This week saw the release of my latest book, Great Dinosaur Mistakes. This is my third children’s picture book co-written with Jonathan Emmett and published by Fox & Ink Books (formerly UCLan Books). It is also my second book illustrated by Stieven Van der Poorten. The front cover of Great Dinosaur Mistakes (2026) Great Dinosaur Mistakes explores some of the...
Benson, R. B. J., Butler, R. J.; Lindgren, J. and Smith, A. S. 2009. Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 277, 829-834....
Ketchum, H. F. and Smith, A. S. 2010. The anatomy and taxonomy of Macroplata tenuiceps (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Hettangian (Lower Jurassic) of Warwickshire, United Kingdom. Journal of Vertebrate Palaeontology, 30 (4), 1069–1081. (Download PDF)....
Smith, A. S. 2010. Rare ichthyosaur and plesiosaur material from the Lower Jurassic of Ireland. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences, 28, 47-52....
Krahl, A., Smith, A. S. and Werneburg, I. 2022. Historically transposed flipper pairs in a mounted plesiosaurian skeleton. PalZ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-022-00616-8 (Open access: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12542-022-00616-8)...
Araújo, R. and Smith, A. S. 2023. Recognising and quantifying the evolution of skeletal paedomorphosis in Plesiosauria. Fossil Record, 26(1), 85–101. ...
Smith, A. S. 2013. Morphology of the caudal vertebrae in Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus and a review of the evidence for a tail fin in Plesiosauria. Paludicola, 9 (3), 144–158. (Download PDF)...
Smith, A. S. and Benson, R. B. J. 2014. Osteology of Rhomaleosaurus thorntoni (Sauropterygia: Rhomaleosauridae) from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Northamptonshire, England. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society, London, 168 (642), 1–40, pls 1–35....
Smith, A. S. and Lomax, D. R. 2019. 21. Reptiles – Plesiosauria. In. Lord, A. R. (ed). Fossils from the Lias of the Yorkshire Coast. The Palaeontological Association. pp. 332–345....
Liu, S., Smith, A. S., Gu, Y., Tan, J., Liu, C. K., Turk, G. 2015. Computer simulations imply forelimb-dominated underwater flight in plesiosaurs. PLOS Computational Biology. 11, e1004605....
Smith, A. S. and Dyke, G. J. 2008. The skull of the giant predatory pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus cramptoni: implications for plesiosaur phylogenetics. Naturwissenschaften, 95, 975-980....
Smith, A. S. 2008b. Plesiosaurs from the Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) of Bornholm, Denmark. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28(4), 1213-1217. (Download PDF)...
Smith, A. S. 2008a. Fossils explained 54: plesiosaurs. Geology Today. 24, (2), 71-75....
Smith, A. S. 2007a. Anatomy and systematics of the Rhomaleosauridae (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria). Unpublished PhD thesis. University College Dublin, 278pp. (download PDF – 12.5mb)...
Smith, A. S. 2006. Dublin’s Jurassic ‘Sea-Dragon’. Science Spin – Geoscience, 17, 26-27....