Henning Blom
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Organismal Biology; Evolution and Development
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 62 23
- E-mail:
- Henning.Blom@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum EBC Norbyv. 18A
- Postal address:
- Norbyv. 18A
752 36 UPPSALA
- Academic merits:
- PhD, Docent

Publications
Recent publications
Part of PeerJ, 2025
- DOI for The braincase anatomy of Simosaurus gaillardoti (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) revealed with X-ray micro-computed tomography
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Part of Historical Biology, p. 778-791, 2025
- DOI for Evolving trends in vertebrate palaeontology (2013–2022): a bibliometric analysis using DeepBone and Web of Science databases
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Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2025
- DOI for A decade of vertebrate palaeontology research: global taxa distribution, gender dynamics and evolving methodologies
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Thelodont scales from the Lower Devonian of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Arctic Russia.
Part of Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, p. 9-14, 2023
Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2022
All publications
Articles in journal
Part of PeerJ, 2025
- DOI for The braincase anatomy of Simosaurus gaillardoti (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) revealed with X-ray micro-computed tomography
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Part of Historical Biology, p. 778-791, 2025
- DOI for Evolving trends in vertebrate palaeontology (2013–2022): a bibliometric analysis using DeepBone and Web of Science databases
- Download full text (pdf) of Evolving trends in vertebrate palaeontology (2013–2022): a bibliometric analysis using DeepBone and Web of Science databases
Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2025
- DOI for A decade of vertebrate palaeontology research: global taxa distribution, gender dynamics and evolving methodologies
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Thelodont scales from the Lower Devonian of Novaya Zemlya Archipelago, Arctic Russia.
Part of Spanish Journal of Palaeontology, p. 9-14, 2023
Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2022
Part of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2022
- DOI for Coprolite diversity reveals a cryptic ecosystem in an early Tournaisian lake in East Greenland: Implications for ecosystem recovery after the end-Devonian extinctio
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Part of GFF, p. 168-189, 2021
Tooth morphology elucidates shark evolution across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
Part of PLoS biology, 2021
- DOI for Tooth morphology elucidates shark evolution across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
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The emergence of a complex pore-canal system in the dermal skeleton of Tremataspis (Osteostraci)
Part of Journal of morphology, p. 1141-1157, 2021
- DOI for The emergence of a complex pore-canal system in the dermal skeleton of Tremataspis (Osteostraci)
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Part of eLIFE, 2020
- DOI for The developmental relationship between teeth and dermal odontodes in the most primitive bony fish Lophosteus
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Marginal dentition and multiple dermal jawbones as the ancestral condition of jawed vertebrates
Part of Science, p. 211-+, 2020
Part of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2020
Part of Norwegian Journal of Geology, p. 129-155, 2019
- DOI for Silurian vertebrate remains from the Oslo Region, Norway, and their implications for regional biostratigraphy
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A partial lower jaw of a tetrapod from "Romer's Gap"
Part of Earth and environmental science transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, p. 55-65, 2018
Part of Geological Magazine, p. 1523-1541, 2018
Part of Global and Planetary Change, p. 87-98, 2018
Part of Current Biology, p. 2607-2615, 2018
- DOI for Static Dental Disparity and Morphological Turnover in Sharks across the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction
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Part of Biological Reviews, p. 1189-1212, 2017
Part of Royal Society Open Science, 2017
- DOI for Development of cyclic shedding teeth from semi-shedding teeth: the inner dental arcade of the stem osteichthyan Lophosteus
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Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2016
Part of PeerJ, 2016
- DOI for Three-dimensional paleohistology of the scale and median fin spine of Lophosteus superbus (Pander 1856)
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2016
- DOI for Boreal earliest Triassic biotas elucidate globally depauperate hard substrate communities after the end-Permian mass extinction
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The stem osteichthyan Andreolepis and the origin of tooth replacement
Part of Nature, p. 237-+, 2016
Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2016
Part of Estonian journal of earth sciences, p. 36-41, 2015
Part of Estonian journal of earth sciences, p. 115-120, 2015
Part of Estonian journal of earth sciences, p. 13-18, 2015
Part of Journal of morphology, p. 873-888, 2015
Part of Springer Geology, p. 1167-1171, 2014
Geochemistry of fossilised dental remains - key to palaeobiology and palaeoenvironment.
Part of GFF, p. 25, 2013
Thelodont scales from the Lower and Middle Devonian Andree Land Group, Spitsbergen
Part of GFF, p. 57-73, 2013
Scales and Tooth Whorls of Ancient Fishes Challenge Distinction between External and Oral 'Teeth'
Part of PLOS ONE, 2013
- DOI for Scales and Tooth Whorls of Ancient Fishes Challenge Distinction between External and Oral 'Teeth'
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Phylogenetic relationships of the cyathaspidids (Heterostraci)
Part of GFF, p. 74-84, 2013
A Silurian placoderm with osteichthyan-like marginal jaw bones
Part of Nature, p. 188-+, 2013
Testing models of dental development in the earliest bony vertebrates, Andreolepis and Lophosteus
Part of Biology Letters, p. 833-837, 2012
Part of Palaeontology, p. 73-86, 2012
Scale morphology and squamation of the Late Silurian osteichthyan Andreolepis from Gotland, Sweden
Part of Historical Biology, p. 411-423, 2012
New birkeniid anaspid from the Lower Devonian of Scotland and its phylogenetic implications
Part of Palaeontology, p. 641-652, 2012
Scale morphology and squamation of Andreolepis from the Late Silurian of Gotland, Sweden
Part of GFF, p. 60-61, 2011
The sedimentary environment of the Late Devonian EastGreenland tetrapods
Part of Geological Society Special Publication, p. 93-109, 2010
Correcting taxon names containing diacritics - examples from Paleozoic vertebrates
Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, p. 269-270, 2009
Anaspid morphology and the shaping of the gnathostome body plan.
Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2008
Silurian thelodonts from the Niur Formation, central Iran
Part of Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, p. 85-95, 2008
Ventastega curonica and the origin of tetrapod morphology
Part of Nature, p. 1199-1204, 2008
- DOI for Ventastega curonica and the origin of tetrapod morphology
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A new anaspid fish from the middle Silurian Cowie Harbour fish bed of Stonehaven, Scotland
Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, p. 594-600, 2008
A new scolenaspidid (Osteostraci) from the lower Devonian of Podolia, Ukraine
Part of Paläontologische Zeitschrift, p. 314-323, 2008
Jaws and teeth of the earliest bony fishes
Part of Nature, p. 583-586, 2007
Part of Journal of Paleontology, p. 1186-1204, 2006
Part of Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark, 2006
The postcranial skeleton of the Devonian tetrapod Ichthyostega from East Greenland.
Part of GFF, p. 45, 2005
Ontogeny of the humerus in Ichthyostega.
Part of PaleoBios, p. 30, 2005
Interrelationships and evolutionary history of the anaspid fishes.
Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2005
Taxonomic revision of the Late Devonian tetrapod Ichthyostega from East Greenland.
Part of Palaeontology, p. 111-134, 2005
Part of Meddelelser of Grönland, Geoscience, p. 4-50, 2005
New insights into the postcranial skeleton of Ichthyostega.
Part of Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2003
Fossils explained 46: Anaspids
Part of Geology Today, p. 111-114, 2003
A new birkeniid anaspid from the Upper Silurian of Skåne, south Sweden
Part of GFF, p. 57-61, 2003
Silurian and earliest Devonian Birkeniid anaspids from the northern Hemisphere
Part of Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Earth sciences, p. 263-323, 2001
Part of Acta geologica Polonica, p. 97-104, 1999
Vertebrate remains from Upper Silurian: Lower Devonian beds of Hall Land, North Greenland
Part of Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin, p. 1-80, 1999
The extinction and survival of sharks across the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
Articles, review/survey
Biodiversity of the Silurian osteostracans of the East Baltic
Part of Earth and environmental science transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, p. 73-148, 2014
Devonian vertebrates from East Greenland: a review of faunal composition and distribution
Part of Geodiversitas, p. 119-141, 2007
Books
ArtDatabanken, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, 2011
Chapters in book
The interrelationships and evolutionary history of anaspids
Part of Morphology, Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Fossil Fishes, p. 45-58, Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, 2010
Part of Devonian Events and Correlations - SDS volume in honour of M. House, p. 219-235, 2007
Part of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 10th Edition, p. 651, 2007
Silurian vertebrates from North Greenland
2000
Collections (editor)
Conference papers
2018
Andrée Land of Spitsbergen: Devonian vertebrate diversity and palaeoenvironments
2018
2017
Part of Abstract volume of the 13th International symposium on Early and Lower Vertebrates, 2015
Did ‘Devonian’ fish become extinct at the D-C boundary
Part of 2nd International Congress on Stratigraphy, STRATI 2015,19. - 23. July 2015, Graz, Austria, p. 239-239, 2015
2015
Biostratigraphy of early vertebrates on Gotland
Part of 4th Annual Meeting of IGCP 591, Estonia, 10 - 19 June 2014., p. 21-21, 2014
Part of 4th Annual Meeting of IGCP 591 The Early to Middle Paleozoic Revolution Estonia, 10-19 June 2014Abstracts & Field Guide, p. 105-105, 2014
Part of STRATI 2013, p. 1167-1171, 2014
Part of Résumés dela 24e Réunion des Sciences de la Terre Abstracts, p. 257-257, 2014
Part of Résumés dela 24eRéunion des Sciences de la Terre Abstracts, p. 481-481, 2014
Geochemistry of dental bioapatite, the key to palaeoclimate
Part of Proceedings of the 3rd IGCP 591 Annual Meeting, Lund, Sweden, 9-19 June 2013, p. 361-362, 2013
2013
Part of Program and Abstracts, p. 103-103, 2013
p. 11543, 2012
Part of Geophysical Research Abstracts, 2012
REE compositions in fossil vertebrate dental tissues indicate biomineral preservation
Part of Geophysical Research Abstracts, 2012
The affinity of Lophosteus and the evolution of osteichthyan characters
p. 12-13, 2011
Scale morphology and squamation of Andreolepis from the Late Silurian of Gotland, Sweden
p. 15-16, 2011
The affinity of Lophosteus and the evolution of osteichthyan characters
p. 12-13, 2011
REE compositions in fossil vertebrate dental tissues – key to biomineral preservation
Part of The Palaeontological Association Newsletter, 2011
Affinities of Lophosteus and the origin of the osteichthyan body plan
2011
Geochemistry of fossilised dental remains: a key to palaeobiology and palaeoenvironment
Part of Abstracts, p. 24-25, 2011
Three-dimensional histology of tooth cushions of Lophosteus from the Upper Silurian of Estonia
Part of Abstracts, p. 5-6, 2011
Phylogenetic patterns in the heterostracan families Cyathaspidae, Ariaspidae and Ctenaspidae
Part of Abstracts, p. 16-17, 2011
The primitive antiarch Yunnanolepis from China: a microtomographic study
Part of Abstracts, p. 8-9, 2011
Part of Abstracts, p. 20-21, 2011
Part of Program and Abstracts, p. 177-177, 2011
Three-dimensional histology of tooth cushions of Lophosteus from the Late Silurian of Estonia
Part of Program and Abstracts, p. 87-87, 2011
Part of Programme and Abstracts, p. 80-81, 2010
Part of Forty years of Early Vertebrates: papers from the 11th International Symposium on Early and Lower Vertebrates., p. 1-2, 2009
Part of Terrestrialization influenses on the Palaeozoic geosphere-biospere (Workshop ECLIPSE II, Paris, 8-9 october), 2007
A new scolenaspidid (Osteostraci) from the Lower Devonian of Podolia, Ukraine
Part of Lundadagarna i historisk geologi och paleontologi, 2007
A new scolenaspidid (Osteostraci) from the Lower Devonian of Podolia, Ukraine
Part of 40th Anniversary Symposium on Early Vertebrates/Lower Vertebrates Uppsala, Sweden, August 13-16, 2007H, p. 24, 2007
Andreolepis and Lophosteus: jaws, teeth and scales of the earliest bony fishes
Part of 40th Anniversary Symposium on Early Vertebrates/Lower Vertebrates Uppsala, Sweden, August 13-16, 2007, p. 14, 2007
Andreolepis and Lophosteus: scales, jaws and teeth of the earliest bony fishes
2007
Silurian thelodonts from the Niur Formation, east central Iran. Early vertebrates
Part of 40th Anniversary Symposium on Early Vertebrates/Lower Vertebrates Uppsala, Sweden, August 13-16, 2007, p. 43-44, 2007
Part of Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, p. 341, 2006
Ontogeny of the humerus in Ichthyostega
Part of SVPCA, Paris. Abstracts, 2006
Conference proceedings (editor)
Manuscripts (preprints)
Other
Part of Geological Magazine, p. 1032-1032, 2007
2007