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Duncan McIlroy
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Latest papers
Hydrodynamic insights into the paleobiology of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Fractofusus misrai.
iScience · 2024 · senior author
Were the First Trace Fossils Really Burrows or Could They Have Been Made by Sediment-Displacive Chemosymbiotic Organisms?
Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022 · first author
The role of symbiosis in the first colonization of the seafloor by macrobiota: Insights from the oldest Ediacaran biota (Newfoundland, Canada).
Bio Systems · 2021 · first author
Latest funding
- $120,000
The evolution of organism sediment interactions in the early benthos
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $427,000
The evolution of organism sediment interactions in the early benthos
NSERC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $40,000
Ediacaran organism-sediment interactions
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
7 publications.
Hydrodynamic insights into the paleobiology of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Fractofusus misrai.
Pérez-Pinedo D, Nicholls R, Neville JM, McIlroy D
Were the First Trace Fossils Really Burrows or Could They Have Been Made by Sediment-Displacive Chemosymbiotic Organisms?
McIlroy D
The role of symbiosis in the first colonization of the seafloor by macrobiota: Insights from the oldest Ediacaran biota (Newfoundland, Canada).
McIlroy D, Dufour SC, Taylor R, Nicholls R
An Ediacaran pre-placozoan alternative to the pre-sponge route towards the Cambrian explosion of animal life: a comment on Cavalier-Smith 2017.
Dufour SC, McIlroy D
Ichnological evidence for meiofaunal bilaterians from the terminal Ediacaran and earliest Cambrian of Brazil.
Parry LA, Boggiani PC, Condon DJ, Garwood RJ, Leme JM, McIlroy D, Brasier MD, Trindade R, Campanha GAC, Pacheco MLAF, Diniz CQC, Liu AG
The arrangement of possible muscle fibres in the Ediacaran taxon Haootia quadriformis.
Liu AG, Matthews JJ, Menon LR, McIlroy D, Brasier MD
Haootia quadriformis n. gen., n. sp., interpreted as a muscular cnidarian impression from the Late Ediacaran period (approx. 560 Ma).
Liu AG, Matthews JJ, Menon LR, McIlroy D, Brasier MD
The evolution of organism sediment interactions in the early benthos
Principal investigators: Mcilroy, Duncan
The evolution of organism sediment interactions in the early benthos
Principal investigators: McIlroy, Duncan
Keywords: ichnology; palaeobiology; ediacaran; cambrian; bioturbation; burrowing; biogeochemistry; palaeontology; sedimentology; taphonomy
Ediacaran organism-sediment interactions
Principal investigators: McIlroy, Duncan
Petroleum Geoscience / Geotechnology
Principal investigators: McIlroy, Duncan
Keywords: CRC
Mudstone ichnofabrics, shale-gas reservoirs and palaeoenvironmental analysis
Principal investigators: McIlroy, Duncan
Petroleum reservoirs: assessing the physical and geochemical impacts of bioturbation
Principal investigators: McIlroy, Duncan
Tidal pumping, matrix infiltration and early diagenetic cementation of reservoir sandstones
Principal investigators: McIlroy, Duncan
Petroleum Geoscience/ Geotechnology
Principal investigators: McIlroy, Duncan
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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