Robert Wolfgang Gess - Publications

Affiliations: 
Albany Musem, Rhodes University, South Africa 
Area:
palaeontology

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2023 Reddy C, Thuy B, Reid M, Gess R. Earliest known ophiuroids from high palaeolatitude, southern Gondwana, recovered from the Pragian to earliest Emsian Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group, Cape Supergroup) South Africa. Plos One. 18: e0292636. PMID 37878550 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292636  0.524
2023 Gess RW, Ahlberg PE. A high latitude Gondwanan species of the Late Devonian tristichopterid Hyneria (Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii). Plos One. 18: e0281333. PMID 36812170 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281333  0.686
2021 Gess RW, Prestianni C. An early Devonian flora from the Baviaanskloof Formation (Table Mountain Group) of South Africa. Scientific Reports. 11: 11859. PMID 34088916 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-90180-z  0.796
2021 Miyashita T, Gess RW, Tietjen K, Coates MI. Non-ammocoete larvae of Palaeozoic stem lampreys. Nature. PMID 33692547 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03305-9  0.704
2020 Gess RW, Whitfield AK. Estuarine fish and tetrapod evolution: insights from a Late Devonian (Famennian) Gondwanan estuarine lake and a southern African Holocene equivalent. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society. 95: 865-888. PMID 32059074 DOI: 10.1111/Brv.12590  0.528
2019 Gess RW, Clement AM. A high latitude Devonian lungfish, from the Famennian of South Africa. Peerj. 7: e8073. PMID 31824758 DOI: 10.7717/Peerj.8073  0.554
2018 Gess R, Ahlberg PE. A tetrapod fauna from within the Devonian Antarctic Circle. Science (New York, N.Y.). 360: 1120-1124. PMID 29880689 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aaq1645  0.609
2018 Fontanarrosa G, Abdala F, Kümmell S, Gess R. The manus of Tetracynodon (Therapsida: Therocephalia) provides evidence for survival strategies following the Permo-Triassic extinction Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 38: (1)-(13). DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2018.1491404  0.424
2018 Gess R, Prestianni C. Kowieria alveoformis gen. nov. sp. nov., a new heterosporous lycophyte from the Latest Devonian of Southern Africa Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 249: 1-8. DOI: 10.1016/J.Revpalbo.2017.10.002  0.766
2018 Prestianni C, Gess RW. Rinistachya hilleri gen. et sp. nov. (Sphenophyllales), from the upper Devonian of South Africa Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 19: 1-11. DOI: 10.1007/S13127-018-0385-3  0.792
2017 Gess RW, Trinajstic KM. New morphological information on, and species of placoderm fish Africanaspis (Arthrodira, Placodermi) from the Late Devonian of South Africa. Plos One. 12: e0173169. PMID 28379973 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173169  0.763
2017 Coates MI, Gess RW, Finarelli JA, Criswell KE, Tietjen K. A symmoriiform chondrichthyan braincase and the origin of chimaeroid fishes. Nature. PMID 28052054 DOI: 10.1038/Nature20806  0.748
2017 Scholze F, Gess RW. Oldest known naiaditid bivalve from the high-latitude Late Devonian (Famennian) of South Africa offers clues to survival strategies following the Hangenberg mass extinction Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 471: 31-39. DOI: 10.1016/J.Palaeo.2017.01.018  0.421
2015 Gess RW, Coates MI. Fossil juvenile coelacanths from the Devonian of South Africa shed light on the order of character acquisition in actinistians Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 175: 360-383. DOI: 10.1111/Zoj.12276  0.746
2014 Prestianni C, Gess RW. The rooting system of Leptophloeum Dawson: New material from the Upper Devonian, Famennian Witpoort Formation of South Africa Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 209: 35-40. DOI: 10.1016/J.Revpalbo.2014.05.007  0.755
2014 Gess RW, Coates MI. High-latitude Chondrichthyans from the Late Devonian (Famennian) Witpoort formation of South Africa Palaontologische Zeitschrift. 89: 147-169. DOI: 10.1007/S12542-014-0221-9  0.79
2013 Gess RW. The earliest record of terrestrial animals in Gondwana: A scorpion from the Famennian (Late Devonian) Witpoort formation of South Africa African Invertebrates. 54: 373-379. DOI: 10.5733/Afin.054.0206  0.614
2012 Gess RW. The oldest animal fossils South African Journal of Science. 108. DOI: 10.4102/Sajs.V108I1/2.1064  0.302
2007 Coates MI, Gess RW. A new reconstruction of Onychoselache traquairi, comments on early chondrichthyan pectoral girdles and hybodontiform phylogeny Palaeontology. 50: 1421-1446. DOI: 10.1111/J.1475-4983.2007.00719.X  0.746
2006 Gess RW, Coates MI, Rubidge BS. A lamprey from the Devonian period of South Africa. Nature. 443: 981-4. PMID 17066033 DOI: 10.1038/Nature05150  0.774
1997 Long JA, Anderson ME, Gess R, Hiller N. New placoderm fishes from the Late Devonian of South Africa Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 17: 253-268. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.1997.10010973  0.447
1996 Hiller N, Gess RW. Marine algal remains from the Upper Devonian of South Africa Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 91: 143-149. DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(95)00062-3  0.782
1995 ANDERSON HM, HILLER N, GESS RW. Archaeopteris (Progymnospermopsida) from the Devonian of southern Africa Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 117: 305-320. DOI: 10.1111/J.1095-8339.1995.Tb02593.X  0.764
1995 Gess RW, Hiller N. Late Devonian charophytes from the Witteberg Group, South Africa Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 89: 417-428. DOI: 10.1016/0034-6667(95)00007-8  0.777
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