Publications

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Clements, T., Goodall, R., Gabbott, S., Murdock, D., Clokie, M., Millard, A., Turkington, C., Enright, O.B. and Purnell, M., 2025. The relationship between microbial community succession, decay, and anatomical character loss in non‐biomineralized animals. Palaeontology68(5).

Cavicchini, I., Wilson, P.F., Giles, S., Atterby, J., Jones, A.S., Williams, M.A. and Clements, T., 2025. Investigating the impact of x‐rays on decay: x‐ray computed tomography as a non‐invasive visualization technique for sediment‐based decay experiments. Palaeontology68(3).

Li, DD., Zhou, WM., Clements, T., Hilton, J., Wang, SJ., Wu, YF., Sun, WJ., Wang, J. 2025. Frond reconstruction of Polymorphopteris mei sp. nov. from the early Permian Wuda Tuff Flora with insights into its taphonomy. Historical Biology, 1-17

Lautenschlager, S. and Clements, T. 2025. Is a bone a viable weapon when combating a Rancor? Estimating the bite force of an intergalactic mega-predator. Journal of Geek Studies21, p.32.

George, H., Bazzi, M., Hossny, T.E., Ashraf, N., Saad, P.A. and Clements, T., 2024. The famous fish beds of Lebanon: the Upper Cretaceous Lagerstätten of Haqel, Hjoula, Nammoura, and Sahel Aalma. Journal of the Geological Society, pp.jgs2023-210.

Rowe, A., Kruta, I., Villier, L., Gueriau, P., Radepont, M., Belhadj, O., Müller, K., Jattiot, R., Fuchs, D., Clements, T. and Charbonnier, S., 2024. Intraspecific variation and new morphological characters revealed by multimodal imaging analysis on the Late Cretaceous coleoid, Dorateuthis syriaca. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica69(4), pp.607-632.

Klug, C., Stevens, K., Hoffmann, R., Zatoń, M., Clements, T., Košťák, M., Weis, R., De Baets, K., Lehmann, J., Vinther, J. and Fuchs, D., 2023. Revisiting the identification of Syllipsimopodi bideni and timing of the decabrachian-octobrachian divergence. Nature communications14(1), p.8094.

Saleh, F., Clements, T., Perrier, V., Daley, A. C., & Antcliffe, J. B. (2023). Variations in preservation of exceptional fossils within concretions. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 142(1), 1-13.

Fu, W., Turner, P., Clements, T., Spencer, A. R., Yu, J., Yang, Y., … & Hilton, J. (2023). Taphonomic and diagenetic implications of reduction spot formation in Cretaceous red beds from the Jiaolai Basin, Eastern China. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 243, 105533.

Clements, T., Atterby, J., Cleary, T., Dearden, R. P., & Rossi, V. (2022). The perception of palaeontology in commercial off-the-shelf video games and an assessment of their potential as educational tools. Geoscience Communication, 5(3), 289-306.

Gogáin, A. Ó., O’Sullivan, G., Clements, T., Hoare, B. C., Murray, J., & Wyse Jackson, P. N. (2022). Metamorphism as the cause of bone alteration in the Jarrow assemblage (Langsettian, Pennsylvanian) of Ireland. Palaeontology, 65(6), e12628.

Clements T., Purnell., M., and Gabbott, S. (2022) Experimental analysis of organ decay and pH gradients within a carcass and the implications for phosphatization of soft tissues. Palaeontology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12617

Clements, T., and Gabbott, S. (2022) Exceptional Preservation of Fossil Soft Tissues. eLS. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0029468

Klug, C., Di Silvestro, G., Hoffmann, R., Schweigert, G., Fuchs, D., Clements, T. and Gueriau, P. (2021) Taphonomic patterns mimic biologic structures: diagenetic Liesegang rings in Mesozoic coleoids and coprolites. PeerJ, 9, p.e10703.

Roy, A., Rogers, C. S., Clements, T., Pittman, M., Habimana, O., Martin, P., & Vinther, J. (2020) Fossil Microbodies Are Melanosomes: Evaluating and Rejecting the “Fossilized Decay-Associated Microbes” Hypothesis. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, (440), 251-276

Clements, T., Purnell, M., & Gabbott, S. (2018). The Mazon Creek Lagerstätte: a diverse late Palaeozoic ecosystem entombed within siderite concretions. Journal of the Geological Society, jgs2018-088.

Clements, T. (2018). Fossil Focus — Coleoid cephalopods: the squid, cuttlefish and octopus. Palaeontology Online, Volume 8, Article 6, 1-8. Open Access Article

Clements, T., Colleary, C., De Baets, K. and Vinther, J. (2016), Buoyancy mechanisms limit preservation of coleoid cephalopod soft tissues in Mesozoic Lagerstätten. Palaeontology. doi:10.1111/pala.12267 OpenAccess Link

Clements, T., Dolocan, A., Martin, P., Purnell, M., Vinther, J and Gabbott, S. (2016) Eyes of Tullimonstrum gregarium reveal a vertebrate affinity. Nature. doi:10.1038/nature17647  Paper Link

– More to come!-