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Marc Laflamme is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research work primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong emphasis on paleontology, as evidenced by 35 publications in the subfield. Additional subfields include atmospheric science, oceanography, environmental chemistry, and earth-surface processes.

Their main topics of work cover a diverse range of subjects, including paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geology and paleoclimatology research, paleontology and evolutionary biology, marine biology and ecology research, methane hydrates and related phenomena, geological formations and processes, and studies on Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology.

Marc Laflamme has published in several academic venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Paleontology
  • Paleobiology
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: Exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion (2020) - Earth-Science Reviews
  • Ancient life and moving fluids (2020) - Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Causes and consequences of end-Ediacaran extinction - an update (2023) - Cambridge Prisms Extinction
  • New multicellular marine macroalgae from the early Tonian of northwestern Canada (2021) - Geology
  • Paleontology and ichnology of the late Ediacaran Nasep-Huns transition (Nama Group, southern Namibia) (2022) - Journal of Paleontology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Marc Laflamme include:

  • Simon A.F. Darroch
  • James D. Schiffbauer
  • Brandt M. Gibson
  • Katie Maloney
  • Katherine A. Turk

Best Publications

  • The Cambrian conundrum: Early divergence and later ecological success in the early history of animals

    Douglas H. Erwin;Douglas H. Erwin;Marc Laflamme;Sarah M. Tweedt;Sarah M. Tweedt;Erik A. Sperling

  • On the eve of animal radiation: phylogeny, ecology and evolution of the Ediacara biota.

    Shuhai Xiao;Marc Laflamme;Marc Laflamme

  • The end of the Ediacara biota: Extinction, biotic replacement, or Cheshire Cat?

    Marc Laflamme;Simon A.F. Darroch;Sarah M. Tweedt;Sarah M. Tweedt;Kevin J. Peterson

  • Towards an ediacaran time scale: Problems, protocols, and prospects

    Shuhai Xiao;Guy M. Narbonne;Chuanming Zhou;Marc Laflamme

  • Ediacaran Extinction and Cambrian Explosion.

    Simon A.F. Darroch;Emily F. Smith;Marc Laflamme;Douglas H. Erwin

  • From the Cover: Osmotrophy in modular Ediacara organisms

    Marc Laflamme;Shuhai Xiao;Michał Kowalewski

  • Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages through geologic time and space

    A. D. Muscente;James D. Schiffbauer;Jesse Broce;Marc Laflamme

  • Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota

    Simon A. F. Darroch;Erik A. Sperling;Thomas H. Boag;Rachel A. Racicot

  • Microbial biofilms and the preservation of the Ediacara biota

    Marc Laflamme;James D. Schiffbauer;Guy M. Narbonne;Derek E. G. Briggs

  • The latest Ediacaran Wormworld fauna: Setting the ecological stage for the Cambrian Explosion

    James D. Schiffbauer;John Warren Huntley;Gretchen R. O’Neil;Simon A.F. Darroch

  • Ediacaran distributions in space and time: testing assemblage concepts of earliest macroscopic body fossils

    Thomas H. Boag;Simon A. F. Darroch;Marc Laflamme

  • Rangeomorphs, Thectardis (Porifera?) and dissolved organic carbon in the Ediacaran oceans

    E. A. Sperling;E. A. Sperling;K. J. Peterson;M. Laflamme

  • Reconstructing a Lost World: Ediacaran Rangeomorphs from Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland

    Guy M. Narbonne;Guy M. Narbonne;Marc Laflamme;Marc Laflamme;Carolyn Greentree;Peter Trusler

  • MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE EDIACARAN FROND CHARNIODISCUS FROM THE MISTAKEN POINT FORMATION, NEWFOUNDLAND

    Marc LaFLAMME;Guy M. Narbonne;Michael M. Anderson

  • Secular changes in sedimentation systems and sequence stratigraphy

    Patrick G. Eriksson;Santanu Banerjee;Octavian Catuneanu;Patricia L. Corcoran

  • EXPERIMENTAL FORMATION OF A MICROBIAL DEATH MASK

    Simon A. F Darroch;Marc Laflamme;Marc Laflamme;James D Schiffbauer;Derek E. G Briggs;Derek E. G Briggs

  • Deep-Water Ediacaran Fossils from Northwestern Canada: Taphonomy, Ecology, and Evolution

    Guy M Narbonne;Guy M Narbonne;Marc Laflamme;Peter William Trusler;Robert W Dalrymple

  • Population structure of the oldest known macroscopic communities from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland

    Simon A. F. Darroch;Marc Laflamme;Matthew E. Clapham

  • Ediacaran fronds

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  • The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: Exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion

    Simon A.F. Darroch;Simon A.F. Darroch;Alison T. Cribb;Alison T. Cribb;Luis A. Buatois;Gerard J.B. Germs

  • Reading and Writing of the Fossil Record: Preservational Pathways to Exceptional Fossilization

    Marc Laflamme;James D. Schiffbauer;Simon A. F. Darroch

  • Morphology and taphonomy of an Ediacaran frond: Charnia from the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland

    M. Laflamme;G. M. Narbonne;C. Greentree;M. M. Anderson

  • Suspension feeding in the enigmatic Ediacaran organism Tribrachidium demonstrates complexity of Neoproterozoic ecosystems

    Imran A. Rahman;Simon A. F. Darroch;Simon A. F. Darroch;Rachel A. Racicot;Rachel A. Racicot;Marc Laflamme

  • Canopy Flow Analysis Reveals the Advantage of Size in the Oldest Communities of Multicellular Eukaryotes

    Marco Ghisalberti;David A. Gold;Marc Laflamme;Matthew E. Clapham

  • A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia

    Simon A.F. Darroch;Simon A.F. Darroch;Thomas H. Boag;Rachel A. Racicot;Rachel A. Racicot;Sarah Tweedt

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy M. Narbonne
Guy M. Narbonne Queen's University
James D. Schiffbauer
James D. Schiffbauer University of Missouri
Shuhai Xiao
Shuhai Xiao Virginia Tech
Douglas H. Erwin
Douglas H. Erwin National Museum of Natural History
Erik A. Sperling
Erik A. Sperling Stanford University
Duncan McIlroy
Duncan McIlroy Memorial University of Newfoundland
Michał Kowalewski
Michał Kowalewski Florida Museum of Natural History
David Selby
David Selby Durham University
Kevin J. Peterson
Kevin J. Peterson Dartmouth College
Derek E. G. Briggs
Derek E. G. Briggs Yale University

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