Publications
Protecting Newfoundland’s Palaeontological Geoheritage: Mitigating Anthropic and Environmental Damage to the Ediacaran Fossils of Upper Island Cove
Christopher McKean, Jack J. Matthews, Benjamin W. T. Rideout, Rod S. Taylor & Duncan McIlroy . 2024
Geoheritage 16, 45
International Geodiversity Day: from grassroots geoscience campaign to UNESCO recognition
Zbigniew Zwoliński, José Brilha, Murray Gray, Jack Matthews. 2023
Visages of Geodiversity and Geoheritage
Late Ediacaran occurrences of the organic-walled microfossils Granomarginata and flask-shaped Lagoenaforma collaris gen. et sp. nov.
Heda Agić, Anette ES Högström, Sören Jensen, Jan Ove R Ebbestad, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Michael Hall, Jack J Matthews, Guido Meinhold, Magne Høyberget, Wendy L Taylor. 2022
Geological Magazine 159 (7), 1071-1092
Late Ediacaran life on land: desiccated microbial mats and large biofilm streamers
S McMahon, JJ Matthews, A Brasier, J Still. 2021
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1962)
A re-assessment of the taxonomy, palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph organism Hapsidophyllas flexibilis from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada
Rod S Taylor, Jack J Matthews, Robert Nicholls, Duncan McIlroy. 2021
PalZ
Our Ethical Obligation to Planetary Science in the Age of Competitive Space Exploration
James SJ Schwartz, Casey Dreier, Mark Schneegurt, Paul Byrne, Richard Cartwright, SETI Charles Cockell, G Ryan Faith, Sanjeev Gupta, Dylan Hickson, Jeffrey Johnson, JHU APL, Mark Lupisella, Simon Malpas, Jack Matthews, Sean McMahon, Tony Milligan, Jani Radebaugh, Melissa Rice, Carl Schmidt, Wesley Watters, Matjaz Vidmar. 2021
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 53 (4), 217
A Chronostratigraphic Framework for the Rise of the Ediacaran Macrobiota: New Constraints from Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland
Jack J. Matthews; Alexander G. Liu; Chuan Yang; Duncan McIlroy; Bruce Levell; Daniel J. Condon. 2021
GSA Bulletin
Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia: REPLY
Alexander G. Liu; Sean McMahon; Jack J. Matthews; John W. Still; Alexander T. Brasier, Diana Marosi. 2019
Geology
On The Adhesion of Sediment to Footwear and the Implications for Geoconservation
Jack J, Matthews, Duncan McIlroy. 2019
Geoheritage
Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia
Alexander G. Liu; Sean McMahon; Jack J. Matthews; John W. Still; Alexander T. Brasier. 2019
Geology
Exogeoconservation: Protecting geological heritage on celestial bodies
J J Matthews, S McMahon. 2018
Acta Astronautica
Press: CBC, National Post, Global News, New York Post
International Symposium on the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition (ISECT) 2017
Alex G. Liu1, Jack J. Matthews, Duncan McIlroy , Guy M. Narbonne , Ed Landing , Latha R. Menon, and Marc Laflamme (2018)
EPISODES 41 (2), 128-132
Great Canadian Lagerstatten 6. Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Southeast Newfoundland
A G Liu, J J Matthews. 2017
Geoscience Canada 44 (2), 63-76
Post-Fossilisation Processes and their implications for understanding Ediacaran macrofossil assemblages
Jack J Matthews, Alexander G Liu, Duncan McIlroy. 2017
Special Publication of the Geological Society of London Volume 448.
Perspectives: Fossils and the Law — A Summary.
Matthews, J.J. 2017.
Palaeontology Online, Volume 7, Article 2. 1-9.
The Beothukis/Culmofrons problem and its bearing on Ediacaran macrofossil taxonomy: evidence from an exceptional new fossil locality
Alexander G Liu, Jack J Matthews, Duncan McIlroy. 2016
Palaeontology
Reconstructing the reproductive mode of an Ediacaran macro-organism
Emily G. Mitchell, Charlotte G. Kenchington, Alexander G. Liu, Jack J. Matthews, & Nicholas J. Butterfield. 2015
Nature
Press: BBC, Guardian, The Economist, Daily Mail, CBC, Washington Post, The Packet
The arrangement of possible muscle fibres in the Ediacaran taxon Haootia quadriformis
AG Liu, JJ Matthews, LR Menon, D McIlroy, MD Brasier. 2015
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 282 (1803)
Uncovering framboidal pyrite biogenicity using nano-scale CNorg mapping
David Wacey, Matt R. Kilburn, Martin Saunders, John B. Cliff, Charlie Kong, Alexander G. Liu, Jack J. Matthews and Martin D. Brasier. 2014
Geology, 41 (1), 27-30
Haootia quadriformis n. gen., n. sp., interpreted as a muscular cnidarian impression from the late Ediacaran Period (~560 Ma).
Liu, A.G., Matthews, J.J., Menon, L.R., McIlroy, D. & Brasier, M.D. (2014)
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 281(1793)
Press: CBC, CBC (again!), Daily Mail, New York Times, The Economist, The Ottawa Citizen
Confirming the metazoan character of a 565 Ma trace fossil assemblage from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.
Liu, A.G., McIlroy, D. Brasier, M.D. & Matthews, J.J. (2014)
Palaios, v. 29. no. 8, p. 420-430
Explaining the exceptional preservation of Ediacaran rangeomorphs from Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland: A hydraulic model.
Martin D. Brasier, Alexander G. Liu, Latha Menon, Jack J. Matthews, Duncan McIlroy, David Wacey. 2013.
Precambrian Research, 231, 122-135
Exploring an Ediacaran ‘nursery’: growth, ecology and evolution in a rangeomorph palaeocommunity.
Liu, A. G., McIlroy, D., Matthews, J. J. and Brasier, M. D. 2013.
Geology Today, 29, 23-26.
A new assemblage of juvenile Ediacaran fronds from the Drook Formation, Newfoundland.
Alexander G. Liu, Duncan McIlroy, Jack J. Matthews, and Martin D. Brasier, 2012.
Journal of the Geological Society, v. 169, no. 4, p. 395-403.
Press: Daily Mail, CBS, CBC
Field Guides
Late Ediacaran geology and palaeobiology of the Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland
Liu, A.G., Matthews, J.J. and McIlroy, D. (2017)
ISECT Field Trip 3 Field Guide, Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador, 60 p.
Ediacaran geology and paleobiology of the Avalon Peninsula
Liu, A.G., Matthews, J.J. and Narbonne, G.M. (2017)
ISECT Field Trip 1 Field Guide, Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador, 61 p.
Ediacaran Geology and Palaeobiology in England: Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, and Long Mynd, Shropshire.
Brasier, M.D., Liu, A.G., Kenchington, C.G., Matthews, J.J., Wilby, P. and Antcliffe, J.B. (2012)
Fermor Conference Field Guide, Geological Society of London, London, 46 pp.
Ediacaran-Cambrian ichnology, palaeobiology and geology of the Avalon and Burin Peninsulas, Newfoundland, Canada.
Liu, A.G., Herringshaw, L., Matthews, J.J., and McIlroy, D. (2012)
Field Guide for Ichnia 2012, St John’s, Newfoundland. 88 pp.
Christopher McKean, Jack J. Matthews, Benjamin W. T. Rideout, Rod S. Taylor & Duncan McIlroy . 2024
Geoheritage 16, 45
International Geodiversity Day: from grassroots geoscience campaign to UNESCO recognition
Zbigniew Zwoliński, José Brilha, Murray Gray, Jack Matthews. 2023
Visages of Geodiversity and Geoheritage
Late Ediacaran occurrences of the organic-walled microfossils Granomarginata and flask-shaped Lagoenaforma collaris gen. et sp. nov.
Heda Agić, Anette ES Högström, Sören Jensen, Jan Ove R Ebbestad, Patricia Vickers-Rich, Michael Hall, Jack J Matthews, Guido Meinhold, Magne Høyberget, Wendy L Taylor. 2022
Geological Magazine 159 (7), 1071-1092
Late Ediacaran life on land: desiccated microbial mats and large biofilm streamers
S McMahon, JJ Matthews, A Brasier, J Still. 2021
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1962)
A re-assessment of the taxonomy, palaeobiology and taphonomy of the rangeomorph organism Hapsidophyllas flexibilis from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada
Rod S Taylor, Jack J Matthews, Robert Nicholls, Duncan McIlroy. 2021
PalZ
Our Ethical Obligation to Planetary Science in the Age of Competitive Space Exploration
James SJ Schwartz, Casey Dreier, Mark Schneegurt, Paul Byrne, Richard Cartwright, SETI Charles Cockell, G Ryan Faith, Sanjeev Gupta, Dylan Hickson, Jeffrey Johnson, JHU APL, Mark Lupisella, Simon Malpas, Jack Matthews, Sean McMahon, Tony Milligan, Jani Radebaugh, Melissa Rice, Carl Schmidt, Wesley Watters, Matjaz Vidmar. 2021
Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 53 (4), 217
A Chronostratigraphic Framework for the Rise of the Ediacaran Macrobiota: New Constraints from Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland
Jack J. Matthews; Alexander G. Liu; Chuan Yang; Duncan McIlroy; Bruce Levell; Daniel J. Condon. 2021
GSA Bulletin
Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia: REPLY
Alexander G. Liu; Sean McMahon; Jack J. Matthews; John W. Still; Alexander T. Brasier, Diana Marosi. 2019
Geology
On The Adhesion of Sediment to Footwear and the Implications for Geoconservation
Jack J, Matthews, Duncan McIlroy. 2019
Geoheritage
Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia
Alexander G. Liu; Sean McMahon; Jack J. Matthews; John W. Still; Alexander T. Brasier. 2019
Geology
Exogeoconservation: Protecting geological heritage on celestial bodies
J J Matthews, S McMahon. 2018
Acta Astronautica
Press: CBC, National Post, Global News, New York Post
International Symposium on the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition (ISECT) 2017
Alex G. Liu1, Jack J. Matthews, Duncan McIlroy , Guy M. Narbonne , Ed Landing , Latha R. Menon, and Marc Laflamme (2018)
EPISODES 41 (2), 128-132
Great Canadian Lagerstatten 6. Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Southeast Newfoundland
A G Liu, J J Matthews. 2017
Geoscience Canada 44 (2), 63-76
Post-Fossilisation Processes and their implications for understanding Ediacaran macrofossil assemblages
Jack J Matthews, Alexander G Liu, Duncan McIlroy. 2017
Special Publication of the Geological Society of London Volume 448.
Perspectives: Fossils and the Law — A Summary.
Matthews, J.J. 2017.
Palaeontology Online, Volume 7, Article 2. 1-9.
The Beothukis/Culmofrons problem and its bearing on Ediacaran macrofossil taxonomy: evidence from an exceptional new fossil locality
Alexander G Liu, Jack J Matthews, Duncan McIlroy. 2016
Palaeontology
Reconstructing the reproductive mode of an Ediacaran macro-organism
Emily G. Mitchell, Charlotte G. Kenchington, Alexander G. Liu, Jack J. Matthews, & Nicholas J. Butterfield. 2015
Nature
Press: BBC, Guardian, The Economist, Daily Mail, CBC, Washington Post, The Packet
The arrangement of possible muscle fibres in the Ediacaran taxon Haootia quadriformis
AG Liu, JJ Matthews, LR Menon, D McIlroy, MD Brasier. 2015
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 282 (1803)
Uncovering framboidal pyrite biogenicity using nano-scale CNorg mapping
David Wacey, Matt R. Kilburn, Martin Saunders, John B. Cliff, Charlie Kong, Alexander G. Liu, Jack J. Matthews and Martin D. Brasier. 2014
Geology, 41 (1), 27-30
Haootia quadriformis n. gen., n. sp., interpreted as a muscular cnidarian impression from the late Ediacaran Period (~560 Ma).
Liu, A.G., Matthews, J.J., Menon, L.R., McIlroy, D. & Brasier, M.D. (2014)
Proceedings of the Royal Society, B, 281(1793)
Press: CBC, CBC (again!), Daily Mail, New York Times, The Economist, The Ottawa Citizen
Confirming the metazoan character of a 565 Ma trace fossil assemblage from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.
Liu, A.G., McIlroy, D. Brasier, M.D. & Matthews, J.J. (2014)
Palaios, v. 29. no. 8, p. 420-430
Explaining the exceptional preservation of Ediacaran rangeomorphs from Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland: A hydraulic model.
Martin D. Brasier, Alexander G. Liu, Latha Menon, Jack J. Matthews, Duncan McIlroy, David Wacey. 2013.
Precambrian Research, 231, 122-135
Exploring an Ediacaran ‘nursery’: growth, ecology and evolution in a rangeomorph palaeocommunity.
Liu, A. G., McIlroy, D., Matthews, J. J. and Brasier, M. D. 2013.
Geology Today, 29, 23-26.
A new assemblage of juvenile Ediacaran fronds from the Drook Formation, Newfoundland.
Alexander G. Liu, Duncan McIlroy, Jack J. Matthews, and Martin D. Brasier, 2012.
Journal of the Geological Society, v. 169, no. 4, p. 395-403.
Press: Daily Mail, CBS, CBC
Field Guides
Late Ediacaran geology and palaeobiology of the Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland
Liu, A.G., Matthews, J.J. and McIlroy, D. (2017)
ISECT Field Trip 3 Field Guide, Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador, 60 p.
Ediacaran geology and paleobiology of the Avalon Peninsula
Liu, A.G., Matthews, J.J. and Narbonne, G.M. (2017)
ISECT Field Trip 1 Field Guide, Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador, 61 p.
Ediacaran Geology and Palaeobiology in England: Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, and Long Mynd, Shropshire.
Brasier, M.D., Liu, A.G., Kenchington, C.G., Matthews, J.J., Wilby, P. and Antcliffe, J.B. (2012)
Fermor Conference Field Guide, Geological Society of London, London, 46 pp.
Ediacaran-Cambrian ichnology, palaeobiology and geology of the Avalon and Burin Peninsulas, Newfoundland, Canada.
Liu, A.G., Herringshaw, L., Matthews, J.J., and McIlroy, D. (2012)
Field Guide for Ichnia 2012, St John’s, Newfoundland. 88 pp.
Image: Jack exploring the bedding planes at Mistaken Point
