John A. Long (born 1957), Australian paleontologist.

• School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, POB 2100, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, 5001
• Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, California 9007, U.S.A.
• Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia 0200

Authored taxa

• 25 taxon names authored by John A. Long (List may be incomplete)

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Long, J.A. 1986. New ischnacanthid acanthodians from the Early Devonian of Australia, with a discussion of acanthodian interrelationships. Journal of the Linnean Society (Zoology) 87: 321–339. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1986.tb01339.x Reference page. 

• Long, J.A. & Young, G.C. 1995. Sharks from the Middle-Late Devonian Aztec Siltstone, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Records of the Western Australian Museum 17: 287–308.Reference page. 
• Long, J.A. and Molnar, R.E. (1998). "A new Jurassic theropod dinosaur from Western Australia". Records of the Western Australian Museum 19 (1): 221–229
• Long, J.A., Burrow, C.J. & Ritchie, A. 2004. A new Late Devonian acanthodian fish from the Hunter Formation near Grenfell, New South Wales. Alcheringa 28: 147–156. Reference page. 
• Long, J.A. 2010. New holodontid lungfishes from the Upper Devonian Gogo Formation of Western Australia. Pp. 275-298 in: Elliott, D.K., Maisey, J.G., Yu, X. & Miao, D. (eds): Morphology, Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Fossil Fishes. Verlag Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, München. Reference page. 

• Long, J. A. & Trinajstic, K., 2010: The Late Devonian Gogo Formation Lägerstatte of Western Australia: Exceptional Early Vertebrate Preservation and Diversity. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 38: 255–279. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-040809-152416 Reference page. 

• Long, J. A., 2011: The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution (Second Edition) 1-287. Reference page. 
• Long, J.A. & Daeschler, E.B. 2013. First Articulated Phyllolepid Placoderm from North America, with Comments on Phyllolepid Systematics. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 162(1): 33–46. DOI: 10.1635/053.162.0103 Reference page. 

• Young, G.C. & Long, J.A. 2014. New arthrodires (placoderm fishes) from the Aztec Siltstone (late Middle Devonian) of southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. Australian Journal of Zoology 62(1): 44–62. DOI: 10.1071/ZO13070 Reference page. 

• Long, J.A., Mark-Kurik, E. & Young, G.C. 2014. Taxonomic revision of buchanosteoid placoderms (Arthrodira) from the Early Devonian of south-eastern Australia and Arctic Russia. Australian Journal of Zoology 62(1): 26–43. DOI: 10.1071/ZO13081 Reference page. 

• Rücklin, M., Long, J. A. & Trinajstic, K., 2015: A new selenosteid arthrodire (‘Placodermi’) from the Late Devonian of Morocco". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 35 (2): e908896. DOI: 10.1080/02724634.2014.908896

• Long, J.A., Burrow, C.J., Ginter, M., Maisey, J.G., Trinajstic, K.M., Coates, M.I., Young, G.C. & Senden, T.J. 2015. First Shark from the Late Devonian (Frasnian) Gogo Formation, Western Australia Sheds New Light on the Development of Tessellated Calcified Cartilage. PLoS ONE 10 (5): e0126066. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126066 Reference page. 

• Clement, A.M., Strand, R., Nysjö, J., Long, J.A. & Ahlberg, P.E. 2016. A new method for reconstructing brain morphology: applying the brain-neurocranial spatial relationship in an extant lungfish to a fossil endocast. Royal Society Open Science 3(7): 160307. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.160307 Reference page.