Mark A. Purnell, Ph.D. - Publications

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Geology University of Leicester, Leicester, England, United Kingdom 

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2023 Holwerda FM, Bestwick J, Purnell MA, Jagt JWM, Schulp AS. Three-dimensional dental microwear in type-Maastrichtian mosasaur teeth (Reptilia, Squamata). Scientific Reports. 13: 18720. PMID 37945619 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-42369-7  0.801
2021 Bestwick J, Unwin DM, Henderson DM, Purnell MA. Dental microwear texture analysis along reptile tooth rows: complex variation with non-dietary variables. Royal Society Open Science. 8: 201754. PMID 33972864 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.201754  0.797
2021 McLennan LJ, Purnell MA. Dental microwear texture analysis as a tool for dietary discrimination in elasmobranchs. Scientific Reports. 11: 2444. PMID 33510241 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-81258-9  0.765
2020 Bestwick J, Unwin DM, Butler RJ, Purnell MA. Dietary diversity and evolution of the earliest flying vertebrates revealed by dental microwear texture analysis. Nature Communications. 11: 5293. PMID 33116130 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19022-2  0.804
2020 Adams NF, Gray T, Purnell MA. Dietary signals in dental microwear of predatory small mammals appear unaffected by extremes in environmental abrasive load Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 558: 109929. DOI: 10.1016/J.Palaeo.2020.109929  0.347
2019 Bestwick J, Unwin DM, Purnell MA. Dietary differences in archosaur and lepidosaur reptiles revealed by dental microwear textural analysis. Scientific Reports. 9: 11691. PMID 31406164 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-019-48154-9  0.802
2018 DeSantis L, Fortelius M, Grine FE, Janis C, Kaiser TM, Merceron G, Purnell MA, Schulz-Kornas E, Saarinen J, Teaford M, Ungar PS, Žliobaitė I. The phylogenetic signal in tooth wear: What does it mean? Ecology and Evolution. 8: 11359-11362. PMID 30519448 DOI: 10.1002/Ece3.4541  0.632
2018 Bestwick J, Unwin DM, Butler RJ, Henderson DM, Purnell MA. Pterosaur dietary hypotheses: a review of ideas and approaches. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. PMID 29877021 DOI: 10.1111/Brv.12431  0.802
2018 Clements T, Purnell M, Gabbott S. The Mazon Creek Lagerstätte: a diverse late Paleozoic ecosystem entombed within siderite concretions Journal of the Geological Society. 176: 1-11. DOI: 10.1144/Jgs2018-088  0.785
2018 Purnell MA, Donoghue PJC, Gabbott SE, McNamara ME, Murdock DJE, Sansom RS. Experimental analysis of soft-tissue fossilization: opening the black box Palaeontology. 61: 317-323. DOI: 10.1111/Pala.12360  0.761
2017 Zhang M, Jiang H, Purnell MA, Lai X. Testing hypotheses of element loss and instability in the apparatus composition of complex conodonts: articulated skeletons ofHindeodus Palaeontology. 60: 595-608. DOI: 10.1111/Pala.12305  0.315
2017 Zhang H, Wang Y, Janis CM, Goodall RH, Purnell MA. An examination of feeding ecology in Pleistocene proboscideans from southern China ( Sinomastodon , Stegodon , Elephas ), by means of dental microwear texture analysis Quaternary International. 445: 60-70. DOI: 10.1016/J.Quaint.2016.07.011  0.803
2017 Purnell MA, Goodall RH, Thomson S, Matthews CJ. Tooth microwear texture in odontocete whales: variation with tooth characteristics and implications for dietary analysis Biosurface and Biotribology. 3: 184-195. DOI: 10.1016/J.Bsbt.2017.11.004  0.771
2016 Gabbott SE, Donoghue PC, Sansom RS, Vinther J, Dolocan A, Purnell MA. Pigmented anatomy in Carboniferous cyclostomes and the evolution of the vertebrate eye. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 283. PMID 27488650 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2016.1151  0.77
2016 Clements T, Dolocan A, Martin P, Purnell MA, Vinther J, Gabbott SE. The eyes of Tullimonstrum reveal a vertebrate affinity. Nature. PMID 27074512 DOI: 10.1038/Nature17647  0.785
2016 Murdock DJ, Gabbott SE, Purnell MA. The impact of taphonomic data on phylogenetic resolution: Helenodora inopinata (Carboniferous, Mazon Creek Lagerstätte) and the onychophoran stem lineage. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 16: 19. PMID 26801389 DOI: 10.1186/S12862-016-0582-7  0.762
2016 Williams M, Siveter DJ, Siveter DJ, Gabbott SE, Ma X, Purnell MA, Cong P. The spectacular fossils of the ‘water margin’: the Cambrian biota of Chengjiang, Yunnan, China Geology Today. 32: 233-237. DOI: 10.1111/Gto.12169  0.639
2015 Goodall RH, Darras LP, Purnell MA. Accuracy and precision of silicon based impression media for quantitative areal texture analysis. Scientific Reports. 5: 10800. PMID 25991505 DOI: 10.1038/Srep10800  0.738
2015 Cong PY, Hou XG, Aldridge RJ, Purnell MA, Li YZ. New data on the palaeobiology of the enigmatic yunnanozoans from the Chengjiang Biota, Lower Cambrian, China Palaeontology. 58: 45-70. DOI: 10.1111/Pala.12117  0.679
2014 Murdock DJ, Gabbott SE, Mayer G, Purnell MA. Decay of velvet worms (Onychophora), and bias in the fossil record of lobopodians. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 14: 222. PMID 25472836 DOI: 10.1186/S12862-014-0222-Z  0.781
2014 Gill PG, Purnell MA, Crumpton N, Brown KR, Gostling NJ, Stampanoni M, Rayfield EJ. Dietary specializations and diversity in feeding ecology of the earliest stem mammals. Nature. 512: 303-5. PMID 25143112 DOI: 10.1038/Nature13622  0.446
2014 Martínez-Pérez C, Rayfield EJ, Purnell MA, Donoghue PCJ. Finite element, occlusal, microwear and microstructural analyses indicate that conodont microstructure is adapted to dental function Palaeontology. 57: 1059-1066. DOI: 10.1111/Pala.12102  0.664
2013 Purnell MA, Crumpton N, Gill PG, Jones G, Rayfield EJ. Within-guild dietary discrimination from 3-D textural analysis of tooth microwear in insectivorous mammals. Journal of Zoology (London, England : 1987). 291: 249-257. PMID 25620853 DOI: 10.1111/Jzo.12068  0.441
2013 Sansom RS, Gabbott SE, Purnell MA. Unusual anal fin in a Devonian jawless vertebrate reveals complex origins of paired appendages. Biology Letters. 9: 20130002. PMID 23576777 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2013.0002  0.783
2013 Sansom RS, Gabbott SE, Purnell MA. Atlas of vertebrate decay: A visual and taphonomic guide to fossil interpretation Palaeontology. 56: 457-474. DOI: 10.1111/Pala.12037  0.802
2012 Purnell M, Seehausen O, Galis F. Quantitative three-dimensional microtextural analyses of tooth wear as a tool for dietary discrimination in fishes. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society. 9: 2225-33. PMID 22491979 DOI: 10.1098/Rsif.2012.0140  0.43
2012 Ma X, Hou X, Aldridge RJ, Siveter DJ, Siveter DJ, Gabbott SE, Purnell MA, Parker AR, Edgecombe GD. Morphology of Cambrian lobopodian eyes from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte and their evolutionary significance. Arthropod Structure & Development. 41: 495-504. PMID 22484085 DOI: 10.1016/J.Asd.2012.03.002  0.754
2012 Jones D, Hartley J, Frisch G, Purnell M, Darras L. Non-destructive, safe removal of conductive metal coatings from fossils: A new solution Palaeontologia Electronica. 15. DOI: 10.26879/303  0.539
2012 Purnell MA, Jones D. Quantitative analysis of conodont tooth wear and damage as a test of ecological and functional hypotheses Paleobiology. 38: 605-626. DOI: 10.1666/09070.1  0.41
2012 Atakul-Özdemir A, Purnell MA, Riley NJ. Cladistic tests of monophyly and relationships of biostratigraphically significant conodonts using multielement skeletal data -Lochriea homopunctatus and the genus Lochriea Palaeontology. 55: 1279-1291. DOI: 10.1111/J.1475-4983.2012.01190.X  0.376
2012 Keating JN, Sansom RS, Purnell MA. A new osteostracan fauna from the Devonian of the Welsh Borderlands and observations on the taxonomy and growth of Osteostraci Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 32: 1002-1017. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2012.693555  0.792
2011 Sansom RS, Gabbott SE, Purnell MA. Decay of vertebrate characters in hagfish and lamprey (Cyclostomata) and the implications for the vertebrate fossil record. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 278: 1150-7. PMID 20947532 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2010.1641  0.803
2010 Sansom RS, Gabbott SE, Purnell MA. Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation. Nature. 463: 797-800. PMID 20118914 DOI: 10.1038/Nature08745  0.798
2010 Sansom RS, Freedman K, Gabbott SE, Aldridge RJ, Purnell MA. Taphonomy and affinity of an enigmatic Silurian vertebrate, Jamoytius kerwoodi White Palaeontology. 53: 1393-1409. DOI: 10.1111/J.1475-4983.2010.01019.X  0.78
2009 Williams VS, Barrett PM, Purnell MA. Quantitative analysis of dental microwear in hadrosaurid dinosaurs, and the implications for hypotheses of jaw mechanics and feeding. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 11194-9. PMID 19564603 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0812631106  0.763
2009 Donoghue PC, Purnell MA. Distinguishing heat from light in debate over controversial fossils. Bioessays : News and Reviews in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. 31: 178-89. PMID 19204990 DOI: 10.1002/Bies.200800128  0.695
2009 Donoghue PCJ, Purnell MA. The Evolutionary Emergence of Vertebrates From Among Their Spineless Relatives Evolution: Education and Outreach. 2: 204-212. DOI: 10.1007/S12052-009-0134-3  0.69
2008 Donoghue PCJ, Purnell MA, Aldridge RJ, Zhang S. The interrelationships of 'complex' conodonts (Vertebrata) Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 6: 119-153. DOI: 10.1017/S1477201907002234  0.764
2007 Purnell MA, Bell MA, Baines DC, Hart PJ, Travis MP. Correlated evolution and dietary change in fossil stickleback. Science (New York, N.Y.). 317: 1887. PMID 17901325 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1147337  0.789
2007 von Bitter PH, Purnell MA, Tetreault DK, Stott CA. Eramosa Lagerstätte - Exceptionally preserved soft-bodied biotas with shallow-marine shelly and bioturbating organisms (Silurian, Ontario, Canada) Geology. 35: 879-882. DOI: 10.1130/G23894A.1  0.378
2006 Purnell MA, Hart PJ, Baines DC, Bell MA. Quantitative analysis of dental microwear in threespine stickleback: a new approach to analysis of trophic ecology in aquatic vertebrates. The Journal of Animal Ecology. 75: 967-77. PMID 17009760 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2656.2006.01116.X  0.809
2005 Donoghue PC, Purnell MA. Genome duplication, extinction and vertebrate evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 20: 312-9. PMID 16701387 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tree.2005.04.008  0.69
2002 Purnell MA. Feeding in extinct jawless heterostracan fishes and testing scenarios of early vertebrate evolution. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 269: 83-8. PMID 11788040 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2001.1826  0.419
2000 Baesemann J, Purnell M. Ubinates, a new name for the genus Aethotaxis Baesemann, 1973 (Vertebrata, Conodonta) preoccupied by Aethotaxis Dewitt, 1962 (Vertebrata, Osteichtyes) Journal of Paleontology. 74: 544-544. DOI: 10.1017/S0022336000031802  0.346
2000 Purnell MA, Donoghue PCJ, Aldridge RJ. Orientation and anatomical notation in conodonts Journal of Paleontology. 74: 113-122.  0.54
1999 Donoghue PCJ, Purnell MA. Growth, function, and the conodont fossil record Geology. 27: 251-254. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0251:GFATCF>2.3.CO  0.579
1998 Donoghue PCJ, Purnell MA, Aldridge RJ. Conodont anatomy, chordate phylogeny and vertebrate classification Lethaia. 31: 211-219. DOI: 10.1111/J.1502-3931.1998.Tb00509.X  0.776
1997 Purnell MA, Don PCJ. Architecture and functional morphology of the skeletal apparatus of ozarkodinid conodonts Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 352: 1545-1564. DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.1997.0141  0.309
1996 Aldridge RJ, Purnell MA. The conodont controversies. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 11: 463-8. PMID 21237922 DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(96)10048-3  0.651
1995 Purnell MA, Aldridge RJ, Donoghue PCJ, Gabbott SE. Conodonts and the first vertebrates Endeavour. 19: 20-27. DOI: 10.1016/0160-9327(95)98890-R  0.769
1993 Armstrong HA, Purnell MA. Thermal maturation of the Lower Carboniferous strata of the Northumberland Trough and Tweed Basin from conodont colour alteration index (CAI) data Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society. 49: 335-343. DOI: 10.1144/pygs.49.4.335  0.592
1987 Armstrong HA, Purnell MA. Dinantian conodont biostratigraphy of the Northumberland Trough Journal of Micropalaeontology. 6: 97-112. DOI: 10.1144/Jm.6.2.97  0.632
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