Jason Andrew Dunlop

Jason Andrew Dunlop (born 1970), British-born palaeontologist and zoologist.

Curator of arachnids, myriapods and stem-group arthropods, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany
E-mail: jason.dunlop@mfn-berlin.de

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Pollitt, J.R., Braddy, S.J. & Dunlop, J.A. 2004. The phylogenetic position of the extinct arachnid order Phalangiotarbida Haase, 1890, with reference to the fauna from the Writhlington Geological Nature Reserve (Somerset, UK). Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 94(3) [for 2003]: 243–259. DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2005)079<0110:CAITOP>2.0.CO;2 . PDF. Reference page.

Poschmann, M., Anderson, L.I. & Dunlop, J.A. 2005. Chelicerate arthropods, including the oldest phalangiotarbid arachnid, from the Early Devonian (Siegenian) of the Rhenish Massif, Germany. Journal of Paleontology 79(1): 110–124. DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2005)079<0110:CAITOP>2.0.CO;2 . Reference page.

Dunlop, J.A. 2006. Baltic amber harvestman types (Arachnida: Opiliones: Eupnoi and Dyspnoi). Fossil Record 9(2): 167–182. DOI: 10.1002/mmng.200600006 ResearchGate PDF. Reference page.
Dunlop, J.A., Fayers, S.R., Hass, H. & Kerp, H. 2006. A new arthropod from the early Devonian Rhynie chert, Aberdeenshire (Scotland), with a remarkable filtering device in the mouthparts. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 80(3): 296–306. DOI: 10.1007/BF02988443 . ResearchGate . Reference page.

Delclòs, X., Azar, A., Bechly, G., Dunlop, J.A., Engel, M.S. & Heads, S.W. 2008. The enigmatic Mesozoic insect taxon Chresmodidae (Polyneoptera): New palaeobiological and phylogenetic data, with the description of a new species from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 247(3): 353–381. DOI: 10.1127/0077-7749/2008/0247-0353 Full article (PDF) on ResearchGate Reference page.

Dunlop, J.A. & Mitov, P. 2009. Fossil harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones) from Bitterfeld amber. In: Stoev, P.; Dunlop, J.; Lazarov, S. (eds) A life caught in a spider's web. Papers in arachnology in honour of Christo Deltshev. ZooKeys 16: 347–375. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.16.224 Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Harms, D. & Dunlop, J.A. 2009. A revision of the fossil pirate spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Mimetidae). Palaeontology 52: 779-802. DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00890.x. . Reference page.
Harms, D., Dunlop, J.A. & Schütt, K. 2009. Neue Nachweise der Gerandeten Wasserspinne Dolomedes plantarius in Brandenburg (Araneae: Pisauridae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 37: 1-8. DOI: 10.5431/aramit3701. . Reference page.

Dunlop, J.A., Sempf, C. & Wunderlich, J. 2010. A new opilioacarid mite in Baltic amber. pp. 59–70 in: Nentwig, W.; Schmidt-Entling, M. & Kropf, C. (eds.) European Arachnology 2008 Reference page.

Dunlop, J.A. & Mitov, P.G. 2011. The first fossil cyphophthalmid harvestman from Baltic amber. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 40: 47–54. Reference page.
Dunlop, J.A. & Penney, D. 2011. Order Araneae Clerck, 1757. Pp 149–153 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . Reference page.
Krüger, J. & Dunlop, J.A. 2011. Schizomids (Arachnida: Schizomida) from Dominican Republic amber. Alavesia 3: 43–53. Reference page.
Liu, J., Steiner, M., Dunlop, J.A., Keupp, H., Shu, D., Ou, Q., Han, J., Zhang, Z. & Zhang, X. 2011. An armoured Cambrian lobopodian from China with arthropod-like appendages. Nature 470(7335): 526–530. DOI: 10.1038/nature09704 . Reference page.

Penney, D., Dunlop, J.A. & Marusik, Y.M. 2012. Summary statistics for fossil spider species taxonomy. ZooKeys 192: 1–13. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.192.3093 . Reference page.
Dunlop, J.A., Penney, D. & Jekel, D. 2013. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In N. Platnick (ed.), The World Spider Catalog, version 14.0. American Museum of Natural History. Reference page.

Jones, F.M., Dunlop, J.A., Friedman, M., Garwood, R.J. 2014. Trigonotarbus johnsoni Pocock, 1911, revealed by X-ray computed tomography, with a cladistic analysis of the extinct trigonotarbid arachnids. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172(1): 49–70. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12167 Reference page.
Selden, P.A. & Dunlop, J.A. 2014. The first fossil spider (Araneae: Palpimanoidea) from the Lower Jurassic (Grimmen, Germany). Zootaxa 3894(1): 161–168. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3894.1.13 Reference page.

Dunlop, J.A., Friederichs, A. & Langermann, J. 2017. A catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(2): 281–295. DOI: 10.3897/zse.93.12882. Reference page.

Dunlop, J.A., Kotthoff, U., Hammel, J.U., Ahrens, J. & Harms, D. 2018. Arachnids in Bitterfeld amber: A unique fauna of fossils from the heart of Europe or simply old friends? Evolutionary Systematics 2: 31–44. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.2.22581 Reference page.
Wang, B., Dunlop, J., Selden, P.A., Garwood, R., Shear, W.A., Müller, P. & Lei, X. 2018. Cretaceous arachnid Chimerarachne yingi gen. et sp. nov. illuminates spider origins. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2: 614–622. DOI: 10.1038/s41559-017-0449-3 . Reference page.

Elsaka, M., Mitov, P.G. & Dunlop, J.A. 2019. New fossil harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) in the Hoffeins amber collection. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 292(2): 155–169. DOI: 10.1127/njgpa/2019/0815 Reference page.

Mitov, P.G., Perkovsky, E.E. & Dunlop, J.A. 2021. Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) in Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine). Zootaxa 4984(1): 43–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.6 Reference page.

Bartel, C., Dunlop, J.A. & Giribet, G. 2023. An unexpected diversity of Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida: Opiliones) in Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber. Zootaxa 5296(3): 421–445. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5296.3.6. . Reference page.
Dunlop, J.A. 2023. The first Palaeozoic spider (Arachnida: Araneae) from Germany. PalZ. 97 (3): 497-504.

Sherwood, D., Dunlop, J.A. & Sharp, A. 2024. On the identity of Opopaea euphorbicola Strand, 1909 and first records of three other non-native goblin spiders from Ascension Island (Araneae: Oonopidae). Zootaxa 5437(1): 125–130. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.1.9. . Reference page.