William Kingdon Spencer

William Kingdon Spencer (1878–1955), English palaeontologist.

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(List may be incomplete)

Spencer, W.K. 1904. On the structure and affinities of Palaeodiscus and Agelacrinus. Proceedings of the Royal Society 74: 31–46.

Spencer, W.K. 1905. A Monograph on the British Fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous Formations. Volume Second. The Asteroidea. Part Third. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 59(278): 67-90. DOI: 10.1080/02693445.1905.12035516 BHL Reference page.
Spencer, W.K. 1905-1908. The fossil Echinodermata. Cretaceous. London: Palaeontological Society.

Spencer, W.K. 1914. The Evolution of the Cretaceous Asteroidea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 204(303-312): 99-177. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1914.0004 Reference page.
Spencer, W.K. 1914-1040. The Palaeozoic Asterozoa. London: Palaeontographical Society.

Spencer, W.K. & Groom, T. 1934. Starfish from the Welsh Borderland. Geological Magazine 71: 231–236.

Spencer, W.K. & MacBride, E.W. 1938. Two new Echinoidea Aulechinus and Ectinechinus, and an adult plated Holothurian, Eothuria, from the Upper Ordovician of Girvan, Scotland. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 229: 91–136.
Spencer, W.K. 1938. The distribution and migration of certain animal groups in the British Lower Palaeozoic fauna. 4. The Starfishes and the Cystids. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 108: 415.
Spencer, W.K. 1938. Some aspects of evolution in Echinodermata, pp. 287-302. In G. R. de Beer, Evolution, essays presented to E. S. Goodrich..

Spencer, W.K. 1950. Asterozoa and the study of Palaeozoic faunas. Geological Magazine 87: 393–408.
Spencer, W.K. 1950. A new brittle-star and a Eurypterid from the Bokkeveld strata. South African Journal of Science 46: 300–301.

Spencer, W.K. & Wright, C.W. 1966. Asterozoans. pp. U4–U107. In: Moore, R.C. ed. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part U, Echinodermata 3, vol. 1. The Geological Society of America and The University of Kansas Press. Reference page.

Hawkins, H.L. 1956. William Kingdon Spencer. 1878–1955. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society Vol. 2, pp. 291–298. JSTOR Reference page.