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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1987 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Bruce Runnegar is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable emphasis on paleontology, oceanography, and atmospheric science. They have contributed significantly to subfields such as paleontology, oceanography, atmospheric science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and geophysics.

The scientist's main research topics include paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geology and paleoclimatology research, marine biology and ecology research, marine and coastal plant biology, plant diversity and evolution, paleontology and evolutionary biology, and geological and geochemical analysis.

Bruce Runnegar's publication record includes numerous papers across prominent scientific journals. Recent selected works include:

  • Pelagiella exigua, an early Cambrian stem gastropod with chaetae: lophotrochozoan heritage and conchiferan novelty, 2020, published in Palaeontology
  • Following the logic behind biological interpretations of the Ediacaran biotas, 2021, published in Geological Magazine
  • Phyllozoon and Aulozoon: key components of a novel Ediacaran death assemblage in Bathtub Gorge, Heysen Range, South Australia, 2021, published in Geological Magazine
  • Ediacaran paleobiology and biostratigraphy of the Nama Group, Namibia, with emphasis on the erniettomorphs, tubular and trace fossils, and a new sponge, Arimasia germsi n. gen. n. sp., 2024, published in Journal of Paleontology
  • Kungurian (Cisuralian/Early Permian) brachiopods from the Snapper Point Formation, southern Sydney Basin, southeastern Australia, 2023, published in Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology

The most frequent journals or venues where Bruce Runnegar has published include Geological Magazine, Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, Palaeontology, Journal of Paleontology, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Collaborations are a notable element of their work. Frequent co-authors are:

  • James G. Gehlîng
  • Sören Jensen
  • Álvaro Javier
  • Mónica Martí Mus
  • Ulf Linnemann

Bruce Runnegar has been recognized by scientific communities through election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1993 and as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1987.

Best Publications

  • Megascopic eukaryotic algae from the 2.1-billion-year-old negaunee iron-formation, Michigan.

    Tsu-Ming Han;Bruce Runnegar

  • Two or four Neoproterozoic glaciations

    Martin J. Kennedy;Martin J. Kennedy;Bruce Runnegar;Anthony R. Prave;K.-H. Hoffmann

  • A global carbon isotope excursion (SPICE) during the Late Cambrian: relation to trilobite extinctions, organic-matter burial and sea level

    Matthew R. Saltzman;Robert L. Ripperdan;M.D. Brasier;Kyger C. Lohmann

  • Molluscan phylogeny: the paleontological viewpoint.

    Bruce Runnegar;John Pojeta

  • Oxygen requirements, biology and phylogenetic significance of the late Precambrian worm Dickinsonia, and the evolution of the burrowing habit

    Bruce Runnegar

  • Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization

    Artem Kouchinsky;Stefan Bengtson;Bruce Runnegar;Christian Skovsted

  • Carbon isotope stratigraphy of Upper Cambrian (Steptoean Stage) sequences of the eastern Great Basin: Record of a global oceanographic event

    Matthew R. Saltzman;Bruce Runnegar;Kyger C. Lohmann

  • Australian middle cambrian molluscs and their bearing on early molluscan evolution

    Bruce Runnegar;Peter A. Jell

  • Pulse of atmospheric oxygen during the late Cambrian

    Matthew R. Saltzman;Seth A. Young;Lee R. Kump;Benjamin C. Gill;Benjamin C. Gill

  • The Cambrian explosion: Animals or fossils?

    Bruce Runnegar

  • The Late Cambrian Spice (δ13C) Event and the Sauk II-SAUK III Regression: New Evidence from Laurentian Basins in Utah, Iowa, and Newfoundland

    Matthew R. Saltzman;Clinton A. Cowan;Anthony C. Runkel;Bruce Runnegar

  • Biology of the Hyolitha

    Bruce Runnegar;John Pojeta;Noel J. Morris;John D. Taylor

  • The paleontology of rostroconch mollusks and the early history of the phylum Mollusca

    John Pojeta;Bruce Runnegar

  • Shell microstructures of Cambrian molluscs replicated by phosphate

    Bruce Runnegar

  • Evolutionary history of the bivalve subclass Anomalodesmata

    Bruce Runnegar

  • Loophole for snowball Earth.

    Bruce Runnegar

  • The SPICE carbon isotope excursion in Siberia: a combined study of the upper Middle Cambrian–lowermost Ordovician Kulyumbe River section, northwestern Siberian Platform

    Artem Kouchinsky;Stefan Bengtson;Yves Gallet;Igor Korovnikov

  • Precambrian oxygen levels estimated from the biochemistry and physiology of early eukaryotes

    Bruce Runnegar

  • Carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Precambrian-Cambrian Sukharikha River section, northwestern Siberian platform

    Artem Kouchinsky;Stefan Bengtson;Vladimir Pavlov;Bruce Runnegar

  • Scratch Traces of Large Ediacara Bilaterian Animals

    James G. Gehling;James G. Gehling;Bruce N. Runnegar;Mary L. Droser

  • Muscle scars, shell form and torsion in Cambrian and Ordovician univalved molluscs

    Bruce Runnegar

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew R. Saltzman
Matthew R. Saltzman The Ohio State University
James G. Gehling
James G. Gehling South Australian Museum
Christopher D. Coath
Christopher D. Coath University of Bristol
Benjamin C. Gill
Benjamin C. Gill Virginia Tech
Lee R. Kump
Lee R. Kump Pennsylvania State University
Kyger C. Lohmann
Kyger C. Lohmann University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Edward D. Young
Edward D. Young University of California, Los Angeles
Stefan Bengtson
Stefan Bengtson Swedish Museum of Natural History
Linda C. Ivany
Linda C. Ivany Syracuse University
Timothy W. Lyons
Timothy W. Lyons University of California, Riverside

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