Robert W. Gess

Robert W. Gess, palaeontologist.

• Bernard Price Institute (Palaeontology), School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa
• E-mail: robg@imaginet.co.za

Taxon names authored

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• 4 taxon names authored by Robert W. Gess

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1996

• Hiller, N. & Gess, R.W. 1996. Marine algal remains from the Upper Devonian of South Africa. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 91: 143–149. DOI: g/10.1016/0034-6667(95)00062-3 Reference page. 

2015

• 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

• 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. 

2023

• Reddy, C., Thuy, B., Reid, M., Gess, R.W. 2023. Earliest known ophiuroids from high palaeolatitude, southern Gondwana, recovered from the Pragian to earliest Emsian upper unit of the Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group, Cape Supergroup) South Africa. PLoS ONE. 19(5): e0304622. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292636 . Reference page.