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2025

Landing, E., 2025. Comment: Carbonate production and reef building under ferruginous seawater conditions in the Cambrian rift branches of the Avalon Zone, Newfoundland by J.J. Álvaro and A. Mills, Sedimentology (71, 1245–1269). Sedimentology doi:10.1111/sed.13253

Farrell, T.P., Cothren, H.R., Sundberg, F.A., Schmitz, M.D., Dehler, C.M., Landing, E., Karlstrom, K.E., Crossey, L.J., Hagadorn, J.W., 2025. Revising the late Cambrian time scale and the duration of the SPICE event using a novel Bayesian age modeling approach. Geological Society of America Bulletin doi:10.1130/B37919.1

Adrian, J.D., Westrop, J., Landing, E., Karim, T.S., Losso, S.R., Ng, R.Y., Bradley, A.B., Perez-Peris, F., 2025. Trilobite biostratigraphy of the upper Skullrockian Stage (Lower Ordovician; lower Tremadocian) on the northern Laurentian margin, western United States. Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs 57, 397–432.

Westrop, S., Landing, E., 2025. Middle Cambrian (Drumian) trilobites and agnostid arthropods from the Manuels River Formation, Avalonian New Brunswick: bracketing the green–black facies boundary. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 62, 962-1001. doi:10.1139/cjes-2024-0154

Landing, E., 2025. The Bakken Model: Deposition of Organic-Rich Mudstones and Petroleum Source Rocks as Shallow-Marine Facies Through the Phanerozoic . Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 13, 895. doi:10.3390/jmse13050895

Malinky, J.M., Geyer, G., Landing, E., Oliver, N., 2025. Hyoliths from the Manuels River Formation, middle Middle Cambrian (Miaolingian, upper Wuliuan–Drumian) of Avalonian southeastern Newfoundland. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften doi:10.1127/zdgg/2025/0470

2024

Keppie, D., Keppie, J., Landing, E., 2024. A tectonic solution for the Early Cambrian palaeogeographic enigma. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 542, 167-177. doi:10.1144/SP542-2022-355

Landing, E., Bartholomew, A., 2024. Stark’s Knob: A New Plate TectonicsModel—First Volcano Described from a Subducting Plate Margin. GSA Today 34, 30–33. doi:10.1130/GSAT10.1130/GSATG114GH.1

Landing, E., Webster, M., Bowser, S., 2024. Terminal Ediacaran-Late Ordovician evolution of the NE Laurentia palaeocontinent: rift–drift-onset of Taconic orogeny, sea-level change, and ‘Hawke Bay’ onlap (not offlap). Geological Society, London, Special Publications 542doi:10.1144/SP542-2023-4

Landing, E., Geyer, G., Westrop, S., Wotte, T., 2024. Unconformity-bounded rift sequences in Terreneuvian-Miaolingian strata of the Caledonian Highlands, Atlantic Canada: Comment. Geological Society of America Bulletin 136, 3472–3478. doi:10.1130/B37005.1

Liu, Z., Algeo, T., Arefifard, S., Wei, W., Brett, C., Landing, E., Lev, S., 2024. Testing the salinity of Cambrian to Silurian epicratonic seas. Journal of the Geological Society 2024, 2023-217. doi:10.1144/jgs2023-217

Landing, E., Bartholomew, A., 2024. Lester Park: Global "Type Locality" for Stromatolite Fossils. GSA Today 34, 8-12. doi:10.1130/GSAT10.1130/GSATG117GH.1

Landing, E., Johnson, M., 2024. Stromatolites and Their “Kin” as Living Microbialites in Contemporary Settings Linked to a Long Fossil Record. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 12, 2127. doi:10.3390/jmse12122127

Neuweiler, F., Mueller, M., Walter, B., Landing, E., Landing, E., Beranoaguirre, A., Sendino, C., Amati, L., Kershaw, S., 2024. Spongy-looking microfabrics in the earliest named stromatolite represent deep burial alteration and incipient metamorphism. Scientific Reports 14doi:10.1038/s41598-024-83359-7

2023

Landing, E., Geyer, G., 2023. Discussion: The Terreneuvian MacCodrum Brook section, Mira terrane, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: age constraints from ash layers, organic-walled microfossils, and trace fossils. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences doi:10.1139/cjes-2023-0031

Landing, E., Kroger, B., Westrop, S., Geyer, G., 2023. Proposed Early Cambrian cephalopods are chimaeras, the oldest known cephalopods are 30 m.y. younger. Communications Biology 6, 32. doi:10.1038/s42003-022-04383-9

Landing, E., Schmitz, M., Westrop, S., Geyer, G., 2023. U-Pb zircon dates from North American and British Avalonia bracket the Lower–Middle Cambrian boundary interval, with evaluation of the Miaolingian Series as a global unit. Geological Magazine , 1-27. doi:10.1017/S0016756823000729

Mghazli, K., Lazreq, N., Geyer, G., Landing, E., Boumehdi, M., Youbi, N., 2023. Cambrian microfossils from the High Atlas, Morocco: Taxonomic, biostratigraphic, palaeobiogeographic, and depositional significance of the Brèche \ a Micmacca limestone beds. Journal of African Earth Sciences 197, 104751. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2022.104751

2022

Geyer, G., Landing, E., Meier, S., Höhn, S., 2022. Oldest known West Gondwanan graptolite: Ovetograptus? sp. (lower Agdzian/lowest Wuliuan; basal Middle Cambrian) of the Franconian Forest, Germany, and review of pre-Furongian graptolithoids. PalZ doi:10.1007/s12542-022-00627-5

Landing, E., Ripperdan, R., Geyer, G., 2022. Discussion of ‘Reply to “Uppermost Cambrian carbon chemostratigraphy: the HERB and undocumented TOCE events are not synonymous”’Abstract. Geological Magazine 159, 173-176. doi:10.1017/S001675682100090X

Landing, E., Westrop, S., Geyer, G., 2022. Trans-Avalonian green–black boundary (early Middle Cambrian): transform fault-driven epeirogeny and onset of 26 m.y. of shallow marine anoxia in Avalonia (Rhode Island–Belgium) and Baltica. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences doi:10.1139/cjes-2022-0065

Nguyen, J., Westrop, S., Landing, E., 2022. The Cambrian (Furongian) olenid trilobite <i>Peltura</i> from Avalonian Nova Scotia, Canada, with a review of some species from Baltica. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences doi:10.1139/cjes-2022-0007

2021

Geyer, Gerd, Landing, E., nska, Anna, 2021. A new look at Eccaparadoxides (Cambrian, Trilobita) and its biostratigraphic significance. PalZ doi:10.1007/s12542-021-00580-9

Geyer, Gerd, Landing, E., 2021. The Souss lagerstätte of the Anti-Atlas, Morocco: discovery of the first Cambrian fossil lagerstätte from Africa. Scientific Reports 11, 3107. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-82546-0

Landing, E., Geyer, Gerd, Jirkov, Igor, Schiaparelli, Stefano, Sigwart, Julia, 2021. Lophotrochozoa in the Cambrian evolutionary radiation and the Pelagiella problem. Papers in Palaeontology doi:10.1002/spp2.1396

Landing, E., Geyer, Gerd, Schmitz, Mark, Wotte, Thomas, Kouchinsky, Artem, 2021. (Re)proposal of three Cambrian Subsystems and their Geochronology. Episodes 44, 273-283. doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020088

Landing, E., Geyer, Gerd, 2021. Trace fossils, depositional context, and paleogeography of the upper Tal Group (upper lower Cambrian), Lesser Himalaya, India: a Gondwanan succession with no affinities to the Avalonia microcontinent – discussion of paper by Singh et~al. (2019). Ichnos 28, 143-156. doi:10.1080/10420940.2020.1843457

2020

Geyer, Gerd, Landing, E., 2020. Cambrian deposition in northwestern Africa: Relationship of Tamlelt massif (Moroccan-Algerian border region) succession to the Moroccan Meseta. Journal of African Earth Sciences 165, 103772. doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103772

Landing, E., Schmitz, Mark, Geyer, Gerd, Trayler, Robin, Bowring, Samuel, 2020. Precise early Cambrian U–Pb zircon dates bracket the oldest trilobites and archaeocyaths in Moroccan West Gondwana. Geological Magazine , 1-20. doi:10.1017/S0016756820000369

Landing, E., Ripperdan, Robert, Geyer, Gerd, 2020. Uppermost Cambrian carbon chemostratigraphy: the HERB and undocumented TOCE events are not synonymous. Geological Magazine , 1-5. doi:10.1017/S0016756820000382

Stein, William, Berry, Christopher, Morris, Jennifer, Hernick, Linda, Mannolini, F., Ver Straeten, C., Landing, E., Marshall, John, Wellman, Charles, Beerling, David, Leake, Jonathan, 2020. Mid-Devonian Archaeopteris Roots Signal Revolutionary Change in Earliest Fossil Forests. Current Biology 30, 421-431. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.067

2019

Brett, Carlton, Pratt, Brian, Landing, E., 2019. NORTH AMERICAN COMMISSION ON STRATIGRAPHIC NOMENCLATURE Report 13 — Revision of Articles 25-27 of the North American Stratigraphic Code to Allow Formal Submembers. Stratigraphy 16, 279-281. doi:10.29041/strat10.29041/strat.16.410.29041/strat.16.4.279-281

Geyer, G., Nowicki, Jakub, nska, Anna, Landing, E., 2019. Comment on: \ Alvaro, J. J., Esteve, J. \& Zamora, S. 2019. Morphological assessment of the earliest paradoxidid trilobites (Cambrian Series 3) from Morocco and Spain. Geological Magazine 156, 1691-1707. doi:10.1017/S0016756818000961

Geyer, G., Landing, E., Höhn, S., Linnemann, U., Meier, S., Servais, T., Wotte, T., Herbig, H., 2019. Revised Cambrian stratigraphy in the Franconian Forest (Frankenwald), Germany, reveals typical West Gondwanan succession in the Saxothuringian belt. Newsletters on Stratigraphy 52, 377-433. doi:10.1127/nos/2019/0495

Landing, E., Hersi, Osman, Amati, L., Westrop, Stephen, Franzi, David, 2019. Early Paleozoic rifting and reactivation of a passive-margin rift: Insights from detrital zircon provenance signatures of the Potsdam Group, Ottawa graben: Comment. GSA Bulletin 131, 695-698. doi:10.1130/B35104.1

Landing, E., Geyer, G., 2019. RE: Overused “greenhouse climate” paradigm: consequence for ancient climate synthesis. Science Advances

2018

Landing, E., Webster, M., Grover, T., 2018. Iapetan Rift-Passive Margin Transition in NE Laurentia and Eustatic Control on Continental Slope Oxygenation, Taconic Slate Colors, and Early Paleozoic Climate. 110th New England Intercollegiate Geological Conference and 90th New York State Geological Association Meeting.

Brett, Carlton, Pratt, Brian, Landing, E., 2018. NORTH AMERICAN COMMISSION ON STRATIGRAPHIC NOMENCLATURE Note 68 - Application for Addition of Submembers to the North American Stratigraphic Code: A Case for Formalizing Lithostratigraphic units of Intermediate Rank. Stratigraphy 15, 103-108. doi:10.29041/strat.15.2.103-108

Landing, E., Antcliffe, J., Geyer, G., Kouchinsky, A., Bowser, S., Andreas, A., 2018. Early evolution of colonial animals (Ediacaran Evolutionary Radiation–Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation–Great Ordovician Biodiversification Interval). Earth-Science Reviews 178, 105-135. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.01.013

Landing, E., 2018. Tropical Weathering of the Taconic Orogeny (i.e., “orogen”) as a Driver for Ordovician Cooling. Geology Forum 46, e436. doi:10.1130/G39987C.1

Liu, A., Matthews, J., McIlroy, D., Narbonne, G., Landing, E., Menon, L., Laflamme, M., 2018. International Symposium on the Ediacaran– Cambrian Transition (ISECT) 2017. Episodes 41, 129-133.

Westrop, Stephen, Landing, E., Dengler, Alyce, 2018. Pseudocryptic species of the Middle Cambrian trilobite Eodiscus Hartt, in Walcott, 1884, from Avalonian and Laurentian Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 55, 997-1019. doi:10.1139/cjes-2018-0027

2017

Landing, E., Myrow, P.M., Geyer, G., McIlroy, D., 2017. Ediacaran– Cambrian of Avalonian Eastern Newfoundland (Avalon, Burin, and Bonavista Peninsulas). International Symposium on the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition.

Kouchinsky, Artem, Bengtson, Stefan, Landing, E., Steiner, Michael, Vendrasco, Michael, Ziegler, Karen, 2017. Terreneuvian Stratigraphy and Faunas from the Anabar Uplift, Siberia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 62, 311-440. doi:10.4202/app.00289.2016

Landing, E., Kruse, P., 2017. Integrated stratigraphic, geochemical, and paleontological late Ediacaran to early Cambrian records from southwestern Mongolia: Comment. Geological Society of America Bulletin 129, 1012-1015. doi:10.1130/B31640.1

Westrop, S.R., Landing, E., 2017. The agnostoid arthropod Lotagnostus Whitehouse, 1936 (late Cambrian; Furongian) from Avalonian Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia, Canada) and its significance for international correlationAbstract. Geological Magazine 154, 1001-1021. doi:10.1017/S0016756816000571

Landing, E., 2017. Self-Taught American Scientist, in: , The Best of New York Archives. Selections from the Magazine 2001-2011State University of New York Press. Excelsior Press, Albany, New York. pp. 37-39.

2016

Landing, E., Geyer, G., 2016. Comment on “Terreneuvian Small Shelly Faunas of East Yunnan (South China) and Their Biostratigraphic Implications”. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.04.016. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.04.016

Landing, E., Kouchinsky, A., 2016. Correlation of the Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation: geochronology, evolutionary stasis of earliest Cambrian (Terreneuvian) small shelly fossil (SSF) taxa, and chronostratigraphic significance. Geological Magazine 153, 750-756. doi:10.1017/S0016756815001089

Meert, Joseph, Levashova, Natalia, Bazhenov, Mikhail, Landing, E., 2016. Rapid changes of magnetic Field polarity in the late Ediacaran: Linking the Cambrian evolutionary radiation and increased UV-B radiation. Gondwana Research 34, 149–157. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2016.01.001