Stefan Bengtson, publications

Artiklar och monografier

Bengtson, S. 1968: The problematic genus Mobergella from the Lower Cambrian of the Baltic area. Lethaia 1, 325-351.

Bengtson, S. 1970: The Lower Cambrian fossil Tommotia. Lethaia 3, 363-392.

Bengtson, S. 1973: Bibliography of the Cambrian of Norden. In Cambrian of the British Isles, Norden, and Spitsbergen(Ed, Holland, C.H.) Wiley, London, pp. 258-283.

Bengtson, S. 1976: The structure of some Middle Cambrian conodonts, and the early evolution of conodont structure and function. Lethaia 9, 185-206.

Bengtson, S., Jaanusson, V. & Martinsson, A. 1976: Palaeobiology. In Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala University 500 Years, Vol. 10 , pp. 85-98.

Bengtson, S. 1977: Aspects of problematic fossils in the early Palaeozoic. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Abstracts of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science 415, 1-71.

Bengtson, S. 1977: Early Cambrian button-shaped phosphatic microfossils from the Siberian Platform. Palaeontology 20, 751-762.

Bengtson, S. 1978: The Machaeridia - a square peg in a pentagonal hole. Thalassia Jugoslavica 12, 1-10.

Bengtson, S. 1978: Den kambriska explosionen. In Vetenskap i rörelse. Naturvetenskapliga Forskningsrådets Årsbok 1978, pp. 35-46.

Bengtson, S. 1978: The use and abuse of referees. Lethaia 11, 330.

Bengtson, S. 1979: Sponges; Machaeridians; Hercolepas; Phosphatic tubes. In Lower Wenlock faunal and floral dynamics - Vattenfallet section, Gotland( Eds, Jaanusson, V., Laufeld, S. & Skoglund, R.), pp. 61-62; 211-212; 251.

Bengtson, S. 1980: Redescription of the Lower Cambrian Lapworthella cornu. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 102, 53-55.

Bengtson, S. 1980: Fossils and phylogeny. Lethaia 13, 276.

Bengtson, S. 1980: Conodonts: the need for a functional model. Lethaia 13, 320.

Bengtson, S. 1981: Atractosella, a Silurian alcyonacean octocoral. Journal of Paleontology 55, 281-294.

Bengtson, S. & Missarzhevsky, V.V. 1981: Coeloscleritophora - a major group of enigmatic Cambrian metazoans. In Short papers for the Second International Symposium on the Cambrian System 1981(Ed, Taylor, M.E.) , pp. 19-21.

Bengtson, S. 1981: En läderkorall i Gotlands silur. Fauna och Flora 76, 37-42.

Bengtson, S. 1981: Fossils and evolution. Lethaia 14, 62.

Bengtson, S. 1981: Fossils, phylogeny, evolution and science. Lethaia 14, 166.

Bengtson, S. & Fletcher, T.P. 1981: The succession of skeletal fossils in the basal Lower Cambrian of southeastern Newfoundland. In Short papers for the Second International Symposium on the Cambrian System 1981(Ed, Taylor, M.E.) , pp. 18.

Bengtson, S. 1981: The Tommotian goes international. Lethaia 14, 372.

Nilsson, R. & Bengtson, S. 1982: Problematic triactine spicules from the Upper Ordovician of Scania, Sweden. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 103, 377-381.

Bengtson, S. 1983: A functional model for the conodont apparatus. Lethaia 16, 38.

Bengtson, S. 1983: The early history of the Conodonta. Fossils and Strata 15, 5-19.

Bengtson, S. & Fletcher, T.P. 1983: The oldest sequence of skeletal fossils in the Lower Cambrian of southeastern Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 20, 525-536.

Bengtson, S. 1983: A Burgess Sale. Lethaia 16, 110.

Bengtson, S. & Conway Morris, S. 1984: A comparative study of Lower Cambrian Halkieria and Middle Cambrian Wiwaxia. Lethaia 17, 307-329.

Bengtson, S., Missarzhevsky, V.V. & Rozanov, A.Y. 1984: The Precambrian-Cambrian boundary: a plea for caution. Working Group on the Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary I.U.G.S.-I.G.C.P. Project No. 29 Circular-Newsletter June 1984 , 14-15.

Bengtson, S. 1985: Redescription of the Lower Cambrian Halkieria obliqua Poulsen. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 107, 101-106.

Bengtson, S. 1985: Taxonomy of disarticulated fossils. Journal of Paleontology 59, 1350-1358.

Bengtson, S. 1985: Anders Martinsson 1930-1983. Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon 25, 224-228.

Bengtson, S. 1986: The problem of the Problematica. In Problematic Fossil Taxa, Vol. 5 (Eds, Hoffman, A. & Nitecki, M.H.) Oxford U. P., N.Y., & Clarendon, Oxford, pp. 3-11.

Bengtson, S. 1986: A new Mongolian species of the Lower Cambrian genus Camenella and the problem of scleritome-based taxonomy of the Tommotiidae. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 60, 45-55.

Bengtson, S. 1986: Siliceous microfossils from the Upper Cambrian of Queensland. Alcheringa 10, 195-216.

Bengtson, S., Matthews, S.C. & Missarzhevsky, V.V. 1986: The Cambrian netlike fossil Microdictyon. In Problematic Fossil Taxa, Vol. 5 (Eds, Hoffman, A. & Nitecki, M.H.) Oxford U. P., N.Y., & Clarendon, Oxford, pp. 97-115.

Bengtson, S. & Urbanek, A. 1986: Rhabdotubus, a Middle Cambrian rhabdopleurid hemichordate. Lethaia 19, 293-308.

Conway Morris, S. & Bengtson, S. 1986: The Precambrian-Cambrian boundary and geochemical perturbations. Nature 319, 696-697.

Bengtson, S. & Conway Morris, S. 1986: Fjälliga djur från det kambriska havet. Fauna och Flora 81, 27-34.

Bengtson, S. 1986: Whittington on the Burgess Shale. Lethaia 19, 170.

Bengtson, S. 1986: Preparing clean backgrounds in published photographic illustrations. Lethaia 19, 361-362.

Bengtson, S. 1986: [Review of Conway Morris, S., George, J.D., Gibson, R. & Platt, H.M. (eds.) 1985: The Origins and Relationships of Lower Invertebrates.]. Palaeontological Association Circular 126 126, 11-12.

Bengtson, S., Fedorov, A.B., Missarzhevsky, V.V., Rozanov, A.Y., Zhegallo, E.A., et al. 1987: Tumulduria incomperta and the case for Tommotian trilobites. Lethaia 20, 361-370.

Bengtson, S. 1989: Ecology of the Cambrian explosion. In Abstract, EUG 5, Strasbourg, 1989, Vol. 1 , pp. 199.

Qian Y. & Bengtson, S. 1989: Palaeontology and biostratigraphy of the Early Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in Yunnan Province, South China. Fossils and Strata 24, 1-156.

Bengtson, S. 1989: Predation in the earliest metazoan ecosystems. In Norsk Paleontologisk Forening 1969-1989(Eds, Nakrem, H.A. & Lindemann, F.-J.) , pp. 3-4.

Bengtson, S. 1990: Maikhanella and Siphogonuchites: Problems of skeleton formation in Cambrian metazoans. Palaeontological Association, Durham 1990, Abstracts, 3.

Bengtson, S. 1990: The solution to a jigsaw puzzle. Nature 345, 765-766.

Bengtson, S., Conway Morris, S., Cooper, B.J., Jell, P.A. & Runnegar, B.N. 1990: Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 9, 1-364.

Bengtson, S. 1990: Problematic fossil taxa. In Palaeobiology. A Synthesis(Eds, Briggs, D.E.G. & Crowther, P.R.) Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 442-445.

Runnegar, B. & Bengtson, S. 1990: Origin of hard parts - early skeletal fossils. In Palaeobiology. A Synthesis(Eds, Briggs, D.E.G. & Crowther, P.R.) Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 24-29.

Bengtson, S. 1990: Wonderful life, lovely story. Lethaia 23, 115-116.

Bengtson, S. 1991: The origin and extinction of phyla. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar 113, 76-77.

Bengtson, S. 1991: Oddballs from the Cambrian start to get even. Nature 351, 184-185.

Bengtson, S. 1991: [Review of Carter, J.H. (ed.): 1990: Skeletal biomineralization: Patterns, Processes and Evolutionary Trends.]. Nomen Nudum 20, 27-30.

Bengtson, S. 1992: The cap-shaped Cambrian fossil Maikhanella and the relationship between coeloscleritophorans and molluscs. Lethaia 25, 401-420.

Bengtson, S. 1992: Proterozoic and earliest Cambrian skeletal metazoans. In The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study(Eds, Schopf, J.W. & Klein, C.) Cambridge U.P., Cambridge., pp. 1017-1033.

Bengtson, S. & Conway Morris, S. 1992: Early radiation of biomineralizing phyla. In Origin and Early Evolution of the Metazoa(Eds, Lipps, J.H. & Signor, P.W.) Plenum, New York, N.Y., pp. 447-481.

Bengtson, S., Farmer, J.D., Fedonkin, M.A., Lipps, J.H. & Runnegar, B. 1992: The Proterozoic-Early Cambrian evolution of metaphytes and metazoans. In The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study(Eds, Schopf, J.W. & Klein, C.) Cambridge U.P., Cambridge., pp. 425-462.

Bengtson, S. & Yue Z. 1992: Predatorial borings in Late Precambrian mineralized exoskeletons. Science 257, 367-369.

Hayes, J.M., Bengtson, S., Hofmann, H.J., Lipps, J.H., Lowe, D.R., et al. 1992: Construction and use of geological, geochemical, and paleobiological databases. In The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study(Eds, Schopf, J.W. & Klein, C.) Cambridge U.P., Cambridge., pp. 855-864.

Hofmann, H.J., Bengtson, S., Hayes, J.M., Lipps, J.H., Schopf, J.W., et al. 1992: Biostratigraphy and paleobiogeography of the Proterozoic. In The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study(Eds, Schopf, J.W. & Klein, C.) Cambridge U.P., Cambridge., pp. 487-520.

Towe, K.M., Bengtson, S., Fedonkin, M.A., Hofmann, H.J., Mankiewicz, C., et al. 1992: Proterozoic and earliest Cambrian carbonaceous remains, trace and body fossils. In The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study(Eds, Schopf, J.W. & Klein, C.) Cambridge U.P., Cambridge., pp. 343-424.

Towe, K.M., Bengtson, S., Fedonkin, M.A., Hofmann, H.J., Mankiewicz, C., et al. 1992: Described taxa of Proterozoic and selected earliest Cambrian carbonaceous remains, trace and body fossils. In The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study(Eds, Schopf, J.W. & Klein, C.) Cambridge U.P., Cambridge., pp. 953-1054.

Strauss, H., Bengtson, S., Myrow, P.M. & Vidal, G. 1992: Stable isotope geochemistry and palyonology of the late Precambrian to Early Cambrian sequence in Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 29, 1662-1673.

Urbanek, A., Mierzejewski, P. & Bengtson, S. 1992: Fine structure of the earliest known rhabdopleurid. Lethaia 25, 349-350.
Franzén, C. & Bengtson, S. 1993: Lethaia grows. Lethaia 26, 16.

Bengtson, S. 1993: Molluscan affinity of coeloscleritophorans - reply. Lethaia 26, 48.

Szaniawski, H. & Bengtson, S. 1993: Origin of euconodont elements. Journal of Paleontology 67, 640-654.

Conway Morris, S. & Bengtson, S. 1994: Cambrian predators: possible evidence from boreholes. Journal of Paleontology 68, 1-23.

Baltscheffsky, H., Bengtson, S., Bergström, J., Knoll, A.H. & Vidal, G. 1994: Preface: Approaches to understanding early life on Earth. In Early Life on Earth. Nobel Symposium 84 (Ed, Bengtson, S.) Columbia University Press, New York, N.Y., pp. vii-x.

Bengtson, S.1994: The advent of animal skeletons. In Early Life on Earth. Nobel Symposium 84 (Ed, Bengtson, S.) Columbia University Press, New York, N.Y., pp. 412-425.

Franzén, C. & Bengtson, S. 1995: Manuscript processing in the digital age. Lethaia 28, 308.

Bengtson, S., Collins, D.H. & Runnegar, B. 1996: Chancelloriid sclerite formation - turning the problem inside out. The Paleontological Society Special Publication 8, 29.

Franzén, C. & Bengtson, S. 1996: Heinz Lowenstam´s collection of fossils. Lethaia 29, 38.

Bengtson, S. 1996: Invertebrates. In Macmillan Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences, Vol. 1 MacMillan, New York, N.Y., pp. 506-509.
+ Bengtson, S. & Yue Z. 1997: Fossilized metazoan embryos from the earliest Cambrian. Science 277, 1645-1648.   (PDF)

Bengtson, S., Hagadorn, J., Kaesler, R. & Rumford, J. 1997: Publications in paleontology in the 21st Century. In Paleontology in the 21st Century Workshop(Eds, Lane, H.R., Lipps, J., Steininger, R.F. & Ziegler, W.) , pp. 171-176.

Bengtson, S. 1997: Tappade jorden balansen under kambrium? Geologiskt Forum 15, 3-5.

Bengtson, S. & Yue Z. 1997: Oeufs durs. Pour la Science 241, 16-20.

Bengtson, S. 1997: New alliances for paleontology. Lethaia 30, 335-336.

Bengtson, S. 1998: Animal embryos in deep time. Nature 391, 529-530.

Szaniawski, H. & Bengtson, S. 1998: Late Cambrian euconodonts from Sweden: taxonomy, evolution and stratigraphy. In Proceedings of the Sixth European Conodont Symposium, ECOS V(Ed, Szaniawski, H.), pp. 7-29.

Bengtson, S. 1998: The mother of all questions. Nature 395, 560.

Bengtson, S. 1999: L´apport spectaculaire des embryons fossilisés. La Recherche 317, 100-104.

Kenrick, P., Kvacek, Z. & Bengtson, S. 1999: Semblant land plants from the Middle Ordovician of the Prague Basin reinterpreted as animals. Palaeontology 42, 991-1002.

Kouchinsky, A., Bengtson, S. & Gershwin, L.-a. 1999: Cnidarian-like embryos associated with the first shelly fossils in Siberia. Geology 27, 609-612.

Yue Zhao & Bengtson, S. 1999: Embryonic and post-embryonic development of the Early Cambrian cnidarian Olivooides. Lethaia 32, 181-195.

Bengtson, S. 1999: The first three billion years. Nature 400, 633-634.

Yue Zhao & Bengtson, S. 1999: Phosphatized embryo fossils from the Cambrian explosion. Chinese Science Bulletin 44:9, 842-845.

Bengtson, S. 1999: Svanödlan lever i fantasin. Dronten 1999:4, 3-5.

Bengtson, S. 1999: Skeletized organisms and the evolution of skeletized tissues. Encyclopedia of Paleontology. 1122-1124. Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago, Ill.

Bengtson, S. 2000: Let´s reclaim our property. Palaeontologia Electronica 3:1 external link, 6 pp.

Bengtson, S. 2000: Teasing fossils out of shales with cameras and computers. Palaeontologia Electronica 3:1 external link, 14 pp.

Bengtson, S., Hagadorn, J., Kaesler, R. & Rumford, J. 2000: Publications. In Lane, R.H., Steininger, F.F., Kaesler, R., Ziegler, W. & Lipps, J. (eds.): Fossils and the Future. Paleontology in the 21st Century. Senckenberg-Buch Nr. 74. Pp. 227-237. Kramer, Frankfurt.

Bengtson, S. & Hou Xianguang 2001: The integument of Cambrian chancelloriids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 46:1, 1-22.

Bengtson, S. 2001: Dealing with extinct life forms. Palaeontologia Electronica 4:1 external link, 5 pp.  

+ Kouchinsky, A., Bengtson, S., Missarzhevsky, V.V., Pelechaty, S.,Torssander, P. & Val'kov, A.K. 2001: Carbon isotope stratigraphy and the problem of a pre-Tommotian Stage in Siberia. Geological Magazine 138:4, pp. 387-396.   (PDF)

+ Rasmussen, B., Bengtson, S., Fletcher, I.R. & McNaughton, N. 2002: Discoidal impressions and trace-like fossils more than 1200 million years old. Science 296, 1112-1115. (PDF)

+ Kouchinsky, A. & Bengtson, S. 2002: The tube wall of Cambrian anabaritids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 47:3, 431-444.   (PDF)

Bengtson, S. 2002: Early life, science, and wrestling. Palaeontologia Electronica 5:1 external link, 3 pp.

Hammer, Ø., Bengtson, S., Malzbender, T. and Gelb, D. 2002: Imaging fossils using reflectance transformation and interactive manipulation of virtual light sources. Palaeontologia Electronica 5:1 external link, 9 pp.

+ Bengtson, S. 2002: Tidigt liv på jorden. Geologiskt Forum, 9(35), 24-27.   (PDF)

+ Rasmussen, B., Bengtson, S., Fletcher, I.R. & McNaughton, N. 2002: Ancient animals or something else entirely? Response. Science 298, 58-59.   (PDF)

+ Bengtson, S. 2002. Origins and early evolution of predation. In: M. Kowalewski and P. H. Kelley (eds.) The fossil record of predation. The Paleontological Society Papers 8. The Paleontological Society, pp. 289-317. (PDF)

Bengtson, S. & Sepkoski, J.J., Jr. 2002: Fossil. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science. McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y.

Bengtson, S. 2002: Tommot Fauna. McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science. McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y.

Bengtson, S. 2003: Tracing metazoan roots in the fossil record. In: A. Legakis, S. Sfenthourakis, R. Polymeni and M. Thessalou-Legaki (eds.): The New Panorama of Animal Evolution. Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Zoology, pp. 289-300. Pensoft, Sofia.

+ Bengtson, S. 2003: Beneath the great divide. Nature 423, 481-482. (PDF)

+ Warén, A., Bengtson, S., Goffredi, S.K. & Van Dover, C.L. 2003: A hot-vent gastropod with iron sulfide dermal sclerites. Science, 302, 1007.   (PDF)

+ Yin, C., Bengtson, S. & Yue, Z. 2004: Silicified and phosphatized Tianzhushania, spheroidal microfossils of possible animal origin from the Neoproterozoic of South China. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 49(1), 1-12. (PDF)

Gubanov, A.P., Kouchinsky, A.V. Peel, J.S. & Bengtson, S. 2004: Middle Cambrian molluscan fauna of Australian aspect from northern Siberia. Alcheringa 28(1-2), 95-114.

+ Bengtson, S. 2004: The body-plan explosion. Nature 430, 506. (PDF)

+ Rasmussen, B., Fletcher, I.R., Bengtson, S. & McNaughton, N. 2004: SHRIMP U-Pb dating of diagenetic xenotime in the Stirling Range Formation, Western Australia: 1.8 billion year minimum age for the Stirling biota. Precambrian Research 133, 329-337.   (PDF)

+ Bengtson, S. 2004: Early skeletal fossils. In: J. H. Lipps and B. M. Waggoner (eds.) Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Biological Revolutions. The Paleontological Society Papers 10. The Paleontological Society, pp. 67-77. (PDF)

+ Bengtson, S. & Budd, G. 2004: Comment on ‘Small bilaterian fossils from 40 to 55 million years before the Cambrian´. Science 306, 1291a. (PDF)

+ Ahlberg, P., Szaniawski, H., Clarkson, E. N. K. & Bengtson, S. 2005: Phosphatised olenid trilobites and associated fauna from the Upper Cambrian of Västergötland, Sweden. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 50, 429-440. (PDF)

+ Kouchinsky, A., Bengtson, S., Pavlov, V., Val'kov, A. & Young, E. 2005. Pre-Tommotian age of the lower Pestrotsvet Formation in the Selinde section on the Siberian platform: carbon isotopic evidence. Geological Magazine 142, 319-325. (PDF)

Bengtson, S.2005. Mineralized skeletons and early animal evolution. In: D.E.G. Briggs (ed.), Evolving Form and Function: Fossils and Development, pp. 101-124. Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven, CT.

Donoghue, P.C.J., Kouchinsky, A., Waloszek, D., Bengtson, S., Dong, X.-p., Val´kov, A.K., Cunningham, J.A. & Repetski, J.E. 2006. Fossilized embryos are widespread but the record is temporally and taxonomically biased. Evolution and Development 8(2), 232-238.
Bengtson, S. 2006. A ghost with a bite. Nature 442, 146-147.

Donoghue, P.C.J., Bengtson, S., Dong, X.-p., Gostling, N., J., Huldtgren, T., Cunningham, J.A., Yin, C., Yue, Z., Peng, F. & Stampanoni, M. 2006. Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos.  Nature 442, 680-683.

Hagadorn, J. W., Xiao, S., Donoghue, P. C. J., Bengtson, S., Gostling, N. J., Pawlowska, M., Raff, E. C., Raff, R. A., Turner, F. R., Yin, C., Zhou, C., Yuan, X., McFeely, M. B., Stampanoni, M. and Nealson, K. H. 2006. Cellular and subcellular structure of Neoproterozoic animal embryos. Science 314:291-294.

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