Publications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

ScholarBuatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G. and Maples, C.G., 2025. Exploring the significance of true substrates in a Pennsylvanian fluvio-estuarine tidal flat. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 556(1), pp.SP556-2024.

ScholarBuatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Paz, M., Minter, N.J. and Zhou, K., 2025. Early colonization of the deep-sea bottom—The protracted build-up of an ecosystem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(8), p.e2414752122.

ScholarWenger, F.D., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Muñoz, D.F. and Rustán, J.J., 2025. An anomalous shallow-marine ichnofacies gradient from the Lower Devonian Talacasto Formation of the Argentine Precordillera. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, p.112747.

ScholarMilligan, J.R., Bamforth, E.L., Mángano, M.G. and Buatois, L.A., 2025. Taphonomic history of a dinosaur skeleton from the upper Cretaceous Frenchman Formation, Canada: insights from ancient rhizoetchings and invertebrate bioerosion trace fossils. Ichnos, pp.1-20.

ScholarCraig, J.A., Battle, R.J., Veenma, Y.P., McMahon, W.J., Slater, B.J., Shillito, A.P. and Davies, N.S., 2025. Thickness of the stratigraphic record of Britain: How the fidelity of geological and fossil data is unrelated to rock quantity. Earth-Science Reviews, p.105045.

ScholarArnol, J., Rolan, J., Borya, A., Do Campo, Margarita, Rustán, J., Wenger, F., Uriz, N. and Cingolani, C., 2024. Unravelling “The Keidel Horizon”: A Multi-Proxy Analysis of a Siliciclastic Marker Bed and its Implications in the Devonian Peripheral Foreland Basin Evolution of the Argentine Precordillera. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, p.105335.

ScholarMéndez, C.R., Montalvo, C.I., Luna, C.A. and Zurita, A.E., 2024. Well‐drained floodplain taphonomic mode of Late Pleistocene vertebrates from Northeast Argentina. Journal of Quaternary Science.

ScholarJuan, M., Vera, R.B., Farina, M.E. and Krapovickas, V., 2025. Small mammal trackways from the Neogene Vinchina Basin, Argentina: Insights into Xenarthra (Dasypodidae), Notoungulata (Typotheria), and Rodentia (Caviomorpha). Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 152, p.105297.

ScholarGougeon, R., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Narbonne, G.M., Laing, B.A., Paz, M. and Minter, N.J., 2024. Environmental and evolutionary controls in animal-sediment interactions at the onset of the Cambrian explosion. Current Biology.

ScholarGougeon, R., Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., Narbonne, G.M., Laing, B.A. and Paz, M., 2024. Ichnologic and sedimentologic datasets from the Ediacaran–Cambrian Chapel Island Formation, Newfoundland, Canada. Data in Brief, p.111258.

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Mángano, G., Buatois, L., Minter, N. and Gougeon, R., 2024. Bioturbators as ecosystem engineers in space and time. Palaeontology.

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Thue, K., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G. and Ornia, M., 2024. Benthic response to event deposition and environmental disturbance in a shoreface to subaqueous delta system: Ichnology of the Silurian-Devonian Furada Formation of Asturias, Spain. Sedimentary Geology, p.106767.

ScholarValencia, G.L., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Farina, M.E. and Krapovickas, V., 2024. evaluating trace fossils, fluvial architecture, and colonization patterns in channel and overbank deposits from the Miocene Vinchina Formation, western Argentina. Palaios, 39(10), pp.363-383.

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Zhang, L.J., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Fan, R., Yang, Q., Fan, W., Wang, Z. and Ma, X., 2024. Evolution and palaeoenvironmental migration of a Cambrian undermat miner. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, p.112559.

ScholarOrnia, M., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Thue, K., Fernández-Martínez, J. and Marcos, A., 2024. Trazas fósiles marinas someras de la Formación Furada, Silúrico-Devónico de Asturias, España. Spanish Journal of Palaeontology.

ScholarValencia, F.L., de Araújo, O.M.O., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Valencia, G.L., Lopes, R. and Laya, J.C., 2024. Bioturbation changing porosity, permeability, and fracturability in chalk? Insights from an Upper Cretaceous chalk reservoir (Buda Formation, Texas, USA). Ichnos, 31(2-3), pp.176-198.

ScholarZheng, C.Y., Kerans, C., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G. and Ko, L.T., 2024. Sedimentary environment and benthic oxygenation history of the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk Group, south Texas: An integrated ichnological, sedimentological and geochemical approach. Sedimentology, 71(4), pp.1149-1192.

ScholarMurray, J., MacGabhann, B.A., Doyle, E., Mángano, M.G., Tyrrell, S. and Harper, D.A., 2024. An enigmatic large discoidal fossil from the Pennsylvanian of County Clare, Ireland. Palaeoworld, 33(1), pp.105-118.

ScholarMángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., Piñuela, L., Volkenborn, N., Rodríguez-Tovar, F.J. and García-Ramos, J.C., 2024. Jurassic paleosurfaces with fecal mounds reveal the last supper of arenicolid worms. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.709.

ScholarCaron, J.B., Webster, M., Briggs, D.E., Pari, G., Santucci, G., Mángano, M.G., Izquierdo-López, A., Streng, M. and Gaines, R.R., 2024. The lower Cambrian Cranbrook Lagerstätte of British Columbia. Journal of the Geological Society, 181(1), pp.jgs2023-106.

ScholarShillito, A.P. and Gougeon, R., 2023. Identifying and accounting for outcrop constraints on observations in field-based ichnological studies. Ichnos, 30(4), pp.269-282.

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Díez-Canseco, D., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Cuevas-González, J. & Benito, M.I. 2023. Unlocking the architecture of the colonization window: ichnofabrics from Upper Cretaceous tide-influenced meander-loop deposits. Palaios 38:173-187.

ScholarLópez-Cabrera, M.I., Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., Olivero, E.B. & Maples, C.G. 2023. Bromleyia magnifica n. igen., n. isp.: a feeding trace of a protobranch bivalve. Ichnos 30:11-18.

ScholarMángano, M.G., Waisfeld, B., Buatois, L.A., Vaccari, E. & Muñoz, D. 2023. Evolutionary and ecologic controls on benthos distribution from an upper Cambrian incised estuarine valley: Implications for the early colonization of marginal-marine settings. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeocology.

ScholarPaz, M., Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., Desjardins, P.R., Minisini, D., González Tomassini, F., Rodríguez, M.N., Pereira, E., Fantín, M., Parada, M.N. & Carmona, N.B. 2023. Environmental controls on trace-fossil distribution in the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Vaca Muerta Formation (Argentina): Implications for the analysis of fine-grained depositional systems. Sedimentary Geology.

ScholarMurray, J., MacGabhann, B.A., Doyle, E., Mángano, M.G., Tyrrell, S. and Harper, D.A., 2023. An enigmatic large discoidal fossil from the Pennsylvanian of County Clare, Ireland. Palaeoworld.

ScholarValencia, F.L., Oliveira de Araújo, O.M., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Lopes, R., Valencia, G.L. & Laya, J.C. 2023. Bioturbation changing porosity, permeability, and fracturability in chalk? Insights from an Upper Cretaceous chalk reservoir (Buda Formation, Texas, U.S.A.). Ichnos.

ScholarHandkamer, N.M., Ichaso, A., Pratt, B.R., Mángano, M.G. and Buatois, L.A. 2023. Systematics and biostratigraphy of a new trilobite fauna collected from the subsurface Earlie Formation (Wuliuan Stage, Miaolingian Series, Cambrian) in southwestern Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.

ScholarGougeon, R.C., Mángano, M.G., Buatois, L.A., Narbonne, G.M., Laing, B.A. & Paz, M. 2023. The Ediacaran-Cambrian Chapel Island Formation of Newfoundland, Canada: evaluating the impact of outcrop quality on trace-fossil datasets at the Cambrian GSSP and less-explored sections. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.

ScholarWarren, L.V., Inglez, L., Xiao, S., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Okubo, J., Alessandretti, L., Simões, M.G., Riccomni, C., Antunes, G.C., Cerri, R.I., Bahniuk, A.R. & Cáceres, A.A. 2023. Evolutionary, paleoecological and biostratigraphic implications of the Ediacaran-Cambrian interval in West Gondwana. Geological Society of America Bulletin.

ScholarPaz, M., Buatois, L.A., Mángano, M.G., Desjardins, P.R., Rodríguez, M.N., Ponce, J.J., Minisini, D., Tomassini, F.G., Pereira, E., Carmona, N.B. and Fantín, M., 2023. Basin circulation affecting sediment partitioning in a fine-grained carbonate–siliciclastic, subaqueous clinoform: the Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous Vaca Muerta Formation, Neuquén Basin, Argentina. Journal of the Geological Society, 180(2).

RECENT BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES

ScholarIchaso, A., Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2021. Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Basal Sandstone Unit and the Earlie Formation in Alberta and Saskatchewan Subsurface: Integration of Sedimentological and Ichnological Datasets; in Summary of Investigations 2021, Volume 1, Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Sask. Ministry of Energy and Resources, Misc. Rep. 2021-4.1.

ScholarCarmona, N.B., Ponce, J.J., Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2021. Icnología de ambientes marinos del Mesozoico y Cenozoico. Relatorio XXI Congreso Geológico Argentino, Puerto Madryn, Geología y Recursos Naturales de la Provincia del Chubut.

ScholarScott, J.J., Renaut, R.W., Buatois, L.A., Owen, R.B., McNulty, E.P., Stockhecke, M., Leet, K., Lowenstein, T. & Mángano, M.G. 2021. Modern and ancient animal traces in the extreme environments of Lake Magadi and Nasikie Engida, Kenya Rift Valley. In: Rosen, M.R., Park-Boush, L., Finkelstein, D.B., Pla Pueyo, S. (Eds.). Limnogeology: Progress, challenges, and opportunities: A tribute to Beth Gierlowski-Kordesch. Springer.

Buatois, L.A. & Mángano, M.G. 2020. Ichnofacies. In: Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd edition, Elsevier.

Mángano, M.G. & Buatois, L.A. 2020. Cambrian Explosion. In: Encyclopedia of Geology, 2nd edition, Elsevier.