John A. Long

John A. Long is an Australian palaeontologist at Museum Victoria in Melbourne. His main area of research is on the fossil fish of the Late Devonian Gogo Formation from northern Western Australia. It has yielded many important insights into fish evolution, such as Gogonasus and Materpiscis.

References

• Long, J. A., 1985, "A new osteolepidid fish from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation of Western Australia", Recs. W. A. Mus. 12, 361–377.
• Long, J. A. 1988, Late Devonian fishes from Gogo, Western Australia. Nat. Geog Research & Exploration 4: 436-450.
• Long, J. A. et al., 1997, "Osteology and functional morphology of the osteolepiform fish Gogonasus Long, 1985, from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation, Western Australia", Recs. W. A. Mus. Suppl. 57, 1–89
• Long, J. A. et al., 2006, "An exceptional Devonian fish from Australia sheds light on tetrapod origins", Nature 444, 199-202
• Long, J. A. 2006. "Swimming in Stone - the amazing Gogo fossils of the Kimberley" Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle. 320pp. ISBN 1-921064-33-1
• Long, J. A., Trinajstic, K., Young, G. C. & Senden, T. 2008. "Live birth in the Devonian period". Nature 453 (7195): 650–652