Mark Purnell

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Mark Purnell is affiliated with the following schools: University of Leicester, Stony Brook University, University of Oxford, University of Nottingham, Newcastle University

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According to Wikipedia, Mark Andrew Purnell is a British palaeontologist, Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Leicester. Purnell is an expert in conodont biostratigraphy and conodont palaeobiology, focussing especially on attempts to uncover the function of conodont elements. Using conventional functional morphology, physical modelling and microwear analysis, Purnell uncovered unequivocal evidence that conodont elements had performed a mechanical tooth function in life, resolving a palaeobiological debate that had run for more than a century. His work has expanded in recent years to analysing feeding mechanisms of extinct vertebrates more generally, exploiting microwear, including validation studies based on extant stickleback fish.

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Genome duplication, extinction and vertebrate evolution. (2005) (251)
ORIENTATION AND ANATOMICAL NOTATION IN CONODONTS (2000) (180)
Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation (2010) (168)
Microwear on conodont elements and macrophagy in the first vertebrates (1995) (135)
Dietary specializations and diversity in feeding ecology of the earliest stem mammals (2014) (133)
Distinguishing heat from light in debate over controversial fossils (2009) (110)
Architecture and functional morphology of the skeletal apparatus of ozarkodinid conodonts (1997) (94)
Decay of vertebrate characters in hagfish and lamprey (Cyclostomata) and the implications for the vertebrate fossil record (2011) (84)
Quantitative analysis of dental microwear in hadrosaurid dinosaurs, and the implications for hypotheses of jaw mechanics and feeding (2009) (75)
The interrelationships of ‘complex’ conodonts (Vertebrata) (2008) (73)
The Apparatus Architecture and Function of Promissum pulchrum Kovacs-Endrody (Conodonta, Upper Ordovician) and the Prioniodontid Plan (1995) (64)
Taphonomy and affinity of an enigmatic Silurian vertebrate, Jamoytius kerwoodi White (2010) (62)
Accuracy and Precision of Silicon Based Impression Media for Quantitative Areal Texture Analysis (2015) (61)
Feeding in extinct jawless heterostracan fishes and testing scenarios of early vertebrate evolution (2002) (60)
Atlas of vertebrate decay: a visual and taphonomic guide to fossil interpretation (2013) (60)
Quantitative three-dimensional microtextural analyses of tooth wear as a tool for dietary discrimination in fishes (2012) (60)
Growth, function, and the conodont fossil record (1999) (59)
Mammal-like occlusion in conodonts (1999) (54)
Feeding mechanisms in conodonts and the function of the earliest vertebrate hard tissues (1993) (53)
Eramosa Lagerstätte—Exceptionally preserved soft-bodied biotas with shallow-marine shelly and bioturbating organisms (Silurian, Ontario, Canada) (2007) (50)
The conodont controversies. (1996) (50)
Within-guild dietary discrimination from 3-D textural analysis of tooth microwear in insectivorous mammals (2013) (49)
Quantitative analysis of dental microwear in threespine stickleback: a new approach to analysis of trophic ecology in aquatic vertebrates. (2006) (49)
An examination of feeding ecology in Pleistocene proboscideans from southern China (Sinomastodon, Stegodon, Elephas), by means of dental microwear texture analysis (2017) (44)
The eyes of Tullimonstrum reveal a vertebrate affinity (2016) (43)
Blade-shaped conodont elements functioned as cutting teeth (1992) (43)
Decay of velvet worms (Onychophora), and bias in the fossil record of lobopodians (2014) (41)
Experimental analysis of soft‐tissue fossilization: opening the black box (2018) (41)
Skeletal ontogeny and feeding mechanisms in conodonts (1994) (40)
Pterosaur dietary hypotheses: a review of ideas and approaches (2018) (40)
Correlated Evolution and Dietary Change in Fossil Stickleback (2007) (40)
Pigmented anatomy in Carboniferous cyclostomes and the evolution of the vertebrate eye (2016) (39)
Quantitative analysis of conodont tooth wear and damage as a test of ecological and functional hypotheses (2012) (39)
The Kladognathus apparatus (Conodonta, Carboniferous): homologies with ozarkodinids, and the prioniodinid Bauplan (1993) (39)
BETWEEN DEATH AND DATA: BIASES IN INTERPRETATION OF THE FOSSIL RECORD OF CONODONTS (2005) (39)
The Mazon Creek Lagerstätte: a diverse late Paleozoic ecosystem entombed within siderite concretions (2018) (35)
Apparatus Composition, Growth, And Survivorship Of The Lower Ordovician Conodont paracordylodus Gracilis Lindström, 1955 (2002) (33)
3D tooth microwear texture analysis in fishes as a test of dietary hypotheses of durophagy (2015) (32)
Finite element, occlusal, microwear and microstructural analyses indicate that conodont microstructure is adapted to dental function (2014) (29)
Unusual anal fin in a Devonian jawless vertebrate reveals complex origins of paired appendages (2013) (28)
Dietary differences in archosaur and lepidosaur reptiles revealed by dental microwear textural analysis (2019) (27)
Conodont anatomy, chordate phylogeny and vertebrate classification (2007) (25)
CONODONTS AND THE FIRST VERTEBRATES (1995) (25)
Tooth microwear texture in odontocete whales: variation with tooth characteristics and implications for dietary analysis (2017) (24)
British Lower Carboniferous stratigraphy (2004) (24)
Dinantian conodont biostratigraphy of the Northumberland Trough (1987) (24)
AN EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF POST-DEPOSITIONAL TAPHONOMIC BIAS IN CONODONTS (2005) (24)
LARGE EYES AND VISION IN CONODONTS (1995) (23)
The impact of taphonomic data on phylogenetic resolution: Helenodora inopinata (Carboniferous, Mazon Creek Lagerstätte) and the onychophoran stem lineage (2016) (21)
Testing hypotheses of element loss and instability in the apparatus composition of complex conodonts: articulated skeletons of Hindeodus (2017) (20)
CASTING, REPLICATION, AND ANAGLYPH STEREO IMAGING OF MICROSCOPIC DETAIL IN FOSSILS, WITH EXAMPLES FROM CONODONTS AND OTHER JAWLESS VERTEBRATES (2003) (19)
Dietary diversity and evolution of the earliest flying vertebrates revealed by dental microwear texture analysis (2020) (17)
Vogelgnathus Norby and Rexroad (Conodonta): new species from the Lower Carboniferous of Atlantic Canada and northern England (1992) (16)
Conodonts of the Lower Border Group and equivalent strata (Lower Carboniferous) in Northern Cumbria and the Scottish Borders, U.K. (1992) (16)
Morphological criteria for recognising homology in isolated skeletal elements: comparison of traditional and morphometric approaches in conodonts (2009) (15)
Morphology of Cambrian lobopodian eyes from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte and their evolutionary significance. (2012) (15)
A New Osteostracan Fauna from the Devonian of the Welsh Borderlands and Observations on the Taxonomy and Growth of Osteostraci (2012) (12)
Non-destructive, safe removal of conductive metal coatings from fossils: a new solution (2016) (12)
A New Semi-Automatic Morphometric Protocol for Conodonts and a Preliminary Taxonomic Application (2007) (11)
The phylogenetic signal in tooth wear: What does it mean? (2018) (10)
Dental microwear texture analysis along reptile tooth rows: complex variation with non-dietary variables (2021) (9)
New data on the palaeobiology of the enigmatic yunnanozoans from the Chengjiang Biota, Lower Cambrian, China (2015) (9)
Thermal maturation of the Lower Carboniferous strata of the Northumberland Trough and Tweed Basin from conodont colour alteration index (CAI) data (1993) (8)
Dietary signals in dental microwear of predatory small mammals appear unaffected by extremes in environmental abrasive load (2020) (7)
Cladistic tests of monophyly and relationships of biostratigraphically significant conodonts using multielement skeletal data –Lochriea homopunctatus and the genus Lochriea (2012) (7)
Feeding in Conodonts and other Early Vertebrates (2007) (7)
Tooth microwear formation rate in Gasterosteus aculeatus (2014) (6)
Conodont biology and phylogeny - interpreting the fossil record (Special Papers in Palaeontology, 73) (2005) (6)
The Evolutionary Emergence of Vertebrates From Among Their Spineless Relatives (2009) (6)
South Wales-Mendip Shelf (2004) (5)
Automated object identification in systematics: theory, approaches, and applications (2006) (4)
Systematic analysis of exceptionally preserved fossils: correlated patterns of decay and preservation (2021) (4)
Reconstruction, composition and homology of conodont skeletons: a response to Agematsu et al. (2018) (4)
Dietary constraints of phytosaurian reptiles revealed by dental microwear textural analysis (2020) (4)
Late Triassic (Norian) Conodont Apparatuses Revealed by Conodont Clusters from Yunnan Province, Southwestern China (2021) (4)
Midland Valley basin (2004) (4)
Ubinates , a new name for the genus Aethotaxis Baesemann, 1973 (Vertebrata, Conodonta) preoccupied by Aethotaxis Dewitt, 1962 (Vertebrata, Osteichtyes) (2000) (3)
Apparatus architecture and allometry: the keys to conodont element function? (1992) (2)
Dental biotrobiology: Final thoughts and future directions (2017) (2)
Introduction to British Lower Carboniferous stratigraphy (2004) (2)
Eyes of Tullimonstrum gregarium (Mazon Creek, Carboniferous) reveal a vertebrate affinity (2016) (1)
Trochozoa of Uncertain Affinity (2017) (1)
Shedding light into the function of the earliest vertebrate skeleton (2016) (1)
The spectacular fossils of the ‘water margin’: the Cambrian biota of Chengjiang, Yunnan, China (2016) (1)
Experimental analysis of organ decay and pH gradients within a carcass and the implications for phosphatization of soft tissues (2022) (1)
Dietary inference from dental topographic analysis of feeding tools in diverse animals (2022) (1)
The Evolutionary Significance of the Chengjiang Biota (2003) (1)
Conodonts of the Lower Border Group and equivalent strata in northern Cumbria and the Scottish borders, UK (1992) (1)
Beyond the bucket: testing the effect of experimental design on rate and sequence of decay (2016) (1)
Functional and ecological diversity at the onset of the mammalian radiation. (2014) (0)
Lake District Block and Alston Block (2004) (0)
Towards a Quantitative Analysis of Aronze Axe Metalwork Wear (2016) (0)
The Paleoecology of the Chengjiang Biota (2003) (0)
Phylogenetic Arrangement of Chapters (2017) (0)
Ambulacraria of Uncertain Affinity (2017) (0)
Species Recorded from the Chengjiang Biota (2017) (0)
Conodonts and sediments; Chadian (Lower Carboniferous) shallow shelf species and their environmental tolerance ranges (1988) (0)
Geological Time and the Evolution of Early Life on Earth (2003) (0)
Is a 'one size fits all' taphonomic model appropriate for the Mazon Creek Lagerstätte? (2017) (0)
Mazon Creek , Carboniferous ) reveal a vertebrate affinity (2016) (0)
Taphrognathus carinatus (Higgins & Varker) (Conodonta, Vertebrata) from the Lower Carboniferous of Belgium, and international correlation using taphrognathids (2002) (0)
The Taphonomy and Preservation of the Chengjiang Fossils (2003) (0)
Experimental analysis of decay biases in the fossil record of lobopodians (2016) (0)
The impact of taphonomic data on phylogenetic resolution: Helenodora inopinata (Carboniferous, Mazon Creek Lagerstätte) and the onychophoran stem lineage (2016) (0)
The Discovery and Study of the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (2017) (0)
Dental microwear texture analysis as a tool for dietary discrimination in elasmobranchs (2021) (0)
Bilateria of Uncertain Affinity (2017) (0)
Decay of velvet worms (Onychophora), and bias in the fossil record of lobopodians (2014) (0)
The Distribution and Geological Setting of the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (2003) (0)
Priapulida and Relatives (2017) (0)
Animals of Uncertain Affinity (2017) (0)
3 Code of Conduct for Palaeontological Association Meetings (2021) (0)
Derbyshire Platform, North Staffordshire Basin and Hathern Shelf (2004) (0)

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