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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• 14 taxon names authored by Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs

Eponyms

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• 1 eponym of Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs

Publications

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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. 
• Whittington, H.B. Briggs, D.E.G. 1982. A new conundrum from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Pp. 573–575. In: Third North American Paleontological Convention, Montreal, August 5-7, 1982. Proceedings. Volume 2. ISBN 978-0-96-911430-7. Reference page. 

1984

• Briggs, D.E.G. & Robison, R.A. 1984. Exceptionally preserved nontrilobite arthropods and Anomalocaris from the Middle Cambrian of Utah. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions. Papers 111: 1–24. hdl: 1808/3656 . Reference page. 

1985

• Whittington, H.B. Briggs, D.E.G. 1985. The largest Cambrian animal, Anomalocaris, Burgess Shale, British-Columbia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B 309(1141): 569–609. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1985.0096 . 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(2): 275–303. DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00180 . Reference page. 

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. 

2009

• Kühl, G., Briggs, D.E.G. & Rust, J. 2009. A great-appendage arthropod with a radial mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany. Science 323(5915): 771–773. Bibcode:2009Sci...323..771K. DOI: 10.1126/science.1166586. PMID: 19197061. S2CID 47555807. 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. 

2015

• Van Roy, P., Briggs, D.E.G. & Gaines, R.R. 2015. The Fezouata fossils of Morocco; an extraordinary record of marine life in the Early Ordovician. Journal of the Geological Society 172(5): 541–549. DOI: 10.1144/jgs2015-017 . Reference page. 
• Van Roy, P., Daley, A.C. & Briggs, D.E.G. 2015. Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps. Nature 522(7554): 77–80. DOI: 10.1038/nature14256 . ResearchGate . 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.