David J. Ward

David John Ward (born 1948), British palaeontologist.

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Ward, D.J. 1979. Additions to the fish fauna of the English Palaeogene; 3, A review of the mexanchid sharks with a description of four new species. Tertiary Research 2(3): 111–139. ResearchGate Reference page.

Ward, D.J. & Grande, L. 1991. Chimaeroid fishes from Seymour Island, Antarctica (Holocephali: Chondrichthys). Antarctic Science 3(3): 323–330. ResearchGate Reference page.

Underwood, C.J. & Ward, D.J. 2004: Neoselachian Sharks and rays from the Britisch Bathonian (Middle Jurassic). Palaeontology 47(3): 447–501, 15 pl. DOI: 10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00386.x Reference page.

Underwood, C.J. & Ward, D.J., 2008. Sharks of the Order Carcharhiniformes from the British Coniacian, Santonian and Campanian (Upper Cretaceous). Palaeontology 51(3): 509-536. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00757.x Reference page.

Guinot, G., Underwood, C. J., Cappetta, H. & Ward, D. J., 2012: Squatiniformes (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) from the Late Cretaceous of southern England and northern France with redescription of the holotype of Squatina cranei Woodward, 1888. Palaeontology 55: 529–551. Reference page.

Claeson, K.M., Underwood, C.J. & Ward, D.J. 2013. †Tingitanius tenuimandibulus, a new platyrhinid batoid from the Turonian (Cretaceous) of Morocco and the cretaceous radiation of the Platyrhinidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33(5): 1019–1036. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.767266 Reference page.
Guinot, G., Underwood, C.J., Cappetta, H. & Ward, D.J. 2013. Sharks (Elasmobranchii: Euselachii) from the Late Cretaceous of France and the UK. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11(6): 589–671. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2013.767286 Reference page.

Shimada, K. & Ward, D.J. 2016. The oldest fossil record of the megamouth shark from the late Eocene of Denmark, and comments on the enigmatic megachasmid origin. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61(4): 839–845. DOI: 10.4202/app.00248.2016 . Reference page.

Sternes, P.C., Jambura, P.L., Türtscher, J., Kriwet, J., Siversson, M., Feichtinger, I., Naylor G.J.P., Summers, A.P., Maisey, J.G., Tomita, T., moyer, J.K., higham, T.E., João Paulo Capretz Batista da Silva, Bornatowski, H., Long, D.L., Perez, V.J., Collareta, A., Underwood, C., Ward, D.J., Vullo, R., González-Barba, G., Maisch, H.M., Griffiths, M.L., Becker, M.A., Wood, J.J. & Shimada, K. 2024. White shark comparison reveals a slender body for the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae) Palaeontologia Electronica 27(1): 27.1.a7. DOI: 10.26879/1345 . Reference page.

Shimada, K., Motani, R., Wood, J.J., Sternes, P.C., Tomita, T., Bazzi, M., Collareta, A., Gayford, J.H., Türtscher, J., Jambura, P.L., Kriwet, J., Vullo, R., Long, D.J., Summers, A.P., Maisey, J.G., Underwood, C.J., Ward D.J., Maisch, H.M., Perez, V.J., Feichtinger, I., Naylor, G.J.P., Moyer, J.K., Higham, T.E., Silva, J.P.C.B. Da, Bornatowski, H., González-Barba, G., Griffiths, M.L., Becker, M.A. & Siversson, M. 2025. Reassessment of the possible size, form, weight, cruising speed, and growth parameters of the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae), and new evolutionary insights into its gigantism, life history strategies, ecology, and extinction. Palaeontologia Electronica 28(1): 28.1.a12. DOI: 10.26879/1502 . Reference page.