Sam Giles

Sam Giles, palaeontologist.

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3AN, UK
E-mail: sam.gilesearth.ox.ac.uk

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Giles, S., Darras, L., Clément, G., Blieck, A. & Friedman, M. 2015. An exceptionally preserved Late Devonian actinopterygian provides a new model for primitive cranial anatomy in ray-finned fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1816): 20151485. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1485 Reference page.
Giles, S., Friedman, M. & Brazeau, M.D. 2015. Osteichthyan-like cranial conditions in an Early Devonian stem gnathostome. Nature 520(7545): 82–85. DOI: 10.1038/nature14065 . Reference page.
Lu, J., Giles, S., Friedman, M., den Blaauwen, J.L. & Zhu, M. 2016. The Oldest Actinopterygian Highlights the Cryptic Early History of the Hyperdiverse Ray-Finned Fishes. Current Biology 26(12): 1602–1608. DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.045 Reference page.
Sallan, L., Giles, S., Sansom, R.S., Clarke, J.T., Johanson, Z., Sansom, I.J. & Janvier, P. 2017. The ‘Tully Monster’ is not a vertebrate: characters, convergence and taphonomy in Palaeozoic problematic animals. Palaeontology 60(2): 149–157. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12282 . Reference page.