Selected Publications
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Academic Article
- A marine stem myriapod from the Silurian Waukesha Lagerstätte, Wisconsin, USA: terrestrial traits predate the transition to land. Proceedings of the RoyalSociety B. 293:20260131. 2026-05-01
- A marine stem myriapod from the Silurian Waukesha Lagerstätte, Wisconsin, USA: terrestrial traits predate the transition to land. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 293. 2026-01-01
- A practical guide to phylogenetic paleoecology. Annual Reviews in Earth and Planetary Sciences. 54:135–161. 2026-01-01
- Pincer movement: fossil pushes the origins of chelicerate arthropods back to the Cambrian period. Nature. 652:867–868. 2026-01-01
- The flounder effect: disparities in taxonomic and ecological study intensity across extant and fossil marine organisms hamper conservation. NPJ Biodiversity. 5. 2026-01-01
- A possible vicissicaudatan arthropod from the Late Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte. Geological Magazine. 162. 2025-01-01
- Codex Eurypterida: a revised taxonomy based on concordant parsimony and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 173:1–196. 2025-01-01
- Early Devonian stylonurine eurypterids from northern Gondwana: late Lochkovian to early Pragian records from South China. Gondwana Research. 138:118–127. 2025-01-01
- Exceptionally preserved ovaries in an ancient horseshoe crab. Geology. 53:611–615. 2025-01-01
- Segmentation in Xiphosura and the evolution of the thoracetron. Journal of Paleontology. 99:524–543. 2025-01-01
- The first Silurian horseshoe crab reveals details of the xiphosuran ground plan. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 292. 2025-01-01
- Bring me the head of Arthropleura. Science Advances. 10. 2024-01-01
- Convergent evolution of giant size in eurypterids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 291. 2024-01-01
- A new species of the Ordovician horseshoe crab Lunataspis. Geological Magazine. 160:167–171. 2023-01-01
- A vicissicaudatan arthropod from the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte, UK. Royal Society Open Science. 10. 2023-01-01
- Early Devonian (Lochkovian) eurypterids from the Yunnan Province of South-west China. Geological Magazine. 160:172–179. 2023-01-01
- Eurypterids from the Price Formation of Virginia: first eurypterids from the Mississippian of North America. Journal of Paleontology. 97,:167–171. 2023-01-01
- A new genus and species of eurypterid (Chelicerata, Eurypterida) from the Lower Devonian Xiaxishancun Formation of Yunnan, southwestern China. Geobios. 75:53–61. 2022-01-01
- One name to rule them all: Belinurus trilobitoides (Buckland, 1837) is senior synonym of fourteen named species. Journal of Paleontology. 96:237–241. 2022-01-01
- The chelicerae of Slimonia (Eurypterida; Pterygotoidea). Yale Peabody Museum Bulletin. 63:15–25. 2022-01-01
- Two new eurypterids (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from the upper Silurian Yulongsi Formation of south-west China. Journal of Paleontology. 96:1078–1086. 2022-01-01
- 1839 (Chelicerata, Xiphosura) has priority over Bellinurus Pictet, 1846. Journal of Paleontology. 95:1352–1355. 2021-01-01
- A new limulid (Chelicerata, Xiphosura) from the Lower Jurassic (Sinemurian) of Osteno, Italy.. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie. 300:1–10. 2021-01-01
- A new method for quantifying heterochrony in evolutionary lineages. Paleobiology. 47:363–384. 2021-01-01
- Discerning the diets of sweep-feeding eurypterids: assessing the importance of prey size to survivorship across the Late Devonian mass extinction in a phylogenetic context. Paleobiology. 47:271–283. 2021-01-01
- Phylogenetic paleoecology: macroecology within an evolutionary framework. Paleobiology. 47:171–177. 2021-01-01
- Phylogeny, disparity, and mass extinction response in the trilobite order Harpetida. Papers in Palaeontology. 7:2205–2225. 2021-01-01
- Principal component analysis of avian hind limb and foot morphometrics and the relationship between ecology and phylogeny. Paleobiology. 47:314–336. 2021-01-01
- Stranger than a scorpion: a reassessment of Parioscorpio venator, a problematic arthropod from the Llandoverian Waukesha Lagerstätte. Palaeontology. 64:429–474. 2021-01-01
- The conquest of spaces: exploring drivers of morphological shifts through phylogenetic palaeoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 583:1–14. 2021-01-01
- A chasmataspidid affinity for the putative xiphosuran Kiaeria Størmer, 1934. Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 94:449–453. 2020-01-01
- A new Devonian euthycarcinoid reveals the use of different respiratory strategies during the marine-to-terrestrial transition in the myriapod lineage. Royal Society Open Science. 1–9. 2020-01-01
- A new limulid (Chelicerata: Xiphosurida) from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) of Gara Sbaa, northwest Africa. Cretaceous Research. 106:1–7. 2020-01-01
- Air breathing in an exceptionally preserved 340 million year old sea scorpion. Current Biology. 30:4316–4321. 2020-01-01
- Chemical signatures of soft tissues distinguishes between vertebrates and invertebrates from the Carboniferous Mazon Creek Lagerstätte of Illinois. Geobiology. 18:560–565. 2020-01-01
- The phylogeny and systematics of Xiphosura. PeerJ. 8:1–45. 2020-01-01
- A common arthropod from the Late Ordovician Big Hill Lagerstätte (Michigan) reveals an unexpected ecological diversity within Chasmataspidida. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 19:1–24. 2019-01-01
- New insights into Late Devonian vertebrates and associated fauna from the Cuche Formation (Floresta Massif, Colombia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 39:1–18. 2019-01-01
- Stylonurine eurypterids from the Strud locality (Upper Devonian, Belgium): new insights into the ecology of freshwater sea scorpions. Geological Magazine. 156:1708–1714. 2019-01-01
- A new genus of eurypterid (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the Upper Devonian salt deposits of Belarus. Journal of Paleontology. 92:838–849. 2018-01-01
- Biological hierarchies and the nature of extinction. Biological Reviews. 93:811–826. 2018-01-01
- Hit and miss: (A comment on Persons and Acorn, “A sea scorpion’s strike: new evidence of extreme lateral flexibility in the opisthosoma of eurypterids”). The American Naturalist. 191:352–354. 2018-01-01
- A new Lagerstätte from the Late Ordovician Big Hill Formation, Upper Peninsula, Michigan. Journal of the Geological Society. 174:18–22. 2017-01-01
- Exocuticular hyaline layer of sea scorpions and horseshoe crabs suggests cuticular fluorescence is plesiomorphic in chelicerates. Journal of Zoology. 303:245–253. 2017-01-01
- From success to persistence: identifying an evolutionary regime shift in the diverse Paleozoic aquatic arthropod group Eurypterida, driven by the Devonian biotic crisis. Evolution. 71:95–110. 2017-01-01
- Phylogenetic Paleoecology: tree-thinking and ecology in deep time. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 32:452–463. 2017-01-01
- Segmentation and tagmosis in Chelicerata. Arthropod Structure and Development. 46:395–418. 2017-01-01
- The first diploaspidid (Chelicerata: Chasmataspidida) from North America (Silurian, Bertie Group, New York State) is the oldest species of Diploaspis. Geological Magazine. 154:175–180. 2017-01-01
- Horseshoe crab phylogeny and independent colonisations of freshwater: ecological invasion as a driver for morphological innovation. Palaeontology. 59:81–194. 2016-01-01
- Implied weighting and its utility in palaeontological datasets: a study using modelled phylogenetic matrices. Palaeontology. 59:447–462. 2016-01-01
- The Tully Monster is a vertebrate. Nature. 252:496–499. 2016-01-01
- A new Ordovician arthropod from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa reveals the ground plan of eurypterids and chasmataspidids. The Science of Nature. 102:1–8.. 2015-01-01
- All the better to see you with: eyes and claws reveal the evolution of divergent ecological roles in giant pterygotid eurypterids. Biology Letters. 11:1–4. 2015-01-01
- An unusual xiphosuran linking horseshoe crabs and eurypterids, from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Yunnan, China. Zoologica Scripta. 44:645–652. 2015-01-01
- Phylogenetic support for the monophyly of proetide trilobites. Lethaia. 48:375–386. 2015-01-01
- Tachypleus syriacus (Woodward) – a sexually dimorphic Cretaceous crown limulid reveals underestimated horseshoe crab divergence times. Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 15:681–693. 2015-01-01
- The oldest described eurypterid: a giant Middle Ordovician (Darriwilian) megalograptid from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte of Iowa. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15:1–31. 2015-01-01
- A diverse chasmataspidid (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) fauna from the Early Devonian (Lochkovian) of Siberia. Palaeontology. 57:631–655. 2014-01-01
- A horseshoe crab (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Xiphosura) from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Yunnan, China. Geological Magazine. 150:367–370. 2013-01-01
- A new Ordovician eurypterid (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from southeast Turkey: evidence for a cryptic Ordovician record of Eurypterida. Gondwana Research. 23:354–366. 2013-01-01
- Babes in the wood – a unique window into sea scorpion ontogeny. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13:1–46. 2013-01-01
- First eurypterid from Italy: a new species of Adelophthalmus (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Carnic Alps (Friuli, NE Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 119:147–151. 2013-01-01
- Kodymirus and the case for convergence of raptorial appendages in Cambrian arthropods. Naturwissenschaften. 100:811–825. 2013-01-01
- Redescription of Drepanopterus pentlandicus Laurie 1892, the earliest known mycteropoid (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the early Silurian (Llandovery) of the Pentland Hills, Scotland. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 103:77–103. 2013-01-01
- Revised systematics of Palaeozoic ‘horseshoe crabs’ and the myth of monophyletic Xiphosura. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 167,:1–27. 2013-01-01
- The problematic ‘chelicerate’ Melbournopterus crossotus Caster & Kjellesvig-Waering: a case of mistaken identity. Alcheringa. 37:344–348. 2013-01-01
- Nomenclatural notes on the eurypterid family Carcinosomatidae. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 88:7.. 2012-01-01
- A collection of eurypterids from the Silurian of Lesmahagow collected pre 1900. Geological Curator. 9:331–348. 2011-01-01
- The eurypterid Stoermeropterus conicus from the lower Silurian Pentland Hills, Scotland. Monograph of the Palaeontolographical Society, London. 1–84:pls 1–15. 2011-01-01
- An isolated pterygotid ramus (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the Devonian Beartooth Butte Formation, Wyoming. Journal of Paleontology. 84:1206–1208. 2010-01-01
- Cope’s Rule and Romer’s theory: Patterns of diversity and gigantism in eurypterids and Palaeozoic vertebrates. Biology Letters. 6:265–269. 2010-01-01
- Early Devonian stylonurine eurypterids from Arctic Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 47:1405–1415. 2010-01-01
- The systematics and phylogeny of the Stylonurina (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Eurypterida). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 8,:49–61. 2010-01-01
- Redescription of Drepanopterus abonensis (Chelicerata: Eurypterida: Stylonurina) from the Late Devonian of Portishead, UK. Palaeontology. 52:1113–1139. 2009-01-01
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Document
- Review of Visions of a Vanished World, by Gabrielle C. Kühl, Derek E. G. Briggs and Jes Rust. Priscum, Paleontological Society Newsletter. 2014-01-01
- Review of Eurypterids Illustrated, by Samuel J. Ciurca, Jr. . 2012-01-01