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  1. Alcheringa turns 50!

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, December 2025, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  2. In situ Rb–Sr dating and REE analysis of glauconites and detrital feldspars from the Ediacaran/Cambrian strata: Centralian and Adelaide Superbasins, Australia

    Article • Precambrian Research, September 2025, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  3. An extinct clade of the basal Epitheliozoa: phylogenetic position and implication of the enigmatic Cambrian chancelloriids

    Article • Communications Biology, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  4. A new obolellid brachiopod from the Wirrealpa Limestone (Cambrian; Stage 4), Flinders Ranges, South Australia

    Article • Palaeoworld, August 2025, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  5. A new silicified plectorthoid brachiopod from the upper Furongian (Stage 10) Ninmaroo Formation at Black Mountain, western Queensland, Australia

    Article • Palaeoworld, July 2025, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  6. The Cambrian Series 2–Miaolingian boundary interval in Australia: biostratigraphic subdivision and implications for global multi-proxy correlation

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, June 2025, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  7. The bivalved arthropod Caudicaella aff. bispinata from the Heatherdale Shale (Cambrian Stage 3), South Australia

    Article • Palaeoworld, June 2025, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  8. Early Cambrian volcanic and palaeoenvironmental evolution of eastern Australia 

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  9. Integrated biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and geochronology of the lower Cambrian succession in the western Stansbury Basin, South Australia

    Article • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, February 2025, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  10. Adaptive responses in Cambrian predator and prey highlight the arms race during the rise of animals

    Article • Current Biology, February 2025, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  11. First multi-proxy chronostratigraphy of the lower Cambrian Byrd Group, Transantarctic Mountains and correlation within East Gondwana

    Article • Gondwana Research, December 2024, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  12. Biogenic brachiopod shell concentrations from the Hongjingshao Formation (Cambrian series 2, Stage 3) in Malong area of eastern Yunnan, South China

    Article • Gondwana Research, October 2024, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  13. Correlation and stratigraphic implications of the lowermost Cambrian small shelly fossils from new sites of South China

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, August 2024, Geological Society

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  14. The impact of apicobasal ridges on dental load-bearing capacity in aquatic-feeding predatory amniotes

    Article • Paleobiology, April 2024, Cambridge University Press

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  15. The quest for an Australian Cambrian stage scale

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, April 2024, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  16. Tectonic trigger to the first major extinction of the Phanerozoic: The early Cambrian Sinsk event

    Article • Science Advances, March 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  17. Found a fossil: improving awareness, engagement, and communication strategies for heritage discoveries

    Article • Journal of Science Communication, November 2023, Sissa Medialab, SRL

    Dr Matthew A. Kosnik, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  18. Microscale Petrographic, Trace Element, and Isotopic Constraints on Glauconite Diagenesis in Altered Sedimentary Sequences: Implications for Glauconite Geochronology

    Article • Geochemistry Geophysics Geosystems, April 2023, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  19. BIOTURBATORS AS ECOSYSTEM ENGINEERS: ASSESSING CURRENT MODELS

    Article • Palaios, December 2022, Society for Sedimentary Geology

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  20. One Tree Reef Foraminifera: a relic of the pre-colonial Great Barrier Reef

    Article • Geological Society London Special Publications, November 2022, Geological Society

    Dr Matthew A. Kosnik, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  21. Sclerite assembly, articulation and protective system of Lower Devonian machaeridians

    Article • Papers in Palaeontology, November 2021, Wiley

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  22. Fossil evidence unveils an early Cambrian origin for Bryozoa

    Article • Nature, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  23. Biomacromolecules in recent phosphate-shelled brachiopods: identification and characterization of chitin matrix

    Article • Journal of Materials Science, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  24. Using laser micropyrolysis to assess potential relationships between Cambrian tommotiids and organophosphatic brachiopods

    Article • Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis, September 2021, Elsevier

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  25. Go large or go conical: allometric trajectory of an early Cambrian acrotretide brachiopod

    Article • Palaeontology, July 2021, Wiley

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  26. Biomineralization of the Cambrian chancelloriids

    Article • Geology, February 2021, Geological Society of America

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  27. Camenellan tommotiids from the Cambrian Series 2 of East Antarctica: biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography, and systematics

    Article • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, January 2021, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  28. The oldest Cambrian trilobite – brachiopod association in South China

    Article • Gondwana Research, January 2021, Elsevier

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  29. Sedimentology and integrated chronostratigraphy of the lower Heatherdale Shale (Cambrian, stages 2–3), Stansbury Basin, South Australia

    Article • Geological Magazine, December 2020, Cambridge University Press

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  30. Brachiopod-dominated communities and depositional environment of the Guanshan Konservat-Lagerstätte, eastern Yunnan, China

    Article • Journal of the Geological Society, September 2020, Geological Society

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  31. Early Cambrian organophosphatic brachiopods from the Xinji Formation, at Shuiyu section, Shanxi Province, North China

    Article • Palaeoworld, September 2020, Elsevier

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  32. Ontogeny and evolutionary significance of a new acrotretide brachiopod genus from Cambrian Series 2 of South China

    Article • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  33. An encrusting kleptoparasite-host interaction from the early Cambrian

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  34. Mars Rover Techniques and Lower/Middle Cambrian Microbialites from South Australia: Construction, Biofacies, and Biogeochemistry

    Article • Astrobiology, May 2020, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  35. Brachiopods from the Byrd Group (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4) Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica: biostratigraphy, phylogeny and systematics

    Article • Papers in Palaeontology, February 2020, Wiley

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  36. Characterization of organophosphatic brachiopod shells: spectroscopic assessment of collagen matrix and biomineral components

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  37. Facies, phosphate, and fossil preservation potential across a Lower Cambrian carbonate shelf, Arrowie Basin, South Australia

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, November 2019, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  38. Shelly fauna from the Cambrian (Miaolingian, Guzhangian) Shannon Formation and the SPICE event in the Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  39. Chancelloriid sclerites from the lowermost Cambrian of North China and discussion of sclerite taxonomy

    Article • Geobios, April 2019, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  40. A new chancelloriid from the Emu Bay Shale (Cambrian Stage 4) of South Australia

    Article • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  41. Mollusks from the upper Shackleton Limestone (Cambrian Series 2), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, January 2019, Cambridge University Press

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Lars Holmer

  42. Early Cambrian shelly fossils from the White Point Conglomerate, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

    Article • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, January 2019, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  43. A geological overview of Cambrian age deposits of the Flinders Ranges, South Australia

    Article • Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Trev Mount

  44. Paterimitra pyramidalis Laurie, 1986, the first tommotiid discovered from the early Cambrian of North China

    Article • Gondwana Research, November 2018, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  45. Early Cambrian chronostratigraphy and geochronology of South Australia

    Article • Earth-Science Reviews, October 2018, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  46. From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light

    Article • April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  47. Trilobites and agnostids from the Goyder Formation (Cambrian Series 3, Guzhangian; Mindyallan), Amadeus Basin, central Australia

    Article • Zootaxa, March 2018, Magnolia Press

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  48. Evolutionary significance of a middle Cambrian (Series 3) in situ occurrence of the pedunculate rhynchonelliform brachiopod Nisusia sulcata

    Article • Lethaia, January 2018, Wiley

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  49. New evolutionary and ecological advances in deciphering the Cambrian explosion of animal life

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  50. Eldonioids with associated trace fossils from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte of South Australia

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  51. Stromatolite Construction, Biofacies and Biomarkers in the Lower Cambrian Hawker Group, Arrowie Basin, South Australia

    Article • ASEG Extended Abstracts, January 2018, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  52. Global correlation of the early Cambrian of South Australia: Shelly fauna of the Dailyatia odyssei Zone

    Article • Gondwana Research, June 2017, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  53. A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil biostratigraphy for South Australia: Reply

    Article • Gondwana Research, April 2017, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  54. Watsonella crosbyi from the lower Cambrian (Terreneuvian, Stage 2) Normanville Group in South Australia

    Article • Geological Magazine, October 2016, Cambridge University Press

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  55. A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil biostratigraphy for South Australia

    Article • Gondwana Research, August 2016, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  56. Lower Cambrian helcionelloid macromolluscs from South Australia

    Article • Gondwana Research, August 2016, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  57. Butterflies of the Cambrian benthos? Shield position in bradoriid arthropods

    Article • Lethaia, February 2016, Wiley

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  58. The operculum and mode of life of the lower Cambrian hyolith Cupitheca from South Australia and North China

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, February 2016, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  59. A Darriwilian (Middle Ordovician) bivalve-dominated molluscan fauna from the Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus Basin, central Australia

    Article • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, January 2016, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Professor David A T Harper

  60. The early Cambrian tommotiid Kulparina rostrata from South Australia

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, November 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  61. Integrated Shelly Fossil Biostratigraphy and Carbon and Oxygen Chemostratigraphy: Applying a Multi-Proxy Toolkit to Correlating the Lower Cambrian of South Australia

    Article • September 2015, Society of Exploration Geophysicists

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  62. Trilobites from the Giles Creek Dolostone (Cambrian Series 3, Stage 5; Templetonian) Amadeus Basin, central Australia

    Article • Papers in Palaeontology, February 2015, Wiley

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  63. Fauna and biostratigraphy of the Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4; Ordian) Tempe Formation (Pertaoorrta Group), Amadeus Basin, Northern Territory

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  64. New data onOikozetetes(Mollusca, Halkieriidae) from the lower Cambrian of South Australia

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, September 2014, Cambridge University Press

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  65. Erratum: ERRATUM: An early Cambrian agglutinated tubular lophophorate with brachiopod characters

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2014, Nature

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  66. An early Cambrian agglutinated tubular lophophorate with brachiopod characters

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2014, Nature

    Lars Holmer, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  67. Associated conchs and opercula ofTriplicatella disdoma(Hyolitha) from the early Cambrian of South Australia

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  68. A new early Cambrian bradoriid (Arthropoda) assemblage from the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia

    Article • Gondwana Research, January 2014, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  69. Middle Ordovician brachiopods from the Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus Basin, central Australia

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David A T Harper, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  70. Paterimitra pyramidalisfrom South Australia: scleritome, shell structure and evolution of a lower Cambrian stem group brachiopod

    Article • Palaeontology, October 2013, Wiley

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Lars Holmer

  71. Deep sea benthic foraminifera as proxies for palaeoclimatic fluctuations in the New Caledonia Basin, over the last 140,000years

    Article • Marine Micropaleontology, October 2013, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  72. Trilobites from the Middle Ordovician Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus Basin, central Australia

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, September 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David A T Harper, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  73. A sclerite-bearing stem group entoproct from the early Cambrian and its implications

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2013, Nature

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Lars Holmer

  74. Ancestral billingsellides and the evolution and phylogenetic relationships of early rhynchonelliform brachiopods

    Article • Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor David A T Harper, A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  75. First occurrence of a new Ocruranus-like helcionelloid mollusc from the lower Cambrian of East Gondwana

    Article • Gondwana Research, July 2012, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  76. Comments on Retallack, G. J. 2011: Problematic megafossils in Cambrian Palaeosols of South Australia

    Article • Palaeontology, July 2012, Wiley

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  77. Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes

    Article • Nature, December 2011, Nature

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  78. Microdictyonplates from the lower Cambrian Ajax Limestone of South Australia: Implications for species taxonomy and diversity

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  79. Sclerite fusion in the problematic early Cambrian spine-like fossil Stoibostrombus from South Australia

    Article • Bulletin of Geosciences, July 2011, Czech Geological Survey

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  80. Scleritome construction, biofacies, biostratigraphy and systematics of the tommotiid Eccentrotheca helenia sp. nov. from the Early Cambrian of South Australia

    Article • Palaeontology, March 2011, Wiley

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Lars Holmer

  81. First record of a bivalved larval shell in Early Cambrian tommotiids and its phylogenetic significance

    Article • Palaeontology, January 2011, Wiley

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Lars Holmer

  82. The oldest brachiopods from the lower Cambrian of South Australia

    Article • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, January 2011, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    Professor David A T Harper, A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Lars Holmer

  83. The oldest bivalved arthropods from the early Cambrian of East Gondwana: Systematics, biostratigraphy and biogeography

    Article • Gondwana Research, January 2011, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  84. Homologous skeletal secretion in tommotiids and brachiopods

    Article • Geology, December 2009, Geological Society of America

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Lars Holmer

  85. The Tommotiid Camenella reticulosa from the Early Cambrian of South Australia: Morphology, Scleritome Reconstruction, and Phylogeny

    Article • Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, September 2009, Polska Akademia Nauk Instytut Paleobiologii (Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences)

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  86. First report of the early Cambrian stem group brachiopod Mickwitzia from East Gondwana

    Article • Gondwana Research, August 2009, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Lars Holmer

  87. Palaeoscolecid scleritome fragments with Hadimopanella plates from the early Cambrian of South Australia

    Article • Geological Magazine, June 2009, Cambridge University Press

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  88. Oikozetetesfrom the early Cambrian of South Australia: implications for halkieriid affinities and functional morphology

    Article • Lethaia, June 2009, Wiley

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  89. The scleritome of Paterimitra: an Early Cambrian stem group brachiopod from South Australia

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, January 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Lars Holmer

  90. The Early Cambrian tommotiid Micrina, a sessile bivalved stem group brachiopod

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2008, Royal Society Publishing

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Lars Holmer

  91. The scleritome of Eccentrotheca from the Lower Cambrian of South Australia: Lophophorate affinities and implications for tommotiid phylogeny

    Article • Geology, January 2008, Geological Society of America

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock, Lars Holmer

  92. Taphonomy and palaeoecology of the emuellid trilobite Balcoracania dailyi (early Cambrian, South Australia)

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, June 2007, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  93. Early Cambrian record of failed durophagy and shell repair in an epibenthic mollusc

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, April 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  94. New bradoriids from the lower Cambrian Mernmerna Formation, South Australia: systematics, biostratigraphy and biogeography

    Article • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, January 2007, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  95. EARLY CAMBRIAN TRILOBITES FROM ANGORICHINA, FLINDERS RANGES, SOUTH AUSTRALIA, WITH A NEW ASSEMBLAGE FROM THE PARARAIA BUNYEROOENSIS ZONE

    Article • Journal of Paleontology, January 2007, Cambridge University Press

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  96. A review of the Cambrian biostratigraphy of South Australia

    Article • Palaeoworld, August 2006, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  97. A new siphonotretid brachiopod from the Silurian of central-western New South Wales, Australia

    Article • Records of the Australian Museum, August 2003, Australian Museum

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  98. Early Ordovician orthide brachiopods from Mount Arrowsmith, northwestern New South Wales, Australia

    Article • Records of the Australian Museum, August 2003, Australian Museum

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  99. Middle Cambrian molluscs from the southern New England Fold Belt, New South Wales, Australia

    Article • Geobios, January 1998, Elsevier

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock

  100. Preface

    Article • Historical Biology, June 1996, Taylor & Francis

    A/Professor Glenn A Brock