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List of works by Mark Purnell

3D tooth microwear texture analysis in fishes as a test of dietary hypotheses of durophagy

A new osteostracan fauna from the Devonian of the Welsh Borderlands and observations on the taxonomy and growth of Osteostraci

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Accuracy and precision of silicon based impression media for quantitative areal texture analysis

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2013

Conodonts and the first vertebrates

article by Mark Purnell et al published January 1995 in Endeavour

Correlated evolution and dietary change in fossil stickleback

scientific article

Decay of velvet worms (Onychophora), and bias in the fossil record of lobopodians

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)

Dental microwear texture analysis along reptile tooth rows: complex variation with non-dietary variables

scientific article published on 03 February 2021

Dietary constraints of phytosaurian reptiles revealed by dental microwear textural analysis

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Dietary differences in archosaur and lepidosaur reptiles revealed by dental microwear textural analysis

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Dietary diversity and evolution of the earliest flying vertebrates revealed by dental microwear texture analysis

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

Dietary specializations and diversity in feeding ecology of the earliest stem mammals

scientific article

Distinguishing heat from light in debate over controversial fossils

scientific article published on February 2009

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

scientific article published in 2018

Feeding in extinct jawless heterostracan fishes and testing scenarios of early vertebrate evolution

scientific article (publication date: 7 January 2002)

Finite element, occlusal, microwear and microstructural analyses indicate that conodont microstructure is adapted to dental function

scientific article published in 2014

Genome duplication, extinction and vertebrate evolution

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Growth, function, and the conodont fossil record

scientific article

Morphology of Cambrian lobopodian eyes from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte and their evolutionary significance

scientific article published on 4 April 2012

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

scientific article

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

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Pterosaur dietary hypotheses: a review of ideas and approaches

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Quantitative analysis of dental microwear in hadrosaurid dinosaurs, and the implications for hypotheses of jaw mechanics and feeding

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Quantitative analysis of dental microwear in threespine stickleback: a new approach to analysis of trophic ecology in aquatic vertebrates

scientific article published in July 2006

Quantitative three-dimensional microtextural analyses of tooth wear as a tool for dietary discrimination in fishes

scientific article (publication date: 7 September 2012)

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

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

The Evolutionary Emergence of Vertebrates From Among Their Spineless Relatives

The Mazon Creek Lagerstätte: a diverse late Paleozoic ecosystem entombed within siderite concretions

scientific article published in 2018

The eyes of Tullimonstrum reveal a vertebrate affinity

scientific article

The impact of taphonomic data on phylogenetic resolution: Helenodora inopinata (Carboniferous, Mazon Creek Lagerstätte) and the onychophoran stem lineage

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The interrelationships of ‘complex’ conodonts (Vertebrata)

scholarly article by Philip Donoghue et al published January 2008 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

The phylogenetic signal in tooth wear: What does it mean?

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

The spectacular fossils of the ‘water margin’: the Cambrian biota of Chengjiang, Yunnan, China

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Tooth microwear formation rate in Gasterosteus aculeatus

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

scientific article (publication date: 23 June 2013)

Within-guild dietary discrimination from 3-D textural analysis of tooth microwear in insectivorous mammals

scientific article