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List of works by Robert S. Sansom

A new species of the artiopodan arthropod Acanthomeridion from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, China, and the phylogenetic significance of the genus

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A new xandarellid euarthropod from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota, Yunnan Province, China

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Atlas of vertebrate decay: a visual and taphonomic guide to fossil interpretation

scientific article published in 2013

Bias and sensitivity in the placement of fossil taxa resulting from interpretations of missing data.

scientific article

Decay of vertebrate characters in hagfish and lamprey (Cyclostomata) and the implications for the vertebrate fossil record

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2011)

Differences between hard and soft phylogenetic data.

scientific article published in December 2017

Discriminating signal from noise in the fossil record of early vertebrates reveals cryptic evolutionary history

scientific article

Endochondral bone in an Early Devonian 'placoderm' from Mongolia

scientific article published on 07 September 2020

Experimental analysis of soft-tissue fossilization: opening the black box

scientific article published in 2018

Fossilization causes organisms to appear erroneously primitive by distorting evolutionary trees

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Multivariate mapping of ontogeny, taphonomy and phylogeny to reconstruct problematic fossil taxa

scientific article published in 2023

Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation

scientific article

Parsimony, not Bayesian analysis, recovers more stratigraphically congruent phylogenetic trees.

scientific article published in June 2018

Pigmented anatomy in Carboniferous cyclostomes and the evolution of the vertebrate eye

scientific article

Soft-part anatomy of the Early Cambrian bivalved arthropods Kunyangella and Kunmingella: significance for the phylogenetic relationships of Bradoriida

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2010)

Taphonomy and affinity of an enigmatic Silurian vertebrate, Jamoytius kerwoodi White

article by Robert S. Sansom et al published November 2010 in Palaeontology

Unusual anal fin in a Devonian jawless vertebrate reveals complex origins of paired appendages

scientific article (publication date: 23 June 2013)