Publications  (see also Google Scholar)

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2023 Riedman, L. A., Porter, S. M., Lechte, M. A, dos Santos, A., Halverson, G. P., Early eukaryotic microfossils of the late Palaeoproterozoic Limbunya Group, Birrindudu Basin, northern Australia. Papers in Palaeontology. 9(6): e1538.

2023 Porter, S. M. and Riedman, L. A., Frameworks for interpreting the early fossil record of eukaryotes. Annual Review of Microbiology. 77: 173–191.

2021 Riedman, L. A., Porter, S. M. and Czaja, A. D., Phosphatic scales in vase-shaped microfossil assemblages from Death Valley, Grand Canyon, Tasmania and Svalbard. Geobiology. 19(4): 364–375.

2021 Woltz, C. R., Porter, S. M., Agic, H., Dehler, C. M., Junium, C. K., Riedman, L. A. Hodgskiss, M. S. W., Worndle, S., Halverson, G. P. Total organic carbon and the preservation of organic-walled microfossils in Precambrian shale. Geology. 49(5): 556–560.

2020 Gomes, M. L., Riedman, L. A., O’Reilly, S. Lingappa, U., Metcalfe, K, Fike, D. A., Grotzinger, J. P., Fischer, W. W., Knoll, A. H., Taphonomy of biosignatures in microbial mats onn Little Ambergris Cay, Turks and Caicos Islands. Frontiers in Earth Science. 8: 576712.

2019 Porter, S. M. and Riedman, L. A., Evolution: Ancient fossilized amoebae find their home in the tree. Current Biology. 29: R212–R215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.003

2018 Riedman, L. A. and Sadler, P., Global species richness record and biostratigraphic potential of early to middle Neoproterozoic eukaryote fossils. Precambrian Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2017.10.008 . Open Access available to Accepted Manuscript

2018 Riedman, L. A., Porter, S. M. and Calver, C., Vase-shaped microfossil biostratigraphy with new data from Tasmania, Svalbard, Greenland, Sweden and the Yukon. Precambrian Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2017.09.019. Open Access available to Accepted Manuscript .

2018 Cohen, P. and Riedman, L. A. It’s a protist-eat-protist world: recalcitrance, predation and evolution in the Tonian-Cryogenian ocean. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences 2(2): 325–326.

2016   Riedman, L. A., Porter, S. M., Organic-walled microfossils of the mid-Neoproterozoic Alinya Formation, Officer Basin, Australia. Journal of Paleontology. 90: 854–887. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2016.49

2016   Porter, S. M., Riedman, L. A., Systematics of organic-walled microfossils from the ~780–740 Ma Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona. Journal of Paleontology. 90: 815–853. https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2016.57

2014   Riedman, L. A., Porter, S. M., Halverson, G. P., Hurtgen, M. T., Junium, C. K., Organic-walled microfossil assemblages from glacial and interglacial Neoproterozoic units of Australia and Svalbard. Geology. 42: 1011–1014.

2011   Yin, C., Liu, P., Awramik, S. M., Chen, S., Tang, F., Gao, L., Wang, Z., Riedman, L. A., 2011. Acanthomorphic Biostratigraphic Succession of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in the East Yangtze Gorges, South China. Acta Geologica Sinica. 85: 283-295.

Invited Essays

2017 Muscente, A. D., Czaja, A., Riedman, L. A., Colleary, C., Organic Matter in Fossils in Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series, Encyclopedia of Geochemistry, W. M. White (ed.). Springer.

2015   Riedman, L. A., Life during Snowball Earth. AccessScience, McGraw-Hill Education. doi: 10.1036/1097-8542.YB150676.

Curriculum Vita updated May 2024

I am a big fan of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It is an excellent resource for difficult-to-find literature.

They even did a little blog post on my research on Vase-shaped microfossils.