Mark Evans
Geology Laboratory and Collections Manager
Holwerda F.M., M. Evans and J.J. Liston (2019). Additional sauropod dinosaur material from the Callovian Oxford Clay Formation, Peterborough, UK: evidence for higher sauropod diversity. PeerJ 7:e6404 http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6404
Lomax, D.R., M. Evans and S. Carpenter (2018). An ichthyosaur from the UK Triassic–Jurassic boundary: a second specimen of the leptonectid ichthyosaur Wahlisaurus massarae Lomax 2016. Geological Journal 54(1): 83-90.
Taylor, M.A. and M. Evans (2016). Lost & Found 275. A plesiosaur from the Lower Lias of Watchet, Somerset, in the collection of the Reverend David Williams F.G.S. (1792-1850), and its casts. Geological Curator 10(6): 269-272.
Benson, R.B.J., M. Evans and M.A. Taylor (2015). The anatomy of Stratesaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the lowermost Jurassic of Somerset, United Kingdom. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 35(4): e933739.
Benson, R.B.J., M. Evans, A.S. Smith, J. Sassoon, S. Moore-Faye, H.F. Ketchum and R. Forrest (2013). A Giant Pliosaurid Skull from the Late Jurassic of England. PLoS ONE, 8(5): e65989. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065989
Benson, R.B.J., M. Evans and P.S. Druckenmiller (2012). High Diversity, Low Disparity and Small Body Size in Plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary. PLoS ONE, 7(3): e31838. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031838
Howe, M.P.A., M. Evans, J.N. Carney and P.R. Wilby (2012). New perspectives on the globally important Ediacaran fossil discoveries in Charnwood Forest, UK: Harley’s 1848 prequel to Ford (1958). Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 59: 137-144.
Evans, M. (2010). The roles played by museums, collections and collectors in the early history of reptile palaeontology. In Moody, R. T. J., Buffetaut, E., Naish, D. and Martill, D. M. (eds) Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 343: 5-29.
Noè, L.F., J.J. Liston and M. Evans (2003). The first relatively complete exoccipital-opisthotic from the braincase of the Callovian pliosaur, Liopleurodon. Geological Magazine, 140(4):479-486.
Sewell R.M., M. Evans, R.D. Randall and T.C.G. Rich (2000). Catalogue of Rubus specimens in the Welsh National Herbarium (NMW), National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff. National Museums and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff. 219 pp.
Evans, M. (1999). A new reconstruction of the skull of the Callovian elasmosaurid plesiosaur Muraenosaurus leedsii Seeley. Mercian Geologist, 14(4):191-196.
Carey, J.L., M. Evans, V. Purewal, R.D Randall, R.M. Sewell, R. Spears and T.C.G. Rich (1997). Catalogue of vascular plant type specimens, National Museum and Gallery, Cardiff. National Museums and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff. 24 pp.
Publications from NERC Open Research Archive
2023
Larkin, Nigel R., Lomax, Dean R., Evans, Mark, Nicholls, Emma, Dey, Steven, Boomer, Ian, Copestake, Philip, Bown, Paul, Riding, James B. ORCID record for James B. Riding, Withers, Darren, Davis, Joseph. (2023) Excavating the ‘Rutland Sea Dragon’: The largest ichthyosaur skeleton ever found in the UK (Whitby Mudstone Formation, Toarcian, Lower Jurassic). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 134. 627-640. 10.1016/j.pgeola.2023.09.003
2020
Lomax, Dean R, Massare, Judy A, Evans, Mark. (2020) New information on the skull roof of Protoichthyosaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) and intraspecific variation in some dermal skull elements. Geological Magazine, 157. 640-650. 10.1017/S0016756819001225
2022
BAS palaeontologist part of discovery of ‘sea dragon’ fossil
News 10 January, 2022