Derek E G Briggs Author & Editor

Derek E. G. Briggs is an Irish palaeontologist and taphonomist based at Yale University. Briggs is one of three palaeontologists, along with Harry Blackmore Whittington and Simon Conway Morris, who were key in the reinterpretation of the fossils of the Burgess Shale.

Peter R. Crowther is the editor of Palaeobiology II, published by Wiley.