Peer-Reviewed Publications

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Published

2021  

Boag, T.H., Gearty, W., Stockey, R.G. (2021). Metabolic tradeoffs control biodiversity gradients through geologic time. Current Biology. v. 31, p. 2906-2913.e3. Doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2021.04.021.

2020

Darroch, S.A.F., Cribb, A.T., Koester, B., Kenchington, C.G., Turk, K.A., Maloney, K.M., Gibson, B.M., Mocke, H., Boag, T.H., O’Neil, G.R., Racicot, R.A., Smith, E.F., Schiffbauer, J.D., Buatois, L.A., Tweedt, S.M., Laflamme, M. (2020). The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: Exploring the Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion. Earth-Science Reviews. v. 212, 103435. Doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2020.103435.

Rooney, A.D., Cantine, M.D., Bergmann, K.D., Gomez-Perez, I., Baloushi, B.A., Boag, T.H., Busch, J.F., Sperling, E.A., Strauss, J.V. (2020). Calibrating the co-evolution of Ediacaran life and environment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. Doi: 10.1073/pnas.2002918117.

Maloney, K.M., Boag, T.H., Facciol, A.J., Gibson, B.M., Cribb, A., Koester, B.E., Kenchington, C.G., Racicot, R.A., Darroch, S.A.F., Laflamme, M. (2020). Paleoenvironmental analysis of Ernietta-bearing Ediacaran deposits in southern Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 556. Doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109884.

2019

Cribb, A., Kenchington, C., Koester, B., Gibson, B., Boag, T.H., Racicot, R., Mocke, H., Laflamme, M., Darroch, S.A.F. (2019). Increase in metazoan ecosystem engineering prior to the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary in the Nama Group, Namibia. Royal Society Open Science. 6(9). Doi: 10.1098/rsos.190548.

Muscente, A.D., Bykova, N., Boag, T.H., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Eleish, A., Prabhu, A., Meyer, M.B., Schiffbauer, J.D., Fox, P., Hazen, R.M., Knoll, A.H. (2019). Ediacaran biozones identified with network analysis provide evidence for pulsed extinctions of early complex life. Nature Communications. 10: 911. Doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-08837-3.

2018

Boag, T.H., Stockey, R.G., Elder, L.E., Hull, P.M., Sperling, E.A. (2018). Oxygen, temperature, and the deep-marine stenothermal cradle of Ediacaran evolution. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 285. Doi: 10.1098/rspb.2018.1724.

Muscente, A.D., Boag, T.H., Bykova, N., Schiffbauer, J.D. (2018). Environmental disturbance, resource availability, and biologic turnover at the dawn of animal life. Earth-Science Reviews. 177: 248-264. Doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2017.11.019.

2017

Muscente, A.D., Schiffbauer, J.D., Broce, J., Laflamme, M., O’Donnell, K., Boag, T.H., Meyer, M., Hawkins, A., Huntley, J.W., McNamara, M., MacKenzie, A., Stanley, G.D., Hinman, N.W., Hofmann, M.H., Xiao, S. (2017). Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages through geologic time and space. Gondwana Research. 48: 164-188. Doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.020.

2016

Darroch, S.A.F., Boag, T.H., Racicot, R.A., Tweedt, S., Mason, S., Erwin, D.H., Laflamme, M. (2016). A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 459: 198-208. Doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.07.003.

Boag, T.H., Darroch, S.A.F., Laflamme, M. (2016). Ediacaran distributions in space and time: testing assemblage concepts of earliest macroscopic body fossils. Paleobiology. 42(4): 574-594. Doi: 10.1017/pab.2016.20.

2015

Darroch, S.A.F., Sperling, E.A., Boag, T.H., Racicot, R.A., Mason, S.J., Morgan, A.S., Tweedt, S., Myrow, P., Johnston, D.T, Erwin, D.H., Laflamme, M. (2015). Biotic replacement and mass extinction of the Ediacara biota. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 282. Doi: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1003.

Carbone, C., Narbonne, G.M., Macdonald, F.A., and Boag, T.H. (2015). New Ediacaran Fossils from the uppermost Blueflower Formation, NW Canada: Disentangling biostratigraphy and paleoecology. Journal of Paleontology. 89(2): 281-291. Doi: 10.1017/jpa.2014.25.