Research: Palaeobiology of the Cambrian “explosion”

I am interested in the evolution of life across the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition. My work reveals the fine-scale anatomy preserved in exceptional fossils, and explores the implications for animal phylogeny, macroevolution, and macroecology.

 

Publications:

Harvey, T. H. P., Vélez, M. I., & Butterfield, N. J. 2012 Exceptionally preserved crustaceans from western Canada reveal a cryptic Cambrian radiation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 109, 1589-1594. doi:10.1073/pnas.1115244109

Butterfield, N. J. & Harvey, T. H. P. 2012 Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs): a new measure of early Paleozoic paleobiology. Geology 40, 71-74.

Harvey, T. H. P., Ortega-Hernández, J., Lin, J.-P., Zhao, Y., & Butterfield, N. J. 2012 Burgess Shale-type microfossils from the middle Cambrian Kaili Formation, Guizhou Province, China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57, 423-436.

Harvey, T. H. P. & Butterfield, N. J. 2011 Macro- and microfossils of the Mount Cap Formation (Early and Middle Cambrian, Northwest Territories). Geoscience Canada 38, 165-173. 

Harvey, T. H. P., Williams, M., Condon, D. J., Wilby, P. R., Siveter, D. J., Rushton, A. W. A., Leng, M. J., & Gabbott, S. E. 2011 A refined chronology for the Cambrian succession of southern Britain. Journal of the Geological Society, London 168, 705-716.

Dong, X.-P., Bengtson, S., Gostling, N. J., Cunningham, J. A., Harvey, T. H. P., Kouchinsky, A., Val'kov, A. K., Repetski, J. E., Stampanoni, M., Marone, F., & Donoghue, P. C. J. 2010 The anatomy, taphonomy, taxonomy and systematic affinity of Markuelia: Early Cambrian to Early Ordovician scalidophorans. Palaeontology 53, 1291-1314.

Harvey, T. H. P. 2010 Carbonaceous preservation of Cambrian hexactinellid sponge spicules. Biology Letters 6, 834-837.

Harvey, T. H. P., Dong, X. & Donoghue, P. C. J. 2010 Are palaeoscolecids ancestral ecdysozoans? Evolution and Development 12, 177-200.

Harvey, T. H. P. & Butterfield, N. J. 2008 Sophisticated particle-feeding in a large Early Cambrian crustacean. Nature 452, 868-871.

 

Invited contributions:

Harvey, T. H. P., Vélez, M. I., & Butterfield, N. J. 2012 Small carbonaceous fossils from the Earlie and Deadwood formations (middle Cambrian to lower Ordovician) of southern Saskatchewan; in Summary of Investigations 2012, Volume 1, Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Sask. Ministry of the Economy, Misc. Rep. 2012-4.1, Paper A-1, 8 pp.

Harvey, T. H. P. 2011 “Burgess Shale biota”; “Cambrian explosion”; “Chengjiang biota”; “Ediacara biota”; & “Ediacaran period”; in Encyclopedia of Astrobiology. Gargaud, M., Amils, R., Cernicharo Quintanilla, J., Cleaves, H. J. II, Irvine, W. M., Pinti, D. L. and Viso, M. (eds). Springer-Verlag (Berlin, Heidelberg). ISBN 978-3642112713.


Publications: 2006-Present

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