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Derek J. Siveter is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Paleontology, Oceanography, and Ecology-related fields. The areas of study include Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

Their notable recent publications include:

  • The first Silurian trilobite with three-dimensionally preserved soft parts reveals novel appendage morphology (2021, Papers in Palaeontology)
  • 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)
  • An exceptionally preserved euarthropod with unique feather-like appendages from the Chengjiang biota (2021, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])

The frequent co-authors that collaborate with Siveter include:

  • David J. Siveter
  • Derek E. G. Briggs
  • Mark D. Sutton
  • Dayou Zhai
  • Mark Williams

Their work is regularly published in specific scientific venues, including:

  • Papers in Palaeontology
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Biology Letters
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Palaeontologia Electronica

Siveter's research spans a variety of topics, notably:

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

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

  • 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

  • The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China

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

  • 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

  • Brood Care in a Silurian Ostracod

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

  • 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

  • Silurian horseshoe crab illuminates the evolution of arthropod limbs

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

  • 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

  • Exceptionally preserved 450-million-year-old ordovician ostracods with brood care.

    David J. Siveter;Gengo Tanaka;Úna C. Farrell;Markus J. Martin

  • An exceptionally preserved vermiform mollusc from the Silurian of England

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

  • Carbon isotope excursion near the Wenlock-Ludlow, (Silurian) boundary in the Anglo-Welsh area

    Richard M. Corfield;Derek J. Siveter;Julie E. Cartlidge;W. Stuart McKerrow

  • A Silurian armoured aplacophoran and implications for molluscan phylogeny

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

  • Larvae and relationships of the Calymenina (Trilobita)

    B. D. E. Chatterton;D. J. Siveter;Gregory D. Edgecombe;A. S. Hunt

  • An exceptionally preserved myodocopid ostracod from the Silurian of Herefordshire, UK

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

  • 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

  • A new phyllocarid (Crustacea: Malacostraca) from the Silurian Fossil-Lagerstätte of Herefordshire, UK.

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

  • Silurian brachiopods with soft-tissue preservation

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

  • Computer reconstruction and analysis of the vermiform mollusc Acaenoplax hayae from the Herefordshire Lagerstätte (Silurian, England), and implications for molluscan phylogeny

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

  • The origin of the limuloids

    Paul A. Selden;Derek J. Siveter

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

    Xianguang Hou;Mark Williams;David J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter;Derek J. Siveter

  • A 425-Million-Year-Old Silurian Pentastomid Parasitic on Ostracods

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

  • A starfish with three-dimensionally preserved soft parts from the Silurian of England.

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

  • Fossilized soft tissues in a Silurian platyceratid gastropod

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

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Siveter
David J. Siveter University of Leicester
Derek E. G. Briggs
Derek E. G. Briggs Yale University
Mark Williams
Mark Williams University of Leicester
Richard J. Aldridge
Richard J. Aldridge University of Leicester
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Gregory D. Edgecombe Natural History Museum
Richard A. Fortey
Richard A. Fortey Natural History Museum
Simon Wallis
Simon Wallis University of Tokyo
Arthur J. Boucot
Arthur J. Boucot Oregon State University
Jonathan C. Aitchison
Jonathan C. Aitchison University of Queensland
Jan Zalasiewicz
Jan Zalasiewicz University of Leicester

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