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Dr. Ed Landing

State Paleontologist Emeritus

ed.landing@nysed.gov

518-473-8071

Publications

2025

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 (LowerOrdovician; lower Tremadocian) on the northern Laurentianmargin, western United States Trilobite biostratigraphy of the upper Skullrockian Stage (Lower Ordovician; lower Tremadocian) . Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs 57, 397–432.

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

Landing, E., Geyer, G., 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

2024

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., Bartholomew, A.J., 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

Keppie, D.F., Keppie, J.D., 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., Geyer, G., Westrop, S.R., 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

Neuweiler, F., Mueller, M., Walter, B.F., 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 14. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-83359-7

Landing, E., Webster, M., Bowser, S.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 542. doi:10.1144/SP542-2023-4

Landing, E., Johnson, M.E., 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