Diego Garcia-Bellido

Research Interests

Evolutionary Biology Palaeoecology Palaeontology Paleontology

APrf Diego Garcia-Bellido

Associate Professor

School of Biological Sciences

College of Science

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

My main interest is the taxonomic diversity and functional morphology of the early metazoans generated during the so-called Cambrian "explosion" (some 540 million years ago), and the phylogenetic relationships among the major animal groups (phyla) that appeared with this unique event in the history of the biosphere. I am also interested on the Edicara Biota (570-550 Ma) and on finding the morphological, ecological and phylogenetic links of these fossils with the Cambrian faunas.

My main interest is the taxonomical diversity and functional morphology of the early metazoans generated during the so-called Cambrian "explosion" (some 540 million years ago), and the phylogenetic relationships among the major animal groups (phyla) that appeared with this unique event in the history of the biosphere.

I got my Graduate Degree in Biology-Zoology (1995) and a Postgraduate Degree in Palaeontology (1997) from the Complutense University in Madrid. My first contact with Burgess Shale-type fossils was in the summer of 1994, when I visited the University of Cambridge, studying soft-bodied (non-mineralized) fossils from the Lower Cambrian Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania with Prof. Conway Morris and early Cambrian organic-walled microfossils from northwestern Canada with Prof. Butterfield. During the summers of 1995, 1997 and 2000 I excavated at the Burgess Shale (British Columbia) with the Royal Ontario Museum-Toronto, under the direction of Dr. Collins. In parallel with my research on soft-bodied fossils, and due to the scarcity of such type of fossils in Spain, I took a different topic for my PhD Thesis: the Palaeozoic Porifera from the Iberian Peninsula (Madrid, 2002). I did a two-year postdoc at the ROM (2003-2004), working with Dr. Collins on some of the Burgess Shale's most emblematic arthropod fossils (Marrella, Leanchoilia, Isoxys...). Upon my return to Madrid (2005) I headed a research project for the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) to search for Ediacaran, Burgess Shale and Orsten-type fossils in Spain, and study their palaeogeographic implications. My latest work comes from collaborations with the South Australian Museum in excavating and studying the early Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte in Kangaroo Island (South Australia), having joined The University of Adelaide in January 2013 as a Senior Research Fellow. In late 2013 I became an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, with a 4-year research project entitled "Testing our knowledge on the dawn of Animal life: evidence from the fossil record against modern ecological and morphological analogues". It focused on comparing the Ediacara Biota and the Emu Bay Shale and other Cambrian lagerstätten from a palaeocological perspective, and included experiments on Modern marine invertebrate predation to test against what we observe in the fossil record. In the last 5 years I have also been working on the anatomy, functional morphology and behaviour of the Ediacara Biota from the Flinders Ranges, with the goal of finding the links of these strange fossils with the Cambrian faunas. Since January 2018 I have a ongoing position as Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide and as Senior Researcher at the South Australian Museum.

As part of my research on the Ediacara Biota, I have support from Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP220102772 and NASA Exobiology Grant #20-EXO20-0009 (in collaboration with Prof. Droser, from the University of California - Riverside) to work in northern South Australia. My team's research helps underpin the UNESCO Flinders Ranges World Heritage bid, in collaboration with a range of government and NGO partners including the Department of Environment and Water and the Flinders Ranges Ediacara Foundation.

 

Date Position Institution name
2018 - ongoing Associate Professor University of Adelaide, Adelaide
2018 - ongoing Senior Researcher - Palaeontology South Australian Museum, Adelaide
2014 - 2017 ARC Future Fellow University of Adelaide

Date Institution name Country Title
1998 - 2002 Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid Spain PhD

Date Title Institution Country
2008 - 2012 Ramón y Cajal Researcher Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid Spain
2005 - 2007 Juan de la Cierva Researcher Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid Spain
2003 - 2004 Postdoctoral Researcher Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Canada

Year Citation
2026 García-Bellido, D. C., & Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. (2026). The giant emucaridid Tafilocaris ordovicica gen. Et sp. Nov. (Euarthropoda, Nektaspida), a peri-Gondwanan ‘Cambrian’ survivor in the Upper Ordovician Tafilalt biota of Morocco. Gondwana Research, 150, 419-427.
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2025 Fergusen, M., Reed, E., & García-Bellido, D. (2025). Investigating colour in marine Miocene molluscs: UV fluorescence patterns and pigment EDX spectroscopy in shells from the Murbko Marl, Murray Basin (South Australia). Palaeontologia Electronica, 28(1), 25 pages.
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2025 Edgecombe, G. D., Garcia-Bellido, D. C., & Paterson, J. R. (2025). A new xandarellid euarthropod from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, South Australia. Journal of Paleontology, 99(4), 905-913.
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2024 Botha, T. L., & Garcia-Bellido, D. C. (2024). A new species of the iconic triradial Ediacaran genus Tribrachidium from Nilpena Ediacara National Park, Flinders Ranges (South Australia). Journal of Paleontology, 98(1), 1-12.
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2024 Gaines, R. R., García-Bellido, D. C., Jago, J. B., Myrow, P. M., & Paterson, J. R. (2024). The Emu Bay Shale: A unique early Cambrian Lagerstätte from a tectonically active basin. Science Advances, 10(30), eadp2650-1-eadp2650-9.
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2024 Botha, T., Droser, M., García-Bellido, D., & Sherratt, E. (2024). Morphometric investigation of Tribrachidium from Nilpena Ediacara National Park, South Australia. Palaeontologia Electronica, 27(2), a36-1-a36-18.
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2024 Evans, S. D., Hughes, I. V., Hughes, E. B., Dzaugis, P. W., Dzaugis, M. P., Gehling, J. G., . . . Droser, M. L. (2024). A new motile animal with implications for the evolution of axial polarity from the Ediacaran of South Australia. Evolution and Development, 26(6), e12491-1-e12491-11.
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2023 García-Bellido, D. C., & Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C. (2023). Polar gigantism and remarkable taxonomic longevity in new palaeoscolecid worms from the Late Ordovician Tafilalt Lagerstätte of Morocco. Historical Biology, 35(11), 2011-2021.
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2023 Botha, T., Sherratt, E., Droser, M., Gehling, J., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (2023). Elucidating the morphology and ecology of Eoandromeda octobrachiata from the Ediacaran of South Australia. Papers in Palaeontology, 9(6), e1530-1-e1530-15.
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2023 Jago, J. B., Gehling, J. G., Lemon, N. M., Jenkins, R. J. F., & Garcia-Bellido, D. C. (2023). A large enigmatic fossil from the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Heatherdale Shale of South Australia. New Zealand Journal of Geology, and Geophysics, 66(3), 398-404.
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2023 Bicknell, R. D. C., Holmes, J. D., Garcia-Bellido, D. C., & Paterson, J. R. (2023). Malformed individuals of the trilobite Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale and their palaeobiological implications. Geological Magazine, 160(4), 803-812.
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2023 Drage, H. B., Holmes, J. D., Garcia-Bellido, D. C., & Paterson, J. R. (2023). Associations between trilobite intraspecific moulting variability and body proportions: Estaingia bilobata from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, Australia. Palaeontology, 66(3), 1-12.
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2023 Paterson, J. R., García-Bellido, D. C., & Edgecombe, G. D. (2023). The early Cambrian Emu Bay Shale radiodonts revisited: morphology and systematics. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 21(1), 29 pages.
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2022 Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., Rábano, I., Sá, A. A., Poblador, J. A., & García-Bellido, D. C. (2022). An adittional asaphid trilobite with preserved appendages from the Fezouata Biota (Lower Ordovician of Morocco). Geogaceta, 71(71), 11-14.
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2022 Turner, A. M., Delean, S., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (2022). Preliminary revision of the morphology of Phyllozoon hanseni from the Ediacaran of South Australia. Serie Correlación Geológica, 37(2), 5-14.
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2022 Bicknell, R. D. C., Holmes, J. D., Pates, S., García-Bellido, D. C., & Paterson, J. R. (2022). Cambrian carnage: Trilobite predator-prey interactions in the Emu Bay Shale of South Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 591, 1-20.
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2021 Holmes, J. D., Paterson, J. R., Jago, J. B., & Garcia-Bellido, D. C. (2021). Ontogeny of the trilobite Redlichia from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) Ramsay Limestone of South Australia. Geological Magazine, 158(7), 1209-1223.
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2021 Cracknell, K., García-Bellido, D. C., Gehling, J. G., Ankor, M. J., Darroch, S. A. F., & Rahman, I. A. (2021). Pentaradial eukaryote suggests expansion of suspension feeding in White Sea-aged Ediacaran communities. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 4121-1-4121-9.
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2021 Holmes, J. D., Paterson, J. R., & Garcia-Bellido, D. C. (2021). Complex axial growth patterns in an early Cambrian trilobite from South Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1965), 20212131-1-20212131-8.
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2021 Holmes, J. D., Paterson, J. R., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (2021). The post-embryonic ontogeny of the early Cambrian trilobite Estaingia bilobata from South Australia: trunk development and phylogenetic implications. Papers in Palaeontology, 7(2), 931-950.
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2020 Paterson, J. R., Edgecombe, G. D., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (2020). Disparate compound eyes of Cambrian radiodonts reveal their developmental growth mode and diverse visual ecology. Science Advances, 6(49), 1-10.
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2020 Holmes, J. D., Paterson, J. R., & Garcia-Bellido, D. C. (2020). The trilobite Redlichia from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte of South Australia: systematics, ontogeny and soft-part anatomy. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 18(4), 295-334.
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2020 Reid, L. M., Payne, J. L., García-Bellido, D. C., & Jago, J. B. (2020). The Ediacara Member, South Australia: Lithofacies and palaeoenvironments of the Ediacara biota. Gondwana Research, 80, 321-334.
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2019 Gehling, J. G., García-Bellido, D. C., Droser, M. L., Tarhan, M. L., & Runnegar, B. (2019). The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: Sedimentary facies versus extinction. Estudios Geologicos, 75(2), 6 pages.
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2019 Yun, H., Brock, G. A., Zhang, X., Li, L., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Paterson, J. R. (2019). A new chancelloriid from the Emu Bay Shale (Cambrian Stage 4) of South Australia. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17(13), 857-867.
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2019 Holmes, J. D., Garcia-Bellido, D. C., & Paterson, J. R. (2019). A giant species of trilobite inhabited Australian waters half a billion years ago. The Conversation, 2019(June 13).
2018 Holmes, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Lee, M. (2018). Comparisons between Cambrian Lagerstätten assemblages using multivariate, parsimony and Bayesian methods. Gondwana Research, 55, 30-41.
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2018 Coutts, F., Bradshaw, C., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Gehling, J. (2018). Evidence of sensory-driven behavior in the Ediacaran organism Parvancorina: Implications and autecological interpretations. Gondwana Research, 55, 21-29.
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2018 Reid, L. M., García-Bellido, D. C., & Gehling, J. G. (2018). An Ediacaran opportunist? Characteristics of a juvenile Dickinsonia costata population from Crisp Gorge, South Australia. Journal of Paleontology, 92(3), 313-322.
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2018 Drage, H. B., Holmes, J. D., Garcia-Bellido, D. C., & Daley, A. C. (2018). An exceptional record of Cambrian trilobite moulting behaviour preserved in the Emu Bay Shale, South Australia. Lethaia, 51(4), 473-492.
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2018 Betts, M. J., Paterson, J. R., Jacquet, S. M., Andrew, A. S., Hall, P. A., Jago, J. B., . . . Brock, G. A. (2018). Early Cambrian chronostratigraphy and geochronology of South Australia. Earth-Science Reviews, 185, 498-543.
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2018 Reid, L., Holmes, J., Payne, J., García-Bellido, D., & Jago, J. (2018). Taxa, turnover and taphofacies: a preliminary analysis of facies-assemblage relationships in the Ediacara Member (Flinders Ranges, South Australia). Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 67(6), 905-914.
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2018 Jago, J. B., Gehling, J. G., Betts, M. J., Brock, G. A., Dalgarno, C. R., García-Bellido, D. C., . . . Paterson, J. R. (2018). The Cambrian System in the Arrowie Basin, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 67(7), 923-948.
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2017 Carlos Gutierrez-Marco, J., Sa, A. A., Garcia-Bellido, D. C., & Chacaltana, C. A. (2017). Recent Geoethical Issues in Moroccan and Peruvian Paleontology. ANNALS OF GEOPHYSICS, 60, 11 pages.
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2017 Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., Sá, A. A., García-Bellido, D. C., & Rábano, I. (2017). Erratum to: The Bohemo-Iberian regional chronostratigraphical scale for the Ordovician System and palaeontological correlations within South Gondwana (Lethaia 50, (258–295), 10.1111/let.12197). Lethaia, 50(3), 464.
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2017 Gutiérrez-Marco, J., Sá, A., García-Bellido, D., & Rábano, I. (2017). The Bohemo-Iberian regional chronostratigraphical scale for the Ordovician System and palaeontological correlations within South Gondwana. Lethaia, 50(2), 258-295.
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2017 Gutiérrez-Marco, J., García-Bellido, D., Rábano, I., & Sá, A. (2017). Digestive and appendicular soft-parts, with behavioural implications, in a large Ordovician trilobite from the Fezouata Lagerstätte, Morocco. Scientific Reports, 7(1), 1-7.
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2017 Reid, L., Garcia-Bellido, D., Payne, J., Runnegar, B., & Gehling, J. (2017). Possible evidence of primary succession in a juvenile-dominated Ediacara fossil surface from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 476, 68-76.
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2017 Edgecombe, G. D., Paterson, J. R., & García-Bellido, D. C. (2017). A new aglaspidid-like euarthropod from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale of South Australia. Geological Magazine, 154(1), 87-95.
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2016 Paterson, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., Jago, J., Gehling, J., Lee, M., & Edgecombe, G. (2016). The Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstatte: a view of Cambrian life from East Gondwana. Journal of the Geological So, 173(1), 1-11.
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2016 Coutts, F. J., Gehling, J. G., & Garcia-Bellido, D. C. (2016). How diverse were early animal communities? An example from Ediacara Conservation Park, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Alcheringa, 40(4), 407-421.
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2016 Jago, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Gehling, J. (2016). An early Cambrian chelicerate from the Emu Bay Shale, South Australia. Palaeontology, 59(4), 549-562.
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2015 Gutiérrez-Marco, J., Sá, A., Rábano, I., Sarmiento, G., Garcia-Bellido, D., Bernárdez, E., . . . Zamora, S. (2015). Iberian Ordovician and its international correlation. Stratigraphy, 12(3-4), 257-263.
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2015 Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., & Garcia-Bellido, D. C. (2015). Micrometric detail in palaeoscolecid worms from Late Ordovician sandstones of the Tafilalt Konservat-Lagerstätte, Morocco. Gondwana Research, 28(2), 875-881.
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2014 Barragán, T., Esteve, J., Garcia-Bellido, D. C., Zamora, S., & Álvaro, J. J. (2014). New Middle Cambrian palaeoscolecid sclerites of Hadimopanella oezgueli from the Cantabrian Mountains, northern Spain. GFF, 136(1), 22-25.
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2014 Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., Sá, A. A., Garcia-Bellido, D. C., & Rábano, I. (2014). The extent of the Middle Ordovician Dapingian Stage in peri-Gondwanan Europe and north Africa: Stratigraphic record, biostratigraphic tools and regional chronostratigraphy. GFF, 136(1), 90-94.
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2014 Garcia-Bellido, D., Lee, M., Edgecombe, G., Jago, J., Gehling, J., & Paterson, J. (2014). A new vetulicolian from Australia and its bearing on the chordate affinities of an enigmatic Cambrian group. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 14(1), 214-1-214-13.
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2014 Barragán, T., Esteve, J., García-Bellido, D., Zamora, S., & Álvaro, J. (2014). Hadimopanella oezgueli gedik, 1977: A palaeoscolecidan sclerite useless for taxonomic purposes. Palaeontologia Electronica, 17(3), 1-20.
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2014 Garcia-Bellido, D., & Lee, M. (2014). Meet our weirdest ever cousins. Australasian Science, 35(12), 32-33.
2014 Aceñolaza, G., Albani, R., Bernárdez, E., Garcia-Bellido, D., Gutiérrez-Marco, J., Rábano, I., & Sá, A. (2014). First Furongian (late Cambrian) trilobites from the Cantabrian Zone (north-western Spain). Bulletin of Geosciences, 89(2), 239-244.
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2014 Rábano, I., Gutiérrez-Marco, J., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (2014). A remarkable illaenid trilobite from the Middle Ordovician of Morocco. Bulletin of Geosciences, 89(2), 365-374.
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2013 Daley, A., Paterson, J., Edgecombe, G., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Jago, J. (2013). New anatomical information on Anomalocaris from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale of South Australia and a reassessment of its inferred predatory habits. Palaeontology, 56(5), 971-990.
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2013 Garcia-Bellido, D., Paterson, J., & Edgecombe, G. (2013). Cambrian palaeoscolecids (Cycloneuralia) from Gondwana and reappraisal of species assigned to Palaeoscolex. Gondwana Research, 24(2), 780-795.
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2013 Creveling, J., Fernandez-Remolar, D., Rodriguez-Martinez, M., Menendez, S., Bergmann, K., Gill, B., . . . Knoll, A. (2013). Geobiology of a lower Cambrian carbonate platform, Pedroche Formation, Ossa Morena Zone, Spain. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 386, 459-478.
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2013 Garcia-Bellido, D., Edgecombe, G., Paterson, J., & Ma, X. (2013). A 'Collins' monster'-type lobopodian from the Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte (Cambrian), South Australia. Alcheringa, 37(4), 474-478.
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2012 Paterson, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Edgecombe, G. (2012). New artiopodan arthropods from the early Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte of South Australia. Journal of Paleontology, 86(2), 340-357.
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2012 Garcia-Bellido, D. (2012). La ‘explosión’ del Cámbrico: la mayor radiación evolutiva de la historia de la Tierra. Redescubre, 7, 2-4.
2011 Garcia-Bellido, D., & Acenolaza, G. (2011). The worm Palaeoscolex from the Cambrian of NW Argentina: extending the biogeography of Cambrian priapulids to South America. Alcheringa, 35(4), 531-538.
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2011 Edgecombe, G., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Paterson, J. (2011). A new leanchoiliid megacheiran arthropod from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, South Australia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 56(2), 385-400.
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2011 Garcia-Bellido, D. (2011). Un ojo fosil de mas de 500 millones de anos. Investigacion y Ciencia, 420, 38-39.
2011 Garcia-Bellido, D., Dies Alvarez, M., Vintaned, J., Linan, E., & Gozalo, R. (2011). First report of Crumillospongia (Demospongea) from the Cambrian of Europe (Murero biota, Spain). Bulletin of Geosciences, 86(3), 641-650.
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2011 Paterson, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., Lee, M., Brock, G., Jago, J., & Edgecombe, G. (2011). Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes. Nature, 480(7376), 237-240.
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2011 Lee, M., Jago, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., Edgecombe, G., Gehling, J., & Paterson, J. (2011). Modern optics in exceptionally preserved eyes of Early Cambrian arthropods from Australia. Nature, 474(7353), 631-634.
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2011 Gehling, J., Jago, J., Paterson, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Edgecombe, G. (2011). The geological context of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2) Emu Bay Shale Lagerstatte and adjacent stratigraphic units, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 58(3), 243-257.
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2010 Paterson, J., Edgecombe, G., Garcia-Bellido, D., Jago, J., & Gehling, J. (2010). Nektaspid arthropods from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte, South Australia, with a reassessment of lamellipedian relationships. Palaeontology, 53(2), 377-402.
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2010 Rabano, I., SA, A., Gutierrez-Marco, J., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (2010). Two more Bohemian trilobites from the Ordovician of Portugal and Morocco. Bulletin of Geosciences, 85(3), 415-424.
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2009 Gutierrez-Marco, J., SA, A., Garcia-Bellido, D., Rabano, I., & Valerio, M. (2009). Giant trilobites and trilobite clusters from the Ordovician of Portugal. Geology, 37(5), 443-446.
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2009 Vannier, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., Hu, S., & Chen, A. (2009). Arthropod visual predators in the early pelagic ecosystem: evidence from the Burgess Shale and Chengjiang biotas. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences, 276(1667), 2567-2574.
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2009 Garcia-Bellido, D., Vannier, J., & Collins, D. (2009). Soft-part preservation in two species of the arthropod Isoxys from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 54(4), 699-712.
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2009 Garcia-Bellido, D., Paterson, J., Edgecombe, G., Jago, J., Gehling, J., & Lee, M. (2009). The bivalved arthropods Isoxys and Tuzoia with soft-part preservation from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte (Kangaroo Island, Australia). Palaeontology, 52(6), 1221-1241.
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2008 Garcia-Bellido, D., Gutierrez-Marco, J., & Chacaltana, C. (2008). First soft-bodied fossil from the Ordovician of Peru. Alcheringa, 32(3), 313-320.
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2007 García-Bellido, D. C., & Collins, D. (2007). Reassessment of the genus Leanchoilia (Arthropoda, Arachnomorpha) from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada. Palaeontology, 50(3), 693-709.
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2007 García-Bellido, D. C., Gozalo, R., Chirivella Martorell, J. B., & Liñán, E. (2007). The demosponge genus Leptomitus and a new species from the middle Cambrian of Spain. Palaeontology, 50(2), 467-478.
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2006 Garcia-Bellido, D. (2006). La muda en artrópodos. Su primer registro fósil.. Investigacion y ciencia, 340, 35-36.
2006 García-Bellido, D. C., & Collins, D. H. (2006). A new study of Marrella splendens (Arthropoda, Marrellomorpha) from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 43(6), 721-742.
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2005 García-Bellido, D. C., & Rodríguez, S. (2005). Palaeobiogeographical relationships of poriferan and coral assemblages during the late Carboniferous and the closure of the western Palaeotethys Sea-Panthalassan Ocean connection. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 219(3-4), 321-331.
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2005 Garcia-Bellido, D. (2005). Registros excepcionales del Neoproterozoico y Cámbrico. Boletín de la Real Sociedad Española de Historia Natural, Geología, 100(1-4), 211-220.
2004 García-Bellido, D. C., Senowbari-Daryan, B., & Rigby, J. K. (2004). Cystothalamia vandegraaffi new species and other sphinctozoan sponges from the upper carboniferous of Spain. Journal of Paleontology, 78(6), 1037-1055.
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2004 García-Bellido, D. C., & Rigby, J. K. (2004). Devonian and carboniferous sponges from Spain. Journal of Paleontology, 78(3), 431-455.
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2004 Garcia-Bellido, D. C., & Collins, D. H. (2004). Moulting arthropod caught in the act. Nature, 429(6987), 40.
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2003 García-Bellido Capdevila, D. (2003). The demonsponge Leptomitus cf. L. lineatus, first occurrence from the Middle Cambrian of Spain (Murero Formation, Western Iberian Chain). Geologica Acta, 1(1), 113-119.
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2003 Garcia-Bellido, D. (2003). Demosponjas y Hexactinélidas fósiles del Paleozoico de la Península Ibérica. Coloquios de Paleontología, 53, 109-137.
2003 Senowbari-Daryan, B., Link, M., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (2003). Fanthalamia kadiri nov. sp., a new “Sphinctozoan” sponge from the Triassic (Carnian) of Turkey. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai : Geologia, 48(2), 125-132.
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2000 Garcia-Bellido, D. (2000). The Burgess Shale fossils at the Natural History Museum, London. The Geological Curator, 7(4), 141-148.
1999 Garcia-Bellido, D. (1999). Datos paleontológicos, tafonómicos y biofacies de un segmento de la sucesión del Cámbrico Medio en la Rambla de Valdemiedes (Murero, Zaragoza). Coloquios de Paleontología, 50, 83-104.
1999 Garcia-Bellido Capdevila, D., & Conway Morris, S. (1999). New fossil worms from the Lower Cambrian of the Kinzers Formation, Pennsylvania, with some comments on Burgess Shale-type preservation. Journal of Paleontology, 73(3), 394-402.
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1998 Garcia-Bellido, D., Montero, A., & Diéguez, C. (1998). Ejemplares de la Phyllopod Bed-Burgess Shale (Cámbrico Medio) en el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales-CSIC (Madrid, España). Revista Española de Paleontología, Nº extraordinario Homenaje al Prof. Gonzalo Vidal, 143-148.

Year Citation
2016 Laurie, J., Kruse, P., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Holmes, J. (Eds.) (2016). Palaeo Down Under 2, Adelaide, July 2016.. Adelaide: Geological Society of Australia.
2011 Gutiérrez-Marco, J., Rábano, I., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (Eds.) (2011). Ordovician of the World. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME).
2011 Gutiérrez-Marco, J., Rábano, I., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (Eds.) (2011). Ordovician of the World. Instituto Geológico y Minero de España (IGME).
2011 Gutierrez-Marco, J., Rabano, I., Plaza, L., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (Eds.) (2011). Geología y paleontología de Almadén en el siglo XIX: la contribucción de Casiano de Prado, Edouard de Verneuil y Joachim Barrande al descubrimiento científico del Paleozoico centroibérico. Spain: Informa.
2008 Capdevila, D. G. -B. (2008). Advances in Trilobite Research. IGME.
2008 Capdevila, D. G. -B. (2008). Advances in Trilobite Research. IGME.

Year Citation
2022 Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., Pereira, S., García-Bellido, D. C., & Rábano, I. (2022). Ordovician trilobites from the Tafilalt Lagerstätte: new data and reappraisal of the Bou Nemrou assemblage. In A. W. Hunter, J. J. Alvaro, B. Lefebvre, P. Van Roy, & S. Zamora (Eds.), The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Insights from the Tafilalt Biota, Morocco (Vol. 485, pp. 97-137). London, UK: Geological Society of London.
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2022 Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., & García-Bellido, D. C. (2022). The international fossil trade from the Paleozoic of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco. In A. W. Hunter, J. J. Alvaro, B. Lefebvre, P. Van Roy, & S. Zamora (Eds.), The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Insights from the Tafilalt Biota, Morocco (Vol. 485, pp. 69-96). London, UK.: Geological Society of London.
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2013 Gutiérrez-Marco, J., Rábano, I., Sá, A., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Sarmiento, G. (2013). Patrimonio paleontológico del Ordovícico Medio del Parque Nacional de Cabañeros (Castilla-La Mancha). In J. Vegas, A. Salazar, E. Díaz-Martínez, & C. Marchán (Eds.), Patrimonio geológico, un recurso para el desarrollo (pp. 591-599). Madrid, Spain: Instituto Geológico y Minero de España.
2011 Cózar-Maldonado, P., Garcia-Bellido, D., Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., Rodríguez, S., & Coronado, I. (2011). Paleozoico marino perigondwánico. In E. M. Pérez-Monserrat, & M. Charco (Eds.), Primera Reunión Científica del Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM) (pp. 47-50). Madrid, Spain: Instituto de Geociencias, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.
2010 Garcia-Bellido, D. (2010). Dr Diego Garcia-Bellido. In Fossil Hunters 02 : Stories from the Palaeontologists (pp. 56-66). Australia: South Australian Museum.
2009 Braga, J., Fernandez-Martinez, E., Garcia-Bellido, D., Mendez-Bedia, I., Moreno-Elris, E., Perejon, A., . . . Soto, F. (2009). Poriferos y Cnidarios. In M. Martinez Chacon, & Y. Rivas (Eds.), Paleontologia de Invertebrados (pp. 33-110). Spain: Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana.
2008 Paterson, J., Jago, J., Gehling, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., Edgecombe, G., & Lee, M. (2008). Early Cambrian Arthropods from the Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte, South Australia. In Source details - Title: Advances in Trilobite Research (pp. 319-326). Madrid: Instituto Geologico Y Minero De Espana.
2004 Senowbari-Daryan, B., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (2004). “Sphinctozoa” or chambered sponges (polyphyletic). In J. N. A. Hooper, & R. W. M. Van Soest (Eds.), Systema Porifera A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (Vol. Volume 2, pp. 1511). Kluwier Academic/Plenum Press.
2002 Senowbari-Daryan, B., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (2002). Bibliography on Fossil “Sphinctozoans”. In J. N. A. Hooper, & R. W. M. Van Soest (Eds.), Systema Porifera A Guide to the Classification of Sponges (Vol. Volume 2, pp. 1534-1538). Kluwier Academic/Plenum Press.

Year Citation
2016 Gutierrez-Marco, J., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (2016). Dos casos de intrusismo científico en la paleontologia peruana. In Geotemas Vol. 16 (pp. 359-362). Spain: Sociedad Geologica de Espana.
2016 Gutiérrez-Marco, J., Sá, A., Villas, E., Bernárdez, E., Colmenar, J., Zamora, S., . . . Jiménez-Sánchez, A. (2016). Cronoestratigrafía del Ordovícico ibérico. In Proceedings of the IX Congreso Geologico de Espana, as published in Geo-Temas Vol. 16 (pp. 145-148). Huelva, Spain: Sociedad Geologica de Espana.
2016 Gutiérrez-Marco, J., Sá, A., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (2016). Dos casos de intrusismo científico en la paleontología peruana. In Proceedings of the IX Congreso Geológico de España, as published in Geo-Temas Vol. 16 (pp. 359-362). Huelva: Sociedad Geológica de España.
2014 Sá, A., Gutiérrez-Marco, J., Meireles, C., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Rábano, I. (2014). A revised correlation of Lower Ordovician sedimentary rocks in the Central Iberian Zone (Portugal and Spain). In R. Rocha, J. Pais, C. Kulberg, & S. Finney (Eds.), STRATI 2013: First International Congress on Stratigraphy: At the Cutting Edge of Stratigraphy (pp. 441-446). Switzerland: Springer Geology.
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2013 Barragan, T., Esteve, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., Zamora, S., & Alvaro, J. (2013). New mid-Cambrian palaeoscolecid sclerites of Hadimopanella oezgueli from the Cantabrian Mountains, northern Spain. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Geoscience Programme Project (IGCP) 591 Annual Meeting (pp. 42-44). Sweden.
2011 SA, A., Gutierrez-Marco, J., Picarra, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., Vaz, N., & Acenolaza, G. (2011). Ordovician vs. 'Cambrian' Ichnofossils in the Armorican quartzite of central Portugal. In J. Gutierrez Marco, D. Garcia Bellido, & I. Rabano (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on the Ordovician System (Ordovician of the World) (pp. 483-492). Madrid, Spain: Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana (IGME).
2011 Gutiérrez-marco, J., Sá, A., Piçarra, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., Vaz, N., & Aceñolaza, G. (2011). Ordovician Vs. “Cambrian” ichnofossils in the Armorican Quartzite of central Portugal. In J. Gutiérrez-Marco, I. Rábano, & D. Garcia-Bellido (Eds.), Ordovician of the World: Cuadernos del museo Geominero No 14. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Ordovician System (pp. 483-492). Online: Instituto Geológico y Minero (IGME).
2011 Gutiérrez-marco, J., Sá, A., Piçarra, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., Vaz, N., & Aceñolaza, G. (2011). Ordovician Vs. “Cambrian” ichnofossils in the Armorican Quartzite of central Portugal. In J. Gutiérrez-Marco, I. Rábano, & D. Garcia-Bellido (Eds.), Ordovician of the World: Cuadernos del museo Geominero No 14. Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Ordovician System (pp. 483-492). Online: Instituto Geológico y Minero (IGME).
2011 Gutiérrez-Marco, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., Rábano, I., Baeza Chico, E., & Sarmiento, G. (2011). Geotouristic trails in the Cabañeros National Park (central Spain). In D. Rocha, & A. Sá (Eds.), Geotourism in Action. Proceedings of the International Congress of Geotourism–Arouca 2011, Arouca (Portugal). (pp. 125-128). Arouca, Portugal.

Year Citation
2016 Reed, E. H., & Reardon, T. (2016). Fossil bats from Quaternary cave deposits at Naracoorte, South Australia.. Poster session presented at the meeting of Geological Society of Australia Abstracts. Hornsby, NSW: Geological Society of Australia.
2016 Gray, J., Reed, E. H., Hutchinson, M., Jones, M., & McDowell, M. (2016). Agamid lizard fossils from South Australian caves and their implications for environmental change during the Quaternary. Poster session presented at the meeting of Geological Society of Australia Abstracts. Hornsby, NSW: Geological Society of Australia.
2016 Treloar, J., Hutchinson, M. N., & Medlin, G. C. (2016). A pre-European mammal assemblage of the northwestern Flinders Ranges, South Australia from subfossil deposits. Poster session presented at the meeting of Geological Society of Australia Abstracts 117. The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia: The Geological Society of Australia.
2014 Gutiérrez-Marco, J. C., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (2014). Gondwanan stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Cabañeros National Park (Central Iberian Zone, Variscan Belt). Field Trip Guide​. Poster session presented at the meeting of Gondwana 15. Madrid, Spain: Instituto Geológico y Minero de España.
2013 Gutierrez-Marco, J., SA, A., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Rabano, I. (2013). The extent of the Dapingian Stage Middle Ordovician in peri-Gondwanan Europe and north Africa: stratigraphic record, biostratigraphic tools, and regional chronostratigraphy. Poster session presented at the meeting of Proceedings of the 3rd International Geoscience Programme Project (IGCP) 591 Annual Meeting. Sweden: Lund University.
2011 Cozar-Maldonado, P., Garcia-Bellido, D., Gutierrez-Marco, J., Rodriguez, S., & Coronado-Vila, E. (2011). Paleozoico marino perigondwánico. Poster session presented at the meeting of 1ª Reunión Científica del Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM). Madrid.

Year Citation
2016 Paterson, J., Garcia-Bellido, D., & Kruse, P. (2016). Kangaroo Island: Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte and White Point Conglomerate archaeocyaths.: Palaeo Down Under 2. Geological Field Excursion Guide. Cryogenian-Ediacaran-Cambrian of the Adelaide Fold Belt. Adelaide: Depatment of State Development, South Australia.

Year Citation
- Botha, T., Sherratt, E., Droser, M. L., Gehling, J., & Garcia-Bellido, D. (n.d.). <em>Eoandromeda octobrachiata </em>surface scans.
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PROJECT TITLE: “Evolutionary dynamics in deep time: faunal turnover during the Ediacaran”. DP220102772

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CHIEF INVESTIGATORS: Assoc. Prof. D. García-Bellido, Prof. J. Gehling (SAM), Prof. M. Droser (University of California - Riverside) & Prof. R. Gaines (Pomona College).

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PROJECT TITLE: “Marine ecosystems and environmental changes in the margins of Gondwana during the Cambrian Explosion and the Ordovician Biodiversification”. CGL2017-87631-P

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CHIEF INVESTIGATORS: Dr. J. Álvaro & Dr. J.C. Gutiérrez-Marco (both CSIC, Spanish Research Council).

PROJECT TITLE: “Exploring new frontiers of the Cambrian Explosion: the Emu Bay Shale Drilling Project and new insights from a unique early Cambrian fossil deposit”. Grant #9932-16

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CHIEF INVESTIGATORS: Dr. Diego C. García-Bellido, Prof. R. Gaines (Pomona College, California) & Prof. J. Paterson (UNE).

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PROJECT TITLE: “Interplay of volcanism, hydrothermalism and carbonate productivity in the Cambrian Explosion of West Gondwana”, CGL 2013.

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2024: "Geochronology, Fossils & Palaeoenvironments", First Semester, School of Physical Sciences (UofA)

          "Evolutionary Biology II"(lecturer & coordinator), Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Evolution of Australian Biota III", Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Field Palaeontology III" (lecturer & coordinator), Intensive 4th Term Course, School of Biological Sciences (UofA)

           "Full-Year & Mid-Year Honours" Assist. Coordinator, School of Biological Sciences (UoA) 

2023: "Geochronology, Fossils & Palaeoenvironments", First Semester, School of Physical Sciences (UofA)

          "Evolutionary Biology II"(lecturer & coordinator), Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Evolution of Australian Biota III", Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Field Palaeontology III" (lecturer & coordinator), Intensive 4th Term Course, School of Biological Sciences (UofA)

           "Full-Year & Mid-Year Honours" Assist. Coordinator, School of Biological Sciences (UoA) 

 2022: "Geochronology, Fossils & Palaeoenvironments", First Semester, School of Physical Sciences (UofA)

          "Frontiers in Marine Biology III", First Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Evolutionary Biology II"(lecturer & coordinator), Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Evolution of Australian Biota III", Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Field Palaeontology III" (lecturer & coordinator), Intensive 4th Term Course, School of Biological Sciences (UofA)

           "Mid-Year Honours Coordinator", School of Biological Sciences (UoA) 

2021: "Geochronology, Fossils & Palaeoenvironments", First Semester, School of Physical Sciences (UofA)

          "Frontiers in Marine Biology III", First Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Evolutionary Biology II"(lecturer & coordinator), Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Evolution of Australian Biota III", Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Field Palaeontology III" (lecturer & coordinator), Intensive 4th Term Course, School of Biological Sciences (UofA)

           "Mid-Year Honours Coordinator", School of Biological Sciences (UoA) 

  2020: "Geochronology, Fossils & Palaeoenvironments", First Semester, School of Physical Sciences, Dept. of Earth Sciences (UofA) 

          "Frontiers in Marine Biology III", First Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Field Palaeontology III", Intensive Winter Course, School of Biological Sciences(UofA)

          "Evolutionary Biology II", Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Evolution of Australian Biota III", Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

2019: "Geochronology, Fossils & Palaeoenvironments", First Semester, School of Physical Sciences, Dept. of Earth Sciences (UofA) 

          "Frontiers in Marine Biology III", First Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Field Palaeontology III", Intensive Winter Course, School of Biological Sciences(UofA)

          "Evolutionary Biology II", Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Evolution of Australian Biota III", Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

2018: "Field Palaeontology III" Intensive Winter Course, School of Biological Sciences(UofA)

          "Frontiers in Marine Biology III", First Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Evolutionary Biology II", Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

          "Evolution of Australian Biota III", Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

2017: "Foundations in Marine Biology III", First Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

            "Evolution of Australian Biotas III", Second Semester, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

2016: "Foundations in Marine Biology III", School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

            "Evolution of Australian Biotas III", School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

2015: "Issues in Evolutionary Biology III", School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

           "Frontiers in Marine Biology III", School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

2014: "Issues in Evolutionary Biology" Undergraduate Y3, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

           "Frontiers in Marine Biology" Undergraduate Y3, School of Biological Sciences (UoA)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2022 Principal Supervisor Miocene marine fossils of southern Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Mahala Ann Fergusen
2022 Principal Supervisor Miocene marine fossils of southern Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Mahala Ann Fergusen

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2020 - 2024 Principal Supervisor Morphology and ecology of Ediacaran fossils from Nilpena Ediacara National Park, Flinders Ranges, South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Tory Lyn Botha
2017 - 2020 Principal Supervisor Ontogeny, Systematics and Soft-Part Anatomy of Early Cambrian Trilobites from South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr James Dougal Holmes
2015 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Palaeoecology of Ediacaran communities from the Flinders Ranges of South Australia Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Felicity Janet Coutts
2015 - 2016 Principal Supervisor Biogeographic and Biological Comparisons between the Emu Bay Shale (Kangaroo Island, South Australia) and other Cambrian Burgess Shale-Type Biotas Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mr James Dougal Holmes

Date Role Research Topic Location Program Supervision Type Student Load Student Name
2019 - 2020 Co-Supervisor Eoandromeda, the Ediacaran Fossil The University of Adelaide Bachelor of Science with Honours in Evolution and Palaeobiology Honours Full Time Tory Botha

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2019 - ongoing Member General Committee Geological Society of Australia - South Australia Division Australia
2014 - ongoing Secretary Executive Committee Australasian Palaeontologists - AAP Australia

Date Role Membership Country
2014 - ongoing - Geological Society of Australia Australia

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2016 - ongoing Associate Editor Alcheringa: an Australian journal of palaeontology - -

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