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John R. Paterson is affiliated with the University of New England in Australia. Their research is primarily situated within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with significant contributions to the subfields of Paleontology, Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Geology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

Their work covers a range of main topics including Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology, and Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

Paterson has authored recent papers that have appeared in several scientific venues. Notable publications include:

  • "Biomechanical analyses of Cambrian euarthropod limbs reveal their effectiveness in mastication and durophagy" (2021), Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Reduction in seabird mortality in Namibian fisheries following the introduction of bycatch regulation" (2020), Biological Conservation
  • "Disparate compound eyes of Cambrian radiodonts reveal their developmental growth mode and diverse visual ecology" (2020), Science Advances
  • "Cambrian carnage: Trilobite predator-prey interactions in the Emu Bay Shale of South Australia" (2022), Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • "Rapid volcanic ash entombment reveals the 3D anatomy of Cambrian trilobites" (2024), Science

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Paterson include:

  • James D. Holmes
  • Russell D. C. Bicknell
  • Gregory D. Edgecombe
  • Diego C. García-Bellido
  • Robert R. Gaines

Their publications have been frequently featured in venues such as Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Papers in Palaeontology, Science Advances, and PeerJ.

Best Publications

  • Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes

    John R. Paterson;Diego C. García-Bellido;Michael S. Y. Lee;Michael S. Y. Lee;Glenn A. Brock

  • Trilobite evolutionary rates constrain the duration of the Cambrian explosion.

    John R. Paterson;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Michael S. Y. Lee;Michael S. Y. Lee

  • 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

  • Early Cambrian trilobites from Angorichina, Flinders Ranges, South Australia, with a new assemblage from the Pararaia bunyerooensis zone

    John R. Paterson;Glenn A. Brock

  • Modern optics in exceptionally preserved eyes of Early Cambrian arthropods from Australia

    Michael S. Y. Lee;Michael S. Y. Lee;James B. Jago;James B. Jago;Diego C. García-Bellido;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • The Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte: a view of Cambrian life from East Gondwana

    John R. Paterson;Diego C. García-Bellido;Diego C. García-Bellido;James B. Jago;James G. Gehling;James G. Gehling

  • 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

  • New anatomical information on Anomalocaris from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale of South Australia and a reassessment of its inferred predatory habits

    Allison C. Daley;Allison C. Daley;John R. Paterson;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Diego C. García-Bellido

  • 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 bivalved arthropods Isoxys and Tuzoia with soft-part preservation from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte (Kangaroo Island, Australia)

    Diego C. García-Bellido;John R. Paterson;Gregory D. Edgecombe;James B. Jago

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

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

  • Reappraising the early evidence of durophagy and drilling predation in the fossil record: implications for escalation and the Cambrian Explosion.

    Russell D. C. Bicknell;John R. Paterson

  • 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

  • Global Cambrian trilobite palaeobiogeography assessed using parsimony analysis of endemicity

    J. Javier Álvaro;Per Ahlberg;Per Ahlberg;Loren E. Babcock;Osvaldo L. Bordonaro

  • Taphonomy and palaeoecology of the emuellid trilobite Balcoracania dailyi (early Cambrian, South Australia)

    John R. Paterson;James B. Jago;Glenn A. Brock;James G. Gehling

  • Nektaspid arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte, South Australia, with a reassessment of lamellipedian relationships

    John R. Paterson;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Diego C. García-Bellido;James B. Jago

  • Biomechanical analyses of Cambrian euarthropod limbs reveal their effectiveness in mastication and durophagy

    Russell D. C. Bicknell;James D. Holmes;Gregory D. Edgecombe;Sarah R. Losso

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

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

  • THE EARLY CAMBRIAN TRILOBITE FAMILY EMUELLIDAE POCOCK, 1970: SYSTEMATIC POSITION AND REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN SPECIES

    John R. Paterson;Gregory D. Edgecombe

  • A New Leanchoiliid Megacheiran Arthropod from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, South Australia

    Gregory D. Edgecombe;Diego C. García-Bellido;John R. Paterson

  • Global correlation of the early Cambrian of South Australia: Shelly fauna of the Dailyatia odyssei Zone

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Glenn A. Brock
Glenn A. Brock Macquarie University
Christian B. Skovsted
Christian B. Skovsted Swedish Museum of Natural History
Gregory D. Edgecombe
Gregory D. Edgecombe Natural History Museum
James G. Gehling
James G. Gehling South Australian Museum
Michael S. Y. Lee
Michael S. Y. Lee Flinders University
Lars E. Holmer
Lars E. Holmer Uppsala University
Stephen Wroe
Stephen Wroe University of New England
Nigel C. Hughes
Nigel C. Hughes University of California, Riverside
Loren E. Babcock
Loren E. Babcock The Ohio State University
Bruce S. Lieberman
Bruce S. Lieberman University of Kansas

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