Ivan Sansom

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name = Ivan Sansom


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birth_place = Prestatyn, Wales flagicon|Wales
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field = Palaeontology
work_institution = University of Birmingham
alma_mater = University of Durham University of Aston
doctoral_advisor = Howard Armstrong and M. Paul Smith
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prizes = Hodson Fund of the Palaeontological Association
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Ivan Sansom (born Prestatyn) is a British palaeontologist, Senior Lecturer in Palaeobiology at the University of Birmingham.

Sansom's research primarily has focused on the conodont palaeobiology and the early Palaeozoic radiation of vertebrates

Selected publications

* Sansom, I. J., Smith, M. P., Armstrong, H. A. and Smith, M. M. 1992. Presence of the earliest vertebrate hard tissues in conodonts. Science 256: 1308-1311.]
* Sansom, I. J., Smith, M. P. and Smith, M. M. 1994. Dentine in conodonts. Nature 368: 591.
* Sansom, I. J., Smith, M. P. and Smith, M. M. 1996. Scales of thelodont and shark-like fishes from the Ordovician. Nature 379: 628-630.
* Smith, M. P., Sansom, I. J. and Repetski, J. E. 1996. Histology of the first fish. Nature 380: 702-704.
* Coates, M. I., Sequeira, S. E. K., Sansom, I. J. and Smith, M. M. 1998. Spines and tissues of ancient sharks. Nature 396: 729-730.
* Sansom, I. J., Donoghue, P. C. J. and Albanesi, G. L. 2005. Histology and affinity of the earliest armoured vertebrate. Biology Letters 2: 446-449.