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Goñi, I., Skovsted, C.B., Li, L., Li, G., Betts, M.J., Dorjnamjaa, D., Altanshagai, G., Enkhbaatar, B. and Topper, T.P., 2023. New palaeoscolecid plates from the Cambrian Stage 3 of northern Mongolia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 68, xxx-xxx. doi:https://doi.org/10.4202/app.01030.2022
Liang, Y., Strotz, L.C., Topper, T.P., Holmer, L.E., Budd, G.E., Chen, Y., Fang, R., Hu, Y. and Zhang, Z., 2023. Evolutionary contingency in lingulid brachiopods across mass extinctions. Current Biology, 33 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.038
Chen, F., Topper, T.P., Skovsted, C.B., Strotz, L.C., Shen, J. and Zhang, Z., 2022. Cambrian ecological complexities: perspectives from the earliest brachiopod-supported benthic communities in the early Cambrian Guanshan Lagerstätte. Gondwana Research 107: 30-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2022.02.008
Li, L., Skovsted, C.B. and Topper, T.P. 2022, Deep origin of the crossed-lamellar microstructure in early Cambrian molluscs. Palaeontology, 65: e12620. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12620
Li, L., Topper, T.P., Betts, M.J., Dorjnamjaa, D., Altanshagai, G., Enkhbaatar, B., Li, G., & Skovsted, C.B. 2022, Calcitic shells in the aragonite sea of the earliest Cambrian. Geology. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/G50533.1
Liu, F. Skovsted, C. B., Topper, T. P. & Zhang, Z. 2022. Hyolithid-like hyoliths without helens from the early Cambrian of South China, and their implications for the evolution of hyoliths. BMC Ecology and Evolution 22:64. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-022-02022-9
Liu, F., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P. & Zhang, Z., 2022. A fresh look at the Hyolithid Doliutheca from the Early Cambrian (Stage 4) Shipai Formation of the Three Gorges Area, Hubei, South China. Biology 11(6): 875. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11060875
Topper, T. P., Betts, M. J., Dorjnamjaa, D., Li, G., Li, L., Altanshagai, G., Enkhbaatar, B. & Skovsted, C. B. 2022. Locating the BACE f the Cambrian: Bayan Gol in southwestern Mongolia and global correlation of the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary. Earth-Science Reviews 229: 104017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.104017
Harper, D.A., Stouge, S., Christiansen, J.L., Topper, T.P., Alwmark, C., Richoz, S. and Ahlberg, P., 2021. Early Cambrian brachiopod-dominated shell concentrations from North-East Greenland: Environmental and taphonomic implications. Global and Planetary Change, 204, p.103560. doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103560
Liu, F., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P. & Zhang, Z.-F. 2021. Revision of Triplicatella (Orthothecida, Hyolitha) with preserved digestive tracts from the early Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, South China. Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1747059
Liu, F., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P., & Zhang, Z.-F., 2021. Soft part preservation in hyolithids from the lower Cambrian (Stage 4) Guanshan Biota of South China and its implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 562: 110079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110079
McLoughlin, S., Vajda, V., Topper, T. P., Crowley , J. L., Liu, F., Johansson, O. & Skovsted, C. B., 2021. Trace fossils, algae, invertebrate remains and new U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology from the lower Cambrian Torneträsk Formation, northern Sweden. GFF, 143 (2-3): 103-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2021.1939775
Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P., McLoughlin, S., Johansson, O., Liu, F. & Vajda, V. 2021. First discovery of Small Shelly Fossils and new occurrences of brachiopods and trilobites from the early Cambrian (Stage 4) of the Swedish Caledonides, Lappland. GFF. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2021.1895303
Zhang, Z., Topper, T.P., Chen, Y., Strotz, L.C., Chen, F., Holmer, L.E., Brock, G.A. and Zhang, Z., 2021. Go large or go conical: allometric trajectory of an early Cambrian acrotretide brachiopod. Palaeontology, 64(5): 727-741. https://doi.org/10.1111/pala.12568
Claybourn, T.M., Skovsted, C.B., Holmer, L.E., Pan, B., Myrow, P.M., Topper, T.P., & Brock, G.A. 2020. Brachiopods from the Byrd Group (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica. Papers in Palaeontology. doi: 10.1002/spp2.1295
Liu, F., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P., Zhang, Z.-F. & Shu, D., 2020. Are hyoliths Palaeozoic lophophorates? National Science Review, 7(2): 453-469. https://academic.oup.com/nsr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nsr/nwz161/5606729?searchresult=1
Pan, B., Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A. Topper, T.P., Holmer, L.E., Li, L. & Li, G., 2020. Early Cambrian organophosphatic brachiopods from the Xinji Formation, Shuiyu section, North China. Palaeoworld 29: 512-533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2019.07.001
Topper, T.P., Guo, J., Clausen, S., Skovsted, C. & Zhang, Z., 2020. Reply to ‘Re-evaluating the phylogenetic position of the enigmatic early Cambrian deuterostome Yanjiahella’. Nature Communications 11, 1287. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14922-9
Zhang, Z., Strotz, L.C., Topper, T.P., Chen, F., Chen, Y., Liang, Y., Zhang, Z., Skovsted, C.B. and Brock, G.A., 2020. An encrusting kleptoparasite-host interaction from the early Cambrian. Nature Communications, 11(1): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16332-3
Claybourn, T. M., Jacquet, S. M., Skovsted, C. B., Topper, T. P., Holmer, L. E. & Brock, G. A., 2019. Mollusks from the upper Shackleton Limestone (Cambrian Series 2), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica. Journal of Paleontology 93: 437-459. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2018.84
Topper, T. P., Guo, J., Clausen, S., Skovsted, C. B. & Zhang, Z. 2019. A stem group echinoderm from the basal Cambrian of China and the origins of Ambulacraria. Nature communications 10: 1366. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-09059-3
Topper, T.P., Greco, F., Hofmann, A., Beeby, A. & Harper, D.A.T. 2018. Characterization of kerogenous films and taphonomic pathways of the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, Greenland. Geology 46: 359-362.
Pan, B., Topper, T.P., Skovsted, C.B., Miao, L. & Li, G. 2018. Occurrence of Microdictyon from the lower Cambrian Xinji Formaiton along the southern margin of the North China Platform. Journal of Paleontology 92: 59-70.
Pan, B., Brock, G.A., Skovsted, C.B., Betts, M.J., Topper, T.P. & Li, G.-X. Paterimitra pyramidalis Laurie, 1986, the first tommotiid discovered from the early Cambrian of North China. Gondwana Research 63: 179–185.
Holmer, L.E., Zhang, Z., Topper, T.P., Popov, L.E. & Claybourn, T. 2018. The attachment strategies of Cambrian kutorginate brachiopods – the curious case of two pedicle openings and their phylogenetic significance. Journal of Paleontology 92: 33-39.
Skovsted, C.B. & Topper, T.P. 2018. Mobergellans from the early Cambrian of Greenland and Labrador – new morphological details and implications for the functional morphology of mobergellans. Journal of Paleontology 92: 71-79.
Betts, M.J., Paterson, J.R., Jacquet, S.M., Andrew A.S., Hall, P.A., Jago, J.B., Jagodzinski, E.A., Preiss, W.V., Crowley, J.L., Brougham, T., Mathewson, C.P., Garcia-Bellido, D.C., Topper, T.P., Skovsted, C.B. & Brock, G.A. 2018. Early Cambrian chronostratigraphy and geochronolgy of South Australia. Earth Science Reviews 185: 498-543. doi: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.06.005
Topper, T.P., Strotz, L., Skovsted, C. & Holmer, L. 2017. Do brachiopods show substrate-related phenotypic variation? A case study from the Burgess Shale. Palaeontology 2: 269-279.
Betts, Marissa J., Paterson, J.R. Jago, J.B., Jacquet, S.M., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P. & Brock, G.A., 2017. Global correlation of the early Cambrian of South Australia. Shelly fauna of the Dailyatia odyssei Zone. Gondwana Research 46: 240-279.
Topper, T.P., Zhang, Z., Gutiérrez-Marco, J.C. & Harper, D.A.T. 2017. The dawn of a dynasty: life strategies of Cambrian and Ordovician brachiopods. Lethaia.
Mao, Y-Q, Zhao, Y-L, Wang, C-W. & Topper, T.P. 2017. A fresh look at Nisusia Walcott, 1905 from the Cambrian Kaili Formation in Guizhou. Palaeoworld 26: 12-24.
Jacquet, S.M., Brougham, T., Skovsted, C.B., Jago, J.B., Laurie, J. R., Betts, M. J., Topper, T.P. & Brock, G. A. 2017. Watsonella crosbyi from the lower Cambrian (Terreneuvian, Stage 2) Normanville Group in South Australia. Geological Magazine 154:1088-1104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756816000704
Betts, M. J., Paterson, J.R. Jago, J.B., Jacquet, S.M., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P. & Brock, G.A., 2016. A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil biostratigraphy for South Australia. Reply. Gondwana Research 44: 262-264.
Betts, M. J., Paterson, J.R. Jago, J.B., Jacquet, S.M., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P. & Brock, G.A., 2016. A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil biostratigraphy for South Australia. Gondwana Research 36: 176-208.
Skovsted, C.B., Pan, B., Topper, T.P., Betts, M.J., Li, G. & Brock, G.A., 2016. The operculum and mode of life of the lower Cambrian hyolith Cupitheca from South Australia and North China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 443: 123-130.
Topper, T.P., Strotz, L., Holmer, L.E. & Caron, J.-B. 2015. Survival on a soft seafloor: life strategies of brachiopods from the Cambrian Burgess Shale. Earth Science Reviews 151: 266-287
Skovsted, C., Betts, M., Topper, T.P. & Brock, G., 2015. The early Cambrian tommotiid genus Dailyatia from South Australia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 48, pp.1-117
Topper, T.P., Strotz, L., Holmer, L.E., Tait, N.N., Zhang, Z. & Caron, J.-B. 2015. Competition and mimicry: the curious case of chaetae in brachiopods from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:42. doi:10.1186/s12862-015-0314-4
Skovsted, C.B., Holmer, L.E., Brock, G.A., Holmer, L.E., Topper, T.P. & Larsson, C.M. 2015. The early Cambrian tommotiid Kulparina rostrata from South Australia. Journal of Paleontology 89(6): 920-932.
Topper, T.P., Holmer, L.E. & Caron, J.-B. 2014. Brachiopods hitching a ride: an early case of commensalism in the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Scientific Reports 4, doi: 10.1038/srep06704.
Topper, T.P. & Skovsted, C.B. 2014. A new name for a classic Swedish brachiopod, Tallatella undosa (Moberg).GFF14(3), 429-435.
Larsson, C. M., Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A., Balthasar, W., Topper, T.P. & Holmer, L.E. 2014. Paterimitra pyramidalis from South Australia: Scleritome, shell structure and evolution of a lower Cambrian stem group brachiopod. Palaeontology 57(2):417-446.
Betts, M. J., Topper, T.P., Valentine, J.L., Skovsted, C.B., Paterson, J.R. & Brock, G.A. 2014. A new early Cambrian bradoriid (Arthropoda) assemblage from the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Gondwana Research 25(1), 420-437. doi: 10.1016/j.gr.2013.05.007
Jakobsen, K.G., Brock, G.A., Nielsen, A.T., Topper, T.P. & Harper, D.A.T. 2014. Middle Ordovician brachiopods from the Stairway Sandstone, Amadeus Basin, central Australia. Alcheringa 38 (2): 190-208.
Smith, P.M., Brock, G.A., Paterson, J.R. & Topper, T.P. 2014. New bradoriid arthropods from the Giles Creek Dolostone (Cambrian Series 3, Stage 5; Templetonian), Amadeus Basin, central Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 45: 233-248.
Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P. Betts, M.J. & Brock, G.A. 2014. Associated conchs and opercula of Triplicatelladisdoma from the early Cambrian of South Australia. Alcheringa 38 (1): 148-153.
Topper, T.P., Holmer, L.E., Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A., Balthasar, U., Larsson, C.M., Petterson Stolk, S. & Harper, D.A.T. 2013. The oldest paterinid brachiopods from the lower Cambrian of South Australia and the tommotiid- brachiopod transition. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58: 93-109.
Topper, T.P., Harper, D.A.T. & Brock, G.A. 2013. Ancestral billingsellides and the evolution and phylogenetic relationships of early rhynchonelliform brachiopods. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11 (7), 821-833.
Topper, T.P., Skovsted, C.B., Harper, D.A.T. & Ahlberg, P. 2013. A Bradoriid and Brachiopod Dominated Shelly Fauna from the Furongian (Cambrian) of Västergötland, Sweden. Journal of Paleontology 87 (1): 69-83.
Topper, T.P. Skovsted, C.B., Peel, J.S. & Harper, D.A.T. 2013. Moulting in the lobopodian Onychodictyon from the lower Cambrian of Greenland. Lethaia 46(4), 490-495.
Topper, T. P., Harper, D.A.T. & Ahlberg, P. 2013. Reappraisal of the brachiopod, Acrotreta socialis von Seebach, 1865: Clarifying 150 years of confusion. GFF 135, 191-203.
Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A. & Topper, T.P. 2011. Sclerite fusion in the problematic early Cambrian spine-like fossil Stoibostrombus from South Australia. Bulletin of Geosciences86 (3), 651-658.
Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A. & Topper, T.P. 2012. First occurrence of a new Ocruranus-like helcionelloid mollusc from the lower Cambrian of East Gondwana. Gondwana Research 22, 256-261.
Topper, T.P., Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A. & Paterson, J.R 2011. The oldest bivalved arthropods from the early Cambrian of East Gondwana: systematics, biostratigraphy and biogeography. Gondwana Research19 (1), 310-326.
Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A., Topper, T.P., Paterson, J.R. & Holmer, L.E. 2011. Scleritome construction, biofacies, biostratigraphy and systematics of the tommotiid Eccentrotheca helenia sp. nov. from the early Cambrian of South Australia. Palaeontology 54 (2), 253-286.
Topper, T.P., Brock, G.A., Skovsted, C.B. & Paterson, J.R. 2011. Microdictyon plates from the lower Cambrian Ajax Limestone of South Australia: Implications for species taxonomy and diversity. Alcheringa35, 427-443.
Topper, T.P., Brock, G.A., Skovsted, C.B. & Paterson, J.R. 2010. Palaeoscolecid scleritome fragments with Hadimopanella plates from the early Cambrian of South Australia. Geological Magazine147 (1), 86-97.
Strotz, L., Mamo, B., Topper, TP & Bagnato, C.2010. The highest southern latitude record of a living Tridacna gigas. Malacologia 53 (1), 155-160.
Skovsted, C.B., Holmer, L.E., Larsson, C.M., Högström, A.E.S., Brock, G.A., Topper, T.P., Balthasar, U, Petterson Stolk, S. & Paterson, J.P. 2009. The scleritome of Paterimitra: an Early Cambrian stem group brachiopod from South Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 276 (1662), 1651-1656.
Topper, T.P., Brock, G.A., Skovsted, C.B., & Paterson, J.P. 2009. Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian Pararaia bunyerooensis Zone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 37, 199-246.
Topper, T.P., Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A. & Paterson, J.R. 2007. New bradoriids from the lower Cambrian Mernmerna Formation, South Australia: systematics, biostratigraphy and biogeography. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 33, 67-100.