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  1. A high latitude Gondwanan species of the Late Devonian tristichopterid Hyneria (Osteichthyes: Sarcopterygii)

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2023, PLOS

    Dr Robert Wolfgang Gess

  2. The manus of Tetracynodon (Therapsida: Therocephalia) provides evidence for survival strategies following the Permo-Triassic extinction

    Article • Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, July 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Robert Wolfgang Gess

  3. Vertebrate Biostratigraphy of the Witteberg Group and the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary in South Africa

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Robert Wolfgang Gess

  4. Fossil juvenile coelacanths from the Devonian of South Africa shed light on the order of character acquisition in actinistians

    Article • Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Wolfgang Gess

  5. High-latitude Chondrichthyans from the Late Devonian (Famennian) Witpoort formation of South Africa

    Article • PalZ, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Robert Wolfgang Gess

  6. The Earliest Record of Terrestrial Animals in Gondwana: A Scorpion from the Famennian (Late Devonian) Witpoort Formation of South Africa

    Article • African Invertebrates, December 2013, Natal Museum of South Africa

    Dr Robert Wolfgang Gess

  7. A NEW RECONSTRUCTION OF ONYCHOSELACHE TRAQUAIRI, COMMENTS ON EARLY CHONDRICHTHYAN PECTORAL GIRDLES AND HYBODONTIFORM PHYLOGENY

    Article • Palaeontology, November 2007, Wiley

    Dr Robert Wolfgang Gess

  8. A lamprey from the Devonian period of South Africa

    Article • Nature, October 2006, Nature

    Dr Robert Wolfgang Gess

  9. Marine algal remains from the Upper Devonian of South Africa

    Article • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, March 1996, Elsevier

    Dr Robert Wolfgang Gess

  10. Archaeopteris (Progymnospermopsida) from the Devonian of southern Africa

    Article • Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, April 1995, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Robert Wolfgang Gess