Michael I. Coates

Michael I. Coates, palaeontologist.

Department of Organismal Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

Coates, M.I. & Friedman, M. 2010. Litoptychus bryanti and characteristics of stem tetrapod neurocrania. Pp. 389-416 in: Elliott, D.K., Maisey, J.G., Yu, X. & Miao, D. (eds): Morphology, Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Fossil Fishes. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. ResearchGate Reference page.

Xu, G.-H., Zhao, L.-J. & Coates, M.I. 2014. The oldest ionoscopiform from China sheds new light on the early evolution of halecomorph fishes. Biology Letters 10: 20140204. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2014.0204 Reference page.

Gess, R. W. & Coates, M. I., 2015: High-latitude Chondrichthyans from the Late Devonian (Famennian) Witpoort formation of South Africa. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 89 (2): 147–169. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-014-0221-9

Long, J.A., Burrow, C.J., Ginter, M., Maisey, J.G., Trinajstic, K.M., Coates, M.I., Young, G.C. & Senden, T.J. 2015. First Shark from the Late Devonian (Frasnian) Gogo Formation, Western Australia Sheds New Light on the Development of Tessellated Calcified Cartilage. PLoS ONE 10 (5): e0126066. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126066 Reference page.
Gess, R. W. & Coates, M. I., 2015: Fossil juvenile coelacanths from the Devonian of South Africa shed light on the order of character acquisition in actinistians. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 175 (2): 360–383. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12276 Reference page.
Andreev, P.S., Coates, M.I., Shelton, R.M., Cooper, P.R., Smith, M.P. & Sansom, I.J. 2015. Upper Ordovician chondrichthyan-like scales from North America. Palaeontology 58(4): 691–704. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12167 Reference page.

Andreev, P., Coates, M.I., Karatajūtė-Talimaa, V., Shelton, R.M., Cooper, P.R., Wang, N.-Z. & Sansom, I.J. 2016. The systematics of the Mongolepidida (Chondrichthyes) and the Ordovician origins of the clade. PeerJ, 4: e1850. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1850 Reference page.