Benjamin P. Kear

Benjamin P. Kear, Australian paleontologist.

Paleobiology Programme, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavagen 16, SE-752 36, Uppsala, Sweden.

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(List may be incomplete)

Hamilton-Bruce, R.J. & Kear, B.P. 2010. A possible succineid land snail from the Lower Cretaceous non-marine deposits of the Griman Creek Formation at Lightning Ridge, New South Wales. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 34(3): 325–331. DOI: 10.1080/03115511003723279 Reference page.

Rich, T.H., Kear, B.P., Sinclair, R., Chinnery, B., Carpenter, K., McHugh, M.L. & Vickers-Rich, P. 2014. Serendipaceratops arthurcclarkei Rich & Vickers-Rich, 2003 is an Australian Early Cretaceous ceratopsian. Alcheringa 38(4): 456–479. DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2014.894809 . Reference page.

Sachs, S., Hornung, J.J. & Kear, B.P. 2016. Reappraisal of Europe’s most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the ‘‘Wealden facies’’ of Germany. PeerJ 4: e2813. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2813 Reference page.
Westerman, M., Krajewski, C., Kear, B.P., Meehan, L., Meredith, R.W., Emerling, C.A. & Springer, M.S. 2016. Phylogenetic relationships of dasyuromorphian marsupials revisited. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 176(3): 686–701. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12323 Reference page.

Sachs, S., Lindgren, J., Madzia, D. & Kear, B.P. 2020. Cranial osteology of the mid-Cretaceous elasmosaurid Thalassomedon haningtoni from the Western Interior Seaway of North America. Cretaceous Research 123: 104769. DOI: /10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104769 . Reference page.
E. Vlachos, A. Perez-Garcia, S. Roussiakis, G.L. Georgalis, and B.P. Kear. 2020. Late Miocene tortoises from Samos, Greece: Implications for European Neogene testudinid systematics and distributions. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (e1722950)1-18.Reference page.

Moczydłowska, M., Kear, B.P., Snitting, D., Liu, L., Lazor, P. & Majka, J. 2021. Ediacaran metazoan fossils with siliceous skeletons from the Digermulen Peninsula of Arctic Norway. Journal of Paleontology 95(3): 440–475. DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2020.105 . [Corrigendum: 95(5) 1112. DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2021.44 .] Reference page.

Westerman, M., Loke, S., Tan, M.H. & Kear, B.P. 2022. Mitogenome of the extinct Desert ‘rat-kangaroo’ times the adaptation to aridity in macropodoids. Scientific Reports 12(1): 5829. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-09568-0 Reference page.