Publications
Student research publications: At the Feet of the Dinosaurs
A collection based research programme that offers undergraduate students from around the world the opportunity to work on a palaeontological project and walk away with a published scientific paper.
The publication record of our collection goes back to the early foundation years of the University of Bristol when geology was first taught in 1876. The timeline below summarises the 150 scientific publications that cover over 1600 specimens. 230 of them are type specimens on which the description or name of a new species is based.
Collection based research in the media
- Emma Landon discovers new fossil sites around Bristol Parkway Station (2017)
- British 'sea dragon' fossils are 'new to science' (October 2016)
- Work by Ellen Mears, Valentina Rossi, and others, on the Hampstead Farm locality (June 2016)
- Harry Allard's project on the Manor Farm site, near Bristol (October 2015)
- Klara Nordén's project on the history and fossils of the Marston Road Rhaetian (August 2015)
- Catherine Klein's discovery of a new species of sphenodontian (June 2015)
- Dana Korneisel's discovery of unusual burrows on the base of the Rhaetian Transgression, in Devon (January 2015)