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Sam William Heads

Associate Research Scientist, Paleontology

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Research Scientist, Paleontology, Illinois Natural History Survey
Affiliate, Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies

Recent Publications

Heads, S. W., Thomas, M. J., Hedlund, T. J., & Wang, Y. (2023). A new fossil katydid of the genus Arethaea Stål (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with exceptionally preserved internal organs from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado. Palaeoentomology, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.10

Heads, S., Kolata, D., & Guensburg, T. E. (2023). On the type material of the Upper Ordovician mitrate “carpoid” Diamphidiocystis drepanon Kolata & Guensburg (Echinodermata: Stylophora). Kentiana, (3), 1-2. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.kentiana.n3.1179

Heads, S., & Taylor, S. (2022). First record of a fossil coral (Anthozoa) from Pleistocene deposits at Terra Ceia, North Carolina. Kentiana, (2), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.21900/j.kentiana.n2.1160

Heads, S., Thuy, B., & Tamarri, J. (2022). Two new species of Archelcana Sharov (Orthoptera: Elcanidae) from the Lower Jurassic of Luxembourg. Kentiana, (1). https://doi.org/10.21900/j.kentiana.n1.1121

Swanson, D. R., Heads, S. W., Taylor, S. J., & Wang, Y. (2021). A new remarkably preserved fossil assassin bug (Insecta, Heteroptera, Reduviidae) from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado. Papers in Palaeontology, 7(3), 1459-1478. https://doi.org/10.1002/spp2.1349

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