Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs

Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs (1950–), Irish paleontologist

• Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA.
• Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA.

Taxon names authored

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• 11 taxon names authored by Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs

Eponyms

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• 1 eponym of Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1977

• Briggs, D.E.G. 1977. Bivalved arthropods from the Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Palaeontology 20(3): 595–621. BHL.

1978

• Briggs, D.E.G. 1978. A new trilobite-like arthropod from the Lower Cambrian Kinzers Formation, Pennsylvania. Journal of Paleontology 52(1): 132–140. JSTOR .

1979

• Briggs, D.E.G. 1979. Anomalocaris, the largest known Cambrian arthropod. Palaeontology 22(3): 631–664. BHL.

1982

• Briggs, D.E.G. & Mount, J.D. 1982. The occurrence of the giant arthropod Anomalocaris in the Lower Cambrian of southern California, and the overall distribution of the genus. Journal of Paleontology 56(5): 1112–1118. JSTOR Reference page. 

1988

• Briggs, D.E.G. & Collins, D. 1988. A Middle Cambrian chelicerate from Mount Stephen, British Columbia. Palaeontology 31(3): 779–798. BHL. Reference page. 

1992

• Briggs, D.E.G. 1992. Conodonts: a major extinct group added to the vertebrates. Science 256: 1285–1286. DOI: 10.1126/science.1598571 . Reference page. 

2001

• Briggs, D.E.G. & Bartels, C. 2001. New arthropods from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Lower Emsian, Rhenish Massif, western Germany). Palaeontology 44: 275–303. DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00180 .

2002

• Braddy, S.J. & Briggs, D.E. 2002. New Lower Permian nonmarine arthropod trace fossils from New Mexico and South Africa. Journal of Paleontology 76(3): 546–557. DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0546:NLPNAT>2.0.CO;2 . Reference page. 

2005

• Briggs, D.E.G., Sutton, M.D., Siveter, D.J. & Siveter, D.J. 2005. Metamorphosis in a Silurian barnacle. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B), 272: 2365–2369. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2005.3224 Reference page. 

2008

• Béthoux, O. & Briggs, D.E.G. 2008. How Gerarus lost its head: stem-group Orthoptera and Paraneoptera revisited. Systematic Entomology 33(3): 529–547. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00419.x . Reference page. 

2011

• Moore, R.A., Briggs, D.E.G., Braddy, S.J. & Schultz, J.W. 2011. Synziphosurines (Xiphosura: Chelicerata) from the Silurian of Iowa. Journal of Paleontology 85(1): 83–91. DOI: 10.1666/10-057.1

2014

• Siveter, D.J., Briggs, D.E.G., Siveter, D.J., Sutton, M.D., Legg, D. & Joomun, S. 2014. A Silurian short-great-appendage arthropod. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 281: 20132986. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2986 . Reference page. 

2016

• McCoy, V.E., Saupe, E.E., Lamsdell, J.C., Tarhan, L.G., McMahon, S., Lidgard, S., Mayer, P., Whalen, C.D., Soriano, C., Finney, L., Vogt, S., Clark, E.G., Anderson, R.P., Petermann, H., Locatelli, E.R. & Briggs, D.E.G. 2016. The ‘Tully monster’ is a vertebrate. Nature 532(7600): 496–499. DOI: 10.1038/nature16992 Reference page. 

2023

• Larson, E. & Briggs, D.E.G. 2023. A hydrozoan from the eurypterid-dominated Silurian Bertie Group Lagerstätten of North America. Journal of Paleontology. 97 (5): 1002-1008.