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Overview

Duncan McIlroy is affiliated with Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada and focuses on research within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work encompasses several subfields including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Earth-Surface Processes, Oceanography, and Geophysics.

Their research topics cover a range of geological and biological themes, notably:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Geological formations and processes
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny

Among their recent publications are:

  • "A Chronostratigraphic Framework for the Rise of the Ediacaran Macrobiota: New Constraints from Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland" (2020, Geological Society of America Bulletin)
  • "Palaeobiology of the reclining rangeomorph Beothukis from the Ediacaran Mistaken Point Formation of southeastern Newfoundland" (2020, Geological Magazine)
  • "The ichnology of shallow-marine and transitional environments" (2023, Geological Society London Special Publications)
  • "Charniodiscus and Arborea Are Separate Genera Within the Arboreomorpha: Using the Holotype of C. concentricus to Resolve a Taphonomic/Taxonomic Tangle" (2022, Frontiers in Earth Science)
  • "Rheotropic Epifaunal Growth, Not Felling by Density Currents, Is Responsible for Many Ediacaran Fossil Orientations at Mistaken Point" (2022, Frontiers in Earth Science)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Duncan McIlroy include:

  • Christopher McKean
  • Rod S. Taylor
  • Giovanni Pasinetti
  • Daniel Pérez-Pinedo
  • Jack Matthews

Their publications are often found in the following venues with multiple contributions:

  • Geological Society London Special Publications
  • Geological Magazine
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Life
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

Best Publications

  • The application of ichnology to palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic analysis

    D. McIlroy

  • The Impact of Bioturbation on Infaunal Ecology and Evolution During the Proterozoic-Cambrian Transition

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  • First evidence for locomotion in the Ediacara biota from the 565 Ma Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland

    Alexander G. Liu;Duncan McIlroy;Martin D. Brasier;Martin D. Brasier

  • Some ichnological concepts, methodologies, applications and frontiers

    Duncan McIlroy

  • Ichnological evidence for meiofaunal bilaterians from the terminal Ediacaran and earliest Cambrian of Brazil.

    Luke A. Parry;Luke A. Parry;Paulo César Boggiani;o Daniel J. Condon;Russel J. Garwood;Russel J. Garwood

  • Bioturbation influence on reservoir quality: A case study from the Cretaceous Ben Nevis Formation, Jeanne d'Arc Basin, offshore Newfoundland, Canada

    Nicola S. Tonkin;Duncan McIlroy;Rudi Meyer;Allison Moore-Turpin

  • Ichnofabrics and sedimentary facies of a tide-dominated delta: Jurassic Ile Formation of Kristin Field, Haltenbanken, Offshore Mid-Norway

    Duncan McIlroy

  • Palaeobiology and evolution of the earliest agglutinated Foraminifera: Platysolenites, Spirosolenites and related forms

    Duncan McIlroy;O. R. Green;M. D. Brasier

  • Haootia quadriformis n. gen., n. sp., interpreted as a muscular cnidarian impression from the Late Ediacaran period (approx. 560 Ma)

    Alexander G. Liu;Jack J. Matthews;Latha R. Menon;Duncan McIlroy

  • Effaced preservation in the Ediacara biota and its implications for the early macrofossil record

    Alexander G. Liu;Duncan Mcilroy;Jonathan B. Antcliffe;Martin D. Brasier;Martin D. Brasier

  • Ichnological analysis: The common ground between ichnofacies workers and ichnofabric analysts

    Duncan McIlroy

  • Ediacaran fossil preservation: Taphonomy and diagenesis of a discoid biota from the Amadeus Basin, central Australia

    N.B. Mapstone;D. McIlroy

  • Experimental Production of Clay Rims by Macrobiotic Sediment Ingestion and Excretion Processes

    Sarah J. Needham;Richard H. Worden;Duncan McIlroy

  • Fossils and matgrounds from the Neoproterozoic Longmyndian Supergroup, Shropshire, UK

    Duncan Mcilroy;T. Peter Crimes;John C. Pauley

  • Sedimentology of the tide-dominated Jurassic Lajas Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina

    Duncan McIlroy;Stephen Flint;John A. Howell;Nick Timms

  • Engineering the Cambrian explosion: the earliest bioturbators as ecosystem engineers

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  • Evidence for Cnidaria-like behavior in ca. 560 Ma Ediacaran Aspidella

    Latha R. Menon;Duncan McIlroy;Martin D. Brasier;Martin D. Brasier

  • A Chronostratigraphic Framework for the Rise of the Ediacaran Macrobiota: New Constraints from Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland

    Jack J. Matthews;Jack J. Matthews;Alexander G. Liu;Chuan Yang;Duncan McIlroy

  • Microbial mats implicated in the generation of intrastratal shrinkage (‘synaeresis’) cracks

    Dario Harazim;Richard H. T. Callow;Duncan Mcilroy

  • Animal-sediment interactions: the effect of ingestion and excretion by worms on mineralogy

    S. J. Needham;R. H. Worden;D. McIlroy

  • Lateral variability in shallow marine ichnofabrics: implications for the ichnofabric analysis method

    Duncan McIlroy

  • Neonereites uniserialis from c. 600 Ma year old rocks in western Scotland and the emergence of animals

    M. D. Brasier;D. McILROY

  • Faeces, clay minerals and reservoir potential

    D. McIlroy;R.H. Worden;S.J. Needham

  • Ethology of the trace fossil Chondrites: Form, function and environment

    Andrea Baucon;Malgorzata Bednarz;Suzanne Dufour;Fabrizio Felletti

  • Earth System Evolution and Early Life: A Celebration of the Work of Martin Brasier

    A. T. Brasier;D. McIlroy;N. McLoughlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin D. Brasier
Martin D. Brasier University of Oxford
Uwe Bergmann
Uwe Bergmann SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Guy M. Narbonne
Guy M. Narbonne Queen's University
Ed Landing
Ed Landing Columbia University in the City of New York
Marc Laflamme
Marc Laflamme University of Toronto
Ben Kneller
Ben Kneller University of Aberdeen
Richard H. Worden
Richard H. Worden University of Liverpool
David W. Jolley
David W. Jolley University of Aberdeen
John A. Howell
John A. Howell University of Aberdeen
Karl J. Niklas
Karl J. Niklas Cornell University

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