Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs

Derek Ernest Gilmor Briggs (1950–), Irish paleontologist

Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, 210 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA.
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA.

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

Briggs, D.E.G. 1977. Bivalved arthropods from the Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Palaeontology 20(3): 595–621. BHL.

Briggs, D.E.G. 1978. A new trilobite-like arthropod from the Lower Cambrian Kinzers Formation, Pennsylvania. Journal of Paleontology 52(1): 132–140. JSTOR .

Briggs, D.E.G. 1979. Anomalocaris, the largest known Cambrian arthropod. Palaeontology 22(3): 631–664. BHL.

Briggs, D.E.G. & Mount, J.D. 1982. The occurrence of the giant arthropod Anomalocaris in the Lower Cambrian of southern California, and the overall distribution of the genus. Journal of Paleontology 56(5): 1112–1118. JSTOR Reference page.
Whittington, H.B. Briggs, D.E.G. 1982. A new conundrum from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Pp. 573–575. In: Third North American Paleontological Convention, Montreal, August 5-7, 1982. Proceedings. Volume 2. ISBN 978-0-96-911430-7. Reference page.

Briggs, D.E.G. & Robison, R.A. 1984. Exceptionally preserved nontrilobite arthropods and Anomalocaris from the Middle Cambrian of Utah. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions. Papers 111: 1–24. hdl: 1808/3656 . Reference page.

Whittington, H.B. Briggs, D.E.G. 1985. The largest Cambrian animal, Anomalocaris, Burgess Shale, British-Columbia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B 309(1141): 569–609. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1985.0096 . Reference page.

Briggs, D.E.G. & Collins, D. 1988. A Middle Cambrian chelicerate from Mount Stephen, British Columbia. Palaeontology 31(3): 779–798. BHL. Reference page.

Briggs, D.E.G. 1992. Conodonts: a major extinct group added to the vertebrates. Science 256: 1285–1286. DOI: 10.1126/science.1598571 . Reference page.

Briggs, D.E.G. & Bartels, C. 2001. New arthropods from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Lower Emsian, Rhenish Massif, western Germany). Palaeontology 44(2): 275–303. DOI: 10.1111/1475-4983.00180 . Reference page.

Braddy, S.J. & Briggs, D.E. 2002. New Lower Permian nonmarine arthropod trace fossils from New Mexico and South Africa. Journal of Paleontology 76(3): 546–557. DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0546:NLPNAT>2.0.CO;2 . Reference page.

Béthoux, O. & Briggs, D.E.G. 2008. How Gerarus lost its head: stem-group Orthoptera and Paraneoptera revisited. Systematic Entomology 33(3): 529–547. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00419.x . Reference page.

Kühl, G., Briggs, D.E.G. & Rust, J. 2009. A great-appendage arthropod with a radial mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany. Science 323(5915): 771–773. Bibcode:2009Sci...323..771K. DOI: 10.1126/science.1166586. PMID: 19197061. S2CID 47555807. Reference page.

Moore, R.A., Briggs, D.E.G., Braddy, S.J. & Schultz, J.W. 2011. Synziphosurines (Xiphosura: Chelicerata) from the Silurian of Iowa. Journal of Paleontology 85(1): 83–91. DOI: 10.1666/10-057.1

Van Roy, P., Briggs, D.E.G. & Gaines, R.R. 2015. The Fezouata fossils of Morocco; an extraordinary record of marine life in the Early Ordovician. Journal of the Geological Society 172(5): 541–549. DOI: 10.1144/jgs2015-017 . Reference page.
Van Roy, P., Daley, A.C. & Briggs, D.E.G. 2015. Anomalocaridid trunk limb homology revealed by a giant filter-feeder with paired flaps. Nature 522(7554): 77–80. DOI: 10.1038/nature14256 . ResearchGate . Reference page.

Larson, E. & Briggs, D.E.G. 2023. A hydrozoan from the eurypterid-dominated Silurian Bertie Group Lagerstätten of North America. Journal of Paleontology. 97 (5): 1002-1008.