Sebastian Willman
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in Proterozoic micropaleobiology at Department of Earth Sciences; Palaeobiology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 27 42
- Mobile phone:
- +46 70 424 13 53
- E-mail:
- Sebastian.Willman@geo.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Geocentrum, Villavägen 16
752 36 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Villavägen 16
752 36 UPPSALA
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- Academic merits:
- Docent, Distinguished University Teacher
Short presentation
Deputy head of department.
Assistant head of department, responsible for education.
Docent in Historical geology and palaeobiology
Interested in, and working with, organic-walled microfossils and small carbonaceous fossils from different parts of the world (Greenland, Baltica, Australia etc.).
Keywords
- palaeobiology
- earth science
- precambrian

Publications
Recent publications
Part of Geobiology, 2025
- DOI for Experimental Mineralisation of a Filamentous Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen in Carbonate, Phosphate, and Silicate
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Part of Palaeontology, 2024
- DOI for The palaeobiological significance of clustering in acritarchs: a case study from the early Cambrian of North Greenland
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Problematic tubular fossils from the Portfjeld Formation (Ediacaran) of North Greenland
Part of Journal of Paleontology, p. 221-231, 2024
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Lithostratigraphy of the Portfjeld Group (Ediacaran - lowermost Cambrian) of North Greenland
Part of GEUS Bulletin, 2024
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A Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Castle Bank, Wales (UK)
Part of Nature Ecology & Evolution, p. 666-674, 2023
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Articles in journal
Part of Geobiology, 2025
- DOI for Experimental Mineralisation of a Filamentous Hydrogenotrophic Methanogen in Carbonate, Phosphate, and Silicate
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Part of Palaeontology, 2024
- DOI for The palaeobiological significance of clustering in acritarchs: a case study from the early Cambrian of North Greenland
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Problematic tubular fossils from the Portfjeld Formation (Ediacaran) of North Greenland
Part of Journal of Paleontology, p. 221-231, 2024
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Lithostratigraphy of the Portfjeld Group (Ediacaran - lowermost Cambrian) of North Greenland
Part of GEUS Bulletin, 2024
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A Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Castle Bank, Wales (UK)
Part of Nature Ecology & Evolution, p. 666-674, 2023
Organic-walled microfossils from the lower Cambrian of North Greenland: a reappraisal of diversity
Part of Palynology, 2023
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Part of Paleobiology, p. 576-600, 2022
- DOI for Morphometric analysis of Skiagia-plexus acritarchs from the early Cambrian of North Greenland: toward a meaningful evaluation of phenotypic plasticity.
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Cavity-dwelling microorganisms from the Ediacaran and Cambrian of North Greenland (Laurentia)
Part of Journal of Paleontology, p. 243-255, 2022
Part of Papers in Palaeontology, p. 1403-1433, 2021
- DOI for Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) from North Greenland: new light on metazoan diversity in early Cambrian shelf environments
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Late Ediacaran Microfossils from Finland
Part of Geological Magazine, p. 2231-2244, 2021
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Part of Palaeontologische Zeitschrift, p. 41-51, 2020
- DOI for Unusual preservation of an Ordovician (Floian) arthropod from Peary Land, North Greenland (Laurentia)
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Organic-walled microfossils in the Ediacaran of Estonia: Biodiversity on the East European Platform
Part of Precambrian Research, 2020
Ediacaran Doushantuo-type biota discovered in Laurentia
Part of Communications Biology, 2020
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The oldest hyolithids (Cambrian Series 2, Montezuman Stage) from the Iapetan margin of Laurentia
Part of Journal of Paleontology, p. 616-623, 2020
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Early Cambrian small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs) from an impact crater in western Finland
Part of Lethaia, p. 570-582, 2019
The Ediacaran–Cambrian transition: the emerging record from Small Carbonaceous Fossils (SCFs)
Part of Estudios Geologicos, p. 38-40, 2019
Part of Geological Magazine, p. 1175-1189, 2018
Part of Geology, p. 107-110, 2018
THE BUEN FORMATION (CAMBRIAN SERIES 2) BIOTA OF NORTH GREENLAND
Part of Papers in Palaeontology, p. 381-432, 2018
Part of Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, p. 12-28, 2011
Part of Lethaia, p. 129-136, 2010
Taphonomy of Ediacaran acritarchs from Australia: significance for taxonomy and biostratigraphy
Part of Palaios, p. 239-256, 2009
Part of Geobiology, p. 8-20, 2009
- DOI for Morphology and wall ultrastructure of leiosphaeric and acanthomorphic acritarchs from the Ediacaran of Australia
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Part of Comunicações Geológicas, p. 81-92, 2007
Wall ultrastructure of an Ediacaran acritarch from the Officer Basin, Australia
Part of Lethaia, p. 111-123, 2007
Part of Meteoritics and Planetary Science, p. 1883-1891, 2007
Testing the role of spines as predatory defense
Part of Journal of Shellfish Research, p. 261-266, 2007
Part of Review of Paleobotany and Palynology, p. 17-39, 2006
Articles, review/survey
Ultrastructure of cell walls in ancient microfossils as a proxy to their biological affinities
Part of Precambrian Research, p. 27-38, 2009
Part of Precambrian Research, p. 498-530, 2008
Books
Fossils & rocks: geotourism in the central Baltic
NGO Geoguide Baltoscandia, 2011
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The Baltic Sea: Geology and geotourism highlights
NGO Geoguide Baltoscandia, 2011
Geotourism highlights of Gotland
NGO GEOGuide Baltoscandia, 2010
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Meteorite impact structures – geotourism in the central Baltic
NGO Geoguide Baltoscandia, 2010
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Geotourism highlights of the Estonian small islands
NGO Geoguide Baltoscandia, 2010
Geotourism highlights of the Saaremaa and Hiiumaa islands
NGO Geoguide Baltoscandia, 2009
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Chapters in book
Part of Quantifying the Evolution of Early Life, p. 301-320, Springer, 2011
Comprehensive doctoral thesis
Conference papers
Generating Geoparks - a Central Baltic initiative
Part of GEOPARKS: Learning from the Past – Building a Sustainable Future, 2010
Acritarch data from Australian Neoproterozoic successions
p. 47-48, 2010
Fostering geotourism on Central Baltic islands
2009
Multiple lines of chemical evidence for pelagic Neoproterozoic acritarchs
Part of Abstract Volume international conference on the Cambrian explosion Walcott 2009, p. 47, 2009
Acritarchs and late Neoproterozoic correlations
Part of 33rd International Geological Congress, Oslo, Norway, 2008
Can acritarchs be used for Ediacaran suddivision?
Part of Geology and hydrocarbon potential of the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Basins in India, Pakistan and the Middle East, p. 19-21, 2008
p. 87, 2008
Revealing acritarch affinities by use of transmission electron micrsoscopy
Part of 51st Palaeontological Association Annual Meeting, Programme with abstracts, 2007
Acritarchs - the solution for Ediacaran biostratigraphy?
Part of Cimp Lisbon ´07, 2007
Using TEM to assess the biological affinities of Ediacaran organic-walled microfossils
Part of Ancient life and modern approaches, p. 553, 2006
SUBDIVIDING THE EDIACARAN SYSTEM IN AUSTRALIA USING ACRITARCHS
2005
Neoproterozoic subdivision in Australia
Part of Central Australian Basins Symposium, 2005
Subdividing the Ediacaran of Australia using biostratigraphy
Part of Central Australian Basins Symposium, 2005
Acritarchs in the Ediacaran seas
Part of The Palaeontological Association, p. 64, 2005
Neoproterozoic (Ediacaran) radiation of acritarchs – a new record
Part of Polen, p. 601, 2004
Life cycle of Early Ordovician acritarch species
2003