David John Ward (born 1948), British palaeontologist.

• E-mail: david@fossil.ws

Taxon names authored

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• 32 taxon names authored by David J. Ward

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Underwood, C. J. & Ward, D. J., 2004: Neoselachian Sharks and rays from the Britisch Bathonian (Middle Jurassic). Palaeontology 47 (3): 447-501, 15 pl. DOI: 10.1111/j.0031-0239.2004.00386.x Reference page. 
• Underwood, C.J. & Ward, D.J., 2008. Sharks of the Order Carcharhiniformes from the British Coniacian, Santonian and Campanian (Upper Cretaceous). Palaeontology 51(3): 509-536. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00757.x Reference page. 
• Guinot, G., Underwood, C. J., Cappetta, H. & Ward, D. J., 2012: Squatiniformes (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) from the Late Cretaceous of southern England and northern France with redescription of the holotype of Squatina cranei Woodward, 1888. Palaeontology 55: 529–551. Reference page. 
• Claeson, K.M., Underwood, C.J. & Ward, D.J. 2013. †Tingitanius tenuimandibulus, a new platyrhinid batoid from the Turonian (Cretaceous) of Morocco and the cretaceous radiation of the Platyrhinidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 33(5): 1019–1036. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.767266 Reference page. 
• Shimada, K. & Ward, D.J. 2016. The oldest fossil record of the megamouth shark from the late Eocene of Denmark, and comments on the enigmatic megachasmid origin. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61(4): 839–845. DOI: 10.4202/app.00248.2016 . Reference page.