Professor Jim Jago

Adjunct Professor UniSA STEM

Mawson Lakes Campus (H2-14)
tel +61 8 830 23113

email Jim.Jago@unisa.edu.au

Available for media comment
Research Degree Supervisor

Research

Research focus

Geology
Earth Sciences
Evolutionary Biology
Ecology
Environmental Sciences

Highlights

Cambrian biostratigraphy and Palaeontology with particular reference to Cambrian trilobites from South Australia, Tasmania and Antarctica,Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Kanmantoo Group (Adelaide Hills, Kangaroo Island),Emu Bay Shale Lagerstatte, Kangaroo Island, South Australia,History of Geology

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Chapters

Year	Output
2009	Direen, N, Jago, JB & Meffre, S 2009, 'New perspectives on the tectonostratigraphic setting of the, Grassy Group, King Island, Australia: 'Snowball Earth' or rift-related deposit?', in NG Direen (ed.), Tungsten, fire and ice in the realm of the ancient king, Geological Society of Australia, Australia, pp. 29-34. Open access
2009	Jago, JB & Direen, N 2009, 'A comparison of the Cottons Breccia, King Island with the Elatina Formation, South Australia', in NG Direen (ed.), Tungsten, fire and ice in the realm of the ancient king, Geological Society of Australia, Tasmanian Division, Australia, pp. 19-26. Open access

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2025	Reid, L, Payne, J, Tucker, N & Jago, J 2025, 'Detrital zircon geochronology and sedimentary provenance of the fossiliferous Ediacara Member, South Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 72, no. 2, pp. 169-181. Open access
2024	Gaines, RR, García-Bellido, DC, Jago, JB, Myrow, PM & Paterson, JR 2024, 'The Emu Bay Shale: a unique early Cambrian Lagerstätte from a tectonically active basin', Science Advances, vol. 10, no. 30, pp. 1-9. Open access 4 4
2024	Laurie, JR, Kruse, PD, Brock, GA, Holmes, JD, Jago, JB, Betts, MJ, Paterson, JR & Smith, PM 2024, 'Quest for an Australian Cambrian stage scale', Alcheringa: An Australian Journal of Palaeontology, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 258-277. Open access 4 4
2023	Jago, JB, Gehling, JG, Lemon, NM, Jenkins, RJ & Garcia-Bellido, DC 2023, 'A large enigmatic fossil from the early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Heatherdale Shale of South Australia', New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 398–404. 1 1
2023	Langsford, N & Jago, J 2023, 'Lower Cambrian volcanism in the Hawker Group and the Billy Creek Formation, Arrowie Basin, Flinders Ranges, South Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 70, no. 4, pp. 476-493. Open access 3 2
2022	Jago, JB & Bentley, C j 2022, 'The stratigraphically lowest known Cambrian trilobites from the Dial Range Trough, northwest Tasmania and from western Tasmania', Alcheringa: An Australian Journal of Palaeontology, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 33 - 42.
2021	Holmes, JD, Paterson, JR, Jago, JB & Garcia-Bellido, DC 2021, 'Ontogeny of the trilobite Redlichia from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) Ramsay Limestone of South Australia', Geological Magazine, vol. 158, no. 7, pp. 1209-1223. 14 14
2021	Jago, J, Bentley, C, Paterson, J, Holmes, J, Lin, T & Sun, X 2021, 'The stratigraphic significance of early Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 4) trilobites from the Smith Bay Shale near Freestone Creek, Kangaroo Island', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 68, no. 2, pp. 204-212. 10 10
2021	Sun, X, Bentley, C & Jago, J 2021, 'A Guzhangian (late Middle Cambrian) fauna from the Gidgealpa 1 drillhole, Warburton Basin, South Australia', Alcheringa: An Australian Journal of Palaeontology, vol. 45, no. 3, pp. 289-298. 1 1
2020	Jago, J & Kruse, P 2020, 'Significance of the middle Cambrian (Wuliuan) trilobite Pagetia from Yorke Peninsula, South Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 1003-1008. Open access 9 9
2020	Jago, J, Gehling, J, Betts, M, Brock, G, Dalgarno, C, Garcia-Bellido, D, Haslett, P, Jacquet, S, Kruse, P, Langsford, N, Mount, T & Paterson, J 2020, 'The Cambrian System in the Arrowie Basin, Flinders Ranges, South Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 923-948. 23 23
2020	Langsford, N, Raimondo, T & Jago, J 2020, 'Red crust: evidence for an early Paleozoic oceanic anoxic event', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 995-1001. Open access 8 8 2
2020	Mount, T, Jago, J, Langsford, N & Dalgarno, C 2020, 'Geological setting of the Moorowie Formation, lower Cambrian Hawker Group, Mt Chambers Gorge, eastern Flinders Ranges, South Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 949-980. 5 5
2020	Reid, L, Holmes, J, Payne, J, Garcaa-Bellido, D & Jago, J 2020, 'Taxa, turnover and taphofacies: a preliminary analysis of facies-assemblage relationships in the Ediacara Member (Flinders Ranges, South Australia)', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 905-914. 18 18
2020	Reid, LM, Payne, JL, Garcia-Bellido, DC & Jago, JB 2020, 'The Ediacara Member, South Australia: lithofacies and palaeoenvironments of the Ediacara biota', Gondwana Research, vol. 80, pp. 321-334. 10 9
2019	Betts, MJ, Claybourn, TM, Brock, GA, Jago, JB, Skovsted, CB & Paterson, JR 2019, 'Shelly fossils from the lower Cambrian White Point Conglomerate, Kangaroo Island, South Australia', Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, vol. 64, no. 3, pp. 489-522. Open access 18 18
2019	Jago, JB, Bentley, CJ & Cooper, RA 2019, 'Cambrian biostratigraphy of the Bowers back-arc basin, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica - a review', Palaeoworld, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 276-288. 8 7
2018	Betts, MJ, Paterson, JR, Jacquet, SM, Andrew, AS, Hall, PA, Jago, JB, Jagodzinski, EA, Preiss, W V, Crowley, JL, Brougham, T, Mathewson, CP, García-Bellido, DC, Topper, TP, Skovsted, CB & Brock, GA 2018, 'Early Cambrian chronostratigraphy and geochronology of South Australia', Earth-Science Reviews, vol. 185, pp. 498-543. Open access 85 80
2018	Cann, J & Jago, J 2018, 'Rapidly spreading mangroves at Port Gawler, South Australia: an update', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 243-247. Open access 1 1
2018	Cooper, BJ & Jago, JB 2018, 'Robert Bedford (1874-1951), the Kyancutta Museum, and a unique contribution to international geology', Earth Sciences History, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 416-443. Open access 2 1
2017	Betts, MJ, Paterson, JR, Jago, JB, Jacquet, SM, Skovsted, CB, Topper, TP & Brock, GA 2017, 'Global correlation of the early Cambrian of South Australia: shelly fauna of the Dailyatia odyssei Zone', Gondwana Research, vol. 46, pp. 240-279. Open access 8 62
2017	Jacquet, SM, Brougham, T, Skovsted, CB, Jago, JB, Laurie, JR, Betts, MJ, Topper, TP & Brock, GA 2017, 'Watsonella crosbyi from the lower Cambrian (Terreneuvian, Stage 2) Normanville Group in South Australia', Geological Magazine, vol. 154, no. 5, pp. 1088-1104. Open access 31 26
2017	Sun, X, Bentley, C & Jago, J 2017, 'The significance of Cambro-Ordovician trilobites from the Kalladeina 1 drill hole, Warburton Basin, South Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 471-485. 4 3
2016	Bentley, CJ, Jago, JB & Cooper, RA 2016, 'Cambrian Series 3 (Drumian) trilobites from limestone olistoliths, Reilly Ridge, Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica', Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, vol. 49, pp. 51-74.
2016	Betts, MJ, Paterson, JR, Jago, JB, Jacquet, SM, Skovsted, CB, Topper, TP & Brock, GA 2016, 'A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil biostratigraphy for South Australia', Gondwana Research, vol. 36, pp. 176-208. Open access 83 81
2016	Jacquet, SM, Jago, JB & Brock, GA 2016, 'An enigmatic univalve macromollusc from the lower Cambrian (Series 2, stage 3) Heatherdale Shale, South Australia', Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs, vol. 49, pp. 21-30.
2016	Jago, J, Laurie, J, Corbett, K & Bentley, C 2016, 'The present status of Tasmanian Cambrian biostratigraphy', Australasian Palaeontological Memoirs, vol. 49, pp. 181-192. Open access
2016	Jago, JB & Pharaoh, MD 2016, 'Pre-Antarctic Mawson in South Australia and western New South Wales', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. 140, no. 1, pp. 107-128. 2 3
2016	Jago, JB, García-Bellido, DC & Gehling, JG 2016, 'An early Cambrian chelicerate from the Emu Bay Shale, South Australia', Palaeontology, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 549-562. Open access 40 39
2016	Paterson, JR, García-Bellido, DC, Jago, JB, Gehling, JG, Lee, MS & Edgecombe, GD 2016, 'The Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte: a view of Cambrian life from East Gondwana', Journal of the Geological Society, vol. 173, pp. 1-11. Open access 96 89
2015	Paterson, JR, Edgecombe, GD & Jago, JB 2015, 'The 'great appendage' arthropod Tanglangia: biogeographic connections between early Cambrian biotas of Australia and South China', Gondwana Research, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 1667-1672. 14 14
2014	Bentley, C & Jago, JB 2014, 'A Cambrian series 3 (Guzhangian) trilobite fauna with 'Centropleura' from Christmas Hills, Northwestern Tasmania', Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, no. 45, pp. 267-296. 9
2014	Cann, J, Lower, C & Jago, J 2014, 'Provenance and sediment characteristics of contemporary gravel deposits at Sellicks Beach, eastern shore of Gulf St Vincent, South Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 819-836. 4 4
2014	García-Bellido, DC, Lee, MS, Edgecombe, GD, Jago, JB, Gehling, JG & Paterson, JR 2014, 'A new vetulicolian from Australia and its bearing on the chordate affinities of an enigmatic Cambrian group', BMC Evolutionary Biology, vol. 14, pp. 1-13. Open access 30 27
2014	Jago, J & Gatehouse, C 2014, 'A small trace fossil assemblage from the ?middle Cambrian Pantapinna Sandstone, Flinders Ranges, South Australia and its paleoenvironmental significance', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 837-841. 1 1
2014	Jago, J, Bentley, C, Tian-Rui, L & Corbett, K 2014, 'A middle Cambrian shallow water trilobite fauna from the Comstock Formation, near Queenstown, western Tasmania', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 61, no. 7, pp. 959-966. 1
2013	Daley, AC, Paterson, JR, Edgecombe, GD, Garcia-Bellido, DC & Jago, JB 2013, 'New anatomical information on Anomalocaris from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale of South Australia and a reassessment of its inferred predatory habits', Palaeontology, vol. 56, no. 5, pp. 971-990. Open access 87 85
2013	Jago, J, Gatehouse, C, Powell, CM & Casey, T 2013, 'Implications of cross-bedding data from the upper part of the Cambrian succession, Arrowie Basin, South Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 60 no. 2, pp. 231-240. 7 7
2013	Álvaro, JJ, Ahlberg, P, Babcock, LE, Bordonaro, OL, Jago, JB & Zylińska, A and 15 other authors 2013, 'Global Cambrian trilobite palaeobiogeography assessed using parsimony analysis of endemicity', Geological Society Memoir, vol. 38, no. 1, ch. 19, pp. 273-296. 81 82
2012	Jago, JB, Gehling, JG, Paterson, JR & Brock, GA 2012, 'Comments on Retallack, G. J. 2011: problematic megafossils in Cambrian Palaeosols of South Australia', Palaeontology, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 913-917. 8 6
2012	Jago, JB, Gehling, JG, Paterson, JR, Brock, GA & Zang, W 2012, 'Cambrian stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Flinders Ranges and the north coast of Kangaroo Island, South Australia', Episodes: Journal of International Geoscience, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 247-255. Open access 46 44
2011	Gehling, J, Jago, JB, Paterson, J, Garcia-Bellido, DC & Edgecombe, G 2011, 'The geological context of the Lower Cambrian (Series 2) Emu Bay Shale Lagerstatte and adjacent stratigraphic units, Kangaroo Island, South Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 243-257. 54 53
2011	Hall, A, Mckirdy, D, Halverson, G, Jago, JB & Gehling, J 2011, 'Biomarker and isotopic signatures of an early Cambrian Lagerstatte in the Stansbury Basin, South Australia', Organic Geochemistry, vol. 42, no. 11, pp. 1324-1330. 20 20
2011	Jago, JB & Cooper, B 2011, 'The Emu Bay Shale Lagerstatte: a history of investigations', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 235-241. 17 17
2011	Jago, JB, Bentley, CK & Cooper, RA 2011, 'A Cambrian series 3 (Guzhangian) fauna with Centropleura from Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica', Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, vol. 42, pp. 15-35. 10
2011	Lee, MS, Jago, JB, Garcia-Bellido, DC, Edgecombe, G, Gehling, J & Paterson, J 2011, 'Modern optics in exceptionally preserved eyes of early Cambrian arthropods from Australia', Nature, vol. 474, no. 7353, pp. 631-634. 74 65
2011	Mckirdy, D, Hall, P, Nedin, C, Halverson, G, Michaelsen, B, Jago, J, Gehling, J & Jenkins, J 2011, 'Paleoredox status and thermal alteration of the lower Cambrian (Series 2) Emu Bay Shale Lagerstatte, South Australia', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 58, no. 3, pp. 259-272. 39 38
2011	Paterson, JR, Garcia-Bellido, DC, Lee, MS, Brock, GA, Jago, JB & Edgecombe, GD 2011, 'Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes', Nature, vol. 480, no. 7376, pp. 237-240. 165 141
2010	Bentley, C & Jago, JB 2010, 'Geological significance of middle Cambrian trilobites from near Melba Flats, Western Tasmania', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 469-481. 8 8
2010	Garcia-Bellido, DC, Gehling, J, Paterson, J, Edgecombe, G & Jago, JB 2010, 'Nektaspid Arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstatte, South Australia, with a Reassessment of Lamellipedian Relationships', Palaeontology, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 377-402. 66 61
2010	Jago, JB, Powell, C, Gatehouse, C & Alexander, E 2010, 'The Dawson Hill Member of the Grindstone Range Sandstone in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. 134, no. 1, pp. 115-124. 8 8
2010	Ortega-Hernandez, J, Braddy, SJ, Jago, JB & Baillie, P 2010, 'A new aglaspidid arthropod from the Upper Cambrian of Tasmania', Palaeontology, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 1065-1076. Open access 14 15
2009	Cooper, R, Bentley, C & Jago, JB 2009, 'An Acmarhachis typicalis Zone trilobite fauna from the Cambrian of northern Victoria Land, Antarctica', Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, no. 37, pp. 165-197.
2009	Gatehouse, C & Jago, JB 2009, 'The type section of the Cambrian Backstairs Passage Formation, Kanmantoo Group, South Australia', Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. 133, no. 1, pp. 150-163. 4 4
2009	Haines, PW, Jago, JB, Turner, S & Foden, J 2009, 'Isotopic and geochemical characterisation of the Cambrian Kanmantoo Group, South Australia: implications for stratigraphy and provenance', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 1095-1110. 30 29
2009	Jago, JB & Sun, X 2009, 'An Iverian (Furongian, Cambrian) trilobite faunule from the subsurface Warburton Basin, South Australia', Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, no. 37, pp. 1-8.
2009	Jago, JB, Scardigno, M & Cann, JH 2009, 'Mangroves as an agent of rapid coastal change in a tidal-dominated environment, Gulf St Vincent, South Australia: implications for coastal management', Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, vol. 56, no. 7, pp. 927-938. 8 8
2009	Laurie, J, Kruse, PD & Jago, JB 2009, 'Recent Developments in Australian Cambrian biostratigraphy', vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 35-47.
2009	Lee, MS, Paterson, J, Garcia-Bellido, DC, Edgecombe, G, Gehling, J & Jago, JB 2009, 'The bivalved arthropods Isoxys and Tuzoia with soft-part preservation from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstatte (Kangaroo Island, Australia)', Palaeontology, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 1221-1241. 80 74
2008	Jago, JB & Direen, N 2008, 'The Cottons Breccia (Ediacaran) and its tectonostratigraphic context within the Grassy Group, King Island, Australia: A rift-related gravity slump deposit', Precambrian Research, vol. 165, no. 1-2, pp. 1-14. 18 18

Conferences

Year	Output
2008	Bentley, C & Jago, JB 2008, 'Aspects of some Late Cambrian Tasmanian faunal assemblages', in I Rabano, R Gozalo & D Garcia-Bellido, Advances in Trilobite Research, Instituto Geologico y Minero do Espana, Madrid, pp. 41-47.
2008	Gehling, J, Jago, JB, Paterson, J, Garcia-Bellido, DC, Lee, MS & Edgecombe, G 2008, 'Early Cambrian Arthropods from the Emu Bay Shale Lagerstatte, South Australia', in I Rabano, R Gozalo & D Garcia-Bellido, Advances in Trilobite Research, Instituto Geologico y Minero do Espana, Madrid, pp. 319-325.

Reports

Year	Output
2016	Gehling, J, Jago, J, Brock, G, Kruse, P, Betts, M, Jacquet, S, Paterson, J, Droser, M, García-Bellido, D, Langsford, N & Zang, W 2016, Geological field excursion guide: Cryogenian-Ediacaran-Cambrian of the Adelaide Fold Belt, Department of State Development, Australia. Open access

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME)	AUSTRALIA
Australian Museum	AUSTRALIA
Boise State University	UNITED STATES
Centro de Astrobiologia	SPAIN
Clare, Australia	AUSTRALIA
Colorado College	UNITED STATES
CONICET	ARGENTINA
Department of Innovation, Industry, Science & Research	AUSTRALIA
Department of Primary Industries and Resources	AUSTRALIA
Durham University	UNITED KINGDOM
Frontignac Avenue	AUSTRALIA
Geological Survey of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
Geoscience Australia	AUSTRALIA
Geosciences Institute (Spain)	SPAIN
Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences	NEW ZEALAND
Instituto de Geologia Economica	SPAIN
Lunds University	SWEDEN
Macquarie University	AUSTRALIA
Nanjing University	CHINA
Natural History Museum London	UNITED KINGDOM
Northwest University	CHINA
Ohio State University	UNITED STATES
Oroya Mining Ltd	AUSTRALIA
Pomona College	UNITED STATES
Primary Industries and Resources SA	AUSTRALIA
Private Individual	UNITED KINGDOM
South Australian Museum	AUSTRALIA
Sun Petroleum Geoservices	AUSTRALIA
Swedish Museum of Natural History	SWEDEN
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Bristol	UNITED KINGDOM
University of California	UNITED STATES
University of Cambridge	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Durham	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Missouri	UNITED STATES
University of Missouri - Columbia	UNITED STATES
University of New England	AUSTRALIA
University of New England Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Tasmania	AUSTRALIA
University of Warsaw	POLAND
University of Western Australia	AUSTRALIA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Bruce Webb Medal Geological Society of Australia, South Australian Division	2015

Other

Geological Society of Australia (currently conmmittee member SA Division),Australasian Association of Palaeontologists,Palaeontological Association (U.K.),Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy,Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia,Royal Society of South Australia,Royal Society of Tasmania,Australian Conservation Foundation

Teaching & student supervision

Highlights

Palaeontology,Sedimentology,Stratigraphy

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
Application of benthic foraminifera to infer Holocene sea-level changes in Northern Spencer Gulf, South Australia	Completed
Palaeoenvironments and palaeoecology of the Ediacara biota, Flinders Ranges (South Australia)	Completed
The stratigraphy and sedimentology of the lower Cambrian Hawker Group, west-central Flinders Ranges, South Australia	Completed

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