NAI
Marc LaFlamme
Smithsonian Institution
Current Projects
- Environmental Evolution and Complex Life — 2016 NAI
- Early Animals: Modeling the Biotic-Abiotic Interface in the Early Evolution of Multicellular Form — 2015 NAI
- Early Animals: The Origins of Biological Complexity — 2014 NAI
- Early Animals: Modeling the Biotic-Abiotic Interface in the Early Evolution of Multicellular Form — 2014 NAI
- Early Animals: The Origins of Biological Complexity — 2013 NAI
- Early Animals: What Made “fronds” Grow in Neoproterozoic Deep Seas? — 2013 NAI
- Biomechanics of Rangeomorph Fauna — 2012 NAI
- Ediacaran-Cambrian Diversification of Animals — 2012 NAI
- Biomechanics of the Rangeomorph Fauna — 2011 NAI
- Paleontological Investigations of the Advent and Maintenance of Multicellular Life — 2011 NAI
- Paleoecology of the Mistaken Point Biota — 2010 NAI
- Biomechanics of the Rangeomorph Fauna — 2010 NAI
- Paleoecology of the Mistaken Point Biota — 2009 NAI
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NAI Project Collaborators
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Publications
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Darroch, S. A. F., Laflamme, M., Schiffbauer, J. D., & Briggs, D. E. G. (2012). EXPERIMENTAL FORMATION OF A MICROBIAL DEATH MASK. PALAIOS, 27(5), 293–303. doi:10.2110/palo.2011.p11-059r
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Erwin, D. H., Laflamme, M., Tweedt, S. M., Sperling, E. A., Pisani, D., & Peterson, K. J. (2011). The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals. Science, 334(6059), 1091–1097. doi:10.1126/science.1206375
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Laflamme, M., Flude, L. I., & Narbonne, G. M. (2012). Ecological Tiering and the Evolution of a Stem: The Oldest Stemmed Frond from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 86(2), 193–200. doi:10.1666/11-044.1
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Laflamme, M., Schiffbauer, J. D., Narbonne, G. M., & Briggs, D. E. G. (2010). Microbial biofilms and the preservation of the Ediacara biota. Lethaia, 44(2), 203–213. doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.2010.00235.x
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Schiffbauer, J. D., & Laflamme, M. (2012). LAGERSTATTEN THROUGH TIME: A COLLECTION OF EXCEPTIONAL PRESERVATIONAL PATHWAYS FROM THE TERMINAL NEOPROTEROZOIC THROUGH TODAY. PALAIOS, 27(5), 275–278. doi:10.2110/palo.2012.so3
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Sperling, E. A., Peterson, K. J., & Laflamme, M. (2010). Rangeomorphs, Thectardis (Porifera?) and dissolved organic carbon in the Ediacaran oceans. Geobiology, 9(1), 24–33. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2010.00259.x
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- Dornbos, S.Q., Clapham, M.E., Fraiser, M.L. & Laflamme, M. (2012). Lessons from the Fossil Record: The Ediacaran Radiation, the Cambrian Radiation, and the End-Permian Mass Extinction. In: Solan, M., Aspden, R.J. & Paterson, D.M. (Eds.). Marine Biodiversity Futures and Ecosystem Functioning frameworks, methodologies and integration. Oxford: Oxford UP. See Project
- Dornbos, S.Q., Clapham, M.E., Fraiser, M.L. & Laflamme, M. (In Press). Lessons from the Fossil Record: The Ediacaran Radiation, the Cambrian Radiation, and the End-Permian Mass Extinction [Book Chapter]. Marine Biodiversity Futures and Ecosystem Functioning frameworks, methodologies and integration. See Project
- Ghisalberti, M., Jacobs, D.K., Gold, D.A., Laflamme, M., Clapham, M.E., Narbonne, G., Johnston, D.T. & Summons, R. (2011). Canopy Flow Models Identify A Scaling Advantage For Large Size In The Mistaken Point Rangeomorphs, The Worlds Oldest Community Of Multicellular Eukaryotes. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting. Minneapolis MN. See Project
- Gold, D.A., Laflamme, M., Johnston, D.T., Summons, R.E. & Jacobs, D.K. (2010). Constraints on the Evolution of the Ediacara with Special Consideration of the Mistaken Point Rangeomorph Fauna. Astrobiology Science Conference 2010: Evolution and Life: Surviving Catastrophes and Extremes on Earth and Beyond. League City, Texas. See Project
- Laflamme, M. & Casey, M.M. Morphometrics in the study of Ediacaran fossil shapes. In: Laflamme, M., Schiffbauer, J.D., Dornbos & Springer’s, S.Q. (Eds.). Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life: Numerical and Technological Approaches to the Evaluation of Fossils and Ancient Ecosystems. Vol. 36. See Project
- Laflamme, M., Schiffbauer, J.D. & Narbonne, G.M. (In Press). Deep-Water Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures (MISS) in Deep Time: The Ediacaran Fossil Ivesheadia in Microbial Mats in Sandy Deposits (Archean Era to Today). In: Noffke and Henry Chafetz, N.K. (Eds.). SEPM Special Publication. See Project
- Pruss, S., Clemente, H. & Laflamme, M. (2012). Cambrian archaeocyathid reefs as a locus for skeletal carbonate production: New insights from the Forteau Formation, southern Labrador. Lethaia, 45: 401-410. See Project
- Pruss, S., Clemente, H. & Laflamme, M. (Accepted). Early (Series 2) Cambrian archaeocyathid reefs as a locus for skeletal carbonate production: New insights from the Forteau Formation, southern Labrador. Lethaia. See Project
- Singer, A., Plotnick, R. & Laflamme, M. (2012). Experimental fluid mechanics of an Ediacaran frond. Palaeontologia Electronica, 15(2). See Project
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