Irish paleontologist and taphonomist
Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs (born 10 January 1950) is an Irish palaeontologist and taphonomist based at Yale University .[ 3] Briggs is one of three palaeontologists, along with Harry Blackmore Whittington and Simon Conway Morris , who were key in the reinterpretation of the fossils of the Burgess Shale . He is the Yale University G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology and Geophysics, Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History , and former Director of the Peabody Museum.[ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13] [ 14]
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^ Boyle Medal Laureates Royal Dublin Society
^ a b "BRIGGS, Prof. Derek Ernest Gilmor" . Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press .(subscription required)
^ "Curriculum vitae: Derek E.G. Briggs" (PDF) . people.earth.yale.edu . Yale University. 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016 .
^ Briggs, Derek E. G. (2014). "Adolf Seilacher (1925–2014) Palaeontologist who pioneered analysis of trace fossils" . Nature . 509 (7501): 428. Bibcode :2014Natur.509..428B . doi :10.1038/509428a . PMID 24848054 .
^ Derek Briggs's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Briggs, D. E. G. (2003). "The role of decay and mineralization in the preservation of soft-bodied fossils". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences . 31 (31): 275–301. Bibcode :2003AREPS..31..275B . doi :10.1146/annurev.earth.31.100901.144746 .
^ Briggs, D. E. G.; Kear, A. J. (1993). "Fossilization of Soft Tissue in the Laboratory". Science . 259 (5100): 1439–42. Bibcode :1993Sci...259.1439B . doi :10.1126/science.259.5100.1439 . PMID 17801278 . S2CID 43188896 .
^ Briggs, D. E. G.; Fortey, R. A. ; Wills, M. A. (1992). "Morphological Disparity in the Cambrian". Science . 256 (5064): 1670–3. Bibcode :1992Sci...256.1670B . doi :10.1126/science.256.5064.1670 . PMID 17841089 .
^ Stankiewicz, B. A. (1997). "Preservation of Chitin in 25-Million-Year-Old Fossils". Science . 276 (5318): 1541–1543. doi :10.1126/science.276.5318.1541 .
^ Briggs, D. E.; Fortey, R. A. (1989). "The early radiation and relationships of the major arthropod groups". Science . 246 (4927): 241–3. Bibcode :1989Sci...246..241B . doi :10.1126/science.246.4927.241 . PMID 17839017 . S2CID 35322293 .
^ Orr, P. J.; Briggs, D. E. G.; Kearns, S. L. (1998). "Cambrian Burgess Shale Animals Replicated in Clay Minerals". Science . 281 (5380): 1173–1175. Bibcode :1998Sci...281.1173O . doi :10.1126/science.281.5380.1173 . PMID 9712577 .
^ Briggs, D. E. G. (1999). "Molecular taphonomy of animal and plant cuticles: selective preservation and diagenesis" . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 354 (1379): 7–17. doi :10.1098/rstb.1999.0356 . PMC 1692454 .
^ Briggs, D. E. G. (2013). "A mosquito's last supper reminds us not to underestimate the fossil record" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 110 (46): 18353–18354. Bibcode :2013PNAS..11018353B . doi :10.1073/pnas.1319306110 . PMC 3832008 . PMID 24187151 .