Edward Forbes Prize - Previous Winners

Edwards Forbes Prize – Previous Winners

2024

N. 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

Dr 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

Dr 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

Dr M.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

Dr S. 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

Dr B. 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.