Research

Papers

Two partial actinopterygian neocrania (occipital ossifications) from Blue Beach, Nova Scotia

2025. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences e-first

CD Wilson, JS Anderson, and CF Mansky

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A new predatory actinopterygian from the Tournaisian of Nova Scotia provides insight into the evolution of actinopterygian feeding

2025. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2498453

CD Wilson, JS Anderson, and CF Mansky

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It pays to be bumpy: drag reducing armor in the Pacific spiny lump-sucker, Eumicrotremus orbis

2023. Integrative and Comparative Biology 63(3):796-907

RC Hoover, OH Hawkins, J Rosen, CD Wilson, CH Crawford, MM Holst, JM Huie, AP Summers, CM Donatelli, and KE Cohen

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A platysomid occurrence from the Tournaisian of Nova Scotia

2021. Scientific Reports 11:8375

CD Wilson, CF Mansky, and JS Anderson

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A primitive actinopterygian braincase from the Tournaisian of Nova Scotia

2018. Royal Society Open Science 5:171727

CD Wilson, JD Pardo, and JS Anderson

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Conferences

I regularly attend and present research at major conferences, including the:

  • International Symposium on Early and Lower Vertebrates
  • International Palaeontological Congress
  • Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology
  • Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
  • Canadian Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology
  • Alberta Palaeontological Society