Lorna Steel
Curator of fossil reptiles, birds and amphibians at the Natural History Museum, London. Previously assistant Curator of Geology at Dinosaur Isle on the Isle of Wight. She has an active interest in the histology of Pterosaurian head crests and has helped to create a replica skeleton of Arambourgiania Philadelphiae which has been shipped to the University of Jordan at Amman. Her 2005 thesis is an important addition to the work on the histology of pterosaur bone.
Steel L., Martill D. M., Kirk J., Anders A., Loveridge R. F., Frey E. and Martin J. G., 1997, Arambourgiania Philadelphiae: Giant wings in small halls. Geological Curator Vol. 6, No. 8. pp. 305-313
Steel L., 2003, The John Quekett sections and the earliest pterosaur histological studies: In: Evolution and Palaeobiology of Pterosaurs, edited by Buffetaut, E., and Mazin, J.-M., Geological Society Special Publication, no.217, p.325-334.
Steel L., 2005, The palaeohistology of pterosaur bone’. Thesis Submission date- November 2004. Awarded- January 2005 by University of Portsmouth.
Steel L., Martill D. M., Unwin D. M. and Winch J. D., 2005, A new pterodactyloid pterosaur from the Wessex Formation (Lower Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, England: Cretaceous Research, vol.26, p.686-698. (Caulkicephalus trimicrodon)
Steel L., 2008, Pterosaur bone palaeohistology: an overview. Zitteliana B28: 109-125.
Steel L., 2010, The Pterosaur collection at the Natural History Museum, London, UK, overview, recent curatorial developments and exciting new finds. Acta Geoscientica Sinica. 31(S1):59-61