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Christian B. Skovsted is affiliated with the Swedish Museum of Natural History in Sweden and specializes primarily in Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their research focuses extensively on paleontology, with notable contributions to subfields including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, Mechanics of Materials, and Geology.

Their work covers several main topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Hydrocarbon Exploration and Reservoir Analysis, and Calcium Carbonate Crystallization and Inhibition.

Christian B. Skovsted has published in a range of scientific journals, frequently contributing to venues including:

  • GFF
  • Papers in Palaeontology
  • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Nature Communications

Recent scientific papers authored by Skovsted include the following:

  • An encrusting kleptoparasite-host interaction from the early Cambrian, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Fossil evidence unveils an early Cambrian origin for Bryozoa, 2021, Nature
  • Thermal evolution behavior of the organic matter and a ray of light on the origin of vitrinite-like maceral in the Mesoproterozoic and Lower Cambrian black shales: Insights from artificial maturation, 2021, International Journal of Coal Geology
  • Locating the BACE of the Cambrian: Bayan Gol in southwestern Mongolia and global correlation of the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary, 2022, Earth-Science Reviews
  • Brachiopods from the Byrd Group (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4) Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica: biostratigraphy, phylogeny and systematics, 2020, Papers in Palaeontology

Throughout their career, Skovsted has collaborated frequently with other researchers in the field. Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Timothy P. Topper
  • Zhifei Zhang
  • Luoyang Li
  • Marissa J. Betts
  • Fan Liu

Best Publications

  • An encrusting kleptoparasite-host interaction from the early Cambrian

    Zhifei Zhang;Luke C. Strotz;Timothy P. Topper;Timothy P. Topper;Feiyang Chen;Feiyang Chen

  • Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization

    Artem Kouchinsky;Stefan Bengtson;Bruce Runnegar;Christian Skovsted

  • The scleritome of Eccentrotheca from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia: Lophophorate affinities and implications for tommotiid phylogeny

    Christian B. Skovsted;Glenn A. Brock;John R. Paterson;Lars E. Holmer

  • SMALL SHELLY FAUNA FROM THE UPPER LOWER CAMBRIAN BASTION AND ELLA ISLAND FORMATIONS, NORTH-EAST GREENLAND

    Christian B. Skovsted

  • A Stem Group Brachiopod From The Lower Cambrian: Support For A Micrina (Halkieriid) Ancestry

    Lars E. Holmer;Christian B. Skovsted;Alwyn Williams

  • Scleritome construction, biofacies, biostratigraphy and systematics of the tommotiid Eccentrotheca helenia sp. nov. from the Early Cambrian of South Australia

    Christian B. Skovsted;Christian B. Skovsted;Glenn A. Brock;Timothy P. Topper;John R. Paterson

  • Graptolites as fossil geo-thermometers and source material of hydrocarbons: An overview of four decades of progress

    Qingyong Luo;Goodarzi Fariborz;Ningning Zhong;Ye Wang

  • A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil biostratigraphy for South Australia

    Marissa J. Betts;John R. Paterson;James B. Jago;Sarah M. Jacquet

  • A review of the Cambrian biostratigraphy of South Australia

    J. B. Jago;Wen Long Zang;Xiaowen Sun;G. A. Brock

  • The Early Cambrian tommotiid Micrina, a sessile bivalved stem group brachiopod

    Lars E Holmer;Christian B Skovsted;Glenn A Brock;James L Valentine

  • Early Cambrian chronostratigraphy and geochronology of South Australia

    Marissa J. Betts;Marissa J. Betts;Marissa J. Betts;John R. Paterson;Sarah M. Jacquet;Sarah M. Jacquet;Anita S. Andrew

  • The scleritome of Paterimitra: an Early Cambrian stem group brachiopod from South Australia.

    Christian B Skovsted;Lars E Holmer;Cecilia M Larsson;Anette E.S Högström

  • Mollusc fauna of the Early Cambrian Bastion Formation of North-East Greenland

    Christian B. Skovsted

  • The organic petrology of graptolites and maturity assessment of the Wufeng–Longmaxi Formations from Chongqing, China: Insights from reflectance cross-plot analysis

    Qingyong Luo;Jingyue Hao;Christian B. Skovsted;Peng Luo

  • Small shelly fossils from the argillaceous facies of the Lower Cambrian Forteau Formation of western Newfoundland

    Christian B. Skovsted;John S. Peel

  • A sclerite-bearing stem group entoproct from the early Cambrian and its implications

    Zhifei Zhang;Lars E. Holmer;Christian B. Skovsted;Glenn A. Brock

  • Optical characteristics of graptolite-bearing sediments and its implication for thermal maturity assessment

    Qingyong Luo;Jingyue Hao;Christian B. Skovsted;Yaohui Xu

  • Hyoliths and small shelly fossils from the Lower Cambrian of North-East Greenland

    John M. Malinky;Christian B. Skovsted

  • EARLY CAMBRIAN BRACHIOPODS FROM NORTH‐EAST GREENLAND

    Christian B. Skovsted;Lars E. Holmer

  • Locating the BACE of the Cambrian: Bayan Gol in southwestern Mongolia and global correlation of the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary

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  • Homologous skeletal secretion in tommotiids and brachiopods

    Uwe Balthasar;Christian B. Skovsted;Lars E. Holmer;Glenn A. Brock

  • Shelly Fossils from the Lower Cambrian 'Pararaia bunyerooensis' Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia

    Timothy Paul Topper;Glenn Anthony Brock;Christian B. Skovsted;John Paterson

Frequent Co-Authors

Glenn A. Brock
Glenn A. Brock Macquarie University
Lars E. Holmer
Lars E. Holmer Uppsala University
John R. Paterson
John R. Paterson University of New England
John S. Peel
John S. Peel Uppsala University
Jian Han
Jian Han Northwest University
Leonid E. Popov
Leonid E. Popov Cardiff University
David A. T. Harper
David A. T. Harper Durham University
Degan Shu
Degan Shu Northwest University
Paul M. Myrow
Paul M. Myrow Colorado College
Stefan Bengtson
Stefan Bengtson Swedish Museum of Natural History

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