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Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Ivan Sansom


Fields
  
Paleontology

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Institutions
  
University of Birmingham

Alma mater
  
University of Durham University of Aston

Doctoral advisor
  
Howard Armstrong and M. Paul Smith

Notable awards
  
Hodson Fund of the Palaeontological Association

Education
  
Aston University, Durham University

Academic advisor
  
M. Paul Smith, Mark Purnell

Residence
  
England, United Kingdom

Ivan Sansom (born Prestatyn) is a British palaeontologist, Senior Lecturer in Palaeobiology at the University of Birmingham. His research primarily has focused on the conodont palaeobiology and the early Palaeozoic radiation of vertebrates.

Sansom is an editor of the Journal of the Geological Society.

In 2001 Sansom was a recipient of the Palaeontological Association's Hodson Award conferred on palaeontologists who have made a notable early contribution to the science.

Selected publications

  • Sansom, I. J., Smith, M. P., Armstrong, H. A. and Smith, M. M. 1992. Presence of the earliest vertebrate hard tissues in conodonts. Science 256: 1308-1311.]
  • Sansom, I. J., Smith, M. P. and Smith, M. M. 1994. Dentine in conodonts. Nature 368: 591.
  • Sansom, I. J., Smith, M. P. and Smith, M. M. 1996. Scales of thelodont and shark-like fishes from the Ordovician. Nature 379: 628-630.
  • Smith, M. P., Sansom, I. J. and Repetski, J. E. 1996. Histology of the first fish. Nature 380: 702-704.
  • Coates, M. I., Sequeira, S. E. K., Sansom, I. J. and Smith, M. M. 1998. Spines and tissues of ancient sharks. Nature 396: 729-730.
  • Sansom, I. J., Donoghue, P. C. J. and Albanesi, G. L. 2005. Histology and affinity of the earliest armoured vertebrate. Biology Letters 2: 446-449.

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