Brady) revisited. Journal of Micropalaeontology 25, 153-156.

Zhang F., Zhou, Z. and Dyke, G. 2006. Feathers and 'feather-like' integumentary structures in Liaoning birds and dinosaurs. Geological Magazine 41, 395-404.

Zhou, Z.-h. and Zhang, F.-c. 2006. Discovery of an ornithurine bird and its implications for Early Cretaceous avian radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102, 18998-19002.

Public understanding of science

Braddy, S. J. 2006. One small step for a bug. Null Hypothesis, 2 (5), 13.

Falcon-Lang, H. J. 2006. Extreme Earth: climate change through deep time. Teaching Earth Sciences 31, 12-13.

Falcon-Lang, H. J. 2006. Passionate about palaeobotany. Re:search 11, 10-11.

Falcon-Lang, H. J., Kvacek, J., and Ulicny, D. 2006. Mesozoic mangroves. Geoscientist 16, 4-6.

Morrissey, L. B., Janvier, P., Braddy, S.J., Bennett, J. P., Tarrant, P. R. and Marriott, S. B. 2006. Swimming with ... Devonian fish. Geology Today 22 (2), 66-67.

Radley, J. D. 2006. A Wealden Guide I: the Weald Sub-basin. Geology Today 22, 109-118.

Radley, J. D. 2006. A Wealden Guide II: the Wessex Sub-basin. Geology Today 22, 187-193.

Radley, J. D. and Friend, C. 2006. Soft-sediment challenge. Earth Heritage 26, 21.