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Bruce Runnegar, Professor of Paleontology |
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| Mailing Address: | Department of Earth and Space Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
595 Charles Young Drive East,
Box 951567
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567 |
| Office: | Geology 5661 |
| Telephone: | (310) 206-1738 |
| Fax: | (310) 825-2779 |
| E-mail: | runnegar@ucla.edu |
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Courses Taught |
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| | ESS 116
ESS 298 |
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Current Research Interest |
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| | Biotic and environmental events that accompanied the Cambrian explosion of multicellular life. Working with the oldest complex fossils (Ediacara Fauna), in Namibia, Nevada, Newfoundland and South Australia; with core members of the metazoan radiation (molluscs and related animals) from Cambrian strata; with the carbonate biominerals that built mineral skeletons; and with molecular data (18S rRNA gene sequences) from modern organisms that contribute to an understanding of relationships among the animal phyla. |
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Education |
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| | D.Sc., 1978, University of Queensland
Ph.D., 1967, University of Queensland |
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Selected Publications |
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| | Bengtson, S., Conway Morris, S., Cooper, B.J., Jell, P.A. and
Runnegar, B. 1990. Early Cambrian skeletal fossils from South Australia. Memoirs
of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 9, 1-364. |
| | Runnegar, B. 1991. Precambrian oxygen levels estimated from the biochemistry
and physiology of early eukaryotes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
71, 97-111. | | | Han, T.M. and Runnegar, B. 1992. Megascopic
eukaryotic algae from the 2.1 billion-year-old Negaunee Iron-Formation, Michigan.
Science 257, 232-235. | | | Belasky, P. and Runnegar, B.
1993. Biogeographic constraints for tectonic reconstructions of the Pacific region.
Geology 21, 979-982. | | | Belasky, P. and Runnegar, B. 1994,
Permian longitudes of Wrangellia, Stikinia, and Eastern Klamath terranes based
on coral biogeography. Geology 22, 1095-1098. | | | Runnegar,
B., 1995, Vendobionta or Metazoa? Developments in understanding the Ediacara “fauna.”
Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie. Abhandlundgen 195,
303-318. | | | Saltzman, M.R., Davidson, J.P., Holden, P.,
Runnegar, B. and Lohmann, K.C. 1995. Sea-level-driven changes in ocean chemistry
at an Upper Cambrian extinction horizon. Geology 23, 893-896. | | | Runnegar,
B. 1995. Early evolution of the Mollusca: the fossil record. In: J. Taylor (ed.),
Origin and evolutionary radiation of the Mollusca, Oxford Univsity Press, Oxford,
pp. 77-88.; |
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Post Doc Students |
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| | Michael Vendrasco
mikev@ess.ucla.edu | | | Crispin
Little
clittle@ucla.edu |
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