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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Richard Alan Fortey is a British palaeontologist, natural historian, writer and television presenter, who served as president of the Geological Society of London for its bicentennial year of 2007. Early life and education Fortey was educated at Ealing Grammar School for Boys and King's College, Cambridge, where he read Natural Sciences specialising in geology. He received a PhD and DSc from the University of Cambridge.
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- Faunal evidence for oceanic separations in the Palaeozoic of Britain (1982) (423)
- Palaeontological evidence bearing on global Ordovician-Silurian continental reconstructions (2003) (334)
- Disparity as an evolutionary index: a comparison of Cambrian and Recent arthropods (1994) (318)
- Morphological disparity in the cambrian. (1992) (222)
- A revision of Ordovician series and stages from the historical type area (1995) (208)
- Stratigraphy of the Anthropocene (2011) (199)
- Late Ordovician global warming—The Boda event (2005) (192)
- A revised correlation of Ordovician Rocks in the British Isles (2000) (191)
- Biogeography of Ordovician and Silurian faunas (1990) (183)
- The Cambrian evolutionary ‘explosion’: decoupling cladogenesis from morphological disparity (1996) (177)
- Evolutionary explosions and the phylogenetic fuse. (1998) (171)
- Ontogeny, hypostome attachment and trilobite classification (1990) (171)
- The Early Radiation and Relationships of the Major Arthropod Groups (1989) (163)
- Problems of reproducibility – does geologically ancient DNA survive in amber–preserved insects? (1997) (163)
- Testing the Cambrian explosion hypothesis by using a molecular dating technique. (1998) (151)
- Classification of the trilobite suborder Asaphina (1988) (145)
- Pelagic trilobites as an example of deducing the life habits of extinct arthropods (1985) (126)
- The Ordovician graptolites of Spitsbergen (1982) (112)
- An arthropod phylogeny based on fossil and recent taxa (1998) (111)
- Ordovician (1992) (107)
- Lower Palaeozoic facies and faunas around Gondwana (1988) (105)
- New uppermost Cambrian U–Pb date from Avalonian Wales and age of the Cambrian–Ordovician boundary (1998) (104)
- Latitudinal and depth zonation of early Ordovician graptolites (1991) (102)
- The cambrian evolutionary ‘explosion’ recalibrated (1997) (96)
- The early Palaeozoic of the North Atlantic region as a test case for the use of fossils in continental reconstruction (1992) (87)
- Avalonia: a long-lived terrane in the Lower Palaeozoic? (2009) (82)
- A review of Lower and Middle Palaeozoic biostratigraphy in west peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand in its context within the Sibumasu Terrane (2005) (80)
- The significance of fossils in understanding arthropod evolution (1995) (79)
- The Ordovician Trilobites of Spitsbergen. II, Asaphidae, Nileidae, Raphiophoridae and Telephinidae of the Valhallfonna Formation (1975) (79)
- Taxonomy and fossils: a critical appraisal. (2004) (75)
- The Pattern of Global Bio-Events During the Ordovician Period (1996) (74)
- Wonderful strife: systematics, stem groups, and the phylogenetic signal of the Cambrian radiation (2005) (74)
- A new Ordovician anthropod, Soomaspis, and the agnostid problem (1995) (73)
- The Ordovician trilobite Neseuretus from Saudi Arabiac and the palaeogeography of the Neseuretus fauna related to Gondwanaland in the earlier Ordovician (1981) (72)
- TRILOBITE SYSTEMATICS: THE LAST 75 YEARS (2001) (69)
- Olenid trilobites: the oldest known chemoautotrophic symbionts? (2000) (62)
- Arthropod eyes: The early Cambrian fossil record and divergent evolution of visual systems. (2016) (60)
- Early Ordovician conodont and trilobite communities of Spitsbergen: influence on biogeography (1977) (59)
- Cambrian–Ordovician boundary age and duration of the lowest Ordovician Tremadoc Series based on U–Pb zircon dates from Avalonian Wales (2000) (59)
- THE ORDOVICIAN RADIATION (1996) (59)
- Tremadoc faunas from the Carmarthen district, South Wales (1982) (57)
- The Lower Palaeozoic margins of Baltica (1998) (57)
- Cambrian-Ordovician Rocks Adjacent to Hinlopenstretet, North Ny Friesland, Spitsbergen (1973) (56)
- Independent testing of a paleobiological hypothesis: the optical design of two Ordovician pelagic trilobites reveals their relative paleobathymetry (1998) (54)
- There are Extinctions and Extinctions: Examples from the Lower Palaeozoic (1989) (51)
- Early Ordovician Trilobites from the Catoche Formation (St. George Group), western Newfoundland (1979) (44)
- New evidence on the South African Lower Palaeozoic: age and fossils reviewed (1986) (44)
- Ontogeny and relationships of Trinucleoidea (Trilobita) (1994) (41)
- Arenig to Llandovery faunal distributions in the Caledonides (1988) (41)
- Are some fossils better than others for inferring palaeogeography?: The early Ordovician of the North Atlantic region as an example (1992) (40)
- Quantifying paleogeography using biogeography: a test case for the Ordovician and Silurian of Avalonia based on brachiopods and trilobites (2002) (39)
- Brood pouches in trilobites (1998) (38)
- The Ordovician Trilobites of Spitsbergen. I, Oleniade (1974) (38)
- Evolutionary correlates of arthropod tagmosis: scrambled legs (1998) (38)
- E arly Ordovician trilobite communities (2010) (36)
- Comparative morphology and relationships of the Agnostida (2005) (35)
- Correlation for the Lower Palaeozoic (2009) (35)
- Generic longevity in Lower Ordovician trilobites: relation to environment (1980) (34)
- Middle Ordovician facies and trilobite faunas in N America (1977) (34)
- The most widely distributed trilobite species: Ordovician Carolinites genacinaca (1999) (34)
- A new pelagic trilobite from the Ordovician of Spitsbergen, Ireland, and Utah (1974) (34)
- Trilobites at the base of the Middle Ordovician, western United States (1996) (34)
- Discovery of nauplius-like trilobite larvae (1978) (34)
- A Silurian ‘marrellomorph’ arthropod (2007) (33)
- Trilobite cuticle thickness in relation to palaeoenvironment (1991) (33)
- The cuticle of the aglaspidid arthropods, a red‐herring in the early history of the vertebrates (1982) (33)
- Definition of the Tremadoc Series and the series of the Ordovician System in Britain (1984) (33)
- The trace fossil Cruziana semiplicata and the trilobite that made it (2007) (33)
- Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution (2000) (30)
- The type species of the ordovician trilobitesymphysurus: systematics, functional morphology and terrace ridges (1986) (30)
- The palaeogeographic position of the Lake District in the early Ordovician (1989) (30)
- SYSTEMATICS OF THE ORDOVICIAN TRILOBITES ISCHYROTOMA AND DIMEROPYGIELLA, WITH SPECIES FROM THE TYPE IBEXIAN AREA, WESTERN U.S.A (2001) (29)
- Trilobite spines and beetle horns: sexual selection in the Palaeozoic? (2005) (28)
- Progress and problems in the selection of stratotypes for the bases of series in the Ordovician System of the historical type area in the UK (1991) (28)
- A New Giant Asaphid Trilobite from the Lower Ordovician of Morocco (2009) (27)
- The Early Cambrian Radiation of Arthropods (1992) (27)
- Branching geometry and function of multiramous graptoloids (1987) (27)
- Development of the graptoloid rhabdosome (1983) (26)
- Upper Cambrian trilobites and brachiopods from Severnaya Zemlya, Arctic Russia, and their implications for correlation and biogeography (2002) (26)
- International correlation of the base of the Llanvirn Series Ordovician System (1990) (25)
- The significance of Tironucula gen. nov. to the study of bivalve evolution (1976) (25)
- The shape of life: how much is written in stone? (2000) (25)
- The function of the glabellar ‘tubercle’ in Nileus and other trilobites (1976) (24)
- The Cambrian Explosion Exploded? (2001) (24)
- ORDOVICIAN FISH FROM THE ARABIAN PENINSULA (2009) (24)
- Trilobites from the base of the type Whiterockian (Middle Ordovician) in Nevada (1999) (24)
- A modern assessment of Ordovician chitinozoans from the Shelve and Caradoc areas, Shropshire, and their significance for correlation (2008) (23)
- A new Hirnantia faunafrom Thailand and the biogeography of the latest Ordovician of south-east Asia (1997) (22)
- THE RELATIONSHIPS OF BISERIAL GRAPTOLITES (2005) (21)
- Acanthopleurella Groom 1902: origin and life-habits of a miniature trilobite (1980) (20)
- Trilobite! : eyewitness to evolution / Richard Fortey. (2000) (20)
- The Ordovician Trilobite Carolinites, A Test Case for Microevolution in A Macrofossil Lineage (2002) (20)
- A new aglaspidid arthropod from the Lower Ordovician of Wales (2003) (20)
- Newly discovered Tremadoc rocks in the Carmarthen district, South Wales (1978) (19)
- MORPHOLOGY AND ONTOGENY OF AN EARLY DEVONIAN PHACOPID TRILOBITE WITH REDUCED SIGHT FROM SOUTHERN THAILAND (2006) (19)
- A Devonian Trilobite with an Eyeshade (2003) (18)
- Arthropod fossils and phylogeny (1998) (18)
- Late Cambrian trilobites from the Sultanate of Oman (1994) (18)
- Trilobites of the genus Dikelokephalina from Ordovician Gondwana and Avalonia (2010) (18)
- Systematics of the trilobite families Lichidae Hawle & Corda, 1847 and Lichakephalidae Tripp, 1957: The application of bayesian inference to morphological data (2005) (18)
- Sedimentary facies and trilobite and conodont faunas of the Ordovician Rann Formation, Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates (2011) (17)
- Sexual Dimorphism in Trilobites, with an Ordovician Case Study (1995) (15)
- The palaeoecology of trilobites (2014) (14)
- The first known complete Lichakephalid trilobite, lower Ordovician of Morocco (2012) (14)
- How big was the Cambrian Explosion? A Taxonomic and Morphological comparison of Cambrian and recent arthropods (1993) (14)
- Correlation of Cambrian–Ordovician boundary between Europe and North America: new data from western Newfoundland (1980) (13)
- Geometrical constraints in the construction of graptolite stipes (1983) (12)
- Lower Ordovician trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen (2013) (12)
- The Nature of Diversification and Paleoecology of the Ordovician Radiation with Evidence from the Great Basin (1995) (11)
- The Ordovician Aglaspidid Arthropod 'Tremaglaspis' Reconsidered (2009) (11)
- Prospectatrix genatenta (Stubblefield) and the trilobite superfamily Cyclopygacea (1981) (11)
- Janospira ‐ an Ordovician microfossil in search of a Phylum (1976) (10)
- Ordovician trilobites from the Durness Group, North–West Scotland and their palaeobiogeography (1992) (10)
- An Early Devonian trilobite fauna from Thailand (1989) (10)
- Arenig biostratigraphy and correlation in the Welsh Basin (1990) (9)
- Silurian trilobites from the El Carmen Formation, Bolivia (2000) (9)
- Improved Geochronologic Accuracy and Precision for the ICS Chronostratigraphic Charts: Examples from the Late Cambrian-Early Ordovician (2015) (8)
- Tremadocian (Lower Ordovician) Sea-Level Changes and Biotas on the Avalon Microcontinent (2011) (8)
- Charles Lapworth and the biostratigraphic paradigm (1993) (8)
- Proetid Trilobites from the Lower Devonian (Pragian) Ihandar Formation, Anti-Atlas, Morocco (2012) (8)
- Silicified Upper Ordovician trilobites from Pai‐Khoi, Arctic Russia (2009) (7)
- Late Ordovician trilobites from the Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Russia (2020) (7)
- Ancient DNA from amber inclusions: a review of the evidence (1998) (7)
- A three-dimensionally preserved aglaspidid euarthropod with a calcitic cuticle from the Ordovician of China (2017) (7)
- Variation in lens packing of Phacops (Trilobita) (1977) (7)
- An Upper Ordovician (Katian) trilobite fauna from the Lower Ktaoua Formation, Morocco (2017) (7)
- A critical graptolite correlation into the Lower Ordovician of Gondwana (2011) (7)
- The Mid-Cambrian Trilobite Beishanella and the Limits of Convergent Evolution (2007) (6)
- Fossils in the Reconstruction of Phylogeny (2007) (6)
- Oxygen isotope analysis of the eyes of pelagic trilobites: Testing the application of sea temperature proxies for the Ordovician (2018) (6)
- Early Ordovician trilobites and molluscs from the Poulsen Cliff Formation, Washington Land, western North Greenland (2008) (6)
- ONTOGENY AND RELATIONSHIPS OF THE TRILOBITE PSEUDOPETIGURUS PRANTL AND PŘIBYL (2006) (6)
- Stratigraphy and trilobite biofacies of the Late Ordovician of the Taimyr Peninsula, Arctic Russia (2019) (5)
- Discussion on a revision of Ordovician Series and Stage divisions from the historical type area (1996) (5)
- A new deep‐water Upper Ordovician (Caradocian) trilobite fauna from south‐west Wales (2006) (5)
- A New, Morphologically Diverse Permian Trilobite Fauna from Oman (2014) (5)
- Old churchyards as fungal conservation areas (2000) (5)
- Fossils: The Key to the Past (1962) (4)
- The Ordovician Series of the Historical Type Area: Revision as a Contribution to Their Utility in International Correlation (1995) (4)
- Dolf Seilacher (1925–2014) (2014) (4)
- The trilobite Angelina unstretched (1992) (3)
- Fossils and tectonics (1986) (3)
- Harry Blackmore Whittington. 24 March 1916 — 20 June 2010 (2012) (3)
- Origins and early evolutionary history of the Metazoa (1992) (3)
- OPIPEUTERELLA, A REPLACEMENT NAME FOR THE TRILOBITE OPIPEUTER FORTEY, 1974, PREOCCUPIED (2005) (3)
- Psilocybe aurantiaca: and a case of mistaken identity (2004) (3)
- Correlation and Timing of Platform-Margin Megabreccia Deposition, Cow Head and Related Groups, Western Newfoundland: ABSTRACT (1979) (3)
- Evolution. The Cambrian explosion exploded? (2001) (3)
- Colin Patterson. 13 October 1933—9 March 1998 (1999) (2)
- Revision of F. R. C. Reeds Ordovician trilobite types from Myanmar (Burma) and western Yunnan Province, China. (2022) (2)
- Part O, Arthropoda 1 (Revised), vol. 1, ch. 3, p. 249-329 (1997) (2)
- Predictions occasionally are fulfilled (2004) (1)
- Lower Ordovician Trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen: Fortey/Lower Ordovician Trilobites of the Kirtonryggen Formation, Spitsbergen (2013) (1)
- Chitinozoans from key sections in the Upper Ordovician Series: new GSSP's and classic British sections (2003) (1)
- The first Silurian trilobite with three‐dimensionally preserved soft parts reveals novel appendage morphology (2021) (1)
- Part O, Arthropoda 1 (Revised), vol. 1, ch. 4, p. 331-404 (1997) (1)
- Stratigraphy and hystricurid trilobites of the Christian Elv Formation (Lower Ordovician) of western North Greenland (2020) (1)
- Extraordinary Ordovician trilobite Fantasticolithus gen. nov. from Peru and its bearing on the trinucleimorph hypothesis (2022) (1)
- Charles Lapworth and the biostratigraphic paradigm (1995) (1)
- Rediscovery of Ordovician and Silurian trilobites from the Nares Arctic Expedition of 1875-6 from Ellesmere Island and western Greenland (2020) (1)
- Drilling the eyes out of triolites: first results from stable isotope analyses of Ordovician Carolinites (2010) (1)
- Trilobite tridents demonstrate sexual combat at 400 Mya. (2023) (0)
- Reply from a. Cooper and R. Fortey. (1998) (0)
- Evolution's final frontiers (2009) (0)
- Coping with the Exigencies of Terrestrial Life@@@Evolution and Adaptation of Terrestrial Arthropods (1991) (0)
- Rodinia and after. (2002) (0)
- Graptolite Diversity@@@Palaeoecology and Biostratigraphy of Graptolites. (1986) (0)
- Reply from R. Fortey and a. Cooper. (1998) (0)
- Possible extrinsic controls on the Ordovician radiation: Stratigraphic evidence from the Great Basin, western USA (1993) (0)
- DRURY, S. 1999. Stepping Stones. The Making of Our Home World. xix + 409 pp. New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Price £19.99 (hard covers). ISBN 0 19 850271 0. (2000) (0)
- Fungi as art - Lorenzen ceramics (2005) (0)
- Wales and the Ordovician System (1991) (0)
- Response by Richard A. Fortey for the presentation of the 2016 Paleontological Society Medal (2017) (0)
- Biogeographical Jokers@@@Mushrooms and Truffles of the Southwest. (1991) (0)
- A novel antennal form in trilobites (2022) (0)
- Part O, Arthropoda 1 (Revised), vol. 1, Complete Volume (1997) (0)
- 1988. Cambrian–Ordovician Boundary Issue. Geological Magazine 125 (4), July 1988, 150 pp. Single issue price £15.00, US $34.00. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 0016 7568. (1989) (0)
- Fossils explained 2: Trilobites (1985) (0)
- A New Technique for Illustrating “Black Crust Ascomycetes” (2013) (0)
- 3. Biogeography and Evolution in the Early Paleozoic (2019) (0)
- Review of the Ordovician pelagic trilobite Ellipsotaphrus (Cyclopygoidea, Ellipsotaphridae) and its allies, with new discoveries from Girvan, Ayrshire (2023) (0)
- Geochronologic Accuracy and Precision for the ICS Chronostratigraphic Charts : Examples fr om the late Cambrian – Early Ordovician (2015) (0)
- The Ordovician trilobite Oenonella and the new family Oenonellidae, with new species from western Newfoundland, Canada (2022) (0)
- Part O, Arthropoda 1 (Revised), vol. 1, ch. 5, p. 404-481 (1997) (0)
- Phylogenetic history of major trilobite clades in relation to paleoenvironment (1992) (0)
- Ordovician trilobites from Taimyr and the identity of Taimyraspis Balashova, 1959 (2017) (0)
- Stratigraphy, palaeoecology and trilobite faunas of the Valhatlfonna formation, Ny Friesland, Spitsbergen (1972) (0)
- Taxonomy and informal newsletters (1986) (0)
- Systematics of the Ordovician trilobites Ischyrotoma and Dimeropygiella, with species from the type Ibexian area, western U.S.A. (2001) (0)
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