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Silicified fossils preserved in three dimensions

• Lin, Scott, Li, Wu, Ausich, Zhao & Hwu 2006. Silicified egg clusters from a Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale–type deposit, Guizhou, south China. Geology 34(12), 1037–1040.
• Dunlop, Jason A., Anderson, Lyall I., Kerp, Hans & Hass, Hagen 2004. A harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the Early Devonian Rhynie cherts, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. – Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 94, 341-354. Edinburgh.
• Fayers, Stephen R. & Trewin, Nigel H. 2003. A new crustacean from the Early Devonian Rhynie chert, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 93, 355-382. Edinburgh.
• Seiple, E. 1983. Miocene insects and arthropods in California. California Geology November 1983, 246-248.

and some historical references (ask for xeroxes)

• Palmer, Allison R. 1957. Miocene Arthropods from the Mojave Desert California. Geological Survey Professional Paper 294-G, 237-280.
• Scourfield, D.J. 1940. Two new and nearly complete specimens of young stages of the Devonian fossil crustacean Lepidocaris rhyniensis. Proceedings of the Linnean Society 152, 290-298.
• Scourfield, D.J. 1940. The oldest known fossil insect (Rhyniella praecursor Hirst & Maulik) - further details from additional specimens. Proceedings of the Linnean Society 152, 113-131.
• Scourfield, D.J. 1926. On a New Type of Crustacean from the Old Red Sandstone (Rhynie Chert Bed, Aberdeenshire) - Lepidocaris rhyniensis, gen. et sp. nov. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London 214, 153-187.

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Papers on the exceptional fossils from the Silurian Herefordshire lagerstätte
(ask David Siveter for reprints or PDFs: djs–at–leicester.ac.uk)

2007

• Siveter, De. J., Sutton, M.D., Briggs, D.E.G. & Siveter, Da. 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.
• 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, Series B, 272, 1001-1006.

2004 and older

• Briggs, Derek E.G., Sutton, Mark D., Siveter, David J. & Siveter, Derek J. 2004. A new phyllocarid (Crustacea: Malacostraca) from the Silurian Fossil-Lagerstätte of Herefordshire, UK. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271, 131-138. London.
• Siveter, Derek J., Sutton, Mark D., Briggs, Derek E.G. & Siveter, David J. 2004. A Silurian sea spider. Nature 321, 978-980. London.
• Sutton, Mark D., Briggs, Derek E.G., Siveter, David, J. & Siveter, Derek J. 2004. Computer reconstruction and analysis of the vermiform mollusc Acaenoplax hayae from the Herefordshire lagerstätte (Silurian, England), and implications for molluscan phylogeny. Palaeontology 47(2) 293-318. London.
• 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 302, 1749-1751. Washington.
• Orr, Patrick J., Siveter, David J., Briggs, Derek E.G., Siveter, Derek, J. & Sutton, Mark D. 2002. Preservation of radiolarians in the Herefordshire Konservat-Lagerstätte (Wenlock, Silurian), England, and implications for the taphonomy of the biota. Special Papers in Palaeontology 71, 7-22 + 2 plts. London.
• Sutton, Mark D., Briggs, Derek E.G., Siveter, Derek J., Siveter, David J. & Orr, Patrick J. 2002. The arthropod Offacolus kingi (Chelicerata) from the Silurian of Herfordshire, England: computer based morphological reconstructions and phylogenetic affinites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 269, 1195–1203. London.
• Sutton, Mark D., Briggs, Derek 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. London.
• Sutton, Mark D., Briggs, Derek E.G., Siveter, David J. & Siveter, Derek J. 2001. An exceptionally preserved vermiform mollusc from the Silurian of England. Nature 410, 461-463. London.
• Sutton, Mark D., Briggs, Derek E.G., Siveter, David J. & Siveter, Derek J. 2001. Brief communications: Sutton et al. reply. Nature 414, 602. London.
• Orr, Patrick J., Briggs, D.E.G., Siveter, David J. & Siveter, Derek J. 2000. Three-dimensional preservation of a non-biomineralized arthropod in concretions on Silurian volcaniclastic rocks from Herefordshire, England. Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 157, 173-186. London.
• Orr, Patrick J., Siveter, Derek J., Briggs, Derek E.G., Siveter, David J. & Sutton, Mark D. 2000. A new arthropod from the Silurian Konservat-Lagerstätte of Herefordshire, UK. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 267, 1497-1504.
• Briggs, Derek E.G., Siveter, David J. & Siveter, Derek J. 1996. Soft-bodied fossils from a Silurian volcaniclastic deposit. Nature 382, 248-249.