Dedication
Brasier, A. T., McIlroy, D. & McLoughlin, N. Contributions of Professor Martin Brasier to the study of early life, stratigraphy and biogeochemistry
Deciphering the earliest evidence for life
Antcliffe, J. B., Liu, A. G., Menon, L. R., McIlroy, D., McLoughlin, N. & Wacey, D. Understanding ancient life: how Martin Brasier changed the way we think about the fossil record
Hickman-Lewis, K., Garwood, R. J., Withers, P. J. & Wacey, D. X-ray microtomography as a tool for investigating the petrological context of Precambrian cellular remains
Grosch, E. G., Muñoz, M., Mathon, O. & McLoughlin, N. Earliest microbial trace fossils in Archaean pillow lavas under scrutiny: new micro-X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy, metamorphic and morphological constraints
The preservation, origins and interactions of early multicellular organisms – the Torridonian Supergroup, NW Scotland
Muirhead, D. K., Parnell, J., Spinks, S. & Bowden, S. A. Characterization of organic matter in the Torridonian using Raman spectroscopy
Wacey, D., Battison, L., Garwood, R. J., Hickman-Lewis, K. & Brasier, M. D. Advanced analytical techniques for studying the morphology and chemistry of Proterozoic microfossils
Wacey, D., Brasier, M., Parnell, J., Culwick, T., Bowden, S., Spinks, S., Boyce, A. J., Davidheiser-Kroll, B., Jeon, H., Saunders, M. & Kilburn, M. R. Contrasting microfossil preservation and lake chemistries within the 1200–1000 Ma Torridonian Supergroup of NW Scotland
Brasier, A. T., Culwick, T., Battison, L., Callow, R. H. T. & Brasier, M. D. Evaluating evidence from the Torridonian Supergroup (Scotland, UK) for eukaryotic life on land in the Proterozoic
Progress on understanding the evolution of animal life and the biosphere during the Precambrian–Cambrian transition
He, T., Zhou, Y., Vermeesch, P., Rittner, M., Miao, L., Zhu, M., Carter, A., Pogge von Strandmann, P. A. E. & Shields, G. A. Measuring the ‘Great Unconformity’ on the North China Craton using new detrital zircon age data
Shields, G. A. Earth system transition during the Tonian–Cambrian interval of biological innovation: nutrients, climate, oxygen and the marine organic carbon capacitor
Liu, A. G., Menon, L. R., Shields, G. A., Callow, R. H. T. & McIlroy, D. Martin Brasier’s contribution to the palaeobiology of the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition
Wood, R. Palaeoecology of Ediacaran metazoan reefs
Dufour, S. C. & McIlroy, D. Ediacaran pre-placozoan diploblasts in the Avalonian biota: the role of chemosynthesis in the evolution of early animal life
Kenchington, C. G. & Wilby, P. R. Rangeomorph classification schemes and intra-specific variation: are all characters created equal?
Matthews, J. J., Liu, A. G. & McIlroy, D. Post-fossilization processes and their implications for understanding Ediacaran macrofossil assemblages
Menon, L. R., McIlroy, D. & Brasier, M. D. ‘Intrites’ from the Ediacaran Longmyndian Supergroup, UK: a new form of microbially-induced sedimentary structure (MISS)
McMahon, S., van Smeerdijk Hood, A. & McIlroy, D. The origin and occurrence of subaqueous sedimentary cracks
Geyer, G. & Landing, E. The Precambrian–Phanerozoic and Ediacaran–Cambrian boundaries: a historical approach to a dilemma
McIlroy, D. & Brasier, M. D. Ichnological evidence for the Cambrian explosion in the Ediacaran to Cambrian succession of Tanafjord, Finnmark, northern Norway
Herringshaw, L. G., Callow, R. H. T. & McIlroy, D. Engineering the Cambrian explosion: the earliest bioturbators as ecosystem engineers
Studies of exceptional preservation
Brasier, M. D., Norman, D. B., Liu, A. G., Cotton, L. J., Hiscocks, J. E. H., Garwood, R. J., Antcliffe, J. B. & Wacey, D. Remarkable preservation of brain tissues in an Early Cretaceous iguanodontian dinosaur
Brasier, A. T., Cotton, L. J., Garwood, R. J., Baker-Brian, J., Howlett, E. & Brasier, M. D. Earliest Cretaceous cocoons or plant seed structures from the Wealden Group, Hastings, UK
Cotton, L. J., Vollrath, F., Brasier, M. D. & Dicko, C. Chemical relationships of ambers using attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy
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