Publications - Paul Selden

Publications to May 2025

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2025
Ma, Z-H., Lamsdell, J. C., Wang, M., Chen, J-W., Selden, P. A. & He, B. 2025. Early Devonian stylonurine eurypterids from northern Gondwana: late Lochkovian to early Pragian records from south China. Gondwana Research 138: 118–127. Published online November 2024.

Wang, X., Yu, K., Selden, P. A., Ren, D. & Guo, X-B. 2025. New mid-Cretaceous macrothelids showing a similar living mode to extant Macrothelidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae). Journal of Systematics and Evolution 63: 583–600. Published online November 2024.

2024
Guo, X-B., Selden, P. A., Ren, D., Niu, Y., Zhang, F. 2024. New Lineaburmops fossils (Araneae: Lagonomegopidae) with contrasting color patterns from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 158: 105835.

Hou, Y-M., Guo, X-B., Selden, P. A., Wang, L-Y. & Ren, D. 2024. Two new long-pedipalp spiders (Araneae: Pholcochyroceridae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar. Palaeoentomology 7: 224–236.

Knecht R. J., Benner, J. S., Swain, A., Azevedo-Schmidt, L., Cleal, C. J., Labandeira, C. C., Engel, M. S., Dunlop, J. A., Selden, P. A., Eble, C. F., Renczkowski, M. D., Wheeler, D. A., Funderburk, M. M., Emma, S. L., Knoll, A. H. & Pierce, N. E. 2024. Early Pennsylvanian Lagerstätte reveals an exceptionally diverse ecosystem on a subhumid, alluvial fan. Nature Communications. Published online September 2024.

Selden, P. A. 2024. Origins of Land Animals. In Reference module in life sciences, Elsevier. Published online. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-15750-9.00021-5

Selden, P. A. & Dunlop, J. A. 2024. A remarkable spiny arachnid from the Pennsylvanian Mazon Creek Lagerstätte, Illinois. Journal of Paleontology 98: 395–401.

2023
Ausich, W. I. & Selden, P. A. (eds.) 2023. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part B, Prokaryota (Bacteria and Archaea). Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Paleontological Institute. xxvi + 178 pp.

Olcott, A., Downen, M. R., Schiffbauer, J. & Selden, P. A. 2023. Potential diatom-influenced fossil preservation pathway across the Cenozoic. Geological Society of America Abstracts .with Programs 55(6) doi: 10.1130/abs/2023AM-391565

Selden, P. A. 2023. The Carnic Alps: a treasure trove of extraordinary fossil arthropods. In C. Corraduni & G. Muscio (eds.), Geology and paleontology of Friuli and adjacent areas. Workshop – Museo Friuliano di Storia Naturale, Udine 16–17 June 2023 – Abstract book: 45–48.

Selden, P. A. & Ausich, W. I. (eds.) 2023. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part V, Second Revision, Hemichordata. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Paleontological Institute. xxx + 548 pp.

Zhao, J., Li, Y-J. & Selden, P. A. 2023. Two new metazoans from the Cambrian Guanshan biota of China. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1160530.

Zhao, J., Li, Y-J. & Selden, P. A. 2023. Two new metazoans from the Cambrian Guanshan biota of China. 18–26. In Lefebvre, B., Daley, A., Saleh, F. & El Hariri, K. (eds.) 2023. Insights on the rise of animal life from Cambrian and Ordovician Lagerstätten. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA.

Zhao, J., Li, Y-J. & Selden, P. A. 2023. A new primitive polychaete with eyes from the lower Cambrian Guanshan biota of Yunnan Province, China. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11: 1128070.

Zhao, J., Li, Y-J. & Selden, P. A. 2023. A new primitive polychaete with eyes from the lower Cambrian Guanshan biota of Yunnan Province, China. 27–35. In Lefebvre, B., Daley, A., Saleh, F. & El Hariri, K. (eds.) 2023. Insights on the rise of animal life from Cambrian and Ordovician Lagerstätten. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA.

2022
Bartel, C., Dunlop, J. A., Sharma, P. P., Selden, P. A., Tarasov, P. E., Ren, D. & Shih, C-K. 2022. Four new laniatorean harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Palaeoworld 32: 124–135. Published online July 2022

Downen, M. R., Schiffbauer, J. D., Selden, P. A. & Olcott, A. N. 2022. Steinkern spiders: A microbial mat-controlled taphonomic pathway in the Oligocene Aix-en-Provence Lagerstätte, France. Palaeoentomology 5: 524–536.

Guo, X-B., Selden, P. A. & Ren, D. 2022. New specimens from Mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber illuminate the phylogenetic placement of Lagonomegopidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195: 399–416. Published online June 2021

Hradská, I., OpluštIl, S., Selden, P. A. & Dunlop, J. A. 2022. A new species of trigonotarbid arachnid from the Pilsen Basin of the Czech Republic. Bulletin of Geosciences 97: 261– 268. Published online February 2022.

Ma, Z-H., Selden, P. A., Lamsdell, J. C., Zhang, T-S., Chen, J-W. & Zhang, X. 2022. Two new eurypterids (Arthropoda, Chelicerata) from the upper Silurian Yulongsi Formation of south-west China. Journal of Paleontology 96: 1078–1086 . Published online May 2022.

Ma, Z-H., Zhang, T-S., Lamsdell, J. C., Chen, J-W., Selden, P. A. & Chen, L-X. 2022. Early Devonian (Lochkovian) eurypterids from the Yunnan province of southwest China. Geological Magazine 160: 172–179. Published online November 2022.

Noffke, N., Selden, P. A., Ausich, W., Carmona, N. B., Heimann Rios, A., Hickman-Lewis, Homann, M., Mitchell, R. L., Sheldon, N., Shapiro, R., Visscher, P., Westall, F., Wilmeth, D. & Xiao, S-H. 2022. Treatise of Invertebrate Paleontology: A volume dedicated to prokaryotes. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 54: 5.

Olcott, A. N., Downen, M. R., Schiffbauer, J. D. & Selden, P. A. 2022. The exceptional preservation of Aix-en-Provence spider fossils could have been facilitated by diatoms. Communications Earth & Environment 3: 94. Published online April 2022.

Selden, P. A. 2022. Foreword. 9 in Lee, D., Kaulfuss, U. & Conran, J. (eds.). Fossil treasures of Foulden Maar: A window into Miocene Zealandia. Dunedin: University of Otago Press. 216 pp.

Shanks, R. E. & Selden, P. A. 2022. First trigonotarbid arachnids from the Pennsylvanian of Indiana and Oklahoma. Journal of Paleontology 96: 930–938. Published online April 2022.

Wang, J-S., Liu, L., Xue J-H., Lamsdell, J. C. & Selden, P. A. 2022. A new genus and species of eurypterid (Chelicerata, Eurypterida) from the Lower Devonian Xiaxishancun Formation of Yunnan, southwestern China. Geobios 75: 53–61.

Zhao, J., Guo, J., Selden P. A., Cong, P-Y. & Li, Y-J. 2021. A new eocrinoid from the Guanshan Biota (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4), with implication of the development of different attachment modes in early Cambrian. Palaeoworld 31: 185–193. Published online September 2021

Zhao, J., Li, Y-J., Selden, P. A., Cong, P-Y., & Yang, Z-X. 2022. A Sidneyia-like euarthropod from the Guanshan Biota (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4), eastern Yunnan, southwest China. Paleontological Research 26: 327–335.

2021
Bartel, C., Dunlop, J. A., Sharma, P. P., Selden, P. A., Ren, D. & Shih, C-K. 2021. Laniatorean harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 119: 104703. Published online December 2020

Downen, M. R. & Selden, P. A. 2021. The earliest palpimanid spider (Araneae: Palpimanidae), from the Crato Fossil-Lagerstätte (Cretaceous, Brazil). Journal of Arachnology 49: 91–97.

Guo, X-B., Selden, P. A. & Ren, D. 2021. Maternal care in mid-Cretaceous lagonomegopid spiders. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 288: 20211279. Published online September 2021

Kimmig, J. & Selden, P. A. 2021. A new shell-bearing organism from the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah. Palaeoworld 30: 220–228. Published online May 5, 2020

Selden, P. A. 2021. New spiders (Araneae: Mesothelae), from the Carboniferous of New Mexico and England, and a review of Paleozoic Araneae. In S. G. Lucas, W. A. DiMichele & B. D. Allen (eds.), Kinney Brick Quarry Lagerstätte. New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Bulletin 84: 317–358. Download full size pdf HERE

Selden, P. A. 2021. On paleontology: Prehistoric arthropods. Podcast online at On Wildlife, 05 May, 2021.

Selden, P. A. 2021. Terrestrialisation (Precambrian–Devonian). In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences 2: 1–6. doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0029314

Selden, P. A. & Krieger, J. 2021. Editorial. In J. Krieger & P. A. Selden (eds.), From water to land – Terrestrial adaptations in arthropods. Arthropod Structure & Development Special Issue 64: 101099.

Whalen, N. & Selden, P. A. 2021. A new, giant ricinuleid (Arachnida, Ricinulei), from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois, and the identification of a new, ontogenetically stable, diagnostic character. Journal of Paleontology 95: 601–612. Published online December 2020.

2020
Downen, M. R., Schiffbauer, J. D., Selden, P. A. & Olcott, A. N. 2020. Evidence for microbially influenced preservation in the Aix-en-Provence Konservat-Lagerstätte, France. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 52(6) doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-353985.

Downen, M. R. & Selden, P. A. 2020. Fossil spiders (Araneae) from the Eocene Kishenehn Formation of Montana, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica. 23(3): a56.

Downen, M. R., Selden, P. A. & Olcott, A. N. 2020. Glowing spiders: the taphonomic pathway of the Aix-en-Provence Fossil-Lagerstätte. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 51(1) doi: 10.1130/abs/2020SC-343558

Edwards, D., Axe, L., Morris, J. L., Boddy, L. & Selden, P. A. 2020. Further evidence for fungivory in the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of the Welsh Borderland, UK. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 94: 603–618.

Guo, X-B., Selden, P. A., Shih, C-K. & Ren, D. 2020. Two new lagonomegopid spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the mid-Cretaceous of northern Myanmar, with comments on the superfamilial placement of Lagonomegopidae. Cretaceous Research 106: 104257. Published online October 2019

Haug, C., Reumer, J. W. F., Haug, J. T., Arillo, A., Audo, D., Azar, D., Baranov, V., Beutel, R., Charbonnier, S., Feldmann, R., Foth, C., Fraaije, R. H. B., Gašparič, R., Greenwalt, D. E., Hyžný, M., Jagt, J. W. M., Jagt-Yazykova, E. A., Jarzembowski, E., Kerp, H., Kirejtshuk, A. G., Klug, C., Kopylov, D. S., Kotthoff, U., Kriwet, J., Kunzmann, L., McKellar, R. C., Nel, A., Nützel, A., Perrichot, V., Pint, A., Rauhut, O., Schneider, J. W., Schram, F. R., Schweigert, G., Selden, P. A., Szwedo, J., van Bakel, B. W. M., van Eldijk, T., Vega, F. J., Wang, B. & Reich, M. 2020. Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data”: the importance of private collections. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 94: 413–429.

Haug, J. T., Azar, D., Ross, A., Szwedo, J., Wang, B., Arillo, A., Baranov, V., Bechteler, J., Beutel, R., Blagoderov, V., Delclòs, X., Dunlop, J., Feldberg, K., Feldmann, R., Foth, C., Fraaije, R. H. B., Gehler, A., Harms, D., Hedenäs, L., Hyžný, M., Jagt, J. W. M., Jagt-Yazykova, E. A., Jarzembowski, E., Kerp, H., Khine, P. K., Kirejtshuk, A. G., Klug, C., Kopylov, D. S., Kotthoff, U., Kriwet, J., McKellar, R. C., Nel, A., Neumann, C., Nützel, A., Peñalver, E., Perrichot, V., Pint, A., Ragazzi, E., Regalado, L., Reich, M., Rikkinen, J., Sadowski, E-M., Schmidt, A. R., Schneider, H., Schram, F. R., Schweigert, G., Selden, P. A., Seyfullah, L. J., Solórzano-Kraemer, M. M., Stilwell, J. D., van Bakel, B. W. M., Vega, F. J., Wang, Y-D., Xing, L-D. & Haug, C. 2020. Comment on the letter of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) dated April 21, 2020 regarding “Fossils from conflict zones and reproducibility of fossil-based scientific data”: Myanmar amber. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 94: 431–437.

Zhao, J., Li, Y-J., Selden, P. A. & Cong, P-Y. 2020. New occurrence of the Guanshan Lagerstätte (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4) in the Kunming area, Yunnan, southwest China, with records of new taxa. Alcheringa 44: 343–355.

2019
Boughdiri, M., Bádenas, B., Selden, P. A., Jaillard, E., Bengtson, P. & Granier, B. R. C. (eds.) 2019. Paleobiodiversity and tectono-sedimentary records in the Mediterranean Tethys and related eastern areas. Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG–1), Tunisia 2018. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland. xxxi + 358 pp.

Downen, M. R. & Selden, P. A. 2019. A spider-eating spider (Araneae: Palpimanidae) from the Cretaceous Crato Formation of Brazil. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 51(5) doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-334973

Park, T-Y. S., Nam, K-S. & Selden, P. A. 2019. A diverse new spider (Araneae) fauna from the Jinju Formation, Cretaceous (Albian) of Korea. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 15: 1051–1077. Online at: doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1525441 Download Supplemental Data HERE

Patel, R., Rana, R. S. & Selden, P. A. 2019. An orb-weaver spider (Araneae, Araneidae) from the early Eocene of India. Journal of Paleontology 93: 98–104.

Selden, P. A. 2019. The latest on the oldest. Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group 31: 20–25 .

Selden, P. A. 2019. Otto Kraus 1930–2017. Bulletin of the British Myriapod & Isopod Group 31: 58–59.

Selden, P. A., Huang, D-Y. & Garwood, R. J. 2019. New spiders (Araneae: Palpimanoidea) from the Jurassic Yanliao Biota of China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 18: 137–185. online at: dx.doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2019.1584831 Download Supplemental Data HERE

Selden, P. A., Olcott, A. N., Downen, M. R., Ren, D., Shih, C-K. & Cheng, X-D. 2019. The supposed giant spider Mongolarachne chaoyangensis, from the Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China, is a crayfish. Palaeoentomology 2: 515–522.

Selden, P. A., Simonetto, L. & Marsiglio, G. 2019. An effaced horseshoe crab (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Xiphosura) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Carnic Alps (Friuli, NE Italy). Rivista Italiana di
Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 125: 333–342.

Selden, P. A. & Wappler, T. 2019. A new spider (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Middle Eocene Messel Maar, Germany. Palaeoentomology 2: 596–601.

Shanks, R. E. & Selden, P. A. 2019. Newly reported trigonotarbid specimens from Oklahoma and Indiana. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 51(5) doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-335458

Zhao, J., Li, G-B. & Selden, P. A. 2019. A poorly preserved fish-like animal from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 3). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 520: 163–172.

Zhao, J., Li, G-B. & Selden, P. A. 2019. Waptia-like euarthropods from Burgess-Shale-type biotas in the early Cambrian of eastern Yunnan, China. Journal of Geographical Research 2: 20–24.

2018
Downen, M. R. & Selden, P. A. 2018. Diversity and taphonomic bias in the spider fossil record. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 50(6) doi: 10.1130/abs/2018AM-324474

Dunlop, J. A., Selden, P. A., Pfeffer, T. & Chitimia-Dobler, L. 2018. A Burmese amber tick wrapped in spider silk. Cretaceous Research 90: 136–141.

Harvey, M. S., Cosgrove, J. G., Harms, D., Selden, P. A., Shih, C-K. & Wang, C-C. 2018. The oldest chthonioid pseudoscorpion Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Chthonioidea: Chthoniidae: A new genus and species from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zoologischer Anzeiger 273: 102–111.

Selden, P. A. 2018. John Dalingwater 1944–2018. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 142: 6–7.

Selden, P. A. & Kaulfuss, U. 2018. Fossil arachnids from the earliest Miocene Foulden Maar Fossil-Lagerstätte, New Zealand. Alcheringa 43, 165–169. Published online 27 May 2018.

Shanks, R. E. & Selden, P. A. 2018. Trigonotarbid diversity of North America. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 50(6) doi: 10.1130/abs/2018AM-324455

Wang, B., Dunlop, J. A., Selden, P. A., Garwood, R. J., Shear, W. A., Müller, P. & Lei, X-J. 2018. Cretaceous arachnid Chimerarachne yingi gen. et sp. nov. illuminates spider origins. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 614–622. Online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0449-3 Download Supplementary Information HERE.

Zhao, J., Li, G-B. & Selden, P. A. 2018. New well-preserved scleritomes of Chancelloriida from early Cambrian Guanshan Biota, eastern Yunnan, China. Journal of Paleontology 92: 955–971.

2017
Dorward, R. A. & Selden, P. A. 2017. Eldoniids and associated trace fossil from the Middle Cambrian Spence Shale, Utah. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 49(6) doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-306501

Downen, M. R. & Selden, P. A. 2017. Fossil spiders in Paleogene lacustrine deposits. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 49(6) doi: 10.1130/abs/2017AM-306157

Lamsdell, J. C. & Selden, P. A. 2017. From success to persistence: identifying an evolutionary regime shift in the diverse Paleozoic aquatic arthropod group Eurypterida, driven by the Devonian biotic crisis. Evolution 71: 95–110. Published online 2016.

Selden, P. A. 2017. Arachnids. In Reference module in life sciences, Elsevier. Published online.

Selden, P. A. 2017. Book Review: Prag, A. J. N. W. (ed.), The Story of Alderley, Living with the Edge. Manchester University Press. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 138: 7–8.

Selden, P. A. & Jäger, P. 2017. Otto Kraus 1930–2017. Arachnology 17: 323–324.

Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2017. Imaging techniques in the study of fossil spiders. Earth-Science Reviews 166: 111–131.

Selden, P. A. & Ren, D. 2017. A review of Burmese amber arachnids. Journal of Arachnology 45: 324–343.

2016
Downen, M. R. & Selden, P. A. 2016. Spider diversity of the Crato Formation, an Early Cretaceous Fossil-Lagerstätte of northeastern Brazil. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 48(7)
doi: 10.1130/abs/2016AM-286438

Downen, M. R., Selden, P. A. & Hasiotis, S. T. 2016. Spider leg flexure as an indicator of salinity in lacustrine paleoenvironments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 445: 115–123.

Dunlop, J. A., Selden, P. A. & Giribet, G. 2016. Penis morphology in a Burmese amber harvestman. The Science of Nature 103: 11. Published online at doi 10.1007/s00114-016-1337-4

Dunlop, J. A., Legg, D. A., Selden, P. A., Fet, V., Schneider, J. W. & Rößler, R. 2016. Permian scorpions from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16: 72 (16 pp.). Published online at doi 10.1186/s12862-016-0634-z

Garwood, R. J., Dunlop, J. A., Selden, P. A., Spencer, A. R. T., Atwood, R. C., Vo, N. T. & Drakopoulos, M. 2016. Almost a spider: A 305-million-year-old fossil arachnid and spider origins. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 283: 20160125. Published online at doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.0125

Selden, P. A. 2016. Arachnida. 64–67. In Poyato-Ariza, F. J. & Buscalioni, A. D. (eds.). Las Hoyas: A Cretaceous wetland. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. 262 pp. ISBN 978-3-89937-153-6

Selden, P. A. 2016. Origins of land animals. In Kliman, R. M. (ed.), Encyclopedia of evolutionary biology. volume 2: 288–295. Oxford: Academic Press. Published online at doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-800049-6.00273-0.

Selden, P. A., Dunlop, J. A. & Garwood, R. J. 2016. Carboniferous araneomorph spiders reinterpreted as long-bodied harvestmen. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14: 127–137. Published online 2015.

Selden, P. A., Dunlop, J. A., Giribet, G., Zhang, W. & Ren, D. 2016. The oldest armoured harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones: Laniatores), from Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Cretaceous Research 65: 206–212.

Selden, P. A., Dunlop, J. A. & Simonetto, L. 2016. A fossil whip-scorpion (Arachnida: Thelyphonida) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Carnic Alps (Friuli, NE Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 122: 7–12.

Selden, P. A., Ren, D. & Shih, C-K. 2016. Mesozoic cribellate spiders (Araneae: Deinopoidea) from China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 14: 49–74. Published online 2015.

Selden, P. A. & Shear, W. A. 2016. Diplopoda. 68–69. In Poyato-Ariza, F. J. & Buscalioni, A. D. (eds.). Las Hoyas: A Cretaceous wetland. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. 262 pp. ISBN 978-3-89937-153-6

Selden, P. A., Wilson, G. D. F., Simonetto, L. & Dalla Vecchia, F. M. 2016. First fossil asellote (Isopoda: Asellota), from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of the Carnic Prealps (Friuli, northeastern Italy). Journal of Crustacean Biology 36: 68–86. Published o nline 2015.

Selden, P. A., Zhang, W. & Ren, D. 2016. A bizarre armoured spider (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae) from Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Cretaceous Research 66: 129–135.

2015
Conway Morris, S., Selden, P. A., Gunther, G., Jamison, P. G. & Robison, R. A. 2015. New records of Burgess Shale-type taxa from the Middle Cambrian of Utah. Journal of Paleontology 89: 411–423 .

Conway Morris, S., Halgedahl, S. L., Selden, P. A. & Jarrard, R. D. 2015. Rare primitive deuterostomes from the Middle Cambrian of Utah. Journal of Paleontology 89: 631–636.

Downen, M. R. & Selden, P. A. 2015. Ancient spiders and salt lakes. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 47(7): 826.

Lamsdell, J. C. & Selden, P. A. 2015. Phylogenetic support for the monophyly of proetide trilobites. Lethaia 48, 375–386. Published online 2014.

Rößler, R., Luthardt, L., Dunlop, J., Legg, D., Fet, V., Selden, P. A. & Schneider, J. W. 2015. First complete scorpions from the Permian: in situ finds and exuvia from a seasonally influenced forest habitat (Chemnitz Basin, Leukersdorf Formation, Germany). Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, ZfB Schiffweiler-Reden, 14–16 September 2015.

Selden, P. A. 2015. An unusual habitat for Ero aphana (Walckenaer, 1802). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 133: 4–5.

Selden, P. A. 2015. What’s in it for me? Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 133: 11–12.

Selden, P. A. 2015. Chapter 6. The fossil record. 27. In Murphy, J. A. & Roberts, M. J. Spider families of the world and their spinnerets. York: British Arachnological Society. i–xvi + 1–553 pp.

Selden, P. A. 2015. Morphological imaging and integration into phylogenetic research in fossil spiders. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 47(7): 679.

Selden, P. A. (ed.). 2015. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part E, Porifera, Revised, Hypercalcified Porifera, Volumes 4 & 5. University of Kansas Paleontological Institute, Lawrence, Kansas. liii + 1223 pp.

Selden, P. A., Lamsdell, J. C. & Qi, L. 2015. An unusual euchelicerate linking horseshoe crabs and eurypterids, from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Yunnan, China. Zoological Scripta 44: 645–652.

2014
Delclòs, X., Arillo, A., Barrón, E., Dal Corso, J., Davieró-Gómez, V., López del Valle, R., Nel, A., Ortega-Blanco, J., Peñalver, E., Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Peris, D., Sánchez-García, A., Solórzano-Kraemer, M. M., Roghi, G., Saupe, E. & Selden, P. A. 2014. El ámbar del Cretácico Inferior de España. In Royo-Torres, R., Verdú, F. J. & Alcalá, L. (eds.). XXX Jornadas de Paleontología de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología. ¡Fundamental! 24: 65–68.

Dunlop, J. A., Wang, Y., Selden, P. A. & Krautz, P. 2014. A trigonotarbid arachnid from the Pennsylvanian Astrasado Formation of the Kinney Brick Quarry, New Mexico. Paleontological Contributions 9: 1–6.

Lamsdell, J. C. & Selden, P. A. 2014. Clade history, species ecology and external cause factors influence arthropod survival and recovery during Paleozoic mass extinctions. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 46: 214.

Lamsdell, J. C. & Selden, P. A. 2014. Clade history, species ecology and external cause factors influence arthropod survival and recovery during Paleozoic mass extinctions. In Cerdeño, E. (ed.). 4th International Palaeontological Congress, Abstract Volume, 558.

Selden, P. A. 2014. Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Eocene Insect Limestone of the Isle of Wight. In Ross, A. (ed.). Palaeontological studies on the Insect Limestone of the Isle of Wight. Earth & Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 104: 275–282.

Selden, P. A. 2014. A new spider (Araneae: Haplogynae: Plectreuridae) from the Cretaceous Fossil-Lagerstätte of El Montsec, Spain. Journal of Arachnology 42: 16–23.

Selden, P. A. 2014. A workflow for digital photography of fossil specimens. The Geological Curator 10: 93–98.

Selden, P. A. & Wang, Y. 2014. Fossil spiders (Araneae) from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado. Arthropoda Selecta 23: 207–219.

Selden, P. A. 2014. Imaging techniques in the study of fossil spiders. In Cerdeño, E. (ed.). 4th International Palaeontological Congress, Abstract Volume, 394.

Selden, P. A. & Dunlop, J. A. 2014. The first fossil spider (Araneae: Palpimanoidea) from the Lower Jurassic (Grimmen, Germany). Zootaxa 3894: 161–168.

Selden, P. A., Shcherbakov, D. E., Dunlop, J. A. & Eskov, K. Yu. 2014. Arachnids from the Carboniferous of Russia and Ukraine, and the Permian of Kazakhstan. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 88: 297–307. Available online since 18 Aug 2013 at: DOI 10.1007/s12542-013-0198-9

2013
Dalla Vecchia, F. & Selden, P. A. 2013. A Triassic spider from Italy. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58: 325–330.

Downen, M. R. & Selden, P. A. 2013. Using spider taphonomy to decipher the paleosalinity of the Crato Formation. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 45(7): 317.

Dunlop, J. A. & Selden, P. A. 2013. Scorpion fragments from the Silurian of Powys, Wales. Arachnology 16: 27–32.

Dunlop, J. A., Scholtz, G. & Selden, P. A. 2013. Water-to-land transitions. 417–439. In Minelli, A., Boxshall, G. & Fusco, G. (eds.). Arthropod biology and evolution. Springer, Berlin & Heidelberg.

Hyžný, M., Józsa, Š., Dunlop, J. A. & Selden, P. A. 2013. A fossil arachnid from Slovakia: the Carboniferous trigonotarbid Anthracomartus voelkelianus Karsch, 1882. Arachnology 16: 21–26.

Lamsdell, J. C. & Selden, P. A. 2013. Babes in the wood – a unique window into sea scorpion ontogeny. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13: 98 (46 pp.).

Lamsdell, J. C., Hoşgör, İ. & Selden, P. A. 2013. A new Ordovician eurypterid (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from southeast Turkey: Evidence for a cryptic Ordovician record of Eurypterida. Gondwana Research 23: 354–366.

Lamsdell, J. C., Simonetto, L. & Selden, P. A. 2013. First eurypterid from Italy: a new species of Adelophthalmus (Chelicerata: Eurypterida) from the Upper Carboniferous of the Carnic Alps (Friuli, NE Italy). Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 119: 147–151.

Lamsdell, J. C., Stein, M. & Selden, P. A. 2013. Kodymirus and the case for convergence of raptorial appendages in Cambrian arthropods. Naturwissenschaften 100: 811–825.

Lamsdell, J. C., Stein, M. & Selden, P. A. 2013. Kodymirus and the case for convergence of raptorial appendages in Cambrian arthropods. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 45(7): 475.

Lamsdell, J. C., Xue, J-Z. & Selden, P. A. 2013. A horseshoe crab (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Xiphosura) from the Lower Devonian (Lochkovian) of Yunnan, China. Geological Magazine 150: 367–370.

Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Saupe, E. E. & Selden, P. A. 2013. New lagonomegopid spiders (Araneae: †Lagonomegopidae) from Early Cretaceous Spanish amber. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11: 531–553.

Selden, P. A. 2013. Invertebrate Paleontology. In UNESCO-EOLSS Joint Committee (eds.). Evolution of Phylogenetic Tree of Life. Chapter 6.15.63 in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford.

Selden, P. A. 2013. Imaging techniques in the study of fossil spiders. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 45(7): 688.

Selden, P. A. & Beattie, R. G. 2013. A spider fossil from the Jurassic Talbragar Fossil Fish Bed of New South Wales. Alcheringa 37: 203–208.

Selden, P. A., Shih, C-K. & Ren, D. 2013. A giant spider from the Jurassic of China reveals greater diversity of the orbicularian stem group. Naturwissenschaften 100: 1171–1181. doi: 10.1007/s00114-013-1121-7. Download Electronic Supplementary Materials.

2012
Edwards, D., Selden, P. A. & Axe, L. 2012. Selective feeding in an Early Devonian terrestrial ecosystem. PALAIOS 27: 509–522.

Lamsdell, J. C., Stein, M., Olesen, J. & Selden, P. A. Testing the Arachnomorpha and lamellipedian hypotheses. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 44: 477.

Meng, Y-L., Li, J-Y., Denton, P., Chen, Y-X., Luo, B., Selden, P. A. & Chen, X-W. 2012. IPKB: a digital library for invertebrate paleontology. Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. 101–110.

Saupe, E. E., Pérez de la Fuente, R., Selden, P. A., Delclòs, X., Tafforeau, P. & Soriano, C. 2012. New Orchestina Simon, 1882 (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Cretaceous ambers of Spain and France: first spiders imaged using phase-contrast X-ray synchrotron microtomography. Palaeontology 55: 127–143.

Selden, P. A. 2012. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: A work in progress. PALAIOS 27: 439–442.

Selden, P. A. 2012. Terrestrialisation (Precambrian–Devonian) (Version 3.0). In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. http://www.els.net/doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0001641.pub3

Selden, P. A. 2012. A redescription of Juraraneus rasnitsyni Eskov, 1984 (Araneae: Juraraneidae), from the Jurassic of Russia. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 315–321.

Selden, P. A., Nam, K.-S., Kim, S.-H. & Kim, H.-J. 2012. A fossil spider from the Cretaceous of Korea. Journal of Paleontology 86: 1–6.

Selden, P. A. & Nudds, J. R. 2012. Evolution of fossil ecosystems. Second Edition. Manson, London. 288 pp. Get eBook | Get book

Stein, M. & Selden, P. A. 2011. A restudy of the Burgess Shale (Cambrian) arthropod Emeraldella brocki and reassessment of its affinities. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10: 361–383. Published online: iFirst 2011, 1–23.

2011
Penney, D. & Selden, P. A. 2011. Fossil spiders: the evolutionary history of a mega-diverse order. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester. 128 pp.

Pérez-de la Fuente, R., Saupe, E. E., Selden, P. A. & Delclòs, X. 2011. Nuevos estudios sobre las arañas del ámbar del Cretácico inferior de España. Paleontologia i Evolució, Memòra Especial 5: 289–293.

Saupe, E. E., Papeş, M., Selden, P. A. & Vetter, R. S. 2011. Tracking a medically relevant spider: climate change, ecological niche modeling, and the brown recluse (Loxosceles reclusa). PLoS ONE 6(3): e17731. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017731

Saupe, E. E. & Selden, P. A. 2011. The study of fossil spider species. Comptes Rendus Palevol 10 : 181–188.

Selden, P. A. 2011. Chapter 9. Arachnids. 111–116. In Batten, D. J. (ed.). English Wealden fossils. Palaeontological Association Field Guides to Fossils 14. Palaeontological Association, London. 769 pp. | [link to Wealden book]

Selden, P. A. 2011. Silk and venom: the geological history of spiders. 36–38. In Allen, H. (ed.). Alberta Palaeontological Society, Fifteenth Annual Symposium, Abstracts. Mount Royal University, Calgary, Alberta.

Selden, P. A. (ed.). 2011. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology: Part T, Echinodermata 2, Revised, Crinoidea, vol. 3. The University of Kansas Paleontological Institute. Lawrence, Kansas. xxix + 261 pp.

Selden, P. A., Shih, C-K. & Ren, D. 2011. A golden orb-weaver spider (Araneae: Nephilidae: Nephila) from the Middle Jurassic of China. Biology Letters 7: 775–778 [Published online 20 April 2011]. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0228 [Most downloaded article in Biology Letters in 2011!]

Wright, D. F. & Selden, P. A. 2011. A trigonotarbid arachnid from the Pennsylvanian of Kansas. Journal of Paleontology 85: 871–876.

2010
Cui, H., Boufford, D. & Selden, P. A. 2010. Semantic annotation of biosystematics literature without training examples. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 61: 522–542. [Published online December 2009].

Palmer, D., Jarzembowski, E. A., Siveter, D. J. & Selden, P. A. 2010. Fossil Arthropods of Great Britain, Geological Conservation Review Series, No. 35, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, 294 pp.

Saupe, E. E., Papeş, M., Selden, P. A. & Vetter, R. 2010. Tracking a medical menace: climate change, ecological niche modeling, and the Brown Recluse spider (Loxosceles reclusa). Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42: 221.

Saupe, E. E., Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2010. First fossil Molinaranea Mello-Leitão, 1940 (Araneae: Araneidae), from middle Miocene Dominican amber, with a phylogenetic and palaeobiogeographic analysis of the genus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 711–725.

Schmidt, A. R., Perrichot, P., Svojtka, M., Anderson, K. B., Belete, K. H., Bussert, R., Dörfelt, H., Jancke, S., Mohr, B., Mohrmann, E., Nascimbene, P. C., Nel, A., Nel, P., Ragazzi, E., Roghi, G., Saupe, E. E., Schmidt, K., Schneider, H., Selden, P. A. & Vávra, N. 2010. Cretaceous African life captured in amber. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 107: 7329–7334. [Published online April 5th, 2010].

Selden, P. A. 2010. 18th International Congress of Arachnology, 11th–17th July 2010, Siedlce, Poland. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 119: 7–8.

Selden, P. A. 2010. The latest on the oldest: recent advances in spider palaeontology. Book of Abstracts, 18th International Congress of Arachnology 2010, Siedlce, Poland, 408.

Selden, P. A. 2010. Silk and the earliest spiders. pp. 342–345. In: McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 2010. [Published Online December 22, 2009].

Selden, P. A. 2010. Book Review: The private life of spiders by Paul Hillyard (2007). Quarterly Review of Biology 85: 115–116.

Selden, P. A. 2010. Spinning and weaving. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 117: 7.

Selden, P. A. 2010. A theridiosomatid spider from the Early Cretaceous of Russia. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15: 69–78.

Selden, P. A. 2010. Jurassic spiders. Earth Science Frontiers 17: Special Issue, 191–192.

Selden, P. A. & Huang, D-Y. 2010. The oldest haplogyne spider (Araneae: Plectreuridae), from the Middle Jurassic of China. Naturwissenschaften 97: 449–459. [Published online February 6th, 2010].

Selden, P. A., Huys, R., Stephenson, M. H., Heward, A. P. & Taylor, P. N. 2010. Crustaceans from bitumen clast in Carboniferous glacial diamictite extend fossil record of copepods. Nature Communications 1: 50. 6 pp. [Published online August 10th, 2010].

Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2010. Fossil spiders. Biological Reviews 85: 171–206.

Selden, P. A. & Stockli, D. F. 2010. The Swiss Alps. Field trip guidebook. 50 pp.

Wright, D. F. & Selden, P. A. Trigonotarbid arachnids from the Pennsylvanian of Kansas. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 42: 97.

2009
Dunlop, J. A. & Selden, P. A. 2009. Calibrating the chelicerate clock: a paleontological reply to Jeyaprakash and Hoy. Experimental and Applied Acarology 48: 183–197.

Huang, D-Y., Selden, P. A. & Dunlop, J. A. 2009. Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the Middle Jurassic of China. Naturwissenschaften 96: 955–962.

Saupe, E. E. & Selden, P. A. 2009. First fossil Mecysmaucheniidae (Arthropoda: Chelicerata: Araneae), from Lower Cretaceous (Upper Albian) amber of Charente-Maritime, France. In Perrichot V. & Néraudeau D. (eds.). Cretaceous ambers from southwestern France: geology, taphonomy, and paleontology. Geodiversitas 31: 49–60.

Saupe, E. E., Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2009. The first fossil Molinaranea (Araneae), with a focus on the paleobiogeography of the genus and implications for the colonization of Hispaniola. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 41: 210.

Selden, P. A. 2009. Dinosaurs, geysers and gorges of the Wild West. Field trip guidebook. 86 pp.

Selden, P. A. (ed.). 2009. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part L, Mollusca 4 (Revised), vol. 2. The University of Kansas Paleontological Institute. Lawrence, Kansas. xxix + 258 pp.

Selden, P. A., Anderson, H. M. & Anderson, J. M. 2009. A review of the fossil record of spiders (Araneae) with special reference to Africa, and description of a new specimen from the Triassic Molteno Formation of South Africa. African Invertebrates 50: 105–116.

Selden, P. A. & Nudds, J. R. 2009. 世界の化石遺産―化石生態系の進化 [Japanese translation of Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems by Chinsei Kiyotaka] 160 pp.

Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2009. A fossil spider (Araneae: Pisauridae) of Eocene age from Horsefly, British Columbia, Canada. In Kropf, C. & Horak, P. (eds.). Towards a natural history of arthropods and other organisms. In memoriam Konrad Thaler. Contributions to Natural History 12: 1269–1282.

Selden, P. A. & Pillola, G. L. 2009. A trigonotarbid arachnid from the Upper Carboniferous of the San Giorgio Basin, Sardinia. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 115: 269–274.

Shear, W. A., Selden, P. A. & Gall, J.-C. 2009. Millipedes from the Grès à Voltzia, Triassic of France, with comments on Mesozoic millipedes (Diplopoda: Helminthomorpha: Eugnatha). International Journal of Myriapodology 2: 1–13.

2008
Nudds, J. R. & Selden, P. A. 2008. Fossil ecosystems of North America. A guide to the sites and their extraordinary biotas. Manson, London, and The University of Chicago Press, Chicago. 288 pp.

Nudds, J. R. & Selden, P. A. 2008. Fossil-Lagerstätten. Geology Today 24: 153–158.

Pollard, J. E., Selden, P. A. & Watts, S. 2008. Trace fossils of the arthropod Camptophyllia from Westphalian (Carboniferous) rocks of Lancashire, UK, and their palaeoenvironmental context. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 270: 399–406.

Selden, P. A. 2008. A Treatise for the 21st Century. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 40: 539.

Selden, P. A., Baker, A. S. & Phipps, K. J. 2008. An oribatid mite (Arachnida: Acari) from the Oxford Clay (Jurassic: Upper Callovian) of South Cave Station Quarry, Yorkshire. Palaeontology 51, 623–633.

Selden, P. A., Huang Diying & Ren Dong. 2008. Palpimanoid spiders from the Jurassic of China. Journal of Arachnology 36: 306–321.

Selden, P. A. & Read, H. J. 2008. The oldest land animals: Silurian millipedes from Scotland. Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group 23: 36–37.

Selden, P. A., Shear, W A. & Sutton, M. D. 2008. Fossil evidence for the origin of spider spinnerets, and a proposed arachnid order. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 105: 20781–20785.

2007
Decae, A. E., Cardoso, P. & Selden, P. A. 2007. Taxonomic revision of the Portuguese Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 14: 1–18.

Dunlop, J. A., Menon, F. & Selden, P. A. 2007. Arachnida: spiders, scorpions and allies. 103–132. In Martill, D. M., Bechly, G. & Loveridge, R. F. (eds.). The Crato fossil beds of Brazil. Window into an ancient world. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. xvi + 625 pp.

Penney, D. & Selden, P. A. 2007. Spinning with the dinosaurs: the fossil record of spiders. Geology Today 23: 231–237.

Selden, P. A. 2007. Foreword. In Murphy, J. A. 2007. Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society, St Neots, Cambs. 2 volumes. Volume 1 (text): i–xii + 1–92; Volume 2 (plates): i–ii + 93–605.

Selden, P. A. (ed.). 2007. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part H, Brachiopoda, Revised, vol. 6. Geological Society of America & Paleontological Institute, Boulder, Colorado, & Lawrence, Kansas. l + 906 pp.

Selden, P. A. & Spawton, J. 2007. The Grand Canyon and Western USA. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire, 44 pp.

Tetlie, O. E., Selden, P. A. & Ren Dong. 2007. A Silurian eurypterid (Arthropoda: Chelicerata) from China. Palaeontology 50: 619–625.

Vollrath, F. & Selden, P. A. 2007. The role of behavior in the evolution of spiders, silks, and webs. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 38: 819–846.

2006
Huang Di-Ying, Nel, A., Shen Yan-Bin, Selden, P. A. & Lin Qi-Bin. 2006. Discussions on the age of Daohugou fauna — evidence from invertebrates. Progress in Natural Science (Special Issue) 16: 308–312.

Korsós, Z., Read, H. J., Barber, A. D., Gregory, S. J., Hornung, E., Jones, R. E., Kime, R. D., Lewis, J. G. E. & Selden, P. A. 2006. Report on a collecting trip of the British Myriapod Group to Hungary in 1994. Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group 21: 40–55.

Penney, D. & Selden, P. A. 2006. First fossil Huttoniidae (Araneae), in Late Cretaceous Canadian Cedar and Grassy Lake ambers. Cretaceous Research 27: 442–446.

Penney, D. & Selden, P. A. 2006. Assembling the Tree of Life — Phylogeny of Spiders: a review of the strictly fossil spider families. In Deltshev, C. & Stoev, P. (eds.). European Arachnology 2005. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica Suppl. No. 1., 25–39.

Scott, A. G., Oxford, G. S. & Selden, P. A. 2006. Epigeic spiders as ecological indicators of conservation value for peat bogs. Biological Conservation 127: 420–428.

Selden, P. A. 2006. Foreword. In Jocqué, R. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. 2006. Spider Families of the World. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium. 336 pp.

Selden, P. A., Casado, F. da C. & Mesquita, M. V. 2006. Mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Dipluridae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Lagerstätte, Araripe Basin, north-east Brazil. Palaeontology 49: 817–826.

Selden, P. A. & Nudds, J. R. 2006. Rocks, Fossils and Scenery of South-West Germany. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire, 33 pp.

Selden, P. A. & Nudds, J. R. 2006. Fenster zur Evolution. Berühmte Fossilfundstellen der Welt. Elsevier, München. 160 pp.

Selden, P. A. & Smith, R. M. H. 2006. Namibia and The Cape. A Desert Adventure. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire, 48 pp.

2005
Eskov, K. Y. & Selden, P. A. 2005. First record of spiders from the Permian period (Araneae: Mesothelae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 111–116.

Penney, D., Ono, H. & Selden, P. A. 2005. A new synonymy for the Madagascan copal spider fauna (Araneae, Selenopidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 2: 41–44.

Selden, P. A. 2005. Geology and scenery of the north of Ireland. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire, 31 pp.

Selden, P. A. 2005. Terrestrialization (Precambrian–Devonian). In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester. doi:10.1038/npg.els.0004145

Selden, P. A. 2005. Wonderful worms. Journal of Biogeography 32: 1856.

Selden, P. A., Corronca, J. A. & Hünicken, M. A. 2005. The true identity of the supposed giant fossil spider Megarachne. Biology Letters 1: 44–48.

2004
Alberdi, J., Beccaloni, J, Blumson, B., Clay, D., Colley, L., Eriksson, H., Fry, D., Grooms, M., Ings, T., Öberg, S., Read, H., Russell-Smith, A., Selden, P., Shaw, E., Shaw, P., Smith, E., Thomas, E., & Wilde, I. 2004. Short and sharp versus long and blunt. A comparison of two collecting techniques in contrasting chalk grassland habitats. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 101: 12–13.

Dunlop, J. A. & Selden, P. A. 2004. A trigonotarbid arachnid from the early Devonian of Tredomen, Wales. Palaeontology 47: 1469–1474.

Selden, P. A. 2004. Book review: Harvey, M. S. 2003. Catalogue of the smaller arachnid orders of the world. CSIRO, xi ≠ 385 pp. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 99: 24.

Selden, P. A. & Nudds, J. R. 2004. Evolution of fossil ecosystems. Manson, London. 192 pp.

Selden, P. A. & Smith, R. M. H. 2004. The natural wonders of South Africa. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 82 pp.

2003
Menon, F., Penney, D., Selden, P. A. & Martill, D. M. 2003. A new scolopendromorph centipede from the Crato Formation of Brazil. Bulletin of the British Myriapod and Isopod Group 19: 62–66.

Penney, D., Wheater, C. P. & Selden, P. A. 2003. Resistance of spiders to Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction events. Evolution 57: 2599–2607.

Selden, P. A. 2003. A new tool for fossil preparation. The Geological Curator 7: 337–339.

Selden, P. A. 2003. Geology, Scenery and Natural History of the Canadian Rockies. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire, 55 pp.

Selden, P. A. 2003. Record of the Mediterranean spider Uroctea durandi (Latreille, 1809) in Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 96: 4.

Selden, P. A. 2003. Book review: Buchar, J. & Růžička, V. 2002. Catalogue of spiders of the Czech Republic. Peres, 349 pp. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 96, 23.

Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2003. Lower Cretaceous spiders (Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae) from Spain. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte 2003: 175–192.

2002
Braddy, S. J., Selden, P. A. & Truong, D. N. 2002. A new carcinosomatid eurypterid from the Siluro-Devonian of northern Vietnam. Palaeontology 45: 897–915.

Penney, D. & Selden, P. A. 2002. The oldest linyphiid spider, in Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Linyphiinae). Journal of Arachnology 30: 487–493.

Selden, P. A. 2002. First British Mesozoic spider, from Cretaceous amber of the Isle of Wight, southern England. Palaeontology 45: 973–983.

Selden, P. A. 2002. Geology, scenery and natural history of Ireland. Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 50 pp.

Selden, P. A. 2002. Terrestrialization (Precambrian–Devonian). In Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Macmillan Reference Ltd, London.

Selden, P. A. 2002. Missing links between Argyroneta and Cybaeidae revealed by fossil spiders. Journal of Arachnology 30: 189–200.

Selden, P. A., Casado, F. da C. & Mesquita, M. V. 2002. Funnel-web spiders (Araneae: Dipluridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Boletim do 6° Simpósio sobre o Cretácio do Brasil / 2do Simposio sobre el Cretácico de América del Sur (2002) 89–91.

2001
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 2001. Geology, scenery and natural history of Norway, Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 53 pp.

Fet, V. & Selden, P. A. (eds.). 2001. Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis. British Arachnological Society, Burnham Beeches, Bucks. xi + 404 pp.

Selden, P. A. 2001. Eocene spiders from the Isle of Wight with preserved respiratory structures. Palaeontology 44: 695–729.

Selden, P. A. 2001. Missing links between Argyroneta and Cybaeidae revealed by fossil spiders. Abstracts. XV International Congress of Arachnology, South Africa, 158.

Selden, P. A. 2001. Spiders and other arachnids. Wildlife Reports. British Wildlife 12: 212–213.

Selden, P. A. 2001. Terrestrialization (invertebrates). 71–74. In Briggs, D. E. G. & Crowther, P. R. (eds.). Palaeobiology II. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. xv + 583 pp.

Selden, P. A. 2001. Book review: Weygoldt, P. 2000. Whip spiders (Chelicerata: Amblypygi) their biology, morphology and systematics. Apollo Books, 160 pp. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 90: 7.

Selden, P. A. 2001. Book review: Leroy, A. & Leroy, J. 2000. Spiderwatch in Southern Africa. StruikNew Holland, 96 pp. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 90: 7–8.

Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2001. Phylogeny of Araneae: the fossil evidence and its interpretation. Abstracts. XV International Congress of Arachnology, South Africa, 157.

Shear, W. A. & Selden, P. A. 2001. Rustling in the undergrowth: animals in early terrestrial ecosystems. 29–51. In Gensel, P. G. & Edwards, D. (eds.). Plants invade the land: evolutionary and environmental perspectives. Columbia University Press, New York. x + 304 pp.

2000
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 2000. Geology, scenery and natural history of New Zealand, Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 52 pp.

Remy, A. Selden, P. A. & Trewin, N. H. 2000. Der Rhynie Chert, Unter-Devon, Schottland. 28–35. In Pinna, G. (ed.). Europäische Fossillagerstätten. Springer, Heidelberg. 264 pp.

Selden, P. A. 2000. Palaeothele, a replacement name for the fossil mesothele spider Eothele Selden non Rowell. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 292.

Selden, P. A. 2000. Section 2: Fossil spiders. 35. In Murphy, F. & Murphy, J. An introduction to the spiders of South-East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur. vii + 624 pp. 32 pls.

Selden, P. A. 2000. Spiders and other arachnids. Wildlife Reports. British Wildlife 11: 365–366.

Selden, P. A. 2000. Book review: Forster, R. & Forster, L. 1999. Spiders of New Zealand and their worldwide kin. University of Otago Press, 270 pp. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 88: 15.

1999
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 1999. The Grand Canyon and the desert South-West, Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 45 pp.

Remy, A. Selden, P. A. & Trewin, N. H. 1999. Gli strati di Rhynie. 28–35. In Pinna, G. (ed.). Alle Radici della Storia Naturale d'Europa. Jaca Book spA, Milan. 254 pp.

Selden, P. A. 1999. Les arachnides fossiles. Connaissance des Invertébrés, Série Arachnides 4: 2–29.

Selden, P. A. 1999. Spiders and other arachnids. Wildlife Reports. British Wildlife 10: 205–206.

Selden, P. A. 1999. Spiders. Wildlife Reports. British Wildlife 10, 434–435.

Selden, P. A. 1999. XIV International Congress of Arachnology and 22nd Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society, Chicago, 27th June–3rd July, 1998. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 84, 1–4.

Selden, P. A., Anderson, H. M., Anderson, J. M. & Fraser, N. C. 1999. The oldest araneomorph spiders, from the Triassic of South Africa and Virginia. Journal of Arachnology 27: 401–414.

1998
Selden, P. A. 1998. Fossil spiders. Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society 92: 22–23.

Selden, P. A. (ed.) 1998. Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology, Edinburgh 1997. British Arachnological Society, Burnham Beeches, Bucks. x + 350 pp.

Selden, P. A. 1998. Book review: Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Jocqué, R. 1997. African Spiders. An Identification Manual Plant Protection Research Institute Handbook No. 9. 392 pp. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 82: 8.

Selden, P. A. & Dunlop, J. A. 1998. Fossil taxa and relationships of chelicerates. 303–331. In Edgecombe, G. (ed.). Arthropod fossils and phylogeny. Columbia University Press, New York. 1–347.

Shear, W. A., Jeram, A. J. & Selden, P. A. 1998. Centiped legs (Arthropoda, Chilopoda, Scutigeromorpha) from the Silurian and Devonian of Britain and the Devonian of North America. American Museum Novitates 3231: 1–16.

1997
Anderson, L. I. & Selden, P. A. 1997. Opisthosomal fusion and phylogeny of Palaeozoic Xiphosura. Lethaia 30: 19–31.

Baker, A. S. & Selden, P. A. 1997. New morphological and host data for the ectoparasitic larva of Leptus hidakai Kawashima (Acari, Acariformes, Erythraeidae). Systematic Parasitology 36: 183–191.

Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 1997. Volcanoes and earthquakes of the USA, Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 54 pp.

Dunlop, J. A. & Selden, P. A. 1997. The early history and phylogeny of the chelicerates. 221–235. In Fortey, R. A. & Thomas, R. H. (eds.). Arthropod Relationships. Systematics Association Special Volumes Series 55, Chapman & Hall, London. xii + 383 pp.

Selden, P. A. 1997. La historia geologica de las Arañas (Araneae). In Melic-Blas, A. J. (ed.). PaleoEntomología, Volumen Monográfico, Boletin de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 16: 105–112.

Selden, P. A. 1997. Mediterranean meanderings: trapdoor spiders of Mallorca and the Algarve. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 78: 8–9.

Selden, P. A. 1997. Order Ricinuleida. In Beall, B. S. Chapter 11: Arachnida. 140–154. In Shabica, C. W. & Hay, A. A. (eds.). 1997. Richardson's guide to the fossil fauna of Mazon Creek. Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. xvii + 308 pp.

1996
Selden, P. A. 1996. First fossil mesothele spider, from the Carboniferous of France. Revue Suisse de Zoologie volume hors série 2: 585–596.

Selden, P. A. 1996. Fossil mesothele spiders. Nature 379: 498–499.

Selden, P. A. 1996. XIII International Congress of Arachnology Geneva, Switzerland, 3rd–8th Sept. 1995. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 75: 1–2.

Selden, P. A. 1996. Literature review: Arachnologische Mitteilung. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 75: 7–8.

Selden, P. A. & Shear, W. A. 1996. The first Mesozoic Solifugae (Arachnida), from the Cretaceous of Brazil, and a redescription of the Palaeozoic solifuge. Palaeontology 39: 583–604.

1995
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 1995. Mountains and canyons of the American South-West, Wilmslow Guild, Wilmslow, Cheshire. 38 pp.

Edwards, D., Selden, P. A., Richardson, J. B. & Axe, L. 1995. Coprolites as evidence for plant-animal interaction in Siluro-Devonian terrestrial ecosystems. Nature 377: 329–331.

Harvey, M. S. & Selden, P. A. 1995. Nyranytarbus, replacement name forHemiphrynus Fric, 1901 (Trigonotarbida: Eophrynidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 10: 74.

Selden, P. A. 1995. Literature review: Raven, R. J. 1994. Mygalomorph spiders of the Barychelidae in Australia and the Western Pacific. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35, 291–706. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 74: 16.

Selden, P. A. 1995. Book review: Palaeozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy and biogeography edited by John A. Long (1993). Geological Journal 30: 79.

Shear, W. A. & Selden, P. A. 1995. Eoarthropleura (Arthropoda, Arthropleurida) from the Silurian of Britain and the Devonian of North America. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 196: 347–375.

1994
Jeram, A. J. & Selden, P. A. 1994. Eurypterids from the East Kirkton Limestone, Westlothian. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 84: 301–308.

1993
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 1993. Glaciers, geysers and granite. Department of Geology, University of Manchester, Manchester. 71 pp.

Edwards, D. & Selden, P. A. 1993. The development of early terrestrial ecosystems. Botanical Journal of Scotland 46: 337–366.

McNamara, K. J. & Selden, P. A. 1993. Strangers on the Shore. New Scientist 1885: 23–27.

Selden, P. A. 1993. Arthropoda (Aglaspidida, Pycnogonida and Chelicerata). 297–320. In Benton, M. J. (ed.). The Fossil Record 2. Chapman & Hall, London. xvii + 845 pp.

Selden, P. A. 1993. Fossil arachnids—recent advances and future prospects. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 389–400.

Selden, P. A. 1993. Fossil chelicerates of Australia. The Fossil Collector 41: 11–20.

Selden, P. A. 1993. Presidential address: fossil spiders. The North West Geologist 3, 43–49.

Selden, P. A. 1993. XII International Arachnological Congress, 12th–19th July, 1993, Brisbane. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 66: 1–3.

1992
Selden, P. A. 1992. Revision of the fossil ricinuleids. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 83: 595–634.

Selden, P. A. & Broadhurst, F. M. 1992. An introduction to planet Earth. Department of Geology, University of Manchester, Manchester. 160 pp.

Selden, P. A. & Gall, J.-C. 1992. A Triassic mygalomorph spider from the northern Vosges, France. Palaeontology 35: 211–235.

Selden, P. A. & Jeram, A. J. 1992. Myriapods and arachnids from the Upper Silurian Ludlow Bone Bed, UK: the earliest land animals. Bericht der Naturwissenschaftlich-Medezinischen Vereins in Innsbruck Supplement 10: 33.

Selden, P. A. & Shear, W. A. 1992. A myriapod identity for the Devonian ‘scorpion’ Tiphoscorpio hueberi. Bericht der Naturwissenschaftlich-Medezinischen Vereins in Innsbruck Supplement 10: 35–36.

1991
Briggs, D. E. G., Dalingwater, J. E. & Selden, P. A. 1991. Biomechanics of locomotion in fossil arthropods. 37–56. In Rayner, J. M. V. & Wootton, R. J. (eds.) Biomechanics and evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. xiv + 273 pp.

Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 1991. Canyons, caverns and cauldrons, Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Manchester, Manchester. 74 pp.

Selden, P. A. 1991. A geological walk around Broadbottom. The North West Geologist 1: 24–28.

Selden, P. A. 1991. A walk south of Glossop. The North West Geologist 1: 29–33.

Selden, P. A. 1991. Book review: Earth and life through time, 2nd edition by Steven M. Stanley (1989). Geological Journal 26: 94–95.

Selden, P. A. 1991. Aranyes del Cretaci inferior de la Serra del Montsec (Espanya). 77–85. In Martínez-Delclos, X. (ed.). Les calcáries litográfiques del Cretaci inferior del Montsec. Deu anys de campanyes paleontológiques. Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida, Spain. 162 pp.

Selden, P. A. 1991. Chunal, Charlesworth, and Broadbottom, near Glossop. 28–37. In Eagar, R. M. C. & Broadhurst, F. M. (eds.). Geology of the Manchester area. Geologists’ Association Guide No. 7. Geologists' Association, London.

Selden, P. A. 1991. Lower Cretaceous spiders from the Sierra de Montsech (Spain). 53–58. In Martínez-Delclos, X. (ed.). The Lower Cretaceous lithographic limestones of Montsec. Ten years of paleontological expeditions. Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida, Spain. 106 pp.

Selden, P. A., Shear, W. A. & Bonamo, P. M. 1991. A spider and other arachnids from the Devonian of New York, and reinterpretations of Devonian Araneae. Palaeontology 34: 241–281.

1990
Broadhurst, F. M. & Selden, P. A. 1990. Building stones postcards. Department of Geology, University of Manchester, Manchester. 16 cards.

Jeram, A. J., Selden, P. A. & Edwards, D. 1990. Land animals in the Silurian: arachnids and myriapods from Shropshire, England. Science 250: 658–666.

Selden, P. A. 1990. Terrestrialization (invertebrates). 64–68. In Briggs, D. E. G. & Crowther, P. R. (eds.). Palaeobiology: a synthesis. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. xiii + 586 pp.

Selden, P. A. 1990. Biomechanics. 318–322. In Briggs, D. E. G. & Crowther, P. R. (eds.). Palaeobiology: a synthesis. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford. xiii + 586 pp.

Selden, P. A. 1990. Lower Cretaceous spiders from the Sierra de Montsech, north-east Spain. Palaeontology 33: 257–285.

Selden, P. A. 1990. Fossil history of the arachnids. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 58: 4–6.

1989
Selden, P. A. 1989. Book review: ‘An introduction to comparative arachnology’ by L. van der Hammen (1988). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 55: 7.

Selden, P. A. 1989. Book review: ‘Physical geology’ by B. J. Skinner & S. C. Porter, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1987. Geological Journal 24: 160–161.

Selden, P. A. 1989. Letter from Indianapolis. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 56: 7.

Selden, P. A. 1989. Orb-web weaving spiders in the early Cretaceous. American Arachnology 40: 10.

Selden, P. A. 1989. Orb-web weaving spiders in the early Cretaceous. Nature 340: 711–713.

Selden, P. A. 1989. Book review: Oasis in space by Preston Cloud (1988). Geological Journal 24: 159.

Selden, P. A. 1989. Taxonomic and taphonomic biases in fossil Lagerstätten. Abstracts, International Geological Congress, Washington DC, 1989 3: 70–71.

Selden, P. A. & Edwards, D. 1989. Chapter 6. Colonisation of the land. 122–152. In Allen, K. C. & Briggs, D. E. G. (eds.). Evolution and the fossil record. Belhaven, London. xiii + 265 pp.

Selden, P. A. & Jeram, A. J. 1989. Palaeophysiology of terrestrialisation in the Chelicerata. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 80: 303–310.

1988
Ford, T. D. & Selden, P. A. 1988. Canyons, craters and calderas. Department of Extra-Mural Studies, University of Manchester, Manchester. 52 pp.

Selden, P. A. 1988. Notes and comments: on Oonops pulcher. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 53: 3.

Selden, P. A. 1988. The arachnid fossil record. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 1: 15–18.

1987
Bartram, K. M., Jeram, A. J. & Selden, P. A. 1987. Arthropod cuticles in coal. Journal of the Geological Society of London 144: 513–517.

Selden, P. A. 1987. Publish it to all the nations. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 50: 2.

Selden, P. A. & Drygant, D. M. 1987. A new Silurian xiphosuran from Podolia, Ukraine, USSR. Palaeontology 30: 537–542.

Selden, P. A. & Siveter, D. J. 1987. The origin of the limuloids. Lethaia 20: 383–392.

Shear, W. A., Selden, P. A., Rolfe, W. D. I., Bonamo, P. M. & Grierson, J. D. 1987. New terrestrial arachnids from the Devonian of Gilboa, New York (Arachnida: Trigonotarbida). American Museum Novitates 2901: 1–74.

Siveter, D. J. & Selden, P. A. 1987. A new, giant xiphosurid from the Namurian of Weardale, Co. Durham. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 46: 153–168.

Siveter, D. J. & Selden, P. A. 1987. The status of Bellinuroopsis Chernyshev, 1933 and Neobelinuropsis Eller, 1938 (Xiphosura, Bellinuroidea). Journal of Paleontology 61: 1285.

1986
Selden, P. A. 1986. A new identity for the Silurian arthropod Necrogammarus. Palaeontology 29: 629–631.

Selden, P. A. 1986. Ricinuleids: living fossils? Actas X Congressos International de Aracnologia, Jaca, España, 1986 1: 425.

Selden, P. A. 1986. The fossil ricinuleids. In Eberhard, W. G., Lubin, Y. D. & Robinson, B. C. (eds.). Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Arachnology, Panama 1983, 326.

Shear, W. A. & Selden, P. A. 1986. Phylogenetic relationships of the Trigonotarbida, an extinct order of arachnids. Actas X Congressos International de Aracnologia, Jaca, España, 1986 1: 393–397.

1985
Selden, P. A. 1985. A shoe-box in a cellar in Rochdale (British fossil scorpions). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 44: 6–7.

Selden, P. A. 1985. Eurypterid respiration. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 309, 219–226.

Selden, P. A. 1985. Fossil arthropods: chelicerates. Earth Science Conservation 22: 32–33.

1984
Selden, P. A. 1984. Autecology of Silurian eurypterids. In Bassett, M. G. & Lawson, J. D. (eds.). Autecology of Silurian organisms. Special Papers in Palaeontology 32: 39–54.

Selden, P. A. 1984. British fossil spiders. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 40: 4–5.

Selden, P. A. 1984. Whitwell well favoured! Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 41: 6.

1983
Selden, P. A. 1983. The biggest spider. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 36: 4–5.

Selden, P. A. 1983. Book review: Earth by F. Press & R. Sever, 3rd edition. W. H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco, 1982. Geological Journal 18: 190–191.

Selden, P. A. & Romano, M. 1983. First Palaeozoic arachnid from Iberia: Aphantomartus areolatus Pocock (Stephanian; Prov. Léon, N. W. Spain), with remarks on aphantomartid taxonomy. Boletino del Instituto Geologia e Mineralogia d’España 94: 106–112.

Selden, P. A. & White, D. E. 1983. A new Silurian arthropod from Lesmahagow, Scotland. In Briggs, D. E. G. & Lane, P. D. (eds.). Trilobites and other early arthropods: papers in honour of Professor H. B. Whittington FRS. Special Papers in Palaeontology 30: 41–50.

1981
Selden, P. A. 1981. Functional morphology of the prosoma of Baltoeurypterus tetragonophthalmus (Fischer) (Chelicerata: Eurypterida). Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 72: 9–48.

Selden, P. A. 1981. The face of the Earth. Wayland, Brighton, 66 pp.

1978
Selden, P. A. & Smith, R. M. H. 1978. The provenance of gizzard grit from the Red Grouse (Lagopus lagopus scoticus (Lath.)) of Bleaklow, Derbyshire. Naturalist 103: 145–150.

1976
Selden, P. A. 1976. The influence of the weather on the activity of moths during the night. Bulletin of the Amateur Entomological Society 35: 107–124.

The Spider Tree of Life. As published in Revista de la Universidad de México, May 2025. See Vollrath, F. & Selden, P. A. 2007. The role of behavior in the evolution of spiders, silks, and webs. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 38: 819–846.

Douglassarachne acanthopoda: a very spiny arachnid from the Upper Carboniferous Mazon Creek Fossil-Lagerstätte. One of Nature’s Images of the Month, May 2024, and Image of the Week (first week of June). See Selden & Dunlop (2024).

Another poem from Joel O’Connor

Glowing spider fossil from the Aix-en-Provence Formation. See: Olcott, A. N., Downen, M. R., Schiffbauer, J. D. & Selden, P. A. 2022. The exceptional preservation of Aix-en-Provence spider fossils could have been facilitated by diatoms. Communications Earth & Environment 3: 94. One of 8 Science Pictures and Videos of the Year 2022 in Cosmos Magazine. © Alison Olcott.

Poem by Joel O’Connor on glowing spiders.
Based on Olcott et al. 2022 and Park et al. 2019. See Joel at: https://twitter.com/joeloconnor_oz and https://www.instagram.com/platypusboyo

Ecological reconstruction of a female lagonomegopid spider guarding her egg sac. Painting by Xiaoran Zuo. See Guo, X-B., Selden, P. A. & Ren, D. 2021. Maternal care in mid-Cretaceous lagonomegopid spiders. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 288: 20211279

Armilimax pauljamisoni from the Cambrian of Utah. One of 503 new species named in 2020 by staff of the Natural History Museum, London. See Kimmig, J. & Selden, P. A. 2021. A new shell-bearing organism from the Cambrian Spence Shale of Utah. Palaeoworld 30: 220–228.

An orb-weaver spider from the Eocene of India. See: Patel, R., Rana, R. S. & Selden, P. A. 2019. An orb-weaver spider (Araneae, Araneidae) from the early Eocene of India. Journal of Paleontology 93: 98–104.

Carbon map of Koreamegops samsiki, showing highly reflective tapetum of posterior median eyes. © Changkun Park, Electron Probe Micro Analyzer, Korea Polar Research Institute. See: Park, T-Y. S., Nam, K-S. & Selden, P. A. 2019. A diverse new spider (Araneae) fauna from the Jinju Formation, Cretaceous (Albian) of Korea. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.

Reconstruction of Chimerarachne yingi outside its web, by Dinghua Yang (© Bo Wang, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology). See: Wang, B., Dunlop, J. A., Selden, P. A., Garwood, R. J., Shear, W. A., Müller, P. & Lei, X-J. 2018. Cretaceous arachnid Chimerarachne yingi gen. et sp. nov. illuminates spider origins. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, published online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0449-3

New reconstruction of Megarachne by Bob Nicholls. See: Selden, P. A., Corronca, J. A. & Hünicken, M. A. 2005. The true identity of the supposed giant fossil spider Megarachne. Biology Letters 1: 44–48.
This drawing is exhibited in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge.

Spiders and salt lakes. Cartoon by Dr Jones. See Downen, M. R., Selden, P. A. & Hasiotis, S. T. 2016. Spider leg flexure as an indicator of salinity in lacustrine paleoenvironment. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 445: 115–123.

Bizarre armoured spider in Burmese amber, Electroblemma bifida, dorsal view. See: Selden, P. A., Zhang, W. & Ren, D. 2016. A bizarre armoured spider (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae) from Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Cretaceous Research 66: 129–135.

Permian scorpion ?Opsieobuthus tungeri in its suggested original environment at the mouth of a burrow on the forest floor. Drawing by Frederik Spindler. Dunlop, J. A., Legg, D. A., Selden, P. A., Fet, V., Schneider, J. W. & Rößler, R. 2016. Permian scorpions from the Petrified Forest of Chemnitz, Germany. BMC Evolutionary Biology 16: 72 (16 pp.).

Penis of a Cretaceous harvestman in amber
Dunlop, J. A., Selden, P. A. & Giribet, G. 2016. Penis morphology in a Burmese amber harvestman. The Science of Nature 103: 11.

Deuterostomes from the Cambrian of Utah
Conway Morris, S., Halgedahl, S. L., Selden, P. A. & Jarrard, R. D. 2015. Rare primitive deuterostomes from the Middle Cambrian of Utah. Journal of Paleontology. Online at http://journals.cambridge.org.

A redescription of Kodymirus
Lamsdell, J. C., Stein, M. & Selden, P. A. 2013. Kodymirus and the case for convergence of raptorial appendages in Cambrian arthropods. Naturwissenschaften 100: 811–825.

Coprolites from the Welsh Borders
See Edwards, D., Selden, P. A. & Axe, L. 2012. Selective feeding in an Early Devonian terrestrial ecosystem. PALAIOS 27: 509–522.

Korearachne jinju from Korea
See Selden, P. A., Nam, K.-S., Kim, S.-H. & Kim, H.-J. 2012. A fossil spider from the Cretaceous of Korea. Journal of Paleontology 86: 1–6.

Mongolarachne jurassica from China
See Selden, P. A., Shih, C-K. & Ren, D. 2011. A golden orb-weaver spider (Araneae: Nephilidae: Nephila) from the Middle Jurassic of China. Biology Letters. [Published online 20 April 2011]. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.0228. Most downloaded article in Biology Letters in 2011

Jurassic plectreurid spider, China
This image was included as one of 14 Images of the Year 2010 published in Van Noorden, R. (ed.). 2010. Images of the Year. Nature 468: 1018–1023.

Jurassic plectreurid spider, China
Selden, P. A. & Huang, D-Y. 2010. The oldest haplogyne spider (Araneae: Plectreuridae), from the Middle Jurassic of China. Naturwissenschaften 97: 449–459.

A review of fossil spiders
Selden, P. A. & Penney, D. 2010. Fossil spiders. Biological Reviews 85: 171–206.

Triassic millipedes
Shear, W. A., Selden, P. A. & Gall, J.-C. 2009. Millipedes from the Grès à Voltzia, Triassic of France, with comments on Mesozoic millipedes (Diplopoda: Helminthomorpha: Eugnatha). International Journal of Myriapodology 2, 1–13.

Cretaceous diplurid spiders
Selden, P. A., Casado, F. da C. & Mesquita, M. V. 2006. Mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Dipluridae) from the Lower Cretaceous Crato Lagerstätte, Araripe Basin, north-east Brazil. Palaeontology 49, 817–826.

Megarachne
Selden, P. A., Corronca, J. A. & Hünicken, M. A. 2005. The true identity of the supposed giant fossil spider Megarachne. Biology Letters 1, 44–48.

Cretaceous orbweaving spiders
Selden, P. A. 1989. Orb-web weaving spiders in the early Cretaceous. Nature 340, 711–713.

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