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The Fossils of the Burgess Shale
- D. Briggs, D. Erwin, Frederick J. Collier
- Biology
- 1 November 1994
- 269
- 37
Disparity as an evolutionary index; a comparison of Cambrian and Recent arthropods
Disparity is a measure of the range or significance of morphology in a given sample of organisms, as opposed to diversity, which is expressed in terms of the number (and sometimes ranking) of taxa.… Expand
Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type
- P. Roy, Patrick J. Orr, +5 authors D. Briggs
- Geology, Medicine
- Nature
- 13 May 2010
The renowned soft-bodied faunas of the Cambrian period, which include the Burgess Shale, disappear from the fossil record in the late Middle Cambrian, after which the Palaeozoic fauna dominates. The… Expand
The conodont animal
- D. Briggs, E. Clarkson, R. Aldridge
- Geology
- 1983
A unique specimen of a small, elongate, soft-bodied animal from the Lower Carboniferous of the Edinburgh district, Scotland, is described. The head expands anteriorly into two lobate structures… Expand
The Cambrian evolutionary ‘explosion’: decoupling cladogenesis from morphological disparity
The origin and differentiation of major clades is often assumed to have occurred in tandem with the ‘explosion’ of fossil evidence of diverse morphologies (‘disparity’) at the base of the Cambrian.… Expand
The role of the calcium carbonate-calcium phosphate switch in the mineralization of soft-bodied fossils
- D. Briggs, P. R. Wilby
- Geology
- Journal of the Geological Society
- 1 September 1996
Authigenic minerals play an important role in the preservation of most soft-bodied fossils. The greatest detail is preserved in apatite (calcium phosphate) but its precipitation is usually inhibited… Expand
The Fezouata fossils of Morocco; an extraordinary record of marine life in the Early Ordovician
- Peter Van Roy, D. Briggs, R. Gaines
- Geology
- Journal of the Geological Society
- 7 July 2015
The discovery of the Fezouata biota in the latest Tremadocian of southeastern Morocco has significantly changed our understanding of the early Phanerozoic radiation. The shelly fossil record shows a… Expand
A Silurian armoured aplacophoran and implications for molluscan phylogeny
- M. Sutton, D. Briggs, D. J. Siveter, D. J. Siveter, J. Sigwart
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature
- 4 October 2012
The Mollusca is one of the most diverse, important and well-studied invertebrate phyla; however, relationships among major molluscan taxa have long been a subject of controversy. In particular, the… Expand
Middle Cambrian Arthropods from Utah
- D. Briggs, B. Lieberman, J. Hendricks, S. Halgedahl, R. Jarrard
- Geology
- 1 March 2008
Abstract The Middle Cambrian Spence Shale Member (Langston Formation) and Wheeler and Marjum Formations of Utah are known to contain a diverse soft-bodied fauna, but important new paleontological… Expand
A giant Ordovician anomalocaridid
Anomalocaridids, giant lightly sclerotized invertebrate predators, occur in a number of exceptionally preserved early and middle Cambrian (542–501 million years ago) biotas and have come to symbolize… Expand