Richard Paul Scofield

Richard Paul Scofield (fl. 2010), New Zealand paleontologist, ornithologist, herpetologist.

Canterbury Museum, Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand 8013.
Natural Sciences Collections, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Domplatz 4, D-06108 Halle (Saale), Germany.
E-mail: pscofield@canterburymuseum.com]

Taxon names authored

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15 taxon names authored by Richard Paul Scofield

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2009

Bunce, M., Worthy, T.H., Phillips, M.J., Holdaway, R.N., Willerslev, E., Haile, J., Shapiro, B., Scofield, R.P., Drummond, A.J., Kamp, P.J.J. & Cooper, A. 2009. The evolutionary history of the extinct ratite moa and New Zealand Neogene paleogeography. PNAS 106(49): 20646–20651. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906660106 Reference page.

2010

Gill, B.J., Bell, B.D., Chambers, G.K., Medway, D.G., Palma, R.L., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., & Worthy, T.H. 2010. Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands, and the Ross Dependency, Antarctica. 4th ed. Te Tapa Press, Wellington, New Zealand: 500 pp. ISBN 978-1-877385-59-9. ResearchGate Reference page.
Worthy, T.H., Hand, S.J., Nguyen, J.M.T., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P., Scofield, R.P., Boles, W.E. & Archer, M. 2010. Biogeographical and phylogenetic implications of an Early Miocene wren (Aves: Passeriformes: Acanthisittidae) from New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(2): 479–498. DOI: 10.1080/02724631003618033 Reference page.

2011

Worthy, T.H., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Scofield, R.P. 2011. Fossils reveal an early Miocene presence of the aberrant gruiform Aves: Aptornithidae in New Zealand. Journal of Ornithology 152(3): 669–680. DOI: 10.1007/s10336-011-0649-6 ResearchGate. Reference page.

2012

Worthy, T.H. & Scofield, R.P. 2012. Twenty-first century advances in knowledge of the biology of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes): a new morphological analysis and moa diagnoses revised. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 39(2): 87–153. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2012.665060 Reference page.
Schwarzhans, W., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., Worthy, J.P. & Worthy, T.H. 2012. Fish remains, mostly otoliths, from the non-marine early Miocene of Otago, New Zealand. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(2): 319–350. DOI: 10.4202/app.2010.0127 Reference page.

2013

Hand, S.J., Worthy, T.H., Archer, M., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Scofield, R.P. 2013. Miocene mystacinids (Chiroptera, Noctilionoidea) indicate a long history for endemic bats in New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(6): 1442–1448. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.775950 Reference page.
Scofield, R.P., Cooper, J.H. & Turvey, S.T. 2013. A naturalist of the very first order? Percy William Earl (1811–1846) in New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 26: 1–19. Full volume (PDF) Reference page.
Worthy, T.H., Tennyson, A.J.D., Scofield, R.P. & Hand, S.J. 2013. Early Miocene fossil frogs (Anura: Leiopelmatidae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 43(4): 211–230. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2013.825300 Reference page.
Worthy, T.H., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., Salisbury, S.W., Hand, S.J. & Scofield, R.P. 2013. Miocene fossils show that kiwi (Apteryx, Apterygidae) are probably not phyletic dwarves. Pp. 63-80 in: Göhlich, U.B. & Kroh, A. (eds.), Paleornithological Research 2013: Proceedings of the 8th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, Vienna, 2012. Verlag des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Vienna, 2013. ResearchGate Reference page.
Worthy, T.H., Worthy, J.P., Tennyson, A.J.D. & Scofield, R.P. 2013. A bittern (Aves: Ardeidae) from the early Miocene of New Zealand. Paleontological journal 47(11): 1331-1343. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030113110154 Reference page.

2014

Rawlence, N.J., Kennedy, M., Waters, J.M. & Scofield, R.P. 2014. Morphological and ancient DNA analyses reveal inaccurate labels on two of Buller's bird specimens. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand: 44(4): 163–169. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2014.972962 Reference page.
Jarvis, E.D., Mirarab, S, Aberer, A.J., Li, B., Houde, P., Li, C., Ho, S.Y.W., Faircloth, B.C., Nabholz, B., Howard, J.T., Suh, A., Weber, C.C., da Fonseca, R.R., Li, J., Zhang, F., Li, H., Zhou, L., Narula, N., Liu, L., Ganapathy, G., Boussau, B., Bayzid, S., Zavidovych, V., Subramanian, S., Gabaldón, T., Capella-Gutiérrez, S., Huerta-Cepas, J., Rekepalli, B., Munch, K., Schierup, M., Lindow, B., Warren, W.C., Ray, D., Green, R.E., Bruford, M.W., Zhan, X., Dixon, A., Li, S., Li, N., Huang, Y., Derryberry, E.P., Bertelsen, M.F., Sheldon, F.H., Brumfield, R.T., Mello, C.V., Lovell, P.V., Wirthlin, M., Schneider, M.P.C., Prosdocimi, F., Samaniego, J.A., Vargas Velazquez, A.M., Alfaro-Núñez, A., Campos, P.F., Petersen, B., Sicheritz-Ponten, T., Pas, A., Bailey, T., Scofield, P., Bunce, M., Lambert, D.M., Zhou, Q., Perelman, P., Driskell, A.C., Shapiro, B., Xiong, Z., Zeng, Y., Liu, S., Li, Z., Liu, B., Wu, K., Xiao, J., Yinqi, X., Zheng, Q., Zhang, Y., Yang, H., Wang, J., Smeds, L., Rheindt, F.E., Braun, M., Fjeldså, J., Orlando, L., Barker, F.K., Jønsson, K.A., Johnson, W., Koepfli, K.-P., O’Brien, S.J., Haussler, D., Ryder, O.A., Rahbek, C., Willerslev, E., Graves, G.R., Glenn, T.C., McCormack, J., Burt, D., Ellegren, H., Alström, P., Edwards, S.V., Stamatakis, A., Mindell, D.P., Cracraft, J., Braun, E.L., Warnow, T., Jun, W., Gilbert, M.T.P. & Zhang, G. 2014. Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds. Science 346 (6215): 1320–1331. DOI: 10.1126/science.1253451 ResearchGate. Supplementary materials: PDF Reference page.

2017

Mayr, G., Scofield, R.P., De Pietri, V.L. & Tennyson, A.J.D. 2017. A Paleocene penguin from New Zealand substantiates multiple origins of gigantism in fossil Sphenisciformes. Nature Communications 8 Art. 1927. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01959-6 Reference page.
Schodde, R., Tennyson, A.J.D., Groth, J.G., Lai, J., Scofield, P. & Steinheimer, F.D. 2017. Settling the name Diomedea exulans Linnaeus, 1758 for the Wandering Albatross by neotypification. Zootaxa 4236(1): 135–148. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4236.1.7. Reference page.
Turvey, S.T., Almonte, J., Hansford, J., Scofield, R.P., Brocca, J.L. & Chapman, S.D. 2017. A new species of extinct Late Quaternary giant tortoise from Hispaniola. Zootaxa 4277(1): 1–16. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4277.1.1. Reference page.

2018

Hand, S.J., Beck, R.M.D., Archer, M., Simmons, N.B., Gunnell, G.F., Scofield, R.P., Tennyson, A.J.D., De Pietri, V.L., Salisbury, S.W. & Worthy, T.H. 2018. A New, Large-bodied Omnivorous Bat (Noctilionoidea: Mystacinidae) reveals Lost Morphological and Ecological Diversity since the Miocene in New Zealand. Scientific Reports 8: 235. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18403-w Reference page.
Mayr, G., De Pietri, V.L., Scofield, R.P. & Worthy, T.H. 2018. On the taxonomic composition and phylogenetic affinities of the recently proposed clade Vegaviidae Agnolín et al., 2017 — neornithine birds from the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Hemisphere. Cretaceous Research 86: 178–185. DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2018.02.013 Reference page.

2020

De Pietri, V.L., Worthy, T.H., Scofield, R.P., Cole, T.L., Wood, J.R., Cibois, A., Jansen, J.J.F.J., Zhang, G., Mitchell, K.J., Feng, S., Chen, W., Tennyson, A.J.D., & Wragg, G.M. 2020. A new extinct species of Polynesian sandpiper (Charadriiformes: Scolopacidae: Prosobonia) from Henderson Island, Pitcairn Group, and the phylogenetic relationships of Prosobonia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa115 Reference page.

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