Professor of Palaeontology

BSc Geography/Geology Course Director

Palaeobiology Group

Direct contact:

Tel: 0116 252 3925  Email: djs@le.ac.uk

Research interests

Stratigraphy & invertebrate palaeontology, especially micropalaeontology.  Programme concentrates on Lower Palaeozoic lagerstätten (Cambrian, Chengjiang, China; Silurian, Herefordshire) and palaeobiology and evolution of Palaeozoic arthropods (e.g. Ostracoda Bradoriida), particularly from Europe, North America, China and the former Soviet Union.

Chairman, The Micropalaeontological Society.

Four recent publications

• Siveter, David J., Siveter, Derek J., Sutton, M.D. & Briggs, D.E.G.  2007. Brood care in a Silurian ostracod.  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 274, 465-469.
• Zhang Xi-guang, Siveter, D.J., Waloszek D. & Maas, A. 2007.  An epipodite-bearing crown-group crustacean from the Lower Cambrian.  Nature, 449, 595-598.
• Hou, Xian-Guang, Siveter, Derek J., Aldridge, R.J. & Siveter, David J. 2008. Collective behaviour in early Cambrian arthropods.  Science, 322, 224.
• Siveter, D.J.  2008. Ostracods in the Palaeozoic? Senckenbergiana lethaea, 88, 1-9.

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Teaching

• GL1013 Time, Fossils and the Stratigraphic Record
• GL2012 UK Field course
• GL2034 Interpreting the Stratigraphic Record
• GL2008 Palaeontology
• GL2022 Micropalaeontology
• GL3000 Evolution of the Global Environment
• GL3066 Palaeobiology
• GL4064 Advanced Micropalaeontology