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David J. Siveter is affiliated with the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a specific concentration in Paleontology. Over the course of their career, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Paleontology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their research topics cover a range of areas within paleontological and marine biology disciplines. These main topics include:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Fossil Insects in Amber

Siveter's recent publications demonstrate a focus on Silurian fossil organisms and their morphology. Notable papers include:

  • The first Silurian trilobite with three-dimensionally preserved soft parts reveals novel appendage morphology, 2021, Papers in Palaeontology
  • Ostracods had colonized estuaries by the late Silurian, 2021, Biology Letters
  • A vicissicaudatan arthropod from the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte, UK, 2023, Royal Society Open Science
  • Newly discovered morphology of the Silurian sea spider Haliestes and its implications, 2023, Papers in Palaeontology
  • Preserved appendages in a Silurian binodicope: implications for the evolutionary history of ostracod crustaceans, 2024, Biology Letters

The frequent collaboration network of Siveter includes coauthors such as Derek J. Siveter, Derek E. G. Briggs, Mark D. Sutton, Mark Williams, and Thomas H. P. Harvey. These partnerships have contributed significantly to their publication output.

Regular publication venues for Siveter reflect a consistent engagement with peer-reviewed journals specializing in paleontology and related fields. These venues include:

  • Papers in Palaeontology
  • Biology Letters
  • Marine Micropaleontology
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society

Throughout their research career, Siveter's work has intersected multiple disciplines relevant to the study of ancient marine organisms, fossil preservation, and evolutionary biology. This interdisciplinary approach is reflected in both the variety of topics studied and the diversity of academic outlets where their findings have been published.

Best Publications

  • The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life

    Xian-guang Hou;R.J. Aldridge;J. Bergstrom;David J. Siveter

  • Preservation of Early Cambrian animals of the Chengjiang biota

    Sarah E. Gabbott;Hou Xian-guang;Michael J. Norry;David J. Siveter

  • The 'Orsten': more than a Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstätte yielding exceptional preservation

    Andreas Maas;Andreas Braun;Xi-Ping Dong;Philip C.J. Donoghue

  • An epipodite-bearing crown-group crustacean from the Lower Cambrian

    Xi-guang Zhang;David J. Siveter;Dieter Waloszek;Andreas Maas

  • An Ostracode Crustacean with Soft Parts from the Lower Silurian

    David J. Siveter;Mark D. Sutton;Derek E. G. Briggs;Derek J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter

  • Late Ordovician–early Silurian destruction of the Iapetus Ocean: Newfoundland, British Isles and Scandinavia—a discussion

    Kevin T. Pickering;Michael G. Bassett;David J. Siveter

  • Age, evolution and tectonic history of the Highland Border Complex, Scotland

    Gordon B. Curry;B. J. Bluck;C. J. Burton;J. K. Ingham

  • The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China

    Hou Xian-Guang;Richard J. Aldridge;Jan Bergstrm;David J. Siveter

  • Appendages of the arthropod Kunmingella from the early Cambrian of China: Its bearing on the systematic position of the Bradoriida and the fossil record of the Ostracoda

    Hou Xianguang;David J. Siveter;Mark Williams;Dieter Walossek

  • New evidence on the anatomy and phylogeny of the earliest vertebrates.

    Hou Xian-guang;Richard J. Aldridge;David J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter

  • A Phosphatocopid Crustacean with Appendages from the Lower Cambrian

    David J. Siveter;Mark Williams;Dieter Waloszek

  • Brood Care in a Silurian Ostracod

    David J Siveter;Derek J Siveter;Mark D Sutton;Derek E.G Briggs

  • The composition and palaeogeographical significance of the Ordovician ostracode faunas of southern Britain, Baltoscandia, and Ibero-Armorica

    Jean M C Vannier;David J Siveter;Roger E L Schallreuter

  • Silurian Myodocopes: Pioneer pelagic ostracods and the chronology of an ecological shift

    David J. Siveter;Jean M. C. Vannier;Douglas Palmer

  • Soft-bodied fossils from a Silurian volcaniclastic deposit

    Derek E. G. Briggs;David J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter

  • The arthropod Offacolus kingi (Chelicerata) from the Silurian of Herefordshire, England: computer based morphological reconstructions and phylogenetic affinities

    Mark D. Sutton;Derek E. G. Briggs;David J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter

  • The earliest ostracods: the geological evidence

    Mark Williams;David J. Siveter;María José Salas;Jean Vannier

  • Silurian Bio-Events

    Dimitri Kaljo;Arthur J. Boucot;Richard M. Corfield;Alain Le Herisse

  • Three‐dimensional preservation of a non‐biomineralized arthropod in concretions in Silurian volcaniclastic rocks from Herefordshire, England

    Patrick J. Orr;Derek E. G. Briggs;David J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter

  • A Silurian sea spider

    Derek J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter;Mark D. Sutton;Derek E. G. Briggs;David J. Siveter

  • The Systematics and phylogenetic relationships of vetulicolians

    Richard J. Aldridge;Richard J. Aldridge;Hou Xian-Guang;David J. Siveter;David J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek J. Siveter
Derek J. Siveter University of Oxford
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Derek E. G. Briggs
Derek E. G. Briggs Yale University
Richard J. Aldridge
Richard J. Aldridge University of Leicester
Jean Vannier
Jean Vannier Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Simon Wallis
Simon Wallis University of Tokyo
Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester
Melanie J. Leng
Melanie J. Leng University of Nottingham
John S. Peel
John S. Peel Uppsala University
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Gregory D. Edgecombe Natural History Museum

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