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2017
Bennett, C E., Howard, A S., Davies, S J., Kearsey, T I., Millward, D., Brand, P J., Browne, M A E., Reeves, E J., & Marshall, J E A. 2017. Ichnofauna record cryptic marine incursions onto a coastal floodplain at a key early Mississippian tetrapod site. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 468, 287-300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.018
2017 - in press
Clark, N.D.L., Miller, R.F. & Ross, A.J. The distribution of Schramocaris (Eumalacostraca, Crustacea) along the north-western coast of the Rheic Ocean during the Lower Carboniferous. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2017 - submitted
Bennett, C.E., Kearsey, T.I., Davies, S.J., Leng, M.J., Millward, D., Smithson, T.R., Brand, P.J., Browne, M.A.E., Carpenter, D.K., Marshall, J.E.A. Mississippian coastal lakes and marshes provide habitat for emerging life on land. GSA Bulletin
Chen, D., Alavi, Y., Brazeau, M. D., Blom, H., Millward, D., & Ahlberg, P. E. A partial lower jaw of a tetrapod from ‘Romer’s Gap’. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Ross, A.J., Edgecombe, G.D., Clark, N. D. L, Bennett, C.E., Carrió, V., Contreras-Izquierdo, R. & Crighton, B. A new terrestrial millipede (Myriapoda: Diplopoda) fauna of earliest Carboniferous (Tournaisian) age from the Scottish Borders helps fill ‘Romer’s Gap’. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Clack J. A., Porro L.B. and Bennett, C.E. A Crassigyrinus-like jaw from the Tournaisian (Early Mississippian) of Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Smithson, T. R and Clack, J. A. A new tetrapod from Romer’s Gap reveals an early adaptation for walking. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2016
Ruta, M. and Wills, M. A. Comparable disparity in the appendicular skeleton across the fish-tetrapod transition, and the morphological gap between fish and tetrapod postcrania. Palaeontology, 59. 249-267.
Bennett, C. E., Kearsey, T. I., Davies, S. J., Millward, D., Clack, J. A., Smithson, T. R. and Marshall, J. E.A. Early Carboniferous sandy siltstones deposited in seasonal flooding episodes preserve rare non-marine fossils. Sedimentology 63, 1677-1700 doi: 10.1111/sed.12280
Clack, J. A., Bennett, C. E., Carpenter, D. K., Davies, S. J., Fraser, N. C., Kearsey, T. I, Marshall, J. E. A., Millward, D., Otoo, B. K. A., Reeves, E. J., Ross, A. J., Ruta, M., Smithson, K. Z., Smithson, T. R. & Walsh, S. Phylogenetic and Environmental Context of a Tournaisian Tetrapod Fauna. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi:10.1038/s41559-016-0002
Kearsey T. I, Bennett C.E., Millward D., Davies S. J., Gowing C. J. B., Kemp S.I., Leng M. J, Marshall J.E.A., Browne M.A.E. The terrestrial landscapes of tetrapod evolution in earliest Carboniferous seasonal wetlands of SE Scotland Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 457, 52-69. doi. /10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.05.033
2015
Smithson, T. R., Richards, K. R. and Clack, J. A. Lungfish diversity in Romer’s Gap: reaction to the end-Devonian extinction. Palaeontology 59,29-44 doi: 10.1111/pala.12203
Anderson, J. S., Smithson, T. R., Mansky, C., Meyer, T., Carroll, R. L. and Clack, J. A. A diverse tetrapod fauna at the base of Romer’s Gap. PloS ONE 10(4): e0125446. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125446
2013

Smithson, T. R. and Clack, J. A. Tetrapod appendicular skeletal elements from the Early Carboniferous of Scotland. Comptes Rendus 12, 405-417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2013.06.006
Dunlop, J.A., Ross, A. J. & Stewart, S. The Ellismuir fossil arachnid - the only known Scottish Carboniferous trigonotarbid. Scottish Journal of Geology, 49 (1), 9-14.

Other Publications and Magazine Articles

2017
Clack, J. A. Rebuilding a post-extinction world in the early Carboniferous. Nature Ecology and Evolution Community: Behind the paper
2017 - in press
Smithson, T. R. and Rolfe, W. D. I. What made Stan Wood a great collector? Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
2015
Clack, J. A. The earliest tetrapods: environment, faunal associations and terrestrialization. Leverhulme Trust
2014
Millward, D. Drilling through Romer’s Gap - the TW:eed project borehole near Berwick-upon-Tweed. The Edinburgh Geologist. Magazine of the Edinburgh Geological Society. Issue 56, 3-8.
2013
Smithson, T. R. Obituary. Alec Leonard Panchen 4 October 1930 - 17 January 2013. An Appreciation. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 82, 62-64.
Fraser, N. Evolution’s missing chapter. The Edinburgh Geologist. Magazine of the Edinburgh Geological Society.
Millward, D., Kearsey, T., & Browne, M A E. Norham West Mains Farm Borehole: operations report. British Geological Survey Internal Report, IR/13/033. 39 pp.
2012
Smithson, T. R. Obituary. Stanley Purdie Wood 23 December 1939 - 9 September 2012. An Appreciation. Palaeontological Association Newsletter 81, 58-61.