William Daniel ConybeareFRS (7 Juni 1787 – 12 Agustus 1857), dekan Llandaff, adalah seorang geolog, paleontolog dan rohaniwan asal Inggris. Ia barangkali terkenal karena karya-karyanya mengenai fosil dan penggalian-penggalian apda 1820-an, termasuk makalah-makalah penting untuk Perhimpunan Geologi London mengenai anatomi ichthyosauria dan deskripsi ilmiah pertama yang diterbitkan mengenai plesiosauria.
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Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales, With an Introductory Compendium of the General Principles of That Science, and Comparative Views of the Structure of Foreign Countries. Part I [all issued], (London, 1822). Conybeare and W. Phillips
"Observations on the South Western Coal District of England," in Transactions of the Geological Society of London, 2nd ser., 1, pt. 1, (1822). 210–316. W. Buckland and Conybeare
"Memoir Illustrative of a General Geological Map of the Principal Mountain Chains of Europe," in Annals of Philosophy, n.s. 5 (1823), 1–16, 135–149, 210–218, 278–289, 356–359; n.s. 6 (1824), 214–219.
"Notice of a Discovery of a New Fossil Animal, Forming a Link Between the lchthyosaurus and the Crocodile; Together With General Remarks on the Osteology of the Ichthyosaurus," in Transactions of the Geological Society of London, 5 (1821), 558–594
"Additional Notices on the Fossil Genera Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus," ibid., 2nd ser., 1 pt. 1 (1822), 103–123; and "On the Discovery of an Almost Perfect Skeleton of the Plesiosaurus," ibid., pt. 2 (1824), 381–389. Conybeare and H. T. De La Beche
"On the Hydrographical Basin of the Thames, With a View More Especially to Investigate the Causes Which Have Operated in the Formation of the Valleys of That River, and Its Tributary Streams," in Proceedings of the Geological Society of London, 1, no. 12 (1829), 145–149.
"Answer to Dr Fleming's View of the Evidence From the Animal Kingdom, as to the Former Temperature of the Northern Regions," in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 7 (1829), 142–152.
"On Mr Lyell's 'Principles of Geology,'" in Philosophical Magazine and Annals, n.s. 8 (1830), 215–219; and "An Examination of Those Phaenomena of Geology, Which Seem to Bear Most Directly on Theoretical Speculations," ibid., 359–362, 401–406; n.s. 9 (1831), 19–23, 111–117, 188–197, 258–270.
Conybeare, "Inquiry How Far the Theory of M. Élie de Beaumont Concerning the Parallelism of the Lines of Elevation of the Same Geological Area, Is Agreeable to the Phaenomena as Exhibited in Great Britain," in Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, 1 (1832), 118–126; 4 (1834), 404–414.
Conybeare, "Report on the Progress, Actual State and Ulterior Prospects of Geological Science," in Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1831–2 (1833), pp. 365–414
An Analytical Examination into the Character, Value, and Just Application of the Writings of the Christian Fathers During the Ante-Nicene Period being the Bampton Lectures for the Year MDCCCXXXIX. By W. D. Conybeare, M. A. of Christ Church, Vicar of Axminster. (1839)
"A Critique of Uniformitarian Geology: A Letter From W. D. Conybeare to Charles Lyell, 1841," in Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 111 (1967), 272–287., M. J. S. Rudwick
