Jean-Bernard Caron

Jean-Bernard Caron, Canadian paleontologist.

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Palaeobiology division, Department of Natural History, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Caron, J.-B. 2006. Banffia constricta, a putative vetulicolid from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 96 (for 2005): 95–111. DOI: 10.1017/S0263593300001255 . Reference page.

Caron, J., Conway Morris, S. & Shu, D. 2010. Tentaculate fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) interpreted as primitive deuterostomes. PLOS ONE 5(3): e9586. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009586 . Reference page.

O'Brien, L.J. & Caron, J.-B. 2012. A New Stalked Filter-Feeder from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, British Columbia, Canada. PLoS ONE 7(1): e29233. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029233 . Reference page.

Aria, C., Caron, J.-B. & Gaines, R. 2015. A large new leanchoiliid from the Burgess Shale and the influence of inapplicable states on stem arthropod phylogeny. Palaeontology 58(4): 629–660. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12161 . Reference page.

Aria, C. & Caron, J.-B. 2017. Burgess Shale fossils illustrate the origin of the mandibulate body plan. Nature 545(7652): 89–92. DOI: 10.1038/nature22080 . Reference page.
Aria, C. & Caron, J.-B. 2017. Mandibulate convergence in an armoured Cambrian stem chelicerate. BMC Evolutionary Biology 17: 261. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-017-1088-7 . [Correction: 18: 78. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-018-1189-y .] Reference page.

Vannier, J., Aria, C., Taylor, R.S. & Caron, J.-B. 2018. Waptia fieldensis Walcott, a mandibulate arthropod from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Royal Society Open Science 5(6): 172206. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.172206 . Reference page.

Aria, C. & Caron, J.-B. 2019. A middle Cambrian arthropod with chelicerae and proto-book gills. Nature 573(7775): 586–589. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1525-4 . Reference page.

Caron, J.-B. & Aria, C. 2020. The Collins’ monster, a spinous suspension-feeding lobopodian from the Cambrian Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Palaeontology 63(6): 979–994. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12499 . [Corrigendum: 63(6): 995–996. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12509 .] Reference page.

Izquierdo-López, A. & Caron, J.-C. 2022. Extreme multisegmentation in a giant bivalved arthropod from the Cambrian Burgess Shale. iScience 25(7): 104675. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104675 . Reference page.
Moysiuk, J., Izquierdo-López, A., Kampouris, G.E. & Caron, J.-B. 2022. A new marrellomorph arthropod from southern Ontario: a rare case of soft-tissue preservation on a Late Ordovician open marine shelf. Journal of Paleontology 96(4): 859–874. DOI: 10.1017/jpa.2022.11 . Reference page.

Moon, J., Caron, J.-B. & Moysiuk, J. 2023. A macroscopic free-swimming medusa from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290(2004): 20222490. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.2490 . Reference page.

Aria, C. & Caron, J.-B. 2024. Deep origin of articulation strategies in panarthropods: evidence from a new luolishaniid lobopodian (Panarthropoda) from the Tulip Beds, Burgess Shale. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(1): 2356090. DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2024.2356090 . Reference page.