Paul Smith | |
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Born | |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Nottingham University of Leicester |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Palaeontology |
Institutions | University of Birmingham |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Aldridge |
Doctoral students | Ivan Sansom |
M. Paul Smith is a British palaeontologist, Professor of Palaeobiology at the University of Birmingham.
Smith's research primarily has focused on the conodont palaeobiology and the early Palaeozoic radiation of vertebrates
Selected publications
- Sansom, I. J., Smith, M. P., Armstrong, H. A. and Smith, M. M. 1992. Presence of the earliest vertebrate hard tissues in conodonts. Science 256: 1308-1311. Cited 60 times acordingto Scopus.
- Sansom, I. J., Smith, M. P. and Smith, M. M. 1994. Dentine in conodonts. Nature 368: 591. Cited 30 times in Scopus.
- Sansom, I. J., Smith, M. P. and Smith, M. M. 1996. Scales of thelodont and shark-like fishes from the Ordovician. Nature 379: 628-630.Cited 543 times according to Scopus/
- Smith, M. P., Sansom, I. J. and Repetski, J. E. 1996. Histology of the first fish. Nature 380: 702-704. Cited 26 times according to Scopus
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- Donoghue, P.C.J., Smith, M.P. 2001 The anatomy of Turinia pagei (Powrie), and the phylogenetic status of the Thelodonti Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Earth Sciences 92 (1), pp. 15-37. Cited 35 times according to Scopus
- Thomas, A.T., Smith, M.P. 1998 Terebellid polychaete burrows from the lower Palaeozoic Palaeontology 41 (2), pp. 317-333 Cited 7 times according to Scopus