Richard Paul Scofield

Richard Paul Scofield (fl. 2010), New Zealand paleontologist, ornithologist, herpetologist.

• Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand 8013.
• Natural Sciences Collections, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Domplatz 4, D-06108 Halle (Saale), Germany.
• E-mail: pscofield@canterburymuseum.com]

Taxon names authored

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• 3 taxon names authored by Richard Paul Scofield

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2010

• Worthy, T.H., Hand, S.J., Nguyen, J.M.T., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P., Scofield, R.P., Boles, W.E. & Archer, M. 2010. Biogeographical and phylogenetic implications of an Early Miocene wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(2): 479–498. DOI: 10.1080/02724631003618033 Reference page. 

2012

• Schwarzhans, W., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P. & Worthy, T.H. 2012. Fish remains, mostly otoliths, from the non-marine early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(2): 319-350. DOI: 10.4202/app.2010.0127 . Reference page. 

2013

• Hand, S.J., Worthy, T.H., Archer, M., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Scofield, R.P. 2013. Miocene mystacinids (Chiroptera, Noctilionoidea) indicate a long history for endemic bats in New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(6): 1442–1448. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.775950 Reference page. 

2017

• Schodde, R., Tennyson, A.J.D., Groth, J.G., Lai, J., Scofield, P. & Steinheimer, F.D. 2017. Settling the name Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 for the Wandering Albatross by neotypification. Zootaxa 4236(1): 135–148. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.1.7. Reference page. 
• Turvey, S.T., Almonte, J., Hansford, J., Scofield, R.P., Brocca, J.L. & Chapman, S.D. 2017. A new species of extinct Late Quaternary giant tortoise from Hispaniola. Zootaxa 4277(1): 1–16. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.1.1. Reference page. 

2018

• Hand, S.J., Beck, R.M.D., Archer, M., Simmons, N.B., Gunnell, G.F., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., De Pietri, V.L., Salisbury, S.W. & Worthy, T.H. 2018. A New, Large-bodied Omnivorous Bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals Lost Morphological and Ecological Diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand. Scientific Reports 8: 235. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18403-w Reference page. 

2020

• De Pietri, V.L., Worthy, T.H., Scofield, R.P., Cole, T.L., Wood, J.R., Cibois, A., Jansen, J.J.F.J., Zhang, G., Mitchell, K.J., Feng, S., Chen, W., Tennyson, A.J.D., & Wragg, G.M. 2020. A new extinct species of Polynesian sandpiper (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae: Prosobonia) from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, and the phylogenetic relationships of Prosobonia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa115 Reference page.