Robert W. Gess’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro South African paleontologist (born 1968)
A.K.A. Gess, Robert Wolfgang Gess
Is Scientist
Paleontologist
From South Africa
Type Biology
Science
Gender male
Birth

9 November 1968

Age 52 years
Star sign Scorpio

Robert W. Gess, palaeontologist.

  • Bernard Price Institute (Palaeontology), School of Geosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2050, South Africa
  • E-mail: [email protected]

Taxon names authored

  • 3 taxon names authored by Robert W. Gess

Publications

  • Gess, R. W. & Coates, M. I., 2015: High-latitude Chondrichthyans from the Late Devonian (Famennian) Witpoort formation of South Africa. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 89 (2): 147–169. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-014-0221-9
  • Gess, R. W. & Coates, M. I., 2015: Fossil juvenile coelacanths from the Devonian of South Africa shed light on the order of character acquisition in actinistians. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 175 (2): 360–383. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12276 Reference page. 
Authority control
  • ZooBank: 87E0E61E-EA05-42FD-925F-FFD3BF279A2F
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