Gess, R.W. & Burrow, C.J. (2024)
A new gyracanthid (stem Chondrichthyes) from the Late Devonian (Famennian) of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, in press
DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2024.2305888

Coates, M.I. & Gess, R.W. & Finarelli, J.A. & Criswell, K.E. & Tietjen, K. (2017)
A symmoriiform chondrichthyan braincase and the origin of chimaeroid fishes. Nature, 541(7636), 208–211
DOI: 10.1038/nature20806

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. (2011)
High latitude Gondwanan famennian biodiversity patterns : evidence from the South African Witpoort Formation (Cape Supergroup, Witteberg Group). unpublished thesis, Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2011

Coates, M.I. & Gess, R.W. (2007)
A new reconstruction of Onychoselache traquairi, comments on early chondrichthyan pectoral girdles and hybodontiform phylogeny. Palaeontology, 50(6), 1421–1446
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00719.x

Anderson, M.E. & Long, J.A. & Gess, R.W. & Hiller, N. (1999)
An unusual new fossil shark (Pisces: Chondrichthyes) from the Late Devonian of South Africa. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement, 57, 151–156