Edward Forbes Prize - Previous Winners

Edwards Forbes Prize – Previous Winners

2025
Stephan Spiekman (Stuttgart
State Museum of Natural History) for his paper on The postcranial anatomy and osteohistology of Terrestrisuchus gracilis (Archosauria, Crocodylomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Wales, Papers in Palaeontology, 10 (4), e1577) Paper here.
2024

Natalia Jagielska, (University of Edinburgh) for her joint publication ‘A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs’. Current Biology32(6), pp.1446-1453. Paper here.

2023

Alessandro Carniti (University of Milan) for his joint paper ‘Brachiopod fauna from uppermost Visean (Mississippian) mud mounds in Derbyshire, UK’ (2022) Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 67(4). Paper here.

2022

Elsa Panciroli (University of Oxford) for her two joint publications on the Scottish fossil mammaliaform, Borealestes. 2021. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society,192(4), pp.1323-1362) and Palaeontology, 65(1), p.e12577. Papers here and here.

2021

Michela M. Johnson (University of Edinburgh) for her joint publication ‘The phylogenetics of the Teleosauroidea (Crocodylomorpha, Thalattosuchia) and implications for their ecology and evolution’. 2020. Peer J, 8:e9808. Paper here.

2020

Serjoscha W. Evers (University of Freiburg, Switzerland) for his joint publication ‘Anatomy of Rhinochelys pulchriceps (Protostegidae) and marine adaptation during the early evolution of chelonioids’. 2019. Peer J, 7, p.e6811. Paper here.

2019

Benjamin Moon (University of Bristol) for his joint publicationIchthyosaurs of the British Middle and Upper Jurassic, Part 2, Brachypterygius, Nannopterygius, Macropterygius and Taxa invalida’. 2018. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society, 650, 172. Paper here.

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2013

J. N. Keating for his joint paper ‘A new osteostracan fauna from the Devonian of the Welsh Borderlands and observations on the taxonomy and growth of Osteostraci’. 2012. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 32, 1002-1017. Paper here.