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Marc Laflamme
Researcher at University of Toronto
Publications - 78
Citations - 4185
Marc Laflamme is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Rangeomorph & Geology. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 69 publications receiving 3489 citations. Previous affiliations of Marc Laflamme include Queen's University & Virginia Tech.
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The Cambrian conundrum: Early divergence and later ecological success in the early history of animals
Douglas H. Erwin,Douglas H. Erwin,Marc Laflamme,Sarah M. Tweedt,Sarah M. Tweedt,Erik A. Sperling,Davide Pisani,Kevin J. Peterson +7 more
TL;DR: A compilation of the patterns of fossil and molecular diversification, comparative developmental data, and information on ecological feeding strategies indicate that the major animal clades diverged many tens of millions of years before their first appearance in the fossil record.
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On the eve of animal radiation: phylogeny, ecology and evolution of the Ediacara biota.
TL;DR: Ediacara fossils document an important evolutionary episode just before the Cambrian explosion and hold critical information about the early evolution of macroscopic and complex multicellular life.
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The end of the Ediacara biota: Extinction, biotic replacement, or Cheshire Cat?
Marc Laflamme,Simon A.F. Darroch,Sarah M. Tweedt,Sarah M. Tweedt,Kevin J. Peterson,Douglas H. Erwin,Douglas H. Erwin +6 more
TL;DR: The demonstration of geographic and niche range changes offers a novel means of assessing the downfall of Ediacara-type taxa at the hands of emerging metazoans, which is hypothesize to be most likely due to the indirect ecological impact metazans had upon the Ediacarans.
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Towards an ediacaran time scale: Problems, protocols, and prospects
Shuhai Xiao,Guy M. Narbonne,Chuanming Zhou,Marc Laflamme,Dmitriy V. Grazhdankin,Malgorzata Moczydlowska-Vidal,Huan Cui +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the second Ediacaran stage (SES) and the terminal Ediacara stage (TES) are subdivided into two or three series, where stratigraphic information is relatively rich.
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From the Cover: Osmotrophy in modular Ediacara organisms
TL;DR: The results support the viability of osmotrophic feeding in rangeomorphs and erniettomorphs, help explain their taphonomic peculiarities, and point to the possible importance of earliest macroorganisms for cycling dissolved organic carbon that may have been present in abundance during Ediacaran times.