Bruce Runnegar
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Bruce Runnegar's Degrees
- Bachelors Geology University of Manchester
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bruce Norman Runnegar is an Australian-born paleontologist and professor at UCLA. His research centers on using the fossil record to determine how, where, and when life originated and evolved. He has published on a wide variety of topics, including the phylogeny of molluscs, Dickinsonia fossils and oxygen levels, and molecular clock techniques.
Bruce Runnegar's Published Works
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- Megascopic eukaryotic algae from the 2.1-billion-year-old negaunee iron-formation, Michigan. (1992) (419)
- Two or four Neoproterozoic glaciations (1998) (369)
- A global carbon isotope excursion (SPICE) during the Late Cambrian: relation to trilobite extinctions, organic-matter burial and sea level (2000) (240)
- The NASA Astrobiology Roadmap. (2008) (221)
- Molluscan Phylogeny: The Paleontological Viewpoint (1974) (196)
- Oxygen requirements, biology and phylogenetic significance of the late Precambrian worm Dickinsonia, and the evolution of the burrowing habit (1982) (188)
- Carbon isotope stratigraphy of Upper Cambrian (Steptoean Stage) sequences of the eastern Great Basin: Record of a global oceanographic event (1998) (175)
- Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization (2011) (174)
- Australian middle cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution (1976) (164)
- Pulse of atmospheric oxygen during the late Cambrian (2011) (140)
- The Late Cambrian Spice (δ13C) Event and the Sauk II-SAUK III Regression: New Evidence from Laurentian Basins in Utah, Iowa, and Newfoundland (2004) (130)
- The Cambrian explosion: Animals or fossils? (1982) (124)
- A molecular‐clock date for the origin of the animal phyla (1982) (122)
- The paleontology of rostroconch mollusks and the early history of the phylum Mollusca (1976) (121)
- Biology of the Hyolitha (1975) (116)
- Evolutionary history of the bivalve subclass Anomalodesmata (1974) (106)
- Successive Refinements in Long-Term Integrations of Planetary Orbits (2003) (104)
- Precambrian oxygen levels estimated from the biochemistry and physiology of early eukaryotes (1991) (103)
- Shell microstructures of Cambrian molluscs replicated by phosphate (1985) (102)
- The SPICE carbon isotope excursion in Siberia: a combined study of the upper Middle Cambrian–lowermost Ordovician Kulyumbe River section, northwestern Siberian Platform (2008) (97)
- Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Precambrian–Cambrian Sukharikha River section, northwestern Siberian platform (2007) (82)
- Scratch Traces of Large Ediacara Bilaterian Animals (2014) (81)
- Muscle scars, shell form and torsion in Cambrian and Ordovician univalved molluscs (1981) (81)
- 1 – Origin and Diversification of the Mollusca (1985) (80)
- Palaeoclimate: Loophole for snowball Earth (2000) (79)
- A complex trace fossil from the Spitskop Member (terminal Ediacaran–? Lower Cambrian) of southern Namibia (2005) (79)
- Ancestral state reconstruction of ontogeny supports a bilaterian affinity for Dickinsonia (2015) (76)
- Anatomy, ecology and affinities of the Australian Early Cambrian bivalve Pojetaia runnegari Jell (1983) (76)
- New species of the Cambrian and Ordovician chitons Matthevia and Chelodes from Wisconsin and Queensland; evidence for the early history of polyplacophoran mollusks (1979) (73)
- Vendobionta or Metazoa? Developments in understanding the Ediacara “fauna” (1995) (67)
- Sea-level-driven changes in ocean chemistry at an Upper Cambrian extinction horizon (1995) (64)
- Articulated Palaeozoic fossil with 17 plates greatly expands disparity of early chitons (2004) (60)
- Rostroconchia: A New Class of Bivalved Mollusks (1972) (57)
- Ecology of Eurydesma and the Eurydesma fauna, Permian of eastern Australia (1979) (53)
- Atomodesma (bivalvia), and Permian species of the United States (1975) (50)
- Geobiological analysis using whole genome‐based tree building applied to the Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya (2003) (47)
- Crystallography of the foliated calcite shell layers of bivalve molluscs (1984) (47)
- Fordilla troyensis Barrande: The Oldest Known Pelecypod (1973) (47)
- Early Permian seasonality from bivalve δ18O and implications for the oxygen isotopic composition of seawater (2010) (45)
- 7 – The Early Evolution of Diasome Molluscs (1985) (42)
- Origin and evolution of the Class Rostroconchia (1978) (40)
- Hyolitha: status of the phylum (1980) (39)
- Preservation of chlorophyll-derived pigments in sedimentary organic matter (1991) (39)
- Pre-Tommotian age of the lower Pestrotsvet Formation in the Selinde section on the Siberian platform: carbon isotopic evidence (2005) (36)
- LATE CAMBRIAN AND EARLY ORDOVICIAN STEM GROUP CHITONS (MOLLUSCA: POLYPLACOPHORA) FROM UTAH AND MISSOURI (2004) (36)
- Is Mars alive (2006) (35)
- Permian longitudes of Wrangellia, Stikinia, and Eastern Klamath terranes based on coral biogeography (1994) (31)
- Caspian-like relict molluscan fauna in the South American Permian. Bulletin of the AMNH ; v. 146, article 1 (1971) (30)
- Late Palaeozoic faunas of Australia (1976) (29)
- Aesthete canal morphology in the Mopaliidae (Polyplacophora)* (2008) (28)
- Stratigraphy of the Permian and Lower Triassic marine sediments of the Gympie District, Queensland (1969) (27)
- ANATOMY OF PHOLADOMYA CANDIDA (BIVALVIA) AND THE ORIGIN OF THE PHOLADOMYIDAE (1972) (26)
- The Evolution of Mineral Skeletons (1989) (26)
- No evidence for planktotrophy in Cambrian molluscs (2007) (25)
- The Permian faunas of northern New South Wales and the connection between the Sydney and Bowen basins (1970) (25)
- Australian Middle Cambrian molluscs: corrections and additions (1980) (25)
- The Permian-Triassic Boundary: A Crisis for Bivalves? (1973) (24)
- Early Cambrian endolithic algae (1985) (20)
- Rhytiodentalium kentuckyensis, a new genus and new species of Ordovician scaphopod, and the early history of scaphopod mollusks (1979) (20)
- Implications of high-precision measurements of 13 C– 18 O bond ordering in CO 2 for thermometry in modern bivalved mollusc shells (2014) (19)
- Biosignatures in ancient rocks: a summary of discussions at a field workshop on biosignatures in ancient rocks. (2008) (19)
- Possible evidence of primary succession in a juvenile-dominated Ediacara fossil surface from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia (2017) (18)
- Systematics and biology of some desmodont bivalves from the Australian Permian (1966) (17)
- Permian ammonoids from Eastern Australia (1967) (16)
- The monoplacophoran mollusk Yochelcionella identified from the Lower Cambrian of Pennsylvania (1980) (15)
- A lower Triassic ammonoid fauna from southeast Queensland (1969) (15)
- Aesthete canal morphology in twelve species of chiton (Polyplacophora) (2007) (15)
- Pelagiella exigua, an early Cambrian stem gastropod with chaetae: lophotrochozoan heritage and conchiferan novelty (2020) (14)
- The Bivalves Megadesmus Sowerby and Astartila Dana from the Permian of Eastern Australia (1965) (13)
- Biogeographic constraints for tectonic reconstructions of the Pacific region (1993) (12)
- Collagen gene construction and evolution (2005) (12)
- Mass-independent and mass-dependent sulfur processing throughout the Archean (2002) (12)
- The message ofAlcheringa (1975) (11)
- Gradients in seasonality and seawater oxygen isotopic composition along the early Permian Gondwanan coast, SE Australia (2015) (10)
- The Proterozoic Biosphere: The Proterozoic-Early Cambrian Evolution of Metaphytes and Metazoans (1992) (10)
- Found: a phylum for Janospira (1977) (9)
- Once again: is Nectocaris pteryx a stem‐group cephalopod? (2011) (9)
- The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: sedimentary facies versus extinction (2019) (8)
- The Proterozoic Biosphere: Proterozoic and Earliest Cambrian Carbonaceous Remains, Trace and Body Fossils (1992) (7)
- Derivation of the globins from type b cytochromes (2005) (7)
- Nucleic acid and protein clocks. (1991) (7)
- Archean Sulfates from Western Australia: Implications for Earth's Early Atmosphere and Ocean (2001) (6)
- Following the logic behind biological interpretations of the Ediacaran biotas (2021) (6)
- Body building in Halkieria and comparisons with chitons and other molluscs (2000) (6)
- Edmondia and the Edmondiacea : shallow-burrowing Paleozoic pelecypods. American Museum novitates ; no. 2533 (1974) (6)
- Organismic Evolution: The Interaction of Microevolutionary and Macroevolutionary Processes (1986) (5)
- Preserved ligaments in Australian Permian bivalves (1968) (5)
- Rates and modes of evolution in the Mollusca (2019) (5)
- Phyllozoon and Aulozoon: key components of a novel Ediacaran death assemblage in Bathtub Gorge, Heysen Range, South Australia (2021) (5)
- A Diprotodon ulna chewed by the marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex (1983) (5)
- NON-MASS-DEPENDENT SULFUR ISOTOPES DOCUMENTED FROM IN-SITU MEASUREMENTS OF PRECAMBRIAN SEDIMENTARY SULFIDES BY MULTI-COLLECTOR ION MICROPROBE: (2001) (4)
- The Proterozoic Biosphere: Described Taxa of Proterozoic and Selected Earliest Cambrian Carbonaceous Remains, Trace and Body Fossils (1992) (2)
- A LOWER TRIASSIC AMMONOID FAUNA FROM (1969) (2)
- Response : Algae and Oxygen in Earth's Ancient Atmosphere (1993) (1)
- Mopalia kennerleyi Carpenter , 1864 , a forgotten species and its southern analogue Mopalia ciliata ( Sowerby , 1840 ) * (2008) (1)
- Eocene animal trace fossils in 1.7-billion-year-old metaquartzites (2021) (1)
- NEW SPECIES OF THE CAMBRIAN AND ORDOVICIAN (1979) (1)
- The Proterozoic Biosphere: Construction and Use of Geological, Geochemical, and Paleobiological Databases (1992) (1)
- 400 ka Eccentricity Cycle Modulation of the SPICE Carbon Isotope Excursion on Both Sides of the Cambrian Earth (2005) (1)
- Alcheringa news item (2008) (0)
- Oxygenating a planet: Astrobiological implications (2003) (0)
- Astronomical age of the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) Boundary (2007) (0)
- The Proterozoic Biosphere: Molecular Phylogenetics, Molecular Paleontology, and the Proterozoic Fossil Record (1992) (0)
- Astrobiology Drilling Program of the NASA Astrobiology Institute (2003) (0)
- Alcheringa, New journal of the association of Australian Palaeontologists (1975) (0)
- Evidence from Fossils: Bivalve Molluscs [Abstract] (1971) (0)
- Rostroconchia: A New Class of Bivalved Mollusks (1972) (0)
- Geological investigation of a section at Kulyumbe river in Siberia (2008) (0)
- Retrieving relative paleotemperatures from oxygen isotope ratios of early Paleozoic carbonates (2009) (0)
- Response by Bruce Runnegar (2011) (0)
- Introduction to the Short Course and to Basic Biochemistry (2017) (0)
- Mass-dependent and mass-independent sulfur isotopic effects in Archean and Palaeoproterozoic sulfides and sulfates (2003) (0)
- Directly Measured Clumped Isotope Temperatures From Known And Proposed Paleozoic Glacial Intervals Suggest That Oceans Were Depleted in 18 O (2011) (0)
- The NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) Astrobiology Drilling Program: Status and Results (2006) (0)
- Isotopic evidence for changes in carbon cycling coeval with extinctions and sea-level fluctuations during the Late Cambrian, Wyoming and Utah (1995) (0)
- Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios of Selinde River, southeastern Siberian platform (2005) (0)
- Life Detection on the Early Earth (2004) (0)
- Kungurian (Cisuralian/Early Permian) brachiopods from the Snapper Point Formation, southern Sydney Basin, southeastern Australia (2023) (0)
- Chaotic Migration of Asteroids over Very Long Time Scales (2002) (0)
- Experimental studies of C-O bond reordering in calcite : Relevance to preservation and thermal history of carbonates (2011) (0)
- Environmental Context of Early Archean Stromatolites: Analog for Mars? (2010) (0)
- Bivalvia of the super families Pholadomyacea and Pectinacea from the permian of Eastern Australia (1967) (0)
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