Duncan McIlroy

Duncan McIlroy, paleobiologist.

Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s Newfoundland, A1B 3X5 St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Liu, A.G., Matthews, J.J. & McIlroy, D. 2015 (Online) 2016 (Print). The Beothukis/Culmofrons problem and its bearing on Ediacaran macrofossil taxonomy: evidence from an exceptional new fossil locality. Palaeontology 59(1): 45–58. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12206 . Reference page.

Taylor, R.S., Hawco, J.B., Nichols, R. & McIlroy, D. 2019. A critical reappraisal of the holotype of Beothukis mistakensis, a unique exceptionally preserved rangeomorph organism from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, Canada. Estudios Geológicos 75(2): e117. DOI: 10.3989/egeol.43586.572 . Reference page.

Taylor, R.S., Matthews, J.J., Nicholls, R. & McIlroy, D. 2021. A re-assessment of the taxonomy, palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph organism Hapsidophyllas flexibilis from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada. PalZ 95: 187–207. DOI: 10.1007/s12542-020-00537-4 . Reference page.

Pérez-Pinedo, D., McKean, C., Taylor, R., Nicholls, R. & McIlroy, D. 2022. Charniodiscus and Arborea Are Separate Genera Within the Arboreomorpha: Using the Holotype of C. concentricus to Resolve a Taphonomic/Taxonomic Tangle. Frontiers in Earth Science 9: 785929. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2021.785929 . Reference page.

McIlroy, D., Pasinetti, G., Pérez-Pinedo, D., McKean, C., Dufour, S.C., Matthews, J.J., Menon, L.R., Nicholls, R. & Taylor, R.S. 2024. The Palaeobiology of Two Crown Group Cnidarians: Haootia quadriformis and Mamsetia manunis gen. et sp. nov. from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada. Life 14(9): 1096. DOI: 10.3390/life14091096 . Reference page.

McIlroy, D., Pérez-Pinedo, D., Rosse-Guillevic, S., Muirhead-Hunt, S., Taylor, R.S. & Dufour, S.C. 2025. Growth and disparity of form in the Ediacaran genus Charnia, with description of Charnia brasieri sp. nov. from the Ediacaran of Avalonia. Precambrian Research 431: 107947. DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107947 . [Corrigendum: 432: 107976. DOI: 10.1016/j.precamres.2025.107976 .] Reference page.
Pasinetti, G., Fitzgerald, H.G., Pérez-Pinedo, D. & McIlroy, D. 2025. A new species of Charnia from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland reveals novel insights on the taxonomy, palaeobiology and palaeoecology of the Charnida (Rangeomorpha). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1): 2468193. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2025.2468193 . Reference page.
Pasinetti, G., Menon, L., Chida, N., Olschewski, P., McKean, C., Pérez-Pinedo, D., Taylor, R.S. & McIlroy, D. 2025. The macrofossil Lydonia jiggamintia gen. et sp. nov. from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland (Canada): From pseudofossil to metazoan-grade organism. Palaeontologia Electronica 28(3): a39. DOI: 10.26879/1386 . Reference page.
Rosse-Guillevic, S., Muirhead-Hunt, H. & McIlroy, D. 2025. Aninoides: a new rangeomorph genus from the upper Ediacaran of Newfoundland. Papers in Palaeontology 11(6): e70061. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.70061 . Reference page.

Rosse-Guillevic, S., Olschewski, P. & McIlroy, D. 2026. Arborea elegans: a novel arboreomorph species from the late Ediacaran of Newfoundland. Geological Magazine 163(e14): 1-7. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756826100570 . Reference page.