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Marco Vecoli is affiliated with Saudi Aramco (United States) and conducts research primarily in the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Paleontology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geology, Atmospheric Science, and Geophysics.

Vecoli's research focuses on topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geophysical Studies, Fern and Epiphyte Biology, Geological and Geochemical Analysis, and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

Recent scholarly contributions include papers published between 2020 and 2024. Among these are:

  • "Catastrophic soil loss associated with end-Triassic deforestation" (2020, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Low-latitude upper Barremian-lower Aptian palynoflora and paleovegetation of the Biyadh Formation (Arabian Plate, eastern margin of northern Gondwana): evidence for a possible cold snap" (2021, Cretaceous Research)
  • "Angiosperm pollen assemblages from the Lower Cretaceous (Barremian-lower Aptian) of offshore Saudi Arabia and their implications for early patterns of angiosperm radiation" (2022, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology)
  • "Early Cretaceous angiosperm radiation in northeastern Gondwana: Insights from island biogeography theory" (2023, Earth-Science Reviews)
  • "Acritarch Palynomorph Darkness Index (PDI) as an indicator of thermal maturity in Silurian sections from Saudi Arabia" (2024, Marine and Petroleum Geology)

Vecoli frequently collaborates with a team of researchers including Hani Boukhamsin, Daniel Peyrot, Paul K. Strother, Simon Lang, and Charles H. Wellman.

Key venues where Vecoli's work has been published include:

  • Earth-Science Reviews
  • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Cretaceous Research
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Best Publications

  • The Ordovician Biodiversification: revolution in the oceanic trophic chain

    Thomas Servais;Oliver Lehnert;Jun Li;Gary L. Mullins

  • The end-Ordovician glaciation and the Hirnantian Stage: A global review and questions about Late Ordovician event stratigraphy

    A. Delabroye;M. Vecoli

  • Biostratigraphy, taxonomic diversity and patterns of morphological evolution of Ordovician acritarchs (organic-walled microphytoplankton) from the northern Gondwana margin in relation to palaeoclimatic and palaeogeographic changes

    Marco Vecoli;Alain Le Hérissé

  • The palaeobiology and geochemistry of Precambrian hydrocarbon source rocks

    J. Craig;U. Biffi;R.F. Galimberti;K.A.R. Ghori

  • The Cambrian to mid Devonian basin development and deformation history of Eastern Avalonia, east of the Midlands Microcraton: New data and a review

    J Verniers;T.C Pharaoh;L André;T Debacker

  • The 2.1 Ga old Francevillian biota : Biogenicity, taphonomy and biodiversity

    Abderrazak El Albani;Stefan Bengtson;Donald Eugene Canfield;Amelie Riboulleau

  • Palynology, organic geochemistry and carbon isotope analysis of a latest Ordovician through Silurian clastic succession from borehole Tt1, Ghadamis Basin, southern Tunisia, North Africa: Palaeoenvironmental interpretation

    Marco Vecoli;Armelle Riboulleau;Gerard J.M. Versteegh

  • Chapter 29 Palaeophytogeography of Ordovician–Silurian land plants

    Charles H. Wellman;Philippe Steemans;Marco Vecoli;Marco Vecoli

  • Cambro-Ordovician palynostratigraphy (acritarchs and prasinophytes) of the Hassi-R'Mel area and northern Rhadames Basin, North Africa

    Marco Vecoli

  • Palaeoenvironmental interpretation of microphytoplankton diversity trends in the Cambrian–Ordovician of the northern Sahara Platform

    Marco Vecoli

  • Ordovician chitinozoans and acritarchs from southern and southeastern Turkey

    Florentin Paris;Alain Le Hérissé;Olivier Monod;Huseyin Kozlu

  • A review of the Late Cambrian (Furongian) palaeogeography in the western Mediterranean region, NW Gondwana

    J. Javier Álvaro;J. Javier Álvaro;Annalisa Ferretti;Cristina González-Gómez;Enrico Serpagli

  • Palynology and isotope geochronology of the Upper Ordovician–Silurian successions (Ghelli and Soltan Maidan Formations) in the Khoshyeilagh area, eastern Alborz Range, northern Iran; stratigraphic and palaeogeographic implications

    Mohammad Ghavidel-Syooki;Jamshid Hassanzadeh;Marco Vecoli

  • Plant evolution and terrestrialization during Palaeozoic times—The phylogenetic context

    Philippe Gerrienne;Thomas Servais;Marco Vecoli

  • Phytoplankton dynamics across the Ordovician/Silurian boundary at low palaeolatitudes: Correlations with carbon isotopic and glacial events

    Aurélien Delabroye;Aurélien Delabroye;Axel Munnecke;Marco Vecoli;Paul Copper

  • Environmental changes reflected by palynomorphs in the early Middle Ordovician Hanadir Member of the Qasim Formation, Saudi Arabia

    Alain Le Hérissé;Mansour Al-Ruwaili;Merrell Miller;Marco Vecoli

  • THE ACRITARCH GENUS VERYHACHIUM DEUNFF 1954: TAXONOMIC EVALUATION AND FIRST APPEARANCE

    Thomas Servais;Marco Vecoli;Jun Li;Stewart G. Molyneux

  • Quantitative evaluation of microplankton palaeobiogeography in the Ordovician-Early Silurian of the northern Trans European Suture Zone: implications for the timing of the Avalonia-Baltica collision.

    Marco Vecoli;Joakim Samuelsson

  • Aliphatic and aromatic biomarkers from Carboniferous coal deposits at Dunbar (East Lothian, Scotland): Palaeobotanical and palaeoenvironmental significance

    Maria-Fernanda Romero-Sarmiento;Armelle Riboulleau;Marco Vecoli;Fatima Laggoun-Défarge

  • Aliphatic and aromatic biomarkers from Gondwanan sediments of Late Ordovician to Early Devonian age: An early terrestrialization approach

    Maria-Fernanda Romero-Sarmiento;Armelle Riboulleau;Marco Vecoli;Gerard J.-M. Versteegh

  • The Terrestrialization Process: Modelling Complex Interactions at the Biosphere–Geosphere Interface

    M. Vecoli;G. Clément;B. Meyer-Berthaud

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Servais
Thomas Servais University of Lille
Charles H. Wellman
Charles H. Wellman University of Sheffield
Philippe Steemans
Philippe Steemans University of Liège
Armelle Riboulleau
Armelle Riboulleau University of Lille
Gerard J M Versteegh
Gerard J M Versteegh University of Bremen
Axel Munnecke
Axel Munnecke University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Florentin Paris
Florentin Paris University of Rennes
Jean-François Ghienne
Jean-François Ghienne University of Strasbourg
Luc André
Luc André Royal Museum for Central Africa

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