Dr Charles Underwood

Positions held:

Professor of Palaeobiology, School of Natural Sciences
Assistant Dean, Earth and Planetary Sciences; School of Natural Sciences

Address

Room 604, Malet Street

Email

Birkbeck: c.underwood@bbk.ac.uk

Research
Research

Research interests
- The evolution and palaeontology of sharks and relatives
- Development and evolution of teeth and related structures of cartilaginous vertebrates
- Mesozoic and Cenozoic marine palaeontology
Research overview

At present I am following up several different research directions within the general field of chondrichthyes palaeontology and evolution.
In collaboration with workers both in the UK and overseas I am studying the evolution and development of teeth and other tooth-like structures in sharks and other chondrichthyes. Initial work focussed on cross disciplinary studies using data from fossils, modern specimens and developmental biology to look at biological and ecological control of tooth formation. Thus subsequently expanded to include teeth like structures such as rostral denticles (in sawfish etc) and especially the tooth plates of holocephalans.
This research area is now expanding to include study on the mineralisation of the shark skeleton in relation to both their evolution and ecology.
I am also continuing a long term research interest in the evolution and radiation of sharks and rays in the Mesozoic and Paleogene. This has especially focussed on the Jurassic-Cretaceous radiation of neoselachians, and the radiation of sharks following the end-Cretaceous extinction event.
Related to shark radiation, I am also working on the palaeoecology of sharks are rays, particularly focussing on niche filling during marine radiations and also the repeated incursions of sharks and rays into fresh water.

Research Centres and Institutes
- Natural History Museum
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions external to Birkbeck:

3

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

5

I am always willing to hear from prospective PhD students who have interests that are similar to my research.

Current doctoral researchers
- REBEKAH SMITH
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2015 onwards
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
- SALLY COLLINS
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2015
  
  Title of thesis:
  Understanding the mechanisms of polyphyodonty: insights gained from tooth replacement in fish.
  
  Awarded:
  2023
- SIMON WILLS
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor
  
  Title of thesis:
  Dinosaur micro-remains from the Middle Jurassic of Britain
  
  Awarded:
  2023
- EDUARDO VILLALOBOS SEGURA
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2016
  
  Title of thesis:
  Review of Sclerorhynchoids (chondrichthyes: batoidea) and its phylogenetic and taxonomic implications
  
  Awarded:
  2020
Teaching

I currently teach a number of different modules at Birkbeck:
Invertebrate Palaeontology (Level 4)
Vertebrate Palaeontology (Level 6)
Palaeoecology (Level 6)

In addition I regularly organise and run field classes (or virtual field classes in 2021) at levels 4, 5 or 6.
I am also currently working on al new module that will be run in conjunction with Birkbeck History, Archaeology and Classics.

Teaching modules
- Life and the Fossil Record (EASC042H4)
- Assessed Field Techniques 3 (EASC055H6)
- The Vertebrate Fossil Record (SCES050H6)
Publications
Publications
Article
- Wills, Simon and Underwood, Charles and Barrett, P. (2024) A hidden diversity of ornithischian dinosaurs: UK Middle Jurassic microvertebrate faunas shed light on a poorly represented period. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology ISSN 0272-4634.
- Türtscher, J. and Jambura, P. and Villalobos-Segura, E. and López-Romero, F. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Thies, D. and Lauer, B. and Lauer, R. and Kriwet, J. (2024) Rostral body shape analyses reveal cryptic diversity of Late Jurassic batomorphs (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from Europe. Papers in Palaeontology 10 (2), pp. e1552. ISSN 2056-2799.
- Sternes, P. and Jambura, P. and Türtscher, J. and Kriwet, J. and Siversson, M. and Feichtinger, I. and Naylor, G. and Maisey,, J. and Tomita, T. and Moyer, J. and Higham, T. and da Silva, J.P. and Bornatowski, H. and Long, D. and Perez, V. and Collareta, A. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D. and Vullo, R. and González-Barba, G. and Maisch, H. and Griffiths, M. and Becker, M. and Wood, J. and Shimada, K. (2024) White shark comparison reveals a slender body for the extinct megatooth shark, Otodus megalodon (Lamniformes: Otodontidae). Palaeontologia Electronica (27.1.a), ISSN 1094-8074.
- Wills, Simon and Underwood, Charlie J. and Barrett, P. (2023) Machine learning confirms new records of maniraptoran theropods in Middle Jurassic. Papers in Palaeontology (e1487), pp. 1-28. ISSN 2056-2799.
- Clark, B. and Chaumel, J. and Johanson, Z. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Smith, M. and Dean, M. (2022) Bricks, trusses and superstructures: strategies for skeletal reinforcement in batted fishes (rays and skates). Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 12, ISSN 2296-634X.
- Villalobos-segura, Eduardo and Marrama, G. and Carnevale, G. and Claeson, K. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Naylor, G. and Kriwet, J. (2022) The Phylogeny of rays and Skates (Chondrichthyes; Elasmobranchii) based on morphological characters revisited. Diversity 14 (6), pp. 456. ISSN 1424-2818.
- Feichtinger, I. and Adnet, S. and Cuny, G. and Guinot, G. and Kriwet, J. and Neubauer, T. and Pollerspock, J. and Shimada, K. and Straube, N. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Vullo, R. and Harzhauser, M. (2021) Comment on “An early Miocene extinction in pelagic sharks”. Science 374 (6573), ISSN 0036-8075.
- Villalobos-segura, Eduardo and Kriwet, J. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Vullo, R. and Stumpf, S. and Ward, D.J. (2021) The skeletal remains of the euryhaline sclerorhynchid batoid †Onchopristis (Elasmobranchii, Batoidea) from the ‘mid’ Cretaceous and its palaeontological implications. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 193 (2), pp. 746-771. ISSN 0024-4082.
- Johanson, Z. and Manzanares, E. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Clark, B. and Fernandez, V. and Smith, M. (2021) Ontogenetic development of the holocephalan dentition: Morphological transitions of dentine in the absence of teeth. Journal of Anatomy 239 (3), pp. 704-719. ISSN 0021-8782.
- Collins, Sally and Underwood, Charlie J. (2021) Unique damage-related, gap-filling tooth replacement in Pycnodont fishes. Palaeontology 64 (4), pp. 489-504. ISSN 0031-0239.
- Stumpf, S. and Etches, S. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Kriwet, J. (2021) Durnonovariaodus maiseyi gen. et sp. nov., a new hybodontiform shark-like chondrichthyan from the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation of England. PeerJ 2021 (9:e113), ISSN 2167-8359.
- Wills, S. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Barrett, P. (2021) Learning to see the wood for the trees: machine learning, decision trees and the classification of isolated theropod teeth. Palaeontology 64 (1), pp. 75-99. ISSN 0031-0239.
- Rasch, L. J. and Cooper, R.L and Underwood, Charlie J. and Dillard, W. A and Thiery, A. P and Fraser, G. J. (2020) Development and regeneration of the crushing dentition of skates (Rajidae). Developmental Biology 466 (1-2), pp. 59-72. ISSN 0012-1606.
- Fraser, G.J. and Standing, A. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Thiery, A.P. (2020) The dental lamina: an essential structure for perpetual tooth regeneration in sharks. Integrative and Comparative Biology 60 (3), pp. 644-655. ISSN 1540-7063.
- Johanson, Z. and Manzanares, E. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Clark, B. and Fernandez, V. and Smith, M. (2020) Evolution of the dentition in holocephalans (Chondrichthyes) through tissue disparity. Integrative and Comparative Biology 60 (3), pp. 630-643. ISSN 1540-7063.
- Smith, M. and Manzanares, E. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Healy, C. and Clark, B. and Johanson, Z. (2020) Holocephalan (Chondrichthyes) dental plates with hypermineralized dentine as a substitute for missing teeth through developmental plasticity. Journal of Fish Biology 97 (1), pp. 16-27. ISSN 1095-8649.
- Villalobos-segura, Eduardo and Underwood, Charlie J. (2020) Radiation and divergence times of Batoidea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40 (3), pp. e1777147. ISSN 0272-4634.
- Villalobos-Segura, E. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D.J. (2019) The first skeletal record of the Cretaceous Enigmatic Sawfish genus Ptychotrygon (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea) from the Turonian (Cretaceous) of Morocco. Papers in Palaeontology 7 (1), pp. 353-376. ISSN 2056-2799.
- Jambura, P. and Kindlimann, R. and López-Romero, F. and Marmara, G. and Pfaff, K. and Stumpf, S. and Turtscher, J. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, David and Kriwet, J. (2019) Micro computed tomography imaging reveals the development of a unique tooth mineralization pattern in mackerel sharks (Chondrichthyes; Lamniformes) in deep time. Scientific Reports 9 (9652), ISSN 2045-2322.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Claeson, K.M. (2019) The late Jurassic ray Kimmerobatis etchesi gen. et sp. nov., and the Jurassic radiation of the Batoidea. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 130 (3-4), pp. 345-354. ISSN 0016-7878.
- Villalobos-Segura, E. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D. and Claeson, K. (2019) The first three dimensional fossils of Cretaceous sclerorhynchid sawfish Asflapristis cristadentis gen et sp nov and implications for the phylogenetic position of the Sclerorhynchoidei (Chondrichthyes). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology ISSN 1477-2019.
- Wills, S. and Bernard, E.L. and Brewer, P. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D. (2019) Palaeontology, stratigraphy and sedimentology of Woodeaton Quarry (Oxfordshire) and a new microvertebrate site from the White Limestone Formation (Bathonian, Jurassic). Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 130 (2), pp. 170-186. ISSN 0016-7878.
- Smith, M. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Goral, T. and Healy, C. and Johanson, Z. (2019) Growth and mineralogy in dental plates of the holocephalan Harriotta raleighana (Chondrichthyes): novel dentine and conserved patterning combine to create a unique chondrichthyan dentition. Zoological Letters 5, pp. 11. ISSN 2056-306X.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, David (2018) Site specific limitations on the use of palaeontological resources. The Geological Curator 10 (10), pp. 617-631. ISSN 0144-5294.
- Guinot, G. and Adnet, S. and Shimada, K. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Siversson, M. and Ward, D. and Kriwet, J. and Cappetta, H. (2018) On the need of providing tooth morphology in descriptions of extant elasmobranch species. Zootaxa 4461 (1), pp. 118-126. ISSN 1175-5326.
- Jambura, P. and Pfaff, C. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D. and Kriwet, J. (2018) Tooth mineralization and histology patterns in extinct and extant snaggletooth sharks, Hemipristis (Carcharhiniformes, Hemigaleidae)—Evolutionary significance or ecological adaptation?. PLoS One 13 (8), ISSN 1932-6203.
- Meredith Smith, M. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Clark, B. and Kriwet, J. and Johanson, Z. (2018) Development and evolution of tooth renewal in neoselachian sharks as a model for transformation in chondrichthyan dentitions. Journal of Anatomy 232, pp. 891-907. ISSN 0021-8782.
- Smith, M. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Clark, B. and Kriwet, J. and Johanson, Z. (2018) Development and evolution of tooth renewal in neoselachian sharks as a model for transformation in chondrichthyan dentitions. Journal of Anatomy 232, pp. 891-907. ISSN 0021-8782.
- Dean, M.N. and Bizzarro, J.J. and Clark, B. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Johanson, Z. (2017) Large batoid fishes frequently consume stingrays despite skeletal damage. Royal Society Open Science 4, ISSN 2054-5703.
- Van Vliet, H.J. and Schulp, A. and El-Kheir, G. and Paijmans, T.M. and Bosselaers, M. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2017) A new Oligocene site with terrestrial mammals and a selachian fauna from Minqar Tibaghbagh, the western Desert of Egypt. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62 (3), pp. 509-525. ISSN 0567-7920.
- Belben, R. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Johanson, Z. and Twitchett, R. (2017) Ecological impact of the end-Cretaceous extinction on lamniform sharks. PLoS One ISSN 1932-6203.
- Smith, M.M. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Fraser, G.J. (2017) How teeth are organised into functional dentitions. Infocus Magazine 45, pp. 16-23. ISSN 1750-4740.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Kolmann, M. and Ward, D. (2017) Paleogene origin of Planktivory In The Batoidea. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37 (3), pp. e1293068. ISSN 0272-4634.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Johanson, Z. and Smith, M.M. (2016) Cutting blade dentitions in squaliform sharks form by modification of inherited alternate tooth ordering patterns. Royal Society Open Science 3, ISSN 2054-5703.
- Rasch, L. and Cooper, R. and Martin, K. and Metscher, B. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Fraser, G. (2016) An ancient dental gene network regulates development and continuous regeneration of teeth in sharks. Developmental Biology 415 (2), pp. 347-370. ISSN 0012-1606.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Smith, M.M. and Johanson, Z. (2015) Sclerorhynchus atavus and the convergent evolution of rostrum-bearing chondrichthyans. Geological Society Special Publication 430, ISSN 0305-8719.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D.J. and Guinot, G. (2015) Development of understanding of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic chondrichthyan fossil record. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 430, ISSN 0305-8719.
- Smith, M.M. and Riley, A. and Fraser, G.J. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Welten, M. and Kriwet, J. and Pfaff, C. and Johanson, Z. (2015) Early development of rostrum saw-teeth in a fossil ray tests classical theories of the evolution of vertebrate dentitions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282 (1816), ISSN 0962-8452.
- Welten, M. and Smith, M.M. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Johanson, Z. (2015) Evolutionary origins and development of saw-teeth on the sawfish and sawshark rostrum (Elasmobranchii; Chondrichthyes). Royal Society Open Science 2 (9), pp. 150189. ISSN 2054-5703.
- Welton, M. and Smith, M.M. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Johanson, Z. (2015) Teeth outside the mouth? Evolution and development of the sawfish and sawshark rostral dentitions (Elasmobranchii; Chondrichthyes). Royal Society Open Science 2, ISSN 2054-5703.
- Viriot, L. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Johanson, Z. and Welten, M. and Metscher, B. and Rasch, L.J. and Fraser, G.J. and Smith, M.M. (2015) Development and evolution of dentition pattern and tooth order in the Skates and Rays (Batoidea; Chondrichthyes). PLoS One 10 (4), pp. e0122553. ISSN 1932-6203.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and King, C. and Steurbaut, E. (2013) Eocene initiation of Nile drainage due to East African uplift. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 392, pp. 138-145. ISSN 0031-0182.
- Roberts, Gerald P. and Meschis, M. and Houghton, S. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Briant, Rebecca M. (2013) The implications of revised Quaternary palaeoshoreline chronologies for the rates of active extension and uplift in the upper plate of subduction zones. Quaternary Science Reviews 78, pp. 169-187. ISSN 0277-3791.
- Claeson, K.M. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D.J. (2013) †Tingitanius tenuimandibulus, a new platyrhinid batoid from the Turonian (Cretaceous) of Morocco and the cretaceous radiation of the Platyrhinidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (5), pp. 1019-1036. ISSN 0272-4634.
- Guinot, G. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Cappetta, H. and Ward, D.J. (2013) Sharks (Elasmobranchii: Euselachii) from the Late Cretaceous of France and the UK. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11 (6), pp. 589-671. ISSN 1477-2019.
- Smith, M.M. and Johanson, Z. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Diekwisch, T.G.H. (2013) Pattern formation in development of chondrichthyan dentitions: a review of an evolutionary model. Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology 25 (2), pp. 127-142. ISSN 0891-2963.
- Guinot, Guillaume and Underwood, Charlie J. and Cappetta, H. and Ward, D.J. (2012) Squatiniformes (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) from the Late Cretaceous of southern England and northern France with redescription of the holotype of Squatina cranei Woodward, 1888. Palaeontology 55 (3), pp. 529-551. ISSN 0031-0239.
- Guinot, Guillaume and Underwood, Charlie J. and Cappetta, H. and Ward, D.J. (2012) Batoids (Elasmobranchii: Batomorphii) from the British and French Late Cretaceous. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 10 (3), pp. 1-30. ISSN 1477-2019.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Gunter, G.C. (2012) The shark Carcharhinus sp. from the Middle Eocene of Jamaica and the Eocene record of Carcharhinus. Caribbean Journal of Earth Science 44, pp. 25-30. ISSN 0799-0901.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Schlogl, J. (2012) Deep water chondrichthyans from the Early Miocene of the Vienna Basin (Central Paratethys, Slovakia). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58 (3), pp. 487-509. ISSN 0567-7920.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Goswami, A. and Prasad, G.V.R. and Verma, O. and Flynn, J.J. (2011) Marine vertebrates from the 'middle' Cretaceous (early Cenomanian) of South India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 (3), pp. 539-552. ISSN 0272-4634.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D.J. (2011) New hemigaleid shark from the late Eocene of Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 (3), pp. 707-711. ISSN 0272-4634.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D.J. and King, C. and Antar, S.M. and Zalmout, I.S. and Gingerich, P.D. (2011) Shark and ray faunas in the Middle and Late Eocene of the Fayum Area, Egypt. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 122 (1), pp. 47-66. ISSN 0016-7878.
- Claeson, K.M. and Ward, D.J. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2010) 3D digital imaging of a concretion-preserved batoid (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Morocco. Comptes Rendus Palevol 9 (6-7), pp. 283-287. ISSN 1631-0683.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Cumbaa, S.L. (2010) Chondrichthyans from a Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) bonebed, Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontology 53 (4), pp. 903-944. ISSN 0031-0239.
- Hunter, Aaron W. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2010) Comment and Reply on “Palaeoenvironmental Control on Distribution of Crinoids in the Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) of England and France” by Aaron W. Hunter and Charlie J. Underwood. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55 (1), pp. 174-176. ISSN 0567-7920.
- Houghton, S.L. and Roberts, Gerald P. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Papanikolaou, Ioannis D. and Cowie, P.A. and van Calsteren, P. and Wigley, T. and Cooper, F.J. and McArthur, J.M. (2009) Localization of Quaternary slip rates in an active rift in 10(5) years: an example from central Greece constrained by U-234-Th-230 coral dates from uplifted paleoshorelines. Jourmal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth 114, ISSN 0148-0227.
- Rees, J. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2008) Hybodont sharks of the English Bathonian and Callovian (Middle Jurassic).. Palaeontology 51 (1), pp. 117-147. ISSN 0031-0239.
- Kennedy, W.J. and Gale, A.S. and Ward, D.J. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2008) Early Turonian ammonites from Goulmima, southern Morocco. Bulletin Sciences de la Terre 78, pp. 149-177. ISSN 0374-6291.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D.J. (2008) Sharks of the order Carcharhiniformes from the British Coniacian, Santonian and Campanian (Upper Cretaceous).. Palaeontology 51 (3), pp. 509-536. ISSN 0031-0239.
- Cooper, F.J. and Roberts, G.P. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2007) A comparison of 103–105 year uplift rates on the South Alkyonides Fault, central Greece: Holocene climate stability and the formation of coastal notches. Geophysical Research Letters 34 (14), ISSN 0094-8276.
- Donovan, S.K. and Fearnhead, F.E. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2007) Recent borings in limestone cobbles from Marloes Bay, southwest Wales. Lethaia 40 (3), pp. 233-236. ISSN 0024-1164.
- Sweetman, Steven C. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2006) A Neoselachian shark from the non-marine Wessex Formation (Wealden Group: early Cretaceous, Barremian) of the Isle of Wight, southern England. Palaeontology 49 (2), pp. 457-465. ISSN 0031-0239.
- Brenchley, P.J. and Marshall, J.D. and Harper, D.A.T. and Buttler, C.J. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2006) A late Ordovician (Hirnantian) karstic surface in a submarine channel, recording glacio-eustatic sea-level changes: Meifod, central Wales. Geological Journal 41 (1), pp. 1-22. ISSN 0072-1050.
- Rees, J. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2006) Hybodont sharks from the Middle Jurassic of the Inner Hebrides, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 96 (4), pp. 351-363. ISSN 1755-6910.
- Underwood, Charlie J. (2006) Diversification of the Neoselachii (Chondrichthyes) during the Jurassic and Cretaceous. Paleobiology 32 (2), pp. 215-235. ISSN 0094-8373.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D.J. (2004) Neoselachian sharks and rays from the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic). Palaeontology 47 (3), pp. 447-501. ISSN 0031-0239.
- Underwood, Charlie J. (2004) Barremian and Aptian (Cretaceous) sharks and rays from Speeton, Yorkshire, north-east England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 55 (2), pp. 107-118. ISSN 0044-0604.
- Underwood, Charlie J. (2004) Environmental controls on the distribution of neoselachian sharks and rays within the British Bathonian (Middle Jurassic).. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 203, pp. 107-126. ISSN 0031-0182.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Mitchell, S.F. (2004) Sharks, bony fishes and endodental borings from the Miocene Montpelier Formation (White Limestone Group) of Jamaica. Cainozoic Research 3, pp. 157-165. ISSN 1570-0399.
- Rees, J. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2002) Status of the hybodont genus Lissodus Brough. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22, pp. 471-479.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Rees, J. (2002) Selachian faunas from the earliest Cretaceous Purbeck Group of Dorset, southern England.. Special Papers in Palaeontology 68, pp. 107-19. ISSN 0038-6804.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Rees, J. (2002) Sharks and rays from the basal Cretaceous Purbeck Group of Dorset, southern England. Special Papers in Palaeontology 68, pp. 1-19. ISSN 0038-6804.
- Brenchley, P.J. and Marshall, J.D. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2001) Do all mass extinctions represent an ecological crisis? evidence from the late Ordovician. Geological Journal 36 (3-4), pp. 329-340. ISSN 0072-1050.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Mitchell, S.F. (2000) Serratolamna serrata (Agassiz) (Pisces, Neoselachii) from the Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of Jamaica. Caribbean Journal of Earth Science 34, pp. 25-30. ISSN 0799-0901.
- Mitchell, S.F. and Underwood, Charlie J. (1999) Lithological and faunal stratigraphy of the Aptian and Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Type Speeton Clay, Speeton, N.E. England.. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 52 (3), pp. 277-296. ISSN 0044-0604.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Mitchell, S. (1999) Mid-Cretaceous onlap history of the Market Weighton structural high, northeast England. Geological Magazine 136 (6), pp. 681-696. ISSN 0016-7568.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Mitchell, S.F. (1999) Albian and Cenomanian selachian assemblages from North East England.. Special Papers in Palaeontology 60, pp. 9-59. ISSN 0038-6804.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Mitchell, S.F. and Veltkamp, K.J. (1999) Microborings in mid Cretaceous fish teeth. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 52, pp. 269-274. ISSN 0044-0604.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Mitchell, S.F. and Veltkamp, K.J. (1999) Shark and ray teeth from the Hauterivian (Lower Cretaceous) of north-east England. Palaeontology 42 (2), pp. 287-302. ISSN 0031-0239.
- Mitchell, S. and Underwood, Charlie J. (1998) Discussion of 'isotopic variation in fossils and matrix of the Cretaceous Red Chalk at Speeton and South Ferriby, Yorkshire, England'. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 52 (1), pp. 107-112. ISSN 0044-0604.
- Poulton, S.W. and Bottrell, S.H. and Underwood, Charlie J. (1998) Porewater sulphur geochemistry and fossil preservation during phosphate diagenesis in a Lower Cretaceous shelf mudstone. Sedimentology 45 (5), pp. 875-888. ISSN 0037-0746.
- Underwood, Charlie J. (1998) Population structure of graptolite assemblages. Lethaia 31, pp. 33-41.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Deynoux, M. and Ghienne, J.-F. (1998) High palaeolatitude (Hodh, Mauritania) recovery of graptolite faunas after the Hirnantian (top Ordovician) extinction event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 142 (3-4), pp. 91-105. ISSN 0031-0182.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Deynoux, M. and Ghienne, J.F. (1998) High palaeolatitude (Hodh, Mauritania) recovery of graptolite faunas after the Hirnantian (end Ordovician) extinction event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 142, pp. 91-103. ISSN 0031-0182.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Crowley, S. and Marshall, J. and Brenchley, P. (1997) High-resolution carbon isotope stratigraphy of the basal Silurian Stratotype (Dob's Linn, Scotland) and its global correlation. Journal of the Geological Society 154, pp. 709-718. ISSN 0016-7649.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Crowley, S.F. and Marshall, J.D. and Brenchley, P.J. (1997) High resolution carbon isotope stratigraphy of the basal Silurian stratotype (Dob's Linn, Scotland) and its global correlation. Journal of the Geological Society 154 (4), pp. 709-718. ISSN 0016-7649.
- Underwood, Charlie J. (1995) Biform cortical structure in the graptolite Cryptograptus insectiformis. Journal of Paleontology 69 (3), pp. 599-602. ISSN 0022-3360.
- Underwood, Charlie J. (1995) Interstipe webbing in the Silurian graptolite Cyrtograptus murchisoni and its palaeobiological significance.. Palaeontology 38, pp. 619-625. ISSN 0031-0239.
- Benton, M.J. and Underwood, Charlie J. (1994) The age of the Dunquin Group (Late Silurian) of the Dingle Peninsula, SW Ireland. Irish Journal of Earth Sciences 13, pp. 91-93. ISSN 0790-1763.
- Underwood, Charlie J. (1994) Faunal transport within event horizons in the British Upper Silurian. Geological Magazine 131 (4), pp. 485-498. ISSN 0016-7568.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Bottrell, S.H. (1994) Diagenetic controls on the pyritization of graptolites. Geological Magazine 131 (3), pp. 315-327. ISSN 0016-7568.
- Underwood, Charlie J. (1993) The position of graptolites within Lower Palaeozoic planktic ecosystems.. Lethaia 26, pp. 189-202. ISSN 0024-1164.
- Underwood, Charlie J. (1992) Graptolite preservation and deformation. Palaios 7 (2), pp. 178-186. ISSN 0883-1351.
Book Section
- Smith, M.M. and LeBlanc, A. and Underwood, Charles and Johanson, Z. (2023) Odontoblast repertoire delivers significantly different dental tissues from pluripotent neural crest-derived cells. In: Chen, Donglei (ed.) Odontodes. Boca Raton, U.S.: CRC Press. pp. 142-178. ISBN 9781032065151.
- Underwood, Charlie J. (2020) Sharks and rays. In: Martill, D.M. (ed.) Fossils of the Kimmeridge Clay Part 2 (vertebrate). Palaeontological Association. pp. 14-32. ISBN 9780901702746.
- Richter, M. and Underwood, Charlie J. (2019) Origin, development and evolution of the fish skull. In: Johanson, Z. and Richter, M. and Underwood, Charlie J. (eds.) Evolution and Development of Fishes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107179448.
- Cumbaa, S.L. and Underwood, Charlie J. and Schröder-Adams, C.J. (2013) Paleoenvironments and paleoecology of the vertebrate fauna from a late cretaceous marine bonebed, Canada. In: Arratia, G. and Schultze, H.-P. and Wilson, M.V.H. (eds.) Mesozoic Fishes 5: Global Diversity and Evolution. Munich, Germany: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. pp. 509-524. ISBN 9783899371598.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Paul, C.R.C. (2010) Trace fossils. In: Lord, A.R. and Davis, P.G. (eds.) Fossils from the Lower Lias of the Dorset Coast. Field Guide to Fossils. London, UK: Palaeontological Association. pp. 88-100. ISBN 9781444337747.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D. (2008) A review of the Mesozoic Record of the Carcharhiniformes. In: Arratia, G. (ed.) Mesozoic Fishes: Homology and Phylogeny. Mesozoic Fishes. Munich, Germany: Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil. pp. 433-442. ISBN 9783899370805.
- Underwood, Charlie J. and Ward, D.J. (2004) Environmental distribution of Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) neoselachians in southern England. In: Tintori, A. and Arratia, G. (eds.) Mesozoic Fishes 3- Systematics, Palaeoenvironments and Biodiversity.. München: Verlag. pp. 111-122. ISBN 3899370538.
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