Bruce J. Welton, palaeontologist.

• Research Associate, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 1801 Mountain Road NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87104 USA
• Research Associate, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007 USA
• E-mail: weltonbj@comcast.net

Authored taxa

• 7 taxon names authored by Bruce J. Welton (List may be incomplete)

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Welton, B.J. 2013. A New Archaic Basking Shark (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) from the Late Eocene of Western Oregon, U.S.A., and Description of the Dentition, Gill Rakers and Vertebrae of the Recent Basking Shark Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus). New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Bulletin 58: 48pp. Reference page. 

• Welton, B. J., 2014: A New Fossil Basking Shark (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) from the Middle Miocene Sharktooth Hill Bonebed, Kern County, California. Contributions in Science 522: 29–44. PDF Reference page. 

• Shimada, K., Welton, B. J. & Long, D. J., 2014: A new fossil megamouth shark (Lamniformes, Megachasmidae) from the Oligocene-Miocene of the western United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34 (2): 281–290. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2013.803975 Reference page. 

• Bruce J. Welton, 2015: A New Species of Late Early Miocene Cetorhinus (Lamniformes: Cetorhinidae) from the Astoria Formation of Oregon, and Coeval Cetorhinus from Washington and California. Contributions in Science, 523: 67–89. PDF

• Shimada, K., Popov, E.V., Siversson, M., Welton, B.J. & Long, D.J. 2015. A new clade of putative plankton-feeding sharks from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia and the United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(5): e981335. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2015.981335 Reference page.