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Overview

Martin D. Brasier was affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned several key fields, primarily focusing on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist contributed to multiple subfields including Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly output covered important topics such as Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, and Protist Diversity and Phylogeny.

Brasier's frequent co-authors included:

  • Paul K. Strother
  • David Wacey
  • Leslie C. Timpe
  • Martin Saunders
  • Charles H. Wellman

Their to-date known publication venues included:

  • Current Biology

Among their recorded publications, a notable paper is "A possible billion-year-old holozoan with differentiated multicellularity" published in 2021 in Current Biology.

Throughout their career, Brasier addressed diverse areas of research integrating paleontological evidence with molecular and atmospheric scientific perspectives. The focus on stratigraphy and fossil records supported investigations into early life forms and the evolutionary context of multicellularity.

Their work enhanced the understanding of ancient geological and biological processes through interdisciplinary approaches. By combining evidence from Earth sciences and molecular biology, their research contributed data relevant to both paleontological interpretation and broader geological history.

Best Publications

  • Questioning the evidence for Earth's oldest fossils

    Martin D. Brasier;Owen R. Green;Andrew P. Jephcoat;Annette K. Kleppe

  • Continental break-up and collision in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic — A tale of Baltica and Laurentia

    T.H. Torsvik;M.A. Smethurst;J.G. Meert;R. Van der Voo

  • Microfossils of sulphur-metabolizing cells in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks of Western Australia

    David Wacey;Matt R. Kilburn;Martin Saunders;John Cliff

  • Early Cambrian continental reconstructions

    W. S. McKERROW;C. R. Scotese;M. D. Brasier

  • Integrated chemo- and biostratigraphic calibration of early animal evolution; Neoproterozoic-Early Cambrian of Southwest Mongolia

    M. D. Brasier;G. Shields;V. N. Kuleshov;E. A. Zhegallo

  • A global carbon isotope excursion (SPICE) during the Late Cambrian: relation to trilobite extinctions, organic-matter burial and sea level

    Matthew R. Saltzman;Robert L. Ripperdan;M.D. Brasier;Kyger C. Lohmann

  • An outline history of seagrass communities

    M. D. Brasier

  • Decision on the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary stratotype

    Martin Brasier;John Cowie;Michael Taylor

  • A fresh look at the fossil evidence for early Archaean cellular life

    Martin Brasier;Nicola McLoughlin;Owen Green;David Wacey

  • Sr and C isotopes in Lower Cambrian carbonates from the Siberian craton: A paleoenvironmental record during the ‘Cambrian explosion’

    L.A. Derry;M.D. Brasier;R.M. Corfield;A.Yu. Rozanov

  • Ediacarian sponge spicule clusters from southwestern Mongolia and the origins of the Cambrian fauna

    Martin Brasier;Owen Green;Graham Shields

  • A billion years of environmental stability and the emergence of eukaryotes: new data from northern Australia.

    M. D. Brasier;J. F. Lindsay

  • New U-Pb zircon dates for the Neoproterozoic Ghubrah glaciation and for the top of the Huqf Supergroup, Oman

    Martin Brasier;Gretta McCarron;Robert Tucker;Jonathan Leather

  • Critical testing of Earth's oldest putative fossil assemblage from the ∼3.5Ga Apex chert, Chinaman Creek, Western Australia

    Martin D. Brasier;Owen R. Green;John F. Lindsay;Nicola McLoughlin

  • The carbon- and oxygen-isotope record of the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary interval in China and Iran and their correlation

    Martin D. Brasier;Mordeckai Magaritz;Richard Corfield;Luo Huilin

  • Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation: Context, correlation, and chronostratigraphy—Overcoming deficiencies of the first appearance datum (FAD) concept

    Ed Landing;Gerd Geyer;Gerd Geyer;Martin D. Brasier;Samuel A. Bowring

  • 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

  • Changing the picture of Earth's earliest fossils (3.5-1.9 Ga) with new approaches and new discoveries

    Martin D. Brasier;Jonathan Antcliffe;Jonathan Antcliffe;Martin Saunders;David Wacey

  • Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze.

    Jonathan B. Antcliffe;Jonathan B. Antcliffe;Richard H. T. Callow;Martin D. Brasier;Martin D. Brasier

  • Multiple δ13C excursions spanning the Cambrian explosion to the Botomian crisis in Siberia

    M. D. Brasier;R. M. Corfield;L. A. Derry;A. Yu. Rozanov

  • Fossil indicators of nutrient levels. 1: Eutrophication and climate change

    M. D. Brasier

  • Neoproterozoic snowball Earth under scrutiny; evidence from the Fiq Glaciation of Oman

    Jonathan Leather;Philip A. Allen;Martin D. Brasier;Andrea Cozzi

Frequent Co-Authors

David Wacey
David Wacey University of Western Australia
John F. Lindsay
John F. Lindsay Lunar and Planetary Institute
Martin Saunders
Martin Saunders Yale University
Graham A. Shields
Graham A. Shields University College London
Matt R. Kilburn
Matt R. Kilburn University of Western Australia
Duncan McIlroy
Duncan McIlroy Memorial University of Newfoundland
Andrew Steele
Andrew Steele Carnegie Institution for Science
John Parnell
John Parnell University of Aberdeen
Philip A. Allen
Philip A. Allen Imperial College London
Louis A. Derry
Louis A. Derry Cornell University

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