2024
Dearden RP, Herrel A, and Pradel A (2024) The pharynx of the iconic stem-group chondrichthyan Acanthodes (Agassiz, 1833) revisited with micro computed tomography. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Dearden RP, Jones AS, Giles S, Lanzetti A, Grohganz M, Johanson Z, Lautenschlager S, Randle E, Donoghue PCJ, Sansom IJ (2024) The three-dimensionally articulated oral apparatus of a Devonian heterostracan sheds light on feeding in Palaeozoic jawless fishes. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Yu D, Ren Y, Uesaka M et al. (including Dearden RP) (2024) Hagfish genome elucidates vertebrate whole genome duplication events and their evolutionary consequences. Nature Ecology & Evolution
2023
Dearden RP, Lanzetti A, Giles S, Johanson Z, Jones AS, Lautenschlager S, Randle E, Sansom IJ (2023) The oldest three-dimensionally preserved vertebrate neurocranium. Nature
Dearden RP, Herrel A, and Pradel A (2023) Evidence for high-performance suction feeding in the Pennsylvanian stem-group holocephalan Iniopera. PNAS
2022
Clements T, Atterby J, Cleary T, Dearden RP, and Rossi V (2022) The perception of palaeontology in commercial off-the-shelf video games and an assessment of their potential as educational tools. Geoscience Communication
2021
Dearden RP and Giles S (2021) Diverse stem-chondrichthyan oral structures and evidence for an independently acquired acanthodid dentition. Royal Society Open Science
Pradel A, Dearden RP, Cuckovic A, Mansuit R, and Janvier PJ (2021) The visceral skeleton and its relation to the head circulatory system of both a fossil, the Carboniferous Iniopera, and a modern, Callorhinchus milii holocephalan (Chondrichthyes). Ancient Fishes and their living relatives: a tribute to John G Maisey edited by Alan Pradel, John S.S. Denton, and Philippe Janvier, Pfeil-Verlag
Dearden RP, den Blaauwen JL, Sansom IJ, Burrow CJ, Davidson R, Newman MJ, Ko A, and Brazeau MD (2021) A revision of Vernicomacanthus Miles with comments on the characters of stem-group chondrichthyans. Papers in Palaeontology
Dearden RP, Mansuit R., Cuckovic A, Herrel A, Dominique D, Tafforeau P, and Pradel A (2021) The morphology and evolution of chondrichthyan cranial muscles: a digital dissection of the elephantfish Callorhinchus milii and the catshark Scyliorhinus canicula. Journal of Anatomy
2020
Brazeau MD, Giles S, Dearden RP, Jerve A, Ariunchimeg YA, Zorig E, Sansom R, Guillerme T, and Castiello M (2020) Endochondral bone in an Early Devonian ‘placoderm’ from Mongolia. Nature Ecology and Evolution
2019
Dearden RP, Stockey CS, and Brazeau MD (2019) The pharynx of the stem-chondrichthyan Ptomacanthus and the early evolution of the gnathostome gill skeleton. Nature Communications