Scientific Publications

Smith, A. B., Monks, N. E. A., and Gale, A. S. 2006. Echinoid distribution and sequence stratigraphy in the Cenomanian (Upper Cretaceous) of southern England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 117, 207-217.

Monks N. (in prep). Heteromorph Ammonites. Palaeontological Association Field Guide to the Fossils of the Gault Clay (Edited by J. R. Young). Palaeontological Association.

Monks N. & N. J .Morris (in prep). Nautiluses. Palaeontological Association Field Guide to the Fossils of the Gault Clay (Edited by J. R. Young). Palaeontological Association.

Monks N. 2003. Two useful tools for gene sequence analysis: ClustalW and NEdit. AppleLust.com.

Wood J. B., Byrne R. A. & Monks N. 2003. Understanding the past by looking at the present; using CephBase to examine behavior and selection in coleoid cephalopods. Programmes & Abstracts, Coleoid cephalopods through time: neontological approaches to their palaeobiology in the light of the fossil record, Berlin, September 2002. Download PDF

Szives O. & Monks N. 2002. Heteromorphs of the Tata Limestone Formation (Aptian - Lower Albian), Hungary. Palaeontology, 44, 1137-1149. Download PDF

Monks N. 2002. Cladistic analysis of a problematic ammonite group: the Hamitidae (Cretaceous, Albian - Turonian) and proposals for new cladistic terms. Palaeontology, 44, 687-707. Download PDF

Monks N. 2001. The functional morphology of Hamites and Stomohamites and the origins of the Turrilitidae. Bollettino Malacologico, 36, 195-200.

Smith, A. B., Gale, A. S., and Monks. N. 2001. Sea-level change and rock-record bias in the Cretaceous: a problem for extinction and biodiversity studies. Paleobiology, 27, 241-253. Download PDF

Monks N. 2000 & Owen E. F. Phylogeny of Orbirhynchia Pettitt 1954 (Brachiopoda: Rhynchonellida). Palaeontology, 43, 871-880. Download PDF

Monks N. & Wells S. 2000. A new record of the Eocene coleoid Spirulirostra anomala (Mollusca: Cephalopoda) and its relationships to modern Spirula. Tertiary Research, 19, 47-52.

Gale, A. S., Smith, A.B., Monks, N., Young, J. R. , Howard, A. W., Wray, D. S. & Huggett, J. M. 2000. Marine biodiversity through the Late Cenomanian - Early Turonian: palaeoceanographic controls and sequence stratigraphic biases. Journal of the Geological Society, 157, 745-757.

Monks N. 2000. Mid Cretaceous heteromorph ammonite shell damage. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 66, 283-285. Download PDF

Monks N. 2000. Phylogeny of the Scaphitidae. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 66, 205-216. Download PDF

Monks N. 1999. Cladistic analysis of Albian heteromorph ammonites. Palaeontology, 42, 907-925. Download PDF

Monks N. & Young J. R. 1998. The functional morphology of Cretaceous heteromorph ammonites. Palaeontologica Electronica, 1. Read this online here.

Taylor P. D. & Monks N. 1997. A new cheilostome bryozoan genus epiplanktonic on molluscs and algae. Invertebrate Biology, 116, 39-51, plus cover illustration. Download PDF

Monks N., Hardwick J. D., & Gale A. S. 1996. The function of the belemnite guard. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 70, 425-431.