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Dr. Duncan McIlroy - Publiciations

  • Callow, R. & McIlroy, D. Salter's Longmyndian fossils and the first recognition of the Ediacara fauna. Geological Magazine, (in review).
  • Liu, A., McIlroy, D. Antcliffe, J. & Brasier, M.D. Ediacaran soft bodied fossil preservation. Palaeontology (in review).
  • Macquaker, J.H.S., McIlroy, D., Davies, S. & Keller, M. Organism-sediment interactions and their impact on organic matter preservation. Journal of Sedimentary Research, (accepted pending corrections, Paper #2009-053).
  • McIlroy, D. Biogenic cross lamination produced by the pistol shrimp Alpheus bellulus in microcosm experiments. Journal of Sedimentary Research, (in press Paper #2009-49).
  • Phillips, C., McIlroy, D. & Elliott, T. Ichnological characterization of Eocene/Oligocene turbidites from the Grès d'Annot Basin, French Alps, SE France. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (accepted pending corrections PALAEO4761).
  • Tonkin, N., McIlroy, D. Meyer, R. & Moore, A. How does bioturbation affect reservoir quality? A case study from the Cretaceous Ben Nevis Formation, Jeanne d'Arc Basin, Offshore Newfoundland, Canada AAPG Bulletin (accepted pending corrections BLTN09-064).
    Herringshaw, L.G., Sherwood, O. & McIlroy, D. Ecosystem engineering by bioturbating polychaetes in event bed microcosms. Palaios (accepted pending corrections #P09-055).
  • McIlroy, D., Tonkin, N.S., Phillips, C. & Herringshaw, L.G. Recognizing Ophiomorpha irregulaire in outcrop and core. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (accepted pending corrections PALAEO4904).
  • Bednarz, M. & McIlroy, D. 3D reconstruction of "phycosiphoniform" burrows implications for identification of trace fossils in core Palaeontologica Electronica, (accepted pending corrections Paleo.Electo #195).
  • McIlroy, D. & Garton, M. Realistic interpretation of ichnofabrics and ichnodiversity in the pipe-rock biotope. Lethaia, (in press LET-DI-04-09-0002).
  • Liu, A. & McIlroy, D. Burrowing in the 565Ma Mistaken Point Formation Geology, (in press).
  • McIlroy, D., Brasier, M.D. & Lang, A.S. 2009. Smothering of microbial mats by macrobiota: implications for the Ediacara biota. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 166,
  • McIlroy, D. 2008. Ichnological analysis: the common ground between ichnofacies workers and ichnofabric analysts. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 270, 332-338.
  • McIlroy, D. 2007. Palaeoenvironmental controls on the ichnology of tide-influenced facies with an example from a macrotidal tide-dominated deltaic depositional system, Lajas Formation, Neuquén Province, Argentina. In: Bromley, R.G., Buatois L.A., Màngano, M.G., Genise, J. & Melchor, R. (eds) Sediment-Organism interactions: a multifaceted ichnology. SEPM Special Publication 87, 195-213.
  • McIlroy, D. 2007. Lateral variability in shallow marine ichnofabrics: implications for the ichnofabric analysis method. Journal of the Geological Society, London 164, 359-369.
  • MAPSTONE, N.B. & MCILROY, D. 2006. A discoid biota from the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition in the Amadeus Basin, central
    Australia: taphonomic and palaeobiological implications of diagenesis for Ediacaran fossil preservation. Precambrian Research, 149, 126-148.
  • GARTON, M. & MCILROY, D. 2006. A new method for the study of ichnofabric in cryptic highly lithified facies. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 76, 1-5.
  • MAPSTONE, N.B. & MCILROY, D. A discoid biota from the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition in the Amadeus Basin, central Australia: taphonomic and palaeobiological implications of diagenesis for Ediacaran fossil preservation. Precambrian Research (in press).
  • GARTON, M. & MCILROY, D. A new method for the study of ichnofabric in cryptic highly lithified facies. Journal of Sedimentary Research, (in press).
  • MCILROY, D. Palaeoenvironmental controls on the ichnology of tide-influenced facies with an example from a macrotidal tide-dominated deltaic depositional system, Lajas Formation, Neuquén Province, Argentina. In: BUATOIS L.A. & BROMLEY, R.G. (eds) Ichnology at the Crossroads. SEPM Special Publication (in press).
  • MCILROY, D. Lateral variability in shallow marine ichnofabrics: implications for the ichnofabric analysis method. Journal of the Geological Society, London (in press).
  • WINCHESTER SEETO, T. & MCILROY, D. 2006. The lower range of melanosclerites and foraminiferal linings extended to the Lower Cambrian. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 139, 71-79.
  • MCILROY, D. & FALCON-LANG, H.J. 2006. Discovery of a Zoophycos-group trace fossil (?Echinospira Girotti) in the Middle Pennsylvanian Sydney Mines Formation of Nova Scotia, and its palaeoenvironmental implications. Atlantic Geology 42, 31-35.
  • MCILROY, D. & HORÁK, J. 2006. The Neoproterozoic: the late Precambrian terranes that formed Eastern Avalonia. In: BRENCHLEY, P.R. & RAWSON, PF. (eds) The Geology of England and Wales. Geological Society Publishing House, Bath, UK, 9-25.
  • MCILROY, D., FLINT, S.S., HOWELL, J.A. & TIMMS, N.E. 2006. Sedimentology of the tide dominated Lajas Formation, Jurassic, Neuquén Basin, Argentina. In: VEIGA, G. D., SPALLETTI, L.A., HOWELL, J.A. & SCHWARZ, E. (eds) The Neuquén Basin: a Case Study in Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Dynamics. Special Publication of the Geological Society, London, 252, 83-107.
  • MORGANS BELL, H. & MCILROY, D. 2006. Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) conifer wood from the Neuquén Basin, west-central Argentina and its palaeoclimatic interpretation. In: VEIGA, G. D., SPALLETTI, L.A., HOWELL, J.A. & SCHWARZ, E. (eds) The Neuquén Basin: a Case Study in Sequence Stratigraphy and Basin Dynamics. Special Publication of the Geological Society, London, 252, 267-278.
  • NEEDHAM, S.J., WORDEN, R. & MCILROY, D. 2005. Experimental production of clay rims by macrobiotic sediment ingestion and excretion processes. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 75, 1028-1037.
  • MCILROY, D., CRIMES, T.P. & PAULEY, J.C. 2005. Fossils and matgrounds from the Neoproterozoic Longmyndian Supergroup, Shropshire, U.K. Geological Magazine, 142, 441-455.
  • BRANDSÆTER, I., MCILROY, D., LIA, O. & RINGROSE, P. 2005. Integrated modelling of Lajas Formation tide-dominated deltas Petroleum Geoscience, 11, 37-46.
  • NEEDHAM, S.J., WORDEN, R. & MCILROY, D. 2004. Animal-sediment interactions: the effect of ingestion and excretion by worms on mineralogy. Biogeosciences, 1, 113-121.
  • MCILROY, D. 2004c. Ichnofabrics and sedimentary facies of a tide-dominated delta: Jurassic Ile Formation of Kristin Field, Haltenbanken, Offshore Mid-Norway. In: MCILROY, D. (ed.) The Application of Ichnology to Stratigraphic and Palaeoenvironmental Analysis. Special Publication of the Geological Society, London, 228, 237-272.
  • MCILROY, D. 2004b. Some ichnological concepts, methodologies, applications and frontiers. In: MCILROY, D. (ed.) The Application of Ichnology to Stratigraphic and Palaeoenvironmental Analysis. Special Publication of the Geological Society, London, 228, 3-27.
  • MCILROY, D. 2004a. The application of ichnology to palaeoenvironmental and stratigraphic analysis: introduction. MCILROY, D. (ed.) The Application of Ichnology to Stratigraphic and Palaeoenvironmental Analysis. Special Publication of the Geological Society, London, 228, 1-2.
  • MCILROY, D., WORDEN, R. & NEEDHAM, S.J. 2003. Faeces, clay minerals and reservoir potential. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 160, 489-494.
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