David Siveter

David John Siveter (born March 12, 1946 in Wolverhampton ) is a British paleontologist who is primarily concerned with ostracods and other microfossils .

Life

Siveter already took part in geology courses and excursions during his school days . Together with his twin brother Derek J. Siveter he attended the University of Leicester and studied there under Peter Colley Sylvester-Bradley . He proposed his dissertation topic on Silurian ostracodes. Today Siveter is Professor Emeritus of Paleontology at the University of Leicester.

Since 1970 he has been a member of today's Micropalaeontological Society , founded as the British Micropalaeontological Group , of which he was chairman from 2004 to 2007. In 2014 he was awarded the Society's Brady Medal and was made an honorary member the following year.

Publications

Siveter has published almost 200 publications in his career, a small selection:

• The superfamily Beyrichiacea (Ostracoda) from the Silurian and Devonian systems of Britain . Submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Science University of Leicester. 1914 (English, Leicester Research Archive [accessed May 12, 2017] PhD Thesis).
• Hou Xian-Guang , Richard J. Aldridge , Jan Bergström , David J. Siveter, Derek J. Siveter , Feng Xiang-Hong : The Cambrian Fossils of Chengiang, China . The Flowering of Early Animal Life. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford 2007, ISBN 978-1-4051-6719-2 (English, 248 pages).

literature

• David J. Horne , Alan Lord : The 2014 recipient of the Brady Medal: Professor David J. Siveter . In: Journal of Micropalaeontology . tape 34 , no. 1 , 2015, p. 93-95 , doi : 10.1144 / jmpaleo2014-032 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ David Siveter: Report from the Chair. (PDF) In: Newsletter of Micropalaeontology. July 2005, p. 3 , accessed on July 21, 2016 (English). 
2. ^ Publications. In: University of Leicester. Retrieved July 21, 2016 . 

Web links

• David Siveter on the University of Leicester website