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Nigel C. Hughes is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a substantial body of work in Paleontology. They have contributed extensively to the subfields of Paleontology, Geophysics, Geology, Atmospheric Science, and Earth-Surface Processes.

Their research topics encompass:

  • Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Geological and Geochemical Analysis
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Geological formations and processes

Among their recent publications are:

  • "The trilobite upper limb branch is a well-developed gill" (2021, Science Advances)
  • "Systematic paleontology, acritarch biostratigraphy, and δ13C chemostratigraphy of the early Ediacaran Krol A Formation, Lesser Himalaya, northern India" (2022, Journal of Paleontology)
  • "Articulated trilobite ontogeny: suggestions for a methodological standard" (2020, Journal of Paleontology)
  • "Enduring evolutionary embellishment of cloudinids in the Cambrian" (2021, Royal Society Open Science)
  • "Tectonic trigger to the first major extinction of the Phanerozoic: The early Cambrian Sinsk event" (2024, Science Advances)

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Paul M. Myrow
  • Shelly J. Wernette
  • Shravya Srivastava
  • Tae-Yoon S. Park
  • Richard K. Bambach

The main venues where their research has been published are:

  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America
  • Journal of Paleontology
  • Science Advances
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Geological Society London Special Publications

Best Publications

  • The Magnitude and Duration of Late Ordovician–Early Silurian Glaciation

    Seth Finnegan;Kristin Bergmann;John M. Eiler;David S. Jones

  • Extraordinary transport and mixing of sediment across Himalayan central Gondwana during the Cambrian–Ordovician

    Paul M. Myrow;Nigel C. Hughes;John W. Goodge;C. Mark Fanning

  • Integrated tectonostratigraphic analysis of the Himalaya and implications for its tectonic reconstruction

    Paul M Myrow;Nigel C Hughes;T S Paulsen;Ian Williams

  • Correlation of Precambrian–Cambrian sedimentary successions across northern India and the utility of isotopic signatures of Himalayan lithotectonic zones

    N. Ryan McKenzie;Nigel C. Hughes;Paul M. Myrow;Shuhai Xiao

  • Stratigraphic correlation of Cambrian-Ordovician deposits along the Himalaya: Implications for the age and nature of rocks in the Mount Everest region

    Paul M Myrow;Nigel C Hughes;Michael P. Searle;Christopher Fanning

  • Trilobites and zircons link north China with the eastern Himalaya during the Cambrian

    N. Ryan McKenzie;Nigel C. Hughes;Paul M. Myrow;Duck K. Choi

  • New age constraints for the Proterozoic Aravalli-Delhi successions of India and their implications

    N. Ryan McKenzie;N. Ryan McKenzie;Nigel C. Hughes;Paul M. Myrow;Dhiraj M. Banerjee

  • The ontogeny of trilobite segmentation: a comparative approach

    Nigel C. Hughes;Alessandro Minelli;Giuseppe Fusco

  • The Evolution of Trilobite Body Patterning

    Nigel C. Hughes

  • Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Tal Group, Lesser Himalaya, India, and early Tsanglangpuan (late early Cambrian) trilobites from the Nigali Dhar syncline

    Nigel C. Hughes;Shanchi Peng;O. N. Bhargava;A. D. Ahluwalia

  • Cambrian stratigraphy and depositional history of the northern Indian Himalaya, Spiti Valley, north-central India

    Paul M. Myrow;Karl R. Thompson;Nigel C. Hughes;Timothy S. Paulsen

  • Terminal suturing of Gondwana along the southern margin of South China Craton: Evidence from detrital zircon U-Pb ages and Hf isotopes in Cambrian and Ordovician strata, Hainan Island

    Yajun Xu;Yajun Xu;Peter A. Cawood;Peter A. Cawood;Yuansheng Du;Zengqiu Zhong

  • Growth and variation in the Silurian proetide trilobite Aulacopleura konincki and its implications for trilobite palaeobiology

    Nigel C. Hughes;Ralph E. Chapman

  • CAMBRIAN DEPOSITIONAL HISTORY OF THE ZANSKAR VALLEY REGION OF THE INDIAN HIMALAYA: TECTONIC IMPLICATIONS

    P.M. Myrow;K.E. Snell;N.C. Hughes;T.S. Paulsen

  • Plate tectonic influences on Neoproterozoic-early Paleozoic climate and animal evolution

    N. Ryan McKenzie;N. Ryan McKenzie;Nigel C. Hughes;Benjamin C. Gill;Paul M. Myrow

  • The stability of thoracic segmentation in trilobites: a case study in developmental and ecological constraints

    Nigel C. Hughes;Ralph E. Chapman;Jonathan M. Adrain

  • Cambrian Trilobites from the Parahio and Zanskar Valleys, Indian Himalaya

    Shanchi Peng;Nigel C. Hughes;Noel A. Heim;Noel A. Heim;Bryan K. Sell;Bryan K. Sell

  • Exploring developmental modes in a fossil arthropod: growth and trunk segmentation of the trilobite Aulacopleura konincki.

    Giuseppe Fusco;Nigel C. Hughes;Mark Webster;Alessandro Minelli

  • Cambrian–Ordovician orogenesis in Himalayan equatorial Gondwana

    Paul M. Myrow;Nigel C. Hughes;N. Ryan McKenzie;Phuntsho Pelgay

  • A paired apatite and calcite clumped isotope thermometry approach to estimating Cambro-Ordovician seawater temperatures and isotopic composition

    Kristin D. Bergmann;Seth Finnegan;Roger Creel;John M. Eiler

  • Global Cambrian trilobite palaeobiogeography assessed using parsimony analysis of endemicity

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

  • The Cambrian palaeontological record of the Indian subcontinent

    Nigel C. Hughes

  • Compaction-related deformation in Cambrian olenelloid trilobites and its implications for fossil morphometry

    Mark Webster;Nigel C. Hughes

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul M. Myrow
Paul M. Myrow Colorado College
Shuhai Xiao
Shuhai Xiao Virginia Tech
Mary L. Droser
Mary L. Droser University of California, Riverside
Leonid E. Popov
Leonid E. Popov Cardiff University
Daniel F. Stockli
Daniel F. Stockli The University of Texas at Austin
John R. Paterson
John R. Paterson University of New England
Seth Finnegan
Seth Finnegan University of California, Berkeley
John M. Eiler
John M. Eiler California Institute of Technology
Woodward W. Fischer
Woodward W. Fischer California Institute of Technology
Noah J. Planavsky
Noah J. Planavsky Yale University

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