Publication List – Gareth John Dyke (updated April 18th 2007) gareth.dyke@ucd.ie

Dyke, G.J. and Walker, C.A. (editors). 2006. Papers in avian palaeontology and systematics in memory of Colin J.O. Harrison (1926-2003). Historical Biology 18(2): 266pp.

Technical papers

2007

(67) Chiappe, L.M. and Dyke, G.J. 2007. The beginnings of birds: recent discoveries, ongoing arguments and new directions, in J. Anderson and H.-D. Sues (eds), Major Evolutionary Transitions (in the press).
(66) Kurochkin, E.N., Dyke, G.J., Saveliev, S.V., Perushov, E.N., and Popov, E.V. 2007. A fossil brain from the Cretaceous of European Russia and avian sensory evolution. Biology Letters 3: 309-313.
(65) Waterhouse, D.W., Lindow, B.E.K., Zelenkov, N. and Dyke, G.J. 2007. Two new fossil parrots (Psittaciformes) from the Lower Eocene Fur Formation of Denmark. Palaeontology (in the press).
(64) Lindow, B.E.K. and Dyke, G.J. 2007. A small galliform bird from the Lower Eocene Fur Formation. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 55: 59-63.
(63) Walker, C.A., Buffetaut, E. and Dyke, G.J. Large euenantiornithine birds from the Cretaceous of southern France, North America and Argentina. Geological Magazine (in the press).
(62) Dyke, G.J., Nudds, R.L. and Walker, C.A. 2007. The Pliocene Phoebastria (Diomedia) anglica: Lydekker’s English fossil Albatross. The Ibis (online March 2007). doi: 10.1111/j.1474-919X.2007.00678.x.
(61) McGowan, A.J. and Dyke, G.J. 2007. A morphospace-based test for competitive exclusion among flying vertebrates: did birds, bats and pterosaurs get in each others space? Journal of Evolutionary Biology 20: 1230-1236.
(60) Dyke, G.J., Nudds, R.L. and Benton, M.J. 2007. Birds across the K-P boundary. The Auk 124(4): 334-341.
(59) Nudds, R.L., Dyke, G.J., and Rayner, J.M.V. 2007. Avian brachial index and wing-kinematics: putting movement back into bones. Journal of Zoology 272: 218-226.
(58) Dyke, G.J. 2007. Ichthyornithiformes, in McGraw-Hill 2007 Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw Hill: New York (in the press).
(57) Dyke, G.J. 2007. Hesperornithiformes, in McGraw-Hill 2007 Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw Hill: New York (in the press).
(56) Chiappe, L.M., Suzuki, S., Dyke, G.J., Watabe, M., Tsogtbaatar and Barsbold, R. 2007. A new enantiornithine bird from the Late Cretaceous of the Gobi Desert. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 5: 193-208.

2006

(55) Gandola, R., Buffetaut, E., Monaghan, N. and Dyke, G.J. 2006. Salt glands in the fossil crocodile Metriorhynchus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(4): 1009-1010.
(54) Zhang, F., Zhou, Z. and Dyke, G.J. 2006. Feathers and 'feather-like' integumentary structures in Liaoning birds and dinosaurs. Geological Journal 41: 395-404.
(53) Chiappe, L.M. and Dyke, G.J. 2006. The early evolutionary history of birds. Journal of the Paleontological Society of Korea 22: 133-151 (Special Issue - 2006 Goseong International Dinosaur Symposium.
(52) Dyke, G.J., Malakhov, D.V. and Chiappe, L.M. 2006. The marine bird Asiahesperornis from the Cretaceous of northern Kazakhstan. Cretaceous Research 27: 947-953.
(51) Lindow, B.E and Dyke, G.J. 2006. Bird evolution in the Eocene: climate change in Europe and a Danish fossil fauna. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 81: 1-16.
(50) Leonard, L., Dyke, G.J. and Walker, C.A. 2006. New specimens of a fossil ostrich from the Miocene of Kenya. Journal of African Earth Sciences 45: 399-344.
(49) Walker, C.A. and Dyke, G.J. 2006. New records of Miocene fossil birds of prey from western Kenya. Historical Biology 18(3): 91-94.
(48) Dyke, G.J., Nudds, R.L. and Rayner, J.M.V. 2006. Flight of Sharovipteryx: the world's first delta-winged glider. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19(4): 1040-1043.
(47) Dyke, G.J., Nudds, R.L. and Rayner, J.M.V. 2006. Limb disparity and wing shape in pterosaurs. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19(4): 1339-1342.

2005

(46) Morrison, K., Dyke, G.J. and Chiappe, L.M. 2005. Cretaceous fossil birds from Hornby Island (British Columbia) . Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 42: 2097-2101.
(45) Grellet-Tinner, G. and Dyke, G.J. 2005. The eggshell of the Eocene bird Lithornis. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50(4): 831-835.
(44) Buffetaut, E. Dyke, G.J., Suteethorn, V. and Tong, H. 2005. First record of a fossil bird from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand. Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences, Série Palevol 4(8): 681-686.
(43) Leonard, L. and Dyke, G.J. 2005. Palaeognathae (Flightless Birds) in The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan International Publishers.
(42) Leonard, L., Dyke, G.J. and van Tuinen, M. 2005. A new specimen of the fossil Palaeognath Lithornis from the earliest Palaeogene of Denmark. American Museum Novitates 3491: 1-11.
(41) Dyke, G.J. and Walker, C.A. 2005. New records of fossil birds from the Pliocene of Kallo, Belgium. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie 2005(4): 233-247.
(40) Sigwart, J.D., Callaghan, E, Colla, A. Dyke, G.J., McCaffrey, S.L. and Monaghan, N.T. 2005. Belatedly hatching ornithology collections at the National Museum of Ireland. Zoologische Mededelingen 79(3): 19-28.
(39) Fountaine, T.M.R., Benton, M.J., Dyke, G.J. and Nudds, R.L. 2005. The quality of the fossil record of Mesozoic birds. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B (Biological Sciences) 272: 289-294.40.
(38) Dyke, G.J. and Norell, M.A. 2005. Caudipteryx as a non-avialan theropod rather than a flightless bird. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50: 101-116.[PDF available]

2004

(37) Dyke, G.J. and Chiappe, L.M. 2004. Birds: Fossil Vertebrates, in The Encyclopedia of Geology 497-501.
(36) Dyke, G.J., Waterhouse, D.M. and Kristoffersen, A.V. 2004. Three new landbirds from the early Paleogene of Denmark. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 51: 47-56.35.
(35) van Tuinen, M., Waterhouse, D.W., and Dyke, G.J. 2004. Avian molecular systematics on the rebound: a fresh look at modern shorebird phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Avian Biology 35: 191-194.
(34) Nudds, RL, Dyke, G.J., and Rayner, JMV. 2004. Forelimb proportions and the evolutionary radiation of Neornithes. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B, Biology Letters 271: S324–S327.
(33) Dyke, G.J. and Malakhov, D.V. 2004. Abundance and taphonomy of dinosaur teeth and other vertebrate remains from the Bostobynskaya Formation, Northeastern Aral Sea region, Republic of Kazakhstan. Cretaceous Research 25(5): 669-674.
(32) Dyke, G.J. and van Tuinen, M. 2004. The evolutionary radiation of modern birds (Neornithes): reconciling molecules, morphology and the fossil record. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 141: 153-177.
(31) Cracraft, J., Barker, F.K., Braun, M., Harshman, J., Dyke, G.J., Feinstein, J., Stanley, S., Cibois, A., Schikler, P., Beresford, P., García-Moreno, J., Sorenson, M.D., Yuri, T., and Mindell, D.P. 2004. Phylogenetic relationships among modern birds (Neornithes): towards an avian tree of life, in J. Cracraft and M. Donoghue (eds), Reconstructing the Tree of Life 468-489.
(30) Naish, D.W. and Dyke, G.J. 2004. Heptasteornis was no ornithominid, troodontid, dromaeosaurid or owl: the first alvarezsaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from Europe. Neues Jahrbuch fuer Geologie und Palaeontologie 2004(7): 385-401.
(29) van Tuinen, M. and Dyke, G.J. 2004. Calibration of galliform molecular clocks using multiple fossils and genetic partitions. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 30(1): 74-86.

2003

(28) Dyke, G.J. and Sigwart, J.D. 2003. The search for a 'smoking gun': no need for an alternative to the Linnaean System of classification. International Symposium on Animal Names, Venice, October 2003, pp. 35-48 (with abstract in Irish). [PDF draft available]
(27) Malakhov, D.V. and Dyke, G.J. 2003. New finds of Upper Cretaceous vertebrates from the South-Eastern Aral sea region of Kazakhstan. Selevinia (Magazine of Kazakh Zoology) (in Russian) 2003:66-73.
(26) Dyke, G.J. and Chiappe, L.M. 2003. Origin of birds, in McGraw-Hill 2003 Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw Hill: New York, pp. 26-28.
(25) Dyke, G.J. 2003. "Big bang" for Tertiary birds? - reply to Feduccia (2003). Trends in Ecology and Evolution 18, 441-442.
(24) Dyke, G.J. 2003. The fossil record and molecular clocks: basal radiations within Neornithes, in Smith, P. and Donoghue, P (eds) Telling the Evolutionary Time - Molecular Clocks and the Fossil Record. Taylor and Francis, London, pp. 263-278.
(23) Dyke, G.J. 2003. The phylogenetic position of Gallinuloides Eastman (Aves: Galliformes) from the Tertiary of North America. ZooTaxa 19, 1-10. [PDF available]
(22) Dyke, G.J., Gulas, B.E. and Crowe, T.M. 2003. The suprageneric relationships of galliform birds (Aves, Galliformes): a cladistic analysis of morphological characters. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 137, 227-244.

2002

(21) Kurochkin, E.N., Dyke, G.J. and Karhu, A.A. 2002. A new presbyornithid bird (Aves, Anseriformes) from the Late Cretaceous of Southern Mongolia. American Museum Novitates 3386, 1-11. [PDF available]
(20) Rayner, J.M.V and Dyke, G.J. 2002. Evolution and origin of diversity in the modern avian wing, pp. 297-317 in V. Bels, J.P. Gasc, and A. Casinos (eds), Vertebrate Biomechanics and Evolution. Bios Scientific Publishers.
(19) Suzuki, S., Chiappe, L.M., Dyke, G.J, Watabe, M., Barsbold, R., and Tsogtbaatar, K. 2002. A new specimen of Shuvuuia deserti from the Mongolian Late Cretaceous and the relationships of alvarezsaurids to other theropod dinosaurs. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 494, 1-20.
(18) Chiappe, L.M. and Dyke, G.J. 2002. The Cretaceous radiation of birds. Annual Reviews of Ecology and Systematics 33, 91-124.
(17) Dyke, G.J., Dortangs, R.W., Jagt, J.W.M., Mulder, E.W.A., Schulp, A.S. and Chiappe, L.M. 2002. Europe’s last Mesozoic bird. Naturwissenschaften 89(9), 408-411.
(16) Dyke, G.J. 2002. Should paleontologists use "phylogenetic" nomenclature? Journal of Paleontology 76, 789-792.
(15) Dyke, G.J. and Gulas, B.E. 2002. The fossil galliform bird Paraortygoides from the Lower Eocene of the United Kingdom. American Museum Novitates 3360, 1-14. [PDF available]

2001

(14) Dyke, G.J. 2001. The fossil waterfowl (Aves, Anseriformes) from the Eocene of England. American Museum Novitates 3354, 1-15. [PDF available]
(13) Dyke, G.J. 2001. Palaeognaths (flightless birds), in The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan International Publishers.
(12) Dyke, G.J. and Rayner, J.M.V. 2001. Limb shapes and the origin of basal birds. New Perspectives on the Origin and Evolution of Birds: Proceedings of the International Symposium in Honor of John H. Ostrom. Yale Peabody Museum Special Publication 275-282.
(11) Makovicky, P.J. and Dyke, G.J. 2001. Naive falsification and the origin of birds: a commentary. New Perspectives on the Origin and Evolution of Birds: Proceedings of the International Symposium in Honor of John H. Ostrom. Yale Peabody Museum Special Publication 501-509.
(10) Dyke, G.J. 2001. The evolution of birds in the early Tertiary: systematics and patterns of diversification. Geological Journal 36, 305-315.
(9) Dyke, G.J. 2001. Fossil pseudasturid birds (Aves, Pseudasturidae) from the London Clay. Bulletin of The Natural History Museum, London (Geology Series) 57, 1-4.
(8) Dyke, G.J. 2001. A primitive swift from the London Clay and the relationships of fossil apodiform birds. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21, 195-200.
(7) Dyke, G.J. and Waterhouse, D.M. 2001. A mousebird (Aves, Coliiformes) from the Eocene of England. Journal für Ornithologie 141, 7-15.
(6) Martin, JWR, Walker, C.A., Bonser, R., and Dyke, G.J. 2001. A new species of large auk from the Pliocene of Belgium. Oryctos 3, 53-60.

2000

(5) Dyke, G.J. and Cooper, J.H. 2000. A new psittaciform bird from the London Clay (Lower Eocene) of England. Palaeontology 143, 271-286.
(4) Dyke, G.J. 2000. Dealing with problems of phylogenetic reconstruction in an extinct vertebrate group : an example using Mesozoic birds. Terra Nostra (Schriften der Alfred-Wegener-Stiftung) 7, 1-7.

1999

(3) Dyke, G.J. and Mayr, G. 1999. Did parrots exist in the Cretaceous? Nature 399, 317-318.

1998

(2) Dyke, G.J. and Thorley, J. 1998. Reduced cladistic consensus methods and the avian affinities of Protoavis and Avimimus. Archaeopteryx 16, 123-129.
(1) Dyke, G.J. 1998. Does archosaur phylogeny hinge on the ankle joint? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18, 558-562.