Publications to February 2010
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2010
Palmer, D., Jarzembowski, E. A., Siveter, D. J. & Selden, P. A. 2010. Fossil arthropods of Great Britain. 280 pp. In press. Link
Saupe, E. E., Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2010. First fossil Molinaranea Mello-Leitão, 1940 (Araneae: Araneidae), from middle Miocene Dominican amber, with a phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographic analysis of the genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. In press.
Selden, P. A. 2010. A theridiosomatid spider from the Early Cretaceous of Russia. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society. In press.
Selden, P. A. & Huang, D-Y. 2010. The oldest haplogyne spider (Araneae: Plectreuridae), from the Middle Jurassic of China. Naturwissenschaften. Published online February 6th, 2010. Link
Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2010. Fossil spiders. Biological Reviews 85, 171–206. Link
2009
Cui, H., Boufford, D. & Selden, P. A. 2009. Semantic annotation of biosystematics literature without training examples. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. Published online December 2009. Link
Dunlop, J. A. & Selden, P. A. 2009. Calibrating the chelicerate clock: a paleontological reply to Jeyaprakash and Hoy. Experimental and Applied Acarology 48, 183–197. Link
Huang, D-Y., Selden, P. A. & Dunlop, J. A. 2009. Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the Middle Jurassic of China. Naturwissenschaften 96, 955–962. Link
Saupe, E. E. & Selden, P. A. 2009. First fossil Mecysmaucheniidae (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Araneae), from Lower Cretaceous (Upper Albian) amber of Charente-Maritime, France. In Perrichot V. & Néraudeau D. (eds). Cretaceous ambers from southwestern France: geology, taphonomy, and paleontology. Geodiversitas 31, 49–60. Link
Selden, P. A. 2009. Silk and the earliest spiders. McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 2010. Published December 22, 2009. Link
Selden, P. A. 2009. Dinosaurs, geysers and gorges of the Wild West. Field trip guidebook. 86 pp. Link
Selden, P. A. (ed.). 2009. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part L, Mollusca 4 (Revised), vol. 2. Paleontological Institute, Lawrence, Kansas. xxix + 258 pp. Link
Selden, P. A., Anderson, H. M. & Anderson, J. M. 2009. A review of the fossil record of spiders (Araneae) with special reference to Africa, and description of a new specimen from the Triassic Molteno Formation of South Africa. African Invertebrates 50, 105–116. Link
Selden, P. A. & Nudds, J. R. 2009. 世界の化石遺産―化石生態系の進化. 160 pp. [Japanese translation of Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems by Chinsei Kiyotaka] Link
Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2009. A fossil spider (Araneae: Pisauridae) of Eocene age from Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada. In Kropf, C. & Horak, P. (eds). Towards a natural history of arthropods and other organisms. In memoriam Konrad Thaler. Contributions to Natural History 12, 1269–1282. Link
Selden, P. A. & Pillola, G. L. 2009. A trigonotarbid arachnid from the Upper Carboniferous of the San Giorgio Basin, Sardinia. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 115, 269–274. Link
Shear, W. A., Selden, P. A. & Gall, J.-C. 2009. Millipedes from the Grès à Voltzia, Triassic of France, with comments on Mesozoic millipedes (Diplopoda: Helminthomorpha: Eugnatha). International Journal of Myriapodology 2, 1–13. Link
2008
Nudds, J. R. & Selden, P. A. 2008. Fossil ecosystems of North America. A guide to the sites and their extraordinary biotas. Manson, London, and The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 288 pp. Link
Nudds, J. R. & Selden, P. A. 2008. Fossil-Lagerstätten. Geology Today 24, 153–158. Link
Pollard, J. E., Selden, P. A. & Watts, S. 2008. Trace fossils of the arthropod Camptophyllia from Westphalian (Carboniferous) rocks of Lancashire, UK, and their palaeoenvironmental context. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 270, 399–406. Link
Selden, P. A., Baker, A. S. & Phipps, K. J. 2008. An oribatid mite (Arachnida: Acari) from the Oxford Clay (Jurassic: Upper Callovian) of South Cave Station Quarry, Yorkshire. Palaeontology 51, 623–633. Link
Selden, P. A., Huang Diying & Ren Dong. 2008. Palpimanoid spiders from the Jurassic of China. Journal of Arachnology 36, 306–321. Link
Selden, P. A. & Read, H. J. 2008. The oldest land animals: Silurian millipedes from Scotland. Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group 23, 36–37. Link
Selden, P. A., Shear, W A. & Sutton, M. D. 2008. Fossil evidence for the origin of spider spinnerets, and a proposed arachnid order. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105, 20781–20785. Link
2007
Decae, A. E., Cardoso, P. & Selden, P. A. 2007. Taxonomic revision of the Portuguese Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 14, 1–18. Link
Dunlop, J. A., Menon, F. & Selden, P. A. 2007. Arachnida: spiders, scorpions and allies. 103–132. In Martill, D. M., Bechly, G. & Loveridge, R. F. (eds). The Crato fossil beds of Brazil. Window into an ancient world. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. xvi + 625 pp. Link | Arachnid Chapter
Penney, D. & Selden, P. A. 2007. Spinning with the dinosaurs: the fossil record of spiders. Geology Today 23, 231–237. Link
Selden, P. A. 2007. Foreword. In Murphy, J. A. 2007. Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society, St Neots, Cambs. 2 volumes. Volume 1 (text): i–xii + 1–92; Volume 2 (plates): i–ii + 93–605. Link
Selden, P. A. (ed.). 2007. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised, vol. 6. Geological Society of America & Paleontological Institute, Boulder, Colorado, & Lawrence, Kansas. l + 906 pp. Link
Selden, P. A. & Spawton, J. 2007. The Grand Canyon and Western USA. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire, 44 pp. Link
Tetlie, O. E., Selden, P. A. & Ren Dong. 2007. A Silurian eurypterid (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from China. Palaeontology 50, 619–625. Link
Vollrath, F. & Selden, P. A. 2007. The role of behavior in the evolution of spiders, silks, and webs. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 38, 819–846. Link
2006
Huang Di-Ying, Nel, A., Shen Yan-Bin, Selden, P. A. & Lin Qi-Bin. 2006. Discussions on the age of Daohugou fauna — evidence from invertebrates. Progress in Natural Science (Special Issue) 16, 308–312. Link
Korsós, Z., Read, H. J., Barber, A. D., Gregory, S. J., Hornung, E., Jones, R. E., Kime, R. D., Lewis, J. G. E. & Selden, P. A. 2006. Report on a collecting trip of the British Myriapod Group to Hungary in 1994. Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group. 21, 40–55. Link
Penney, D. & Selden, P. A. 2006. First fossil Huttoniidae (Araneae), in Late Cretaceous Canadian Cedar and Grassy Lake ambers. Cretaceous Research 27, 442–446. Link
Penney, D. & Selden, P. A. 2006. Assembling the Tree of Life — Phylogeny of Spiders: a review of the strictly fossil spider families. In Deltshev, C. & Stoev, P. (eds). European Arachnology 2005. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica Suppl. No. 1., 25–39. Link
Scott, A. G., Oxford, G. S. & Selden, P. A. 2006. Epigeic spiders as ecological indicators of conservation value for peat bogs. Biological Conservation 127, 420–428. Link
Selden, P. A. 2006. Foreword. In Jocqué, R. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. 2006. Spider Families of the World. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium. 336 pp. Link
Selden, P. A., Casado, F. da C. & Mesquita, M. V. 2006. Mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Dipluridae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Lagerstätte, Araripe Basin, north-east Brazil. Palaeontology 49, 817–826. Link
Selden, P. A. & Nudds, J. R. 2006. Rocks, Fossils and Scenery of South-West Germany. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire, 33 pp.
Selden, P. A. & Nudds, J. R. 2006. Fenster zur Evolution. Berühmte Fossilfundstellen der Welt. Elsevier, München. 160 pp. Link
Selden, P. A. & Smith, R. M. H. 2006. Namibia and The Cape. A Desert Adventure. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire, 48 pp.
2005
Eskov, K. Y. & Selden, P. A. 2005. First record of spiders from the Permian period (Araneae: Mesothelae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13, 111–116. Link
Penney, D., Ono, H. & Selden, P. A. 2005. A new synonymy for the Madagascan copal spider fauna (Araneae, Selenopidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 2, 41–44. Link
Selden, P. A. 2005. Geology and scenery of the north of Ireland. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire, 31 pp.
Selden, P. A. 2005. Terrestrialization (Precambrian–Devonian). In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. Link
Selden, P. A. 2005. Wonderful worms. Journal of Biogeography 32, 1856. Link
Selden, P. A., Corronca, J. A. & Hünicken, M. A. 2005. The true identity of the supposed giant fossil spider Megarachne. Biology Letters 1, 44–48. Link (main paper) | Link (supplement)
2004
Alberdi, J., Beccaloni, J, Blumson, B., Clay, D., Colley, L., Eriksson, H., Fry, D., Grooms, M., Ings, T., Öberg, S., Read, H., Russell-Smith, A., Selden, P., Shaw, E., Shaw, P., Smith, E., Thomas, E., & Wilde, I. 2004. Short and sharp versus long and blunt. A comparison of two collecting techniques in contrasting chalk grassland habitats. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 101, 12–13.
Dunlop, J. A. & Selden, P. A. 2004. A trigonotarbid arachnid from the early Devonian of Tredomen, Wales. Palaeontology 47, 1469–1474. Link
Selden, P. A. & Nudds, J. R. 2004. Evolution of fossil ecosystems. Manson, London. 192 pp. Link
Selden, P. A. & Smith, R. M. H. 2004. The natural wonders of South Africa. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 82 pp.
2003
Menon, F., Penney, D. & Selden, P. A. 2003. A new scolopendromorph centipede from the Crato Formation of Brazil. Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group 19, 62–66. Link
Penney, D., Wheater, C. P. & Selden, P. A. 2003. Resistance of spiders to Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction events. Evolution 57, 2599–2607. Link
Selden, P. A. 2003. A new tool for fossil preparation. The Geological Curator 7, 337–339. Link
Selden, P. A. 2003. Geology, Scenery and Natural History of the Canadian Rockies. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire, 55 pp.
Selden, P. A. 2003. Record of the Mediterranean spider Uroctea durandi (Latreille, 1809) in Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 96, 4. Link
Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2003. Lower Cretaceous spiders (Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae) from Spain. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 2003, 175–192. Link
2002
Braddy, S. J., Selden, P. A. & Truong, D. N. 2002. A new carcinosomatid eurypterid from the Siluro-Devonian of northern Vietnam. Palaeontology 45, 897–915. Link
Penney, D. & Selden, P. A. 2002. The oldest linyphiid spider, in Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Linyphiinae). Journal of Arachnology 30, 487–493. Link
Selden, P. A. 2002. First British Mesozoic spider, from Cretaceous amber of the Isle of Wight, southern England. Palaeontology 45, 973–983. Link
Selden, P. A. 2002. Geology, scenery and natural history of Ireland. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 50 pp.
Selden, P. A. 2002. Missing links between Argyroneta and Cybaeidae revealed by fossil spiders. Journal of Arachnology 30, 189–200. Link
Selden, P. A., Casado, F. da C. & Mesquita, M. V. 2002. Funnel-web spiders (Araneae: Dipluridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Boletim do 6° Simpósio sobre o Cretácio do Brasil / 2do Simposio sobre el Cretácico de América del Sur (2002) 89–91. Link
2001
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 2001. Geology, scenery and natural history of Norway, Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 53 pp.
Fet, V. & Selden, P. A. (eds.). 2001. Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. xi + 404 pp. British Arachnological Society, Burnham Beeches, Bucks. Link
Selden, P. A. 2001. Eocene spiders from the Isle of Wight with preserved respiratory structures. Palaeontology 44, 695–729. Link
Selden, P. A. 2001. Missing links between Argyroneta and Cybaeidae revealed by fossil spiders. Abstracts. XV International Congress of Arachnology, South Africa, 158.
Selden, P. A. 2001. Spiders and other arachnids. Wildlife Reports. British Wildlife 12, 212–213.
Selden, P. A. 2001. Terrestrialization (invertebrates). 71–74. In Briggs, D. E. G. & Crowther, P. R. (eds). Palaeobiology II. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. xv + 583 pp.
Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2001. Phylogeny of Araneae: the fossil evidence and its interpretation. Abstracts. XV International Congress of Arachnology, South Africa, 157.
Shear, W. A. & Selden, P. A. 2001. Rustling in the undergrowth: animals in early terrestrial ecosystems. 29–51. In Gensel, P. G. & Edwards, D. (eds). Plants invade the land: evolutionary and environmental perspectives. Columbia University Press, New York. x + 304 pp. Link
2000
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 2000. Geology, scenery and natural history of New Zealand, Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 52 pp.
Remy, A. Selden, P. A. & Trewin, N. H. 2000. Der Rhynie Chert, Unter-Devon, Schottland. 28–35. In Pinna, G. (ed.). Europäische Fossillagerstätten. Springer, Heidelberg. 264 pp.
Selden, P. A. 2000. Palaeothele, a replacement name for the fossil mesothele spider Eothele Selden non Rowell. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11, 292. Link
Selden, P. A. 2000. Section 2: Fossil spiders. 35. In Murphy, F. & Murphy, J. An introduction to the spiders of South-East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. vii + 624 pp. 32 pls.
Selden, P. A. 2000. Spiders and other arachnids. Wildlife Reports. British Wildlife 11, 365–366. Link
1999
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 1999. The Grand Canyon and the desert South-West, Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 45 pp.
Remy, A. Selden, P. A. & Trewin, N. H. 1999. Gli strati di Rhynie. 28–35. In Pinna, G. (ed.). Alle Radici della Storia Naturale d'Europa. Jaca Book spA, Milan. 254 pp.
Selden, P. A. 1999. Les arachnides fossiles. Connaissance des Invertébrés, Série Arachnides 4, 2–29.
Selden, P. A. 1999. Spiders and other arachnids. Wildlife Reports. British Wildlife 10, 205–206.
Selden, P. A. 1999. Spiders. Wildlife Reports. British Wildlife 10, 434–435.
Selden, P. A. 1999. Terrestrialization (Precambrian–Devonian). In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan Reference Ltd, London.
Selden, P. A. 1999. XIV International Congress of Arachnology and 22nd Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society, Chicago, 27th June–3rd July, 1998. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 84, 1–4.
Selden, P. A., Anderson, H. M., Anderson, J. M. & Fraser, N. C. 1999. The oldest araneomorph spiders, from the Triassic of South Africa and Virginia. Journal of Arachnology 27, 401–414. Link
1998
Selden, P. A. 1998. Fossil spiders. Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society 92, 22–23.
Selden, P. A. 1998. Order Ricinuleida. In Beall, B. S. Chapter 11: Arachnida. 140–154. In Shabica, C. W. & Hay, A. A. (eds). 1997. Richardson's guide to the fossil fauna of Mazon Creek. Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. xvii + 308 pp.
Selden, P. A. (ed.) 1998. Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edinburgh 1997. x + 350 pp. British Arachnological Society, Burnham Beeches, Bucks. Link
Selden, P. A. & Dunlop, J. A. 1998. Fossil taxa and relationships of chelicerates. 303–331. In Edgecombe, G. (ed.). Arthropod fossils and phylogeny. Columbia University Press, New York. 1–347.
Shear, W. A., Jeram, A. J. & Selden, P. A. 1998. Centiped legs (Arthropoda, Chilopoda, Scutigeromorpha) from the Silurian and Devonian of Britain and the Devonian of North America. American Museum Novitates 3231, 1–16. Link
1997
Anderson, L. I. & Selden, P. A. 1997. Opisthosomal fusion and phylogeny of Palaeozoic Xiphosura. Lethaia 30, 19–31. Link
Baker, A. S. & Selden, P. A. 1997. New morphological and host data for the ectoparasitic larva of Leptus hidakai Kawashima (Acari, Acariformes, Erythraeidae). Systematic Parasitology 36, 183–191. Link
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 1997. Volcanoes and earthquakes of the USA, Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 54 pp.
Dunlop, J. A. & Selden, P. A. 1997. The early history and phylogeny of the chelicerates. 221–235. In Fortey, R. A. & Thomas, R. H. (eds). Arthropod Relationships. Systematics Association Special Volumes Series 55, Chapman & Hall, London. xii + 383 pp. Link
Selden, P. A. 1997. La historia geologica de las Arañas (Araneae). In Melic-Blas, A. J. (ed.). PaleoEntomología, Volumen Monográfico, Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 16, 105–112.
Selden, P. A. 1997. Mediterranean meanderings: trapdoor spiders of Mallorca and the Algarve. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 78, 8–9.
1996
Selden, P. A. 1996. First fossil mesothele spider, from the Carboniferous of France. Revue Suisse de Zoologie volume hors série 2, 585–596.
Selden, P. A. 1996. Fossil mesothele spiders. Nature 379, 498–499. Link
Selden, P. A. & Shear, W. A. 1996. The first Mesozoic Solifugae (Arachnida), from the Cretaceous of Brazil, and a redescription of the Palaeozoic solifuge. Palaeontology 39, 583–604. Link
1995
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 1995. Mountains and canyons of the American South-West, Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 38 pp.
Edwards, D., Selden, P. A., Richardson, J. B. & Axe, L. 1995. Coprolites as evidence for plant-animal interaction in Siluro-Devonian terrestrial ecosystems. Nature 377, 329–331. Link
Harvey, M. S. & Selden, P. A. 1995. Nyranytarbus, replacement name for Hemiphrynus Fric, 1901 (Trigonotarbida: Eophrynidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10, 74. Link
Shear, W. A. & Selden, P. A. 1995. Eoarthropleura (Arthropoda, Arthropleurida) from the Silurian of Britain and the Devonian of North America. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 196, 347–375. Link
1994
Jeram, A. J. & Selden, P. A. 1994. Eurypterids from the East Kirkton Limestone, Westlothian. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 84, 301–308.
1993
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 1993. Glaciers, geysers and granite, Department of Geology, University of Manchester, Manchester. 71 pp.
Edwards, D. & Selden, P. A. 1993. The development of early terrestrial ecosystems. Botanical Journal of Scotland 46, 337–366.
McNamara, K. J. & Selden, P. A. 1993. Strangers on the Shore. New Scientist 1885, 23–27. Link
Selden, P. A. 1993. Arthropoda (Aglaspidida, Pycnogonida and Chelicerata). 297–320. In Benton, M. J. (ed.). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London. xvii + 845 pp.
Selden, P. A. 1993. Fossil arachnids—recent advances and future prospects. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33, 389–400.
Selden, P. A. 1993. Fossil chelicerates of Australia. The Fossil Collector 41, 11–20.
Selden, P. A. 1993. Presidential address: fossil spiders. The North West Geologist 3, 43–49.
Selden, P. A. 1993. XII International Arachnological Congress, 12th–19th July, 1993, Brisbane. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 66, 1–3.
1992
Selden, P. A. 1992. Revision of the fossil ricinuleids. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 83, 595–634. Link
Selden, P. A. & Broadhurst, F. M. 1992. An introduction to planet Earth. Department of Geology, University of Manchester, Manchester. 160 pp.
Selden, P. A. & Gall, J.-C. 1992. A Triassic mygalomorph spider from the northern Vosges, France. Palaeontology 35, 211–235. Link
Selden, P. A. & Jeram, A. J. 1992. Myriapods and arachnids from the Upper Silurian Ludlow Bone Bed, UK: the earliest land animals. Bericht der Naturwissenschaftlich-Medezinischen Vereins in Innsbruck Supplement 10, 33.
Selden, P. A. & Shear, W. A. 1992. A myriapod identity for the Devonian ‘scorpion’ Tiphoscorpio hueberi. Bericht der Naturwissenschaftlich-Medezinischen Vereins in Innsbruck Supplement 10, 35–36.
1991
Briggs, D. E. G., Dalingwater, J. E. & Selden, P. A. 1991. Biomechanics of locomotion in fossil arthropods. 37–56. In Rayner, J. M. V. & Wootton, R. J. (eds). Biomechanics and evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. xiv + 273 pp.
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 1991. Canyons, caverns and cauldrons, Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Manchester, Manchester. 74 pp.
Selden, P. A. 1991. A geological walk around Broadbottom. The North West Geologist 1, 24–28.
Selden, P. A. 1991. A walk south of Glossop. The North West Geologist 1, 29–33.
Selden, P. A. 1991. Aranyes del Cretaci inferior de la Serra del Montsec (Espanya). 77–85. In Martínez-Delclos, X. (ed.). Les calcáries litográfiques del Cretaci inferior del Montsec. Deu anys de campanyes paleontológiques. Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida, Spain. 162 pp.
Selden, P. A. 1991. Chunal, Charlesworth, and Broadbottom, near Glossop. 28–37. In Eagar, R. M. C. & Broadhurst, F. M. (eds.). Geology of the Manchester area. Geologists' Association Guide No. 7. Geologists' Association, London.
Selden, P. A. 1991. Lower Cretaceous spiders from the Sierra de Montsech (Spain). 53–58. In Martínez-Delclos, X. (ed.). The Lower Cretaceous lithographic limestones of Montsec. Ten years of paleontological expeditions. Institut d'Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida, Spain. 106 pp.
Selden, P. A., Shear, W. A. & Bonamo, P. M. 1991. A spider and other arachnids from the Devonian of New York, and reinterpretations of Devonian Araneae. Palaeontology 34, 241–281. Link | Supplement (Specimen List)
1990
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 1990. Building stones postcards. Department of Geology, University of Manchester, Manchester. 16 cards.
Jeram, A. J., Selden, P. A. & Edwards, D. 1990. Land animals in the Silurian: arachnids and myriapods from Shropshire, England. Science 250, 658–666. Link
Selden, P. A. 1990. Terrestrialization (invertebrates). 64–68. In Briggs, D. E. G. & Crowther, P. R. (eds). Palaeobiology: a synthesis. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. xiii + 586 pp. Link
Selden, P. A. 1990. Biomechanics. 318–322. In Briggs, D. E. G. & Crowther, P. R. (eds.). Palaeobiology: a synthesis. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. xiii + 586 pp. Link
Selden, P. A. 1990. Lower Cretaceous spiders from the Sierra de Montsech, north-east Spain. Palaeontology 33, 257–285. Link
Selden, P. A. 1990. The arachnid fossil record. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 58, 4–6.
1989
Selden, P. A. 1989. Letter from Indianapolis. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 56, 7.
Selden, P. A. 1989. Orb-web weaving spiders in the early Cretaceous. American Arachnology 40, 10.
Selden, P. A. 1989. Orb-web weaving spiders in the early Cretaceous. Nature 340, 711–713. Link
Selden, P. A. 1989. Taxonomic and taphonomic biases in fossil Lagerstätten. Abstracts, International Geological Congress, Washington DC, 1989 3, 70–71.
Selden, P. A. & Edwards, D. 1989. Chapter 6. Colonisation of the land. 122–152. In Allen, K. C. & Briggs, D. E. G. (eds). Evolution and the fossil record. Belhaven, London. xiii + 265 pp. Link
Selden, P. A. & Jeram, A. J. 1989. Palaeophysiology of terrestrialisation in the Chelicerata. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 80, 303–310. Link
1988
Ford, T. D. & Selden, P. A. 1988. Canyons, craters and calderas, Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Manchester, Manchester. 52 pp.
Selden, P. A. 1988. The arachnid fossil record. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 1, 15–18.
1987
Bartram, K. M., Jeram, A. J. & Selden, P. A. 1987. Arthropod cuticles in coal. Journal of the Geological Society of London 144, 513–517. Link
Selden, P. A. & Drygant, D. M. 1987. A new Silurian xiphosuran from Podolia, Ukraine, USSR. Palaeontology 30, 537–542. Link
Selden, P. A. & Siveter, D. J. 1987. The origin of the limuloids. Lethaia 20, 383–392. Link
Shear, W. A., Selden, P. A., Rolfe, W. D. I., Bonamo, P. M. & Grierson, J. D. 1987. New terrestrial arachnids from the Devonian of Gilboa, New York (Arachnida: Trigonotarbida). American Museum Novitates 2901, 1–74. Link
Siveter, D. J. & Selden, P. A. 1987. A new, giant xiphosurid from the Namurian of Weardale, Co. Durham. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 46, 153–168.
Siveter, D. J. & Selden, P. A. 1987. The status of Bellinuroopsis Chernyshev, 1933 and Neobelinuropsis Eller, 1938 (Xiphosura, Bellinuroidea). Journal of Paleontology 61, 1285. Link
1986
Selden, P. A. 1986. A new identity for the Silurian arthropod Necrogammarus. Palaeontology 29, 629–631. Link
Selden, P. A. 1986. Ricinuleids: living fossils? Actas X Congressos International de Aracnologia, Jaca, España, 1986, 1, 425.
Selden, P. A. 1986. The fossil ricinuleids. In Eberhard, W. G., Lubin, Y. D. & Robinson, B. C. (eds). Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Arachnology, Panama 1983, 326.
Shear, W. A. & Selden, P. A. 1986. Phylogenetic relationships of the Trigonotarbida, an extinct order of arachnids. Actas X Congressos International de Aracnologia, Jaca, España, 1986 1, 393–397.
1985
Selden, P. A. 1985. British fossil scorpions. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 44, 6–7.
Selden, P. A. 1985. Eurypterid respiration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 309, 219–226. Link
Selden, P. A. 1985. Fossil arthropods: chelicerates. Earth Science Conservation 22, 32–33.
1984
Selden, P. A. 1984. Autecology of Silurian eurypterids. In Bassett, M. G. & Lawson, J. D. (eds). Autecology of Silurian organisms. Special Papers in Palaeontology 32, 39–54. Link
Selden, P. A. 1984. British fossil spiders. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 40, 4–5.
1983
Selden, P. A. 1983. The biggest spider. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 36, 4–5.
Selden, P. A. & Romano, M. 1983. First Palaeozoic arachnid from Iberia: Aphantomartus areolatus Pocock (Stephanian; Prov. Léon, N. W. Spain), with remarks on aphantomartid taxonomy. Boletino del Instituto Geologia e Mineralogia d’España 94, 106–112.
Selden, P. A. & White, D. E. 1983. A new Silurian arthropod from Lesmahagow, Scotland. In Briggs, D. E. G. & Lane, P. D. (eds). Trilobites and other early arthropods: papers in honour of Professor H. B. Whittington FRS. Special Papers in Palaeontology 30, 41–50.
1981
Selden, P. A. 1981. Functional morphology of the prosoma of Baltoeurypterus tetragonophthalmus (Fischer) (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 72, 9–48.
Selden, P. A. 1981. The Face of the Earth. Wayland, Brighton, 66 pp.
1978
Selden, P. A. & Smith, R. M. H. 1978. The provenance of gizzard grit from the Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus (Lath.)) of Bleaklow, Derbyshire. Naturalist 103, 145–150.
1976
Selden, P. A. 1976. The influence of the weather on the activity of moths during the night. Bulletin of the Amateur Entomological Society 35, 107–124.