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Giles, S, Feilich, K, Warnock, RCM, Pierce, SE & Friedman, M 2023, 'A Late Devonian actinopterygian suggests high lineage survivorship across the end-Devonian mass extinction', Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 10–19. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01919-4
Brazeau, MD, Yuan, H, Giles, S, Jerve, AL, Zorig, E, Ariunchimeg, Y, Sansom, RS & Atwood, RC 2023, 'A well-preserved ‘placoderm’ (stem-group Gnathostomata) upper jaw from the Early Devonian of Mongolia clarifies jaw evolution', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 10, no. 2, 221452. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221452
Figueroa, R, Goodvin, D, Kolmann, MA, Coates, MI, Caron, AM, Friedman, M & Giles, S 2023, 'Exceptional fossil preservation and evolution of the ray-finned fish brain', Nature, vol. 614, pp. 486–491. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05666-1
Dearden, R, Lanzetti, A, Giles, S, Johanson, Z, Jones, A, Lautenschlager, S, Randle, E & Sansom, I 2023, 'The oldest three-dimensionally preserved vertebrate neurocranium', Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06538-y
Cooper, S, Giles, S, Young, H & Maxwell, E 2022, 'A New Large †Pachycormiform (Teleosteomorpha: †Pachycormiformes) from the Lower Jurassic of Germany, with Affinities to the Suspension-Feeding Clade, and Comments on the Gastrointestinal Anatomy of Pachycormid Fishes', Diversity, vol. 14, no. 12, 1026. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14121026
Argyriou, T, Giles, S & Friedman, M 2022, 'A Permian fish reveals widespread distribution of neopterygian-like jaw suspension', eLife, vol. 2022, 58433. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58433
Henderson, S, Dunne, E & Giles, S 2022, 'Sampling biases obscure the early diversification of the largest living vertebrate group', Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, vol. 289, no. 1985, 20220916, pp. 20220916. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0916
Henderson, S, Dunne, EM, Fasey, SA & Giles, S 2022, 'The early diversification of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii): hypotheses, challenges and future prospects', Biological Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12907
Dowey, N, Barclay, J, Fernando, B, Giles, S, Houghton, J, Jackson, C, Khatwa, A, Lawrence, A, Mills, K, Newton, A, Rogers, S & Williams, R 2021, 'A UK perspective on tackling the geoscience racial diversity crisis in the Global North', Nature Geoscience, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 256-259. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00737-w
Newman, M, Burrow, C, den Blaauwen, J & Giles, S 2021, 'A new actinopterygian Cheirolepis jonesi nov. sp. from the Givetian of Spitsbergen, Svalbard', Norwegian Journal of Geology, vol. 101, 202103. https://doi.org/10.17850/njg101-1-3
Dearden, R & Giles, S 2021, 'Diverse stem-chondrichthyan oral structures and evidence for an independently acquired acanthodid dentition', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 8, no. 11, 210822. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210822
Zhu, Y, Giles, S, Young, G, Hu, Y, Bazzi, M, Ahlberg, P, Zhu, M & Lu, J 2021, 'Endocast and bony labyrinth of a Devonian ‘placoderm’ challenges stem gnathostome phylogeny', Current Biology, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1112-1118.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.046
Giles, S 2020, 'Barriers to fieldwork in undergraduate geoscience degrees', Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-020-0022-5
Brazeau, MD, Giles, S, Dearden, RP, Jerve, A, Ariunchimeg, Y, Zorig, E, Sansom, R, Guillerme, T & Castiello, M 2020, 'Endochondral bone in an Early Devonian ‘placoderm’ from Mongolia', Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol. 4, no. 11, pp. 1477-1484. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01290-2
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Greene, S, Antell, G, Atterby, J, Bhatia, R, Dunne, E, Giles, S, Groh, S, Hanson, E, Hilton, J, Knight, H, Kraftl, P, Morgan, E, Rhodes, I, Rockey, F, Singh, S, Stevenson, C, Sun, S, Warren, B, Wheeley, J & Yamoah, K 2021 'Safety and belonging in the field: a checklist for educators' EarthArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31223/x53p6h
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