Professor Derek Siveter


Professor Emeritus

Email: dereks@earth.ox.ac.uk
TEL: +44 (1865) 272953
FAX: +44 (1865) 272970

Research Profile

My research is broadly concerned with the palaeontology and stratigraphy of the Lower Palaeozoic, and it is in particular focused on the exceptionally preserved faunas of the Herefordshire (Silurian; UK) and the Chengjiang (Cambrian; Yunnan Province, China) Konservat-Lagerstätten, and also on fossil arthropods.

Selected Publications

  • Hou, X-G., Siveter, Derek J., Aldridge, R. J. & Siveter, David J. 2009. A new arthropod in chain-like associations from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (Lower Cambrian), Yunnan, China. Palaeontology, 52, 951-961.
  • Hou, X-G., Siveter, Derek J., Aldridge, R. J. & Siveter, David J. 2008. Collective behaviour in an Early Cambrian arthropod. Science, 322, 224.
  • Siveter, Derek J., Fortey, R. A., Sutton, Mark D., Briggs, Derek E. G. & Siveter, David J. 2007. A Silurian 'marrellomorph' arthropod. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 274, 2223-2229.
  • Siveter, Derek J., Sutton, Mark D., Briggs, Derek E. G. & Siveter, David J. 2007. A new probable stem lineage crustacean with three-dimensionally preserved soft-parts from the Herefordshire (Silurian) Lagerstätte, UK. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 274, 2099-2107.
  • Siveter, David J., Siveter, Derek J., Sutton, Mark D. & Briggs, Derek E. G. 2007. Brood care in a Silurian ostracod. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 247, 465-469.
  • Aldridge, R.A, Hou, X-G., Siveter, David J., Siveter, Derek J. & Gabbott, S.E. 2007. Systematics and relationships of Vetulicolians. Palaeontology, 50, 131-168.
  • Sutton, M. D., Briggs, D. E. G., Siveter, David J. and Siveter, Derek J. 2006. Fossilized soft tissues in a Silurian platyceratid gastropod. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 273, 1039-1044.
  • Sutton, M. D., Briggs, D. E. G., Siveter, David J. & Siveter, Derek J. 2005. A Silurian articulate brachiopod with soft parts. Nature, 436, 1013-1015.
  • Briggs, Derek E.G., Sutton, Mark D. Siveter, David J. & Siveter, Derek J. 2005. Metamorphosis in a Silurian barnacle. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 272, 2365-2369.
  • Sutton, M. D., Briggs, D. E. G., Siveter, David J., Siveter, Derek J. & Gladwell, D.J. 2005. A starfish with three-dimensionally preserved soft parts from the Silurian of England. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 272, 1001-1006.
  • Siveter, Derek J., Sutton, Mark D., Briggs, Derek E. G. & Siveter, David J. 2004. A Silurian sea spider. Nature, 431, 978-980.
  • Briggs, Derek E.G., Sutton, Mark D. Siveter, David J. & Siveter, Derek J. 2004. A new phyllocarid (Crustacea) from the Silurian Fossil-Lagerstätte of Herefordshire, England. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 271, 131-138.
  • Hou, X-G., Aldridge, R.J., Bergström, J., Siveter, David J., Siveter, Derek J. & Feng, X-H. 2004. The Cambrian fossils of Chengjiang, China. The flowering of early animal life. 233 pp, Blackwell, Oxford.
  • Sutton, M. D., Briggs, D.E.G., Siveter, David J. & Siveter, Derek J. 2001. An exceptionally preserved vermiform mollusc from the Silurian of England. Nature, 410, 461-463.
  • Siveter, David J., Sutton, Mark D., Briggs, Derek E. G. & Siveter, Derek J. 2003. An ostracode crustacean with soft parts from the Lower Silurian. Science, 300, 1749-1751.
  • Sutton, M. D., Briggs, D. E. G., Siveter, David J., Siveter, Derek J. & Orr, P. J. 2002. The arthropod Offacolus kingi (Chelicerata) from the Silurian of Herefordshire, England: computer morphological reconstructions and phylogenetic affinities. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 269, 1195-1203.
  • Sutton, M. D., Briggs, D.E.G., Siveter, David J. & Siveter, Derek J. 2001. A three-dimensionally preserved fossil polychaete worm from the Silurian of Herefordshire, England. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 268, 2355-2363.
  • Bettley, R., Fortey, R. A. & Siveter, Derek J. 2001. High resolution correlation of Anglo-Welsh Middle to Upper Ordovician sections and its relevance to international chronostratigraphy. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 158, 937-952.
  • Siveter, Derek J. 2000. The Wenlock Series. Pp. 181-319, In British Silurian stratigraphy (R. J.Aldridge, David J.,Siveter, Derek J., Siveter, P.D. Lane, D. Palmer, N.H. Woodcock) Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, England. 542 pp.
  • Orr, Patrick J., Briggs, Derek E.G., Siveter, David J. & Siveter, Derek J. 2000. Three-dimensional preservation of a non-biomineralised arthropod in concretions in Silurian volcaniclastics from Herefordshire, England. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 157, 173-186.
  • Briggs, D. E. G., Siveter, David J. & Siveter, Derek J. 1996. Soft-bodied fossils from a Silurian volcaniclastic deposit. Nature,382, 248-250.
  • Dalingwater, J. E., Hutchinson, S. J., Mutvei, H. & Siveter, Derek J. 1993. Cuticular ultrastructure of some Silurian calymenid trilobites from the Welsh Borderland and Gotland. Palaeontographica, A, 229, 37-49, 10 pls.
  • Corfield, R. M., Siveter, Derek J., Cartlidge, J. E. & McKerrow, W. S. 1992. Carbon isotope excursion near the Wenlock-Ludlow (Silurian) boundary in the Anglo-Welsh area. Geology, 20, 371-374, 2 figs.
  • Siveter, Derek J. 1989. Silurian trilobites from the Annascaul inlier, Dingle Peninsula, Ireland. Palaeontology, 32, 109-161, pls 15-23.