Dr Greg Edgecombe

Biography

Employment history

• Merit Researcher, The Natural History Museum (from July 2013)
• Research Leader, The Natural History Museum (2007 - present)
• Principal Research Scientist, Australian Museum (2002 - 2007)
• Senior Research Scientist, Australian Museum (1995 - 2002)
• Scientific Officer, Australian Museum (1993 - 1995)
• Sessional Lecturer, Department of Geology, University of Alberta (1992)

Qualifications

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Alberta (1991 - 1993)
• PhD, Columbia University (1991)
• MSc, University of Alberta (1987)
• BSc (Honours), Acadia University (1985)

Professional Roles

Honourary appointments and committees

• Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Peer Review College (2013 - 2015)
• President, Centre International de Myriapodologie (2011 - 2014)
• Advisory Council, International Society for Invertebrate Morphology (2011 - 2017)
• Vice-President, International Palaeontological Association (2006 - 2010)
• Associate in Invertebrate Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (2003 - present)
• Adjunct Associate Professor  (2006 - 2009), Adjunct Senior Lecturer (2000 - 2005), University of New England
• Council, Linnean Society of New South Wales (2005 - 2007)
• Honourary Associate, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney (2001 - 2007)
• Visiting Lectureship, Graduiertenkolleg 'Evolutionäre Transformationen und Faunenschnitte', Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2001)
• Corresponding Member, International Subcommission on Cambrian Stratigraphy (1997 - present) 

Awards

• President's Medal, Palaeontological Assocation (2011)
• Australian Academy of Science Fenner Medal for Distinguished Research in Biology (2004)

Editorial boards

• Ameghiniana, Member of Scientific Editorial Board (from 2013)
• Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B: Biological Sciences, Member of Editorial Board (2010 - 2012)
• Arthropod Structure and Development, Member of Editorial Board (2010 - 2013)
• Zootaxa, Editor for Trilobita / Palaeozoic Arthropoda (2009 - 2011)
• International Journal of Myriapodology, Member of Editorial Board (2008 - 2012)
• Invertebrate Systematics, Editor (2008 - 2011), Member of Editorial Board (2003 - 2007)
• Geodiversitas, Member of Scientific Board (2003 - present)
• Alcheringa, Member of Editorial Board (2002 - 2012)
• Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, Associate Editor (2008 - present), Member of Editorial Board (2002 - 2007)
• Zoomorphology, Member of Editorial Board (2002 - present)
• Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, Member of Editorial Board (2001 - 2011)
• Records of the Australian Museum, Associate Editor (1997 - 2004)

 

Invited lectures

• May 2013 – Unione Zoologica Italiana Spring School, ‘Metazoan Phylogeny and Evolution’, Venice
• March 2013 – Lyell Meeting, 'The Cambrian Explosion', Geological Society, London
• November 2012 – Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, Geology Section
• October 2011 – School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham
• July 2011 – 'Arthropod systematics' Symposium, Systematics Association Biennial Conference, Belfast
• July 2010 – 'Macroevolution and the Modern Synthesis' Symposium, International Palaeontological Congress, London
• June 2010 – Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn
• May 2010 – Division of Earth Sciences, University of New England
• October 2009 – Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University
• November 2008 – Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford
• October 2008 – Keynote, International Symposium ‘Advances in Crustacean Phylogenetics’, University of Rostock
• August 2008 – Keynote, International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, Copenhagen
• May 2008 – ‘Updating the Linnean Heritage’ Symposium, Università di Padova
• February 2008 – Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath
• January 2008 – Evolution and Development Seminar, University of Cambridge
• December 2007 – ‘Origins of major groups’ Symposium, Uppsala University
• October 2007 – Department of Biology, University College London
• September 2006  – Keynote, Congreso Argentino de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía, Córdoba
• September 2006  – Short course, 'Datos morfológicos y el análisis de la filogenia de artrópodos’, Congreso Argentino de Paleontología y Bioestratigrafía, Córdoba
• July 2005 – Keynote, International Congress of Myriapodology, Bergen

 

PhD Examinations

• University College London (2011)
• National University of Ireland, Galway (2011)
• Université de Lille (2011)
• Imperial College London (2010)
• University of Bristol (2009)
• City University of New York (2009)
• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2009)
• University of Cambridge (2008)
• University of Melbourne (2004)
• James Cook University (2003) 

Research

Arthropod phylogeny

Inferring deep branchpoints in the largest animal phylum, Arthropoda, is a challenge for reconstructing the tree of life. A combined approach to arthropod phylogeny uses

• external morphology
• internal anatomy
• molecular sequence data
• the palaeontological record of morphology, especially from exceptionally preserved, “Burgess Shale-type” Palaeozoic faunas. 

Molecular work on arthropod phylogeny has featured collaboration with Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard University) and Ward Wheeler (American Museum of Natural History) since the 1990s. The position of myriapods (centipedes, millipedes, pauropods and symphylans) in arthropod evolution is a special focus of this work. 

Recent projects include

• phylogenomic sampling of arthropod diversity using Expressed Sequence Tags (with Max Telford and Omar Rota-Stabelli), drawing on >250 genes 
• a survey of arthropod microRNAs (with Davide Pisani and Kevin Peterson) that has helped to clarify the relationships of onychophorans and tardigrades to arthropods, and provides new support for the Mandibulata
• "morphological clock" estimates of evolutionary rates in the Cambrian Explosion (with Mike Lee)

Current research on soft-part preservation in the early Palaeozoic concentrates on

• documenting the fauna of the early Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, South Australia, the richest Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstaette in Australia

• preservation and anatomy of neural and sensory structures in Cambrian Ecdysozoa (with Xiaoya Ma, NHM, and Nick Strausfeld, University of Arizona: supported by the Leverhulme Trust)
• anatomy and phylogenetics of anomalocaridids (with Allison Daley, NHM: supported by the Swedish Research Council)

The Emu Bay Shale project was funded by a Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council (2007-2009) and fieldwork has been supported by National Geographic. Arthropod descriptions are conducted with John Paterson (University of New England) and Diego Garcia-Bellido (University of Adelaide).

Centipede systematics 

A combination of molecular and morphological data provides a toolkit for reconstructing the evolutionary history of Chilopoda (centipedes). 

Centipede research explores

• the deep branchings between the five extant centipede orders, which date to the Palaeozoic
• relationships within each of these major groups

Taxonomic work has especially concentrated on Scutigeromorpha, Lithobiomorpha and Scolopendromorpha, with emphasis on the biota of Australia and other southern landmasses.

Recent and current projects in centipede systematics

• phylogeny of Scolopendromorpha based on new sources of characters, such as
  • the foregut and peristomatic structures (with Markus Koch, University of Hamburg)
  • a multi-locus molecular sampling (with Varpu Vahtera, Finnish Museum of Natural History, and Gonzalo Giribet, Harvard University) 
  • an SEM-based survey of spiracle morphology (with Varpu Vahtera)

• morphology of the preoral chamber in Geophilomorpha and its contribution to geophilomorph phylogeny and the evolution of centipede feeding (with Markus Koch)
• phylogeography of Newportia (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopocryptopidae) in Mesoamerica
• confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) as a tool for anatomical studies of Chilopoda
• geometric morphometric analyses of Scutigeromorpha (with Norm MacLeod and students) 
• morphology and systematics of centipedes from Cretaceous and Cenozoic amber

• systematics of the Scolopendromorpha of Thailand (PhD research by Warut Siriwut, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok)
• molecule- and morphology-based taxonomy of Digitipes (Scolopendridae) from India (with Jahnavi Joshi, Indian Institute of Science)

 

Animal evolution

Collaboration on the interrelationships of animal phyla was initiated in the “Assembling the Protostome Tree of Life” project, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (2004-2008). The relationships of arthropods to other protostomes are one of its research foci.

Our approach has involved broad taxonomic sampling of Expressed Sequence Tags, which allow hundreds or thousands of genes to be used in phylogenetic inference. These have included the first transcriptomic data for several animal phyla. Molecular work has been led by Casey Dunn (Brown University), and Andreas Hejnol (University of Bergen).

Our morphology team developed complimentary morphological datasets for large parts of the Spiralia (especially annelids) and Ecdysozoa (especially scalidophorans), including key fossil taxa. Work on this project also includes Greg Rouse (Scripps Institute of Oceanography) and our collaborators at the University of Copenhagen (Reinhardt Kristensen, Martin Vinther Sørensen, Katrine Worsaae).

Recent expeditions have targeted phyla that still lack phylogenomic data, including Micrognathozoa and Loricifera. Collecting on Disko Island, Greenland, in the summer of 2010 built up a sample of the micrognathozoan Limnognathia maerski from its type locality. Work at the Station Biologique de Roscoff in May 2011, funded by the EU’s ASSEMBLE program, provided live material of the loriciferan Armorloricus. Phylogenomic data being generated in Casey Dunn’s lab will test the relationship of Limnognathia to other members of Gnathifera and explore the position of Loricifera in the Ecdysozoa.

Publications

2013

• Bonato, L., Edgecombe, G.D. and Minelli, A. ( 2013 ) Geophilomorph centipedes from the Cretaceous amber of Burma. Palaeontology 56 : in press .
• Daley, A.C., Paterson, J.R., Edgecombe, G.D., Garcia-Bellido, D.C. and Jago, J.B. ( 2013 ) New anatomical information on Anomalocaris from the Cambrian Emu Bay Shale of South Australia and a reassessment of its inferred predatory habits. Palaeontology 56 : . doi:10.1111/pala.12029
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Legg, D.A. ( 2013 ) The arthropod fossil record, In: Minelli, A., Boxshall, G. and Fusco, G. (eds), Arthropod Biology and Evolution – Molecules, Development, Morphology . Springer 393-415 .
• García-Bellido, D.C., Edgecombe, G.D., Paterson, J.R. and Ma, X. ( 2013 ) A “Collins’ monster”-type lobopodian from the Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte (Cambrian), South Australia. Alcheringa 37 : in press .
• García-Bellido, D.C., Paterson, J.R. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2013 ) Cambrian palaeoscolecids (Cycloneuralia) from Gondwana and reappraisal of species assigned to Palaeoscolex. Gondwana Research in press . 10.1016/j.gr.2012.12.002
• Giribet, G. and Edgecombe. G.D. ( 2013 ) The Arthropoda: a phylogenetic framework, In: Minelli, A., Boxshall, G. and Fusco, G. (eds), Arthropod Biology and Evolution – Molecules, Development . Springer 17-40 .
• Joshi, J. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2013 ) Revision of the scolopendrid centipede Digitipes Attems, 1930, from India (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha): reconciling molecular and morphological estimates of species diversity. Zootaxa 3626 : 99-145 .
• Ma, X., Edgecombe, G.D., Legg, D.A. and Hou, X. ( 2013 ) The morphology and phylogenetic position of the Cambrian lobopodian Diania cactiformis. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology in press . 10.1080/14772019.2013.770418

2012

• Edgecombe, G.D., Vahtera, V., Stock, S.R., Kallonen, A., Xiao, X., Rack, A. and Giribet, G. ( 2012 ) A scolopocryptopid centipede (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) from Mexican amber: synchrotron microtomography and phylogenetic placement using a combined morphological and molecular dataset. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166 : 768-786 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00860.x
• Giribet, G. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2012 ) Reevaluating the Arthropod Tree of Life. Annual Review of Entomology 57 : 167-186 . 10.1146/annurev-ento-120710-100659
• Kenrick, P., Wellman, C.H., Schneider, H. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2012 ) A timeline for terrestrialization: consequences for the carbon cycle in the Palaeozoic. Philosophical Transctions of the Royal Society, Series B 367 : 519-536 . 10.1098/rstb.2011.0271
• Koch, M. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2012 ) The preoral chamber in geophilomorph centipedes: comparative morphology, phylogeny and the evolution of centipede feeding structures. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165 : 1-62 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00803.x
• Legg, D.A., Sutton, M.D., Edgecombe, G.D. and Caron, J.-B. ( 2012 ) Cambrian bivalved arthropod reveals origin of arthrodisation. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B (Biological Sciences) 279 : 4699-4704 . 10.1098/rspb.2012.1958
• Ma, X., Hou, X., Aldridge, R.J., Siveter, D.J., Siveter, D.J., Gabbott, S.E., Purnell, M.A., Parker, A.R. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2012 ) Morphology of Cambrian lobopodian eyes from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte and their evolutionary significance. Arthropod Structure & Development 41 : 495-504 . 10.1016/j.asd.2012.03.002
• Ma, X., Hou, X., Edgecombe, G.D. and Strausfeld, N.J. ( 2012 ) Complex brain and optic lobes in an early Cambrian arthropod. Nature 490 : 258-261 . 10.1038/nature11495
• Muadsub, S., Sutcharit, C., Pimvichai, P., Enghoff, H., Edgecombe, G.D., and Panha, S. ( 2012 ) Revision of the rare centipede genus Sterropristes Attems, 1934, with description of a new species from Thailand (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). Zootaxa 3484 : 35-52 . Zootaxa
• Paterson, J.R., García-Bellido, D.C. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2012 ) New artiopodan arthropods from the early Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte, South Australia. Journal of Paleontology 86 : 340- 357 . 10.1666/11-077.1
• Vahtera, V., Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2012 ) Evolution of blindness in scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha): insights from an expanded sampling of molecular data. Cladistics 28 : 4-20 . 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00361.x
• Vahtera, V., Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2012 ) Spiracle structure in scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) and its contribution to phylogenetics. Zoomorphology 131 : 225-248 . 10.1007/s00435-012-0157-0
• Waldock, J.M. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2012 ) A new genus of scolopendrid centipede (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendrini) from the central Australian deserts. Zootaxa 3321 : 22-36 . Zootaxa

2011

• Bonato, L., Edgecombe, G.D. and Zapparoli, M. ( 2011 ) Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview, In: Minelli, A. (ed.), Treatise on Zoology – The Myriapoda . Volume 1. Brill 363-443 .
• Campbell, L.I., Rota-Stabelli, O., Edgecombe, G.D., Marchioro, T., Longhorn, S.J., Philippe, H., Telford, M.J., Rebecchi, L., Peterson, K.J. and Pisani, D. ( 2011 ) MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the phylogenetic relationships of the Tardigrada, and suggest the velvet worms as the sister group of Arthropoda. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 108 : 15920-15924 . 10.1073/pnas.1105499108
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2011 ) Phylogenetic relationships of Myriapoda, In: Minelli, A. (ed.), Treatise on Zoology – The Myriapoda . Volume 1. Brill p. 1-20 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2011 ) Chilopoda – The fossil history, In: Minelli, A. (ed.), Treatise on Zoology – The Myriapoda . Volume 1. Brill 355-361 .
• Edgecombe, G.D.   ( 2011 ) Chilopoda – Phylogeny, In: Minelli, A. (ed.), Treatise on Zoology – The Myriapoda . Volume 1. Brill 339-354 .
• Edgecombe, G.D., García-Bellido, D.C. and Paterson, J.R. ( 2011 ) A new leanchoiliid megacheiran arthropod from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale, South Australia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 56 : 373-388 . 10.4202/app.2010.0080
• Edgecombe, G.D., Giribet, G., Dunn, C.W., Hejnol, A., Kristensen, R.M., Neves, R.C., Rouse, G.W., Worsaae, K. and Sørensen, M.V. ( 2011 ) Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 11 : 151-172 . 10.1007/s13127-011-0044-4
• Garwood, R.J. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2011 ) Early terrestrial animals, evolution, and uncertainty. Evolution: Education and Outreach 4 : 489-501 . 10.1007/s12052-011-0357-y
• Gehling, J.G., Jago, J.B., Paterson, J.R., García-Bellido, D.C. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2011 ) The geological context of the lower Cambrian (Series 2) Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte and adjacent stratigraphic units, Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 58 : 243-257 . 10.1080/08120099.2011.555487
• Lee, M.S.Y., Jago, J.G., Garcia-Bellido, D.C., Edgecombe, G.D., Gehling, J.G. and Paterson, J.R. ( 2011 ) Modern optics in exceptionally preserved eyes of Early Cambrian arthropods from Australia. Nature 474 : 631-634 . 10.1038/nature10097
• Lopez-Gutierrez, B., MacLeod, N. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2011 ) Detecting taxonomic signal in an under-utilised character system: geometric morphometrics of the forcipular coxae of Scutigeromorpha (Chilopoda). ZooKeys 156 : 49-66 . 10.3897/zookeys.156.1997
• Murienne, J., Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2011 ) Comparative phylogeography of the centipedes Cryptops pictus and Cryptops niuensis (Chilopoda) in New Caledonia, Fiji and Vanuatu. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 11 : 61-74 . 10.1007/s13127-011-0041-7
• Paterson, J.R., García-Bellido, D.C., Lee, M.S.Y., Brock, G.A., Jago, J.B. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2011 ) Acute vision in the giant Cambrian predator Anomalocaris and the origin of compound eyes. Nature 480 : 237-240 . 10.1038/nature10689
• Rota-Stabelli, O., Campbell, L., Brinkmann, H., Edgecombe, G.D., Longhorn, S.J., Peterson, K.J., Pisani, D., Philippe, H. and Telford, M.J. ( 2011 ) A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B (Biological Sciences) 278 : 298-306 . 10.1098/rspb.2010.0590
• Waisfeld, B.G., Vaccari, N.E., Edgecombe, G.D. and Chatterton, B.D.E. ( 2011 ) The Upper Ordovician trinucleid trilobite Bancroftolithus from the Precordillera of Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 85 : 1160-1180 . 10.1666/11-023.1

2010

• Bonato, L., Edgecombe, G.D., Lewis, J.G.E., Minelli, A., Pereira, L.A., Shelley, R.M. and Zapparoli, M. ( 2010 ) A common terminology for the external anatomy of centipedes (Chilopoda). ZooKeys 69 : 17-51 . 10.3897/zookeys.69.737
• Butler, A.D., Edgecombe, G.D., Ball, A.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2010 ) Resolving the phylogenetic position of enigmatic New Guinea and Seychelles Scutigeromorpha (Chilopoda): a molecular and morphological assessment of Ballonemini. Invertebrate Systematics 24 : 539-559 . 10.1071/IS10037
• Di, Z.Y., Cao, Z.-J., Wu, Y.-L., Yin, S.-J., Edgecombe, G.D. and Li, W.-X. ( 2010 ) Discovery of the centipede family Plutoniumidae (Chilopoda) in Asia: a new species of Theatops from China, and the taxonomic value of spiracle distributions in Scolopendromorpha. Zootaxa 2667 : 51-63 . Zootaxa
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2010 ) Arthropod phylogeny: an overview from the perspectives of morphology, molecular data and the fossil record. Arthropod Structure & Development 39 : 74-87 . 10.1016/j.asd.2009.10.002
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2010 ) Palaeomorphology: fossils and the inference of cladistic relationships. Acta Zoologica 91 : 72-80 . 10.1111/j.1463-6395.2009.00426.x
• Edgecombe, G.D., Bonato, L. and Giribet, G. ( 2010 ) Brooding in Mecistocephalus togensis (Geophilomorpha: Placodesmata) and the evolution of parental care in centipedes (Chilopoda). International Journal of Myriapodology 3 : 139-144 . 10.1163/187525410X12578602960506
• Koch, M., Edgecombe, G.D. and Shelley, R.M. ( 2010 ) Anatomy of Ectonocryptoides (Scolopocryptopidae: Ectonocryptopinae) and the phylogeny of blind Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda). International Journal of Myriapodology 3 : 51-81 . 10.1163/187525410X12578602960344
• Murienne, J., Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2010 ) Including secondary structure, fossils and molecular dating in the centipede tree of life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57 : 301-313 . 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.06.022
• Paterson, J.R., Edgecombe, G.D., García-Bellido, D.C., Jago, J.B. and Gehling, J.G.   ( 2010 ) Nektaspid arthropods from the Lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte, South Australia, with a reassessment of lamellipedian relationships. Palaeontology 53 : 377-402 . 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2010.00932.x
• Shear, W.A. and Edgecombe, G.D.  ( 2010 ) The geological record and phylogeny of the Myriapoda. Arthropod Structure & Development 39 : 174-190 . 10.1016/j.asd.2009.11.002
• Stoev, P., Akkari, N., Zapparoli, M., Porco, D., Enghoff, H., Edgecombe, G.D., Georgiev, T. and Penev, L. ( 2010 ) The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907( Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa,a cybertaxonomic revision, with an interactive key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group. ZooKeys 50 : 29-77 . 10.3897/zookeys.50.504

2009

• Bolton, S., MacLeod, N. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2009 ) Geometric approaches to the taxonomic analysis of centipede gonopods (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156 : 239-259 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00564.x
• Daley, A.C., Budd, G.E., Caron, J.-B., Edgecombe, G.D. and Collins, D. ( 2009 ) The Burgess Shale anomalocaridid Hurdia and its significance for early euarthropod evolution. Science 323 : 1597-1600 . 10.1126/science.1169514
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2009 ) Palaeontological and molecular evidence linking arthropods, onychophorans and other Ecdysozoa. Evolution: Education and Outreach 2 : 178-190 . 10.1007/s12052-009-0118-3
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2009 ) A new species of Parascutigera (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha) from Queensland, Australia. International Journal of Myriapodology 2 : 155-166 . 10.1163/187525409X12577705044629
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2009 ) The ever-enigmatic Ediacarans. Review of
  “The Rise of Animals”. BioScience 59 : 527-528 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G.   ( 2009 ) Phylogenetics of scutigeromorph centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) with implications for species delimitation and historical biogeography of the Australian and New Caledonian faunas. Cladistics 25 : 406-427 . 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2009.00253.x
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Koch, M. ( 2009 ) The contribution of preoral chamber and foregut morphology to the phylogenetics of Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda). Soil Organisms (Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Myriapodology) 81 : 295-318 .
• Edgecombe, G.D., Minelli, A. and Bonato, L. ( 2009 ) A geophilomorph centipede (Chilopoda) from La Buzinie amber (Late Cretaceous: Cenomanian), SW France. Geodiversitas 31 : 29-39 .
• García-Bellido D.C., Paterson, J.R., Edgecombe, G.D., Jago, J.B., Gehling, J.G. and Lee, M.S.Y.   ( 2009 ) The bivalved arthropods Isoxys and Tuzoia with soft-part preservation from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte (Kangaroo Island, Australia). Palaeontology 52 : 1221-1241 . 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2009.00914.x
• Giribet, G., Guzmán Cuéllar, A. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2009 ) Further use of molecular data in studying biogeographic patterns within the centipede genus Craterostigmus: the case for a monophyletic New Zealand species. Soil Organisms (Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Myriapodology) 81 : 557-563 . Soil Organisms (Proceedings of the 14th International Congress of Myriapodology)
• Hejnol, A., Obst, M., Stamatakis, A., Ott, M., Rouse, G.W., Edgecombe, G.D., Martinez, P., Baguñà, J., Bailly, X., Jondelius, U., Wiens, M., Müller, W.E.G., Seaver, E., Wheeler, W.C., Martindale, M.Q., Giribet, G. and Dunn, C.W. ( 2009 ) Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 276 : 4261-4270 . 10.1098/rspb.2009.0896
• Koch, M., Pärschke, S. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2009 ) Phylogenetic implications of gizzard morphology in scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda). Zoologica Scripta 38 : 269-288 . 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00372.x
• Minelli, A., Chagas, Jr., A. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2009 ) Saltational evolution of trunk segment number in centipedes. Evolution & Development 11 : 318-322 . 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2009.00334.x

2008

• Chagas, Jr., A., Edgecombe, G.D. and Minelli, A. ( 2008 ) Variability in trunk segmentation in the centipede order Scolopendromorpha: a remarkable new species of Scolopendropsis Brandt (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 1888 : 36-46 . Zootaxa
• Dunn, C.W., Hejnol, A., Matus, D.Q., Pang, K., Browne, W.E., Smith, S.A., Seaver, E., Rouse, G.W., Obst, M., Edgecombe, G.D., Sørensen, M.V., Haddock, S.H.D., Schmidt-Rhaesa, A., Okusu, A., Kristensen, R., Wheeler, W.C., Martindale, M.Q. and Giribet, G. ( 2008 ) Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the Animal Tree of Life. Nature 452 : 745-749 . 10.1038/nature06614
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2008 ) Anatomical nomenclature: homology, standardization and datasets. Zootaxa 1950 : 87-95 . Zootaxa
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2008 ) Gonopod segmentation and the Australian centipede Prionopodella (Chilopoda): testing a basal position in the Scutigeromorpha. Journal of Natural History 42 : 1289-1301 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Cupul-Magaña, F.G. ( 2008 ) Primer registro de Scutigera linceci (Wood, 1867) para Jalisco y anotaciones sobre los escutigeromorfos de México (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha: Scutigeridae). Dugesiana 15 : 17-19 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2008 ) A New Zealand species of the trans-Tasman centipede order Craterostigmomorpha (Arthropoda : Chilopoda) corroborated by molecular evidence. Invertebrate Systematics 22 : 1-15 . 10.1071/IS07036
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Koch, M. ( 2008 ) Phylogeny of scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda): morphological analysis featuring characters from the peristomatic area. Cladistics 24 : 872-901 . 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00220.x
• Koch, M. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2008 ) The peristomatic structures of Lithobiomorpha (Myriapoda, Chilopoda): comparative morphology and phylogenetic significance. Journal of Morphology 269 : 153-174 . 10.1002/jmor.10578
• Paterson, J.R., Jago, J.B.,Gehling, J.G., García-Bellido Capdevila, D., Edgecombe, G.D. and Lee, M.S.Y.   ( 2008 ) Early Cambrian arthropods from the Emu Bay Shale Lagerstätte, South Australia, In: Rábano, I., Gozalo, R. and García-Bellido, D. (eds.), Advances in Trilobite Research. Cuadernos del Museo Geominero, 9 . 319-325 .

2007

• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2007 ) Centipede systematics: progress and problems. Zootaxa 1668 : 327-341 . Zootaxa
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2007 ) Acaste (Trilobita: Phacopina) from the Early Devonian of Tasmania. Alcheringa 31 : 57-63 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Barrow, L.   ( 2007 ) A new genus of scutigerid centipedes (Chilopoda), from Western Australia, with new characters for morphological phylogenetics of Scutigeromorpha. Zootaxa 1409 : 23-50 . Zootaxa
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2007 ) Evolutionary biology of centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda). Annual Review of Entomology 52 : 151-170 . 10.1146/annurev.ento.52.110405.091326
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Webby, B.D. ( 2007 ) Ordovician trilobites with eastern Gondwanan affinities from central-west New South Wales and Tasmania. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 34 : 255-281 .
• Giribet, G., Dunn, C.W., Edgecombe, G.D. and Rouse, G.W. ( 2007 ) A modern look at the Animal Tree of Life. Zootaxa 1668 : 61-79 . Zootaxa

2006

• Bonato, L., Chagas, Jr., A., Dioguardi, R., Edgecombe, G.D., Lewis, J.G.E., Minelli, A., Pereira, L.A., Shelley, R.M., Stoev, P., Uliana, M. and Zapparoli, M. ( 2006 ) CHILOBASE. A web resource for Chilopoda taxonomy . CHILOBASE
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2006 ) Homology of cephalic sutures in Chilopoda: the antennocellar sutures of Scutigeromorpha. Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 149 : 67-70 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2006 ) A troglobitic cryptopid centipede (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) from western Queensland. Records of the Western Australian Museum 23 : 193-198 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2006 ) A century later - a total evidence re-evaluation of the phylogeny of scutigeromorph centipedes (Myriapoda, Chilopoda). Invertebrate Systematics 20 : 503-525 . 10.1071/IS05044
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Webby, B.D. ( 2006 ) The Ordovician encrinurid trilobite Sinocybele from New South Wales and its biogeographic significance.  Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 32 : 413-422 .
• Edgecombe, G.D., Banks, M.R. and Banks, D.M. ( 2006 ) Bumastoides (Trilobita: Illaenidae) from the Upper Ordovician of Tasmania. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 32 : 375-381 .
• Edgecombe, G.D., Colgan, D.J. and Sharkey, D. ( 2006 ) Phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian centipede Henicops (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha): a combined morphological and molecular approach. Insect Systematics & Evolution 37 : 241-256 . 10.1163/187631206788838590
• Giribet, G. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2006 ) Conflict between data sets and phylogeny of centipedes: an analysis based on seven genes and morphology.  Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 273 : 531-538 . 10.1098/rspb.2005.3365
• Giribet, G. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2006 ) The importance of looking at small-scale patterns when inferring Gondwanan biogeography: a case study of the centipede Paralamyctes (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha, Henicopidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 89 : 65-78 . 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00658.x
• Koch, M. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2006 ) The peristomatic structures in Scutigeromorpha (Chilopoda): a comparative study, with new characters for higher-level systematics. Zoomorphology 125 : 187-207 . 10.1007/s00435-006-0027-8
• Paterson, J.R. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2006 ) The Early Cambrian trilobite family Emuellidae Pocock, 1970: systematic position and revision of Australian species. Journal of Paleontology 80 : 496-513 . 10.1666/0022-3360(2006)80[496:TECTFE]2.0.CO;2
• Scholtz, G. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2006 ) The evolution of arthropod heads: reconciling morphological, developmental and palaeontological evidence. Development, Genes and Evolution 216 : 395-415 . 10.1007/s00427-006-0085-4
• Vaccari, N.E., Waisfeld, B.G., Chatterton, B.D.E. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2006 ) New raphiophorid trilobites from the Ordovician of Argentina and their biogeographic implications. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 32 : 353-374 .

2005

• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2005 ) A troglomorphic species of the centipede Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) from Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 22 : 315-323 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Hollington, L.M. ( 2005 ) Morphology and relationships of a new species of Henicops (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. Zootaxa 961 : 1-20 . Zootaxa
• Edgecombe, G.D., Chatterton, B.D.E., Vaccari, N.E. and Waisfeld, B.G. ( 2005 ) Triarthrinid trilobites (Olenidae) from the Middle and Upper Ordovician, Precordillera of Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 79 : 89-109 . 10.1666/0022-3360(2005)079<0089:TTOFTM>2.0.CO;2
• Giribet, G., Richter, S., Edgecombe, G.D. and Wheeler, W.C. ( 2005 ) The position of crustaceans within Arthropoda – evidence from nine molecular loci and morphology, In: Koenemann, S. and Jenner, R. (eds.), Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships. Crustacean Issues, 16 . 307-352 .
• Lewis, J.G.E., Edgecombe, G.D. and Shelley, R.M. ( 2005 ) A proposed standardised terminology for the external taxonomic characters of the Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda). Fragmenta Faunistica 48 : 1-8 .
• Scholtz, G. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2005 ) Heads, Hox and the phylogenetic position of trilobites, In: Koenemann, S. and Jenner, R. (eds.), Crustacea and Arthropod Relationships. Crustacean Issues, 16 . 139-165 .

2004

• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2004 ) Morphological data, extant Myriapoda, and the myriapod stem-group. Contributions to Zoology 73 : 207-252 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2004 ) Monophyly of Lithobiomorpha (Chilopoda): new characters from the pretarsal claws. Insect Systematics & Evolution 35 : 29-41 . 10.1163/187631204788964718
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2004 ) The henicopid centipede Haasiella (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha): new species from Australia, with a morphology-based phylogeny of Henicopidae. Journal of Natural History 38 : 37-76 . 10.1080/0022293021000007552
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2004 ) A new species of the henicopid centipede Dichelobius (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from southeastern Australia and Lord Howe Island. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 125 : 189-203 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2004 ) A new species of Paralamyctes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New Zealand. Zootaxa 451 : 1-16 . Zootaxa
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2004 ) A new Henicops (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from Lord Howe Island and its sister group relationship with Australasian species. Acta Arachnologica 53 : 1-12 . Acta Arachnologica
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2004 ) Remylamyctes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha), a henicopid centipede from Madagascar and Réunion. Zootaxa 686 : 1-11 . Zootaxa
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2004 ) Adding mitochondrial sequence data (16S rRNA and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I) to the phylogeny of centipedes (Myriapoda, Chilopoda): an analysis of morphology and four molecular loci. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 42 : 89-134 . 10.1111/j.1439-0469.2004.00245.x
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2004 ) Molecular phylogeny of Australasian anopsobiine centipedes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha). Invertebrate Systematics 18 : 235-249 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Wright, A.J. ( 2004 ) Silicified Early Devonian trilobites from Brogans Creek, New South Wales.  Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 125 : 177-188 .
• Edgecombe, G.D., Banks, M.R. and Banks, D.M. ( 2004 ) Late Ordovician trilobites from Tasmania: Styginidae, Asaphidae and Lichidae. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 30 : 59-77 .
• Edgecombe, G.D., Webby, B.D. and Laurie, J.R. ( 2004 ) Regional patterns in Australia and New Zealand, In: Adrain, J.M. et al. Trilobites. In: Webby, B.D., Paris, F., Droser, M.L. and Percival, I. (eds.), The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event . Columbia University Press 239-242 .
• Farzalieva, G. Sh., Zalesskaja, N.T. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2004 ) A new genus and species of lithobiomorph centipede (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha, Anopsobiidae) from eastern Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta 13 : 219-224 .
• Giribet, G., Edgecombe, G.D., Carpenter, J.M., D’Haese, C. and Wheeler, W.C. ( 2004 ) Is Ellipura monophyletic? A combined analysis of basal hexapod relationships with emphasis on the origin of insects. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 4 : 319-340 . 10.1016/j.ode.2004.05.001
• Hollington, L.M. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2004 ) Two new species of the henicopid centipede Henicops (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from Queensland and Victoria, with revision of species from Western Australia and a synoptic classification of Henicopidae. Records of the Australian Museum 56 : 1-28 . Records of the Australian Museum
• Vaccari, N.E., Edgecombe, G.D. and Escudero, C. ( 2004 ) Cambrian origins and affinities of an enigmatic fossil group of arthropods. Nature 430 : 554-557 . 10.1038/nature02705
• Wheeler, W.C., Giribet, G. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2004 ) Arthropod systematics: the comparative study of genomic, anatomical, and paleontological information, In: Cracraft, J. and Donoghue, M.J. (ed.). Assembling the Tree of Life . Oxford University Press 281-295 .

2003

• Carvalho, M. da G.P., Edgecombe, G.D. and Smith, L. ( 2003 ) New calmoniid trilobites (Phacopina: Acastoidea) from the Devonian of Bolivia. American Museum Novitates 3407 : 1-17 . American Museum Novitates
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2003 ) Paralamyctes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Henicopidae) from the Cape region, South Africa, with a new species from Table Mountain. African Entomology 11 : 97-115 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2003 ) A new species of Paralamyctes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Henicopidae) from southern Chile. Zootaxa 193 : 1-12 . Zootaxa
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2003 ) A new species of the Gondwanan centipede Anopsobius (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New South Wales, Australia. Zootaxa 204 : 1-15 . Zootaxa
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2003 ) A new genus of henicopid centipede (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New Caledonia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49 : 269-284 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2003 ) Chilopoda: Centipedes. Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia, Second Edition Volume 2: Protostomes. Thomson/Gale : 353-362 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2003 ) A new blind Lamyctes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from Tasmania with an analysis of molecular sequence data for the Lamyctes-Henicops Group. Zootaxa 152 : 1-23 . Zootaxa
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2003 ) Relationships of Henicopidae (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha): new molecular data, classification and biogeography., In: Hamer, M. (ed.), Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Myriapodology. African Invertebrates, 44 . 13-38 . Hamer, M. (ed.), Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Myriapodology. African Invertebrates, 44
• Edgecombe, G.D., Richter, S and Wilson, G.D.F. ( 2003 ) The mandibular gnathal edges: homologous structures across Mandibulata?, In: Hamer, M. (ed.), Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Myriapodology. African Invertebrates, 44 . 115-135 . Hamer, M. (ed.), Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Myriapodology. African Invertebrates, 44
• Wilson, G.D.F. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2003 ) The Triassic isopod Protamphisopus wianamattensis (Chilton) and comparison with extant taxa (Crustacea, Phreatoicidea). Journal of Paleontology 77 : 454-470 . 10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<0454:TTIPWC>2.0.CO;2

2002

• Edgecombe, G.D. and Giribet, G. ( 2002 ) Myriapod phylogeny and the relationships of Chilopoda, In: Llorente Bousquets, J. and Morrone, J.J (eds.). Biodiversidad, Taxonomía y Biogeografia de Artrópodos de México: Hacia una Síntesis de su Conocimiento, Volumen III. Prensas de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México . 143-168 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Hollington, L.M. ( 2002 ) Morphology and distribution of Australobius scabrior (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 48 : 103-118 .
• Edgecombe, G.D., Giribet, G. and Wheeler, W.C. ( 2002 ) Phylogeny of Henicopidae (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha): a combined analysis of morphology and five molecular loci. Systematic Entomology 27 : 31-64 . 10.1046/j.0307-6970.2001.00163.x
• Giribet, G., Edgecombe, G.D., Wheeler, W.C. and Babbitt, C. ( 2002 ) Phylogeny and systematic position of Opiliones: a combined analysis of chelicerate relationships using morphological and molecular data. Cladistics 18 : 5-70 . 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2002.tb00140.x
• Richter, S., Edgecombe, G.D. and Wilson, G.D.F. ( 2002 ) The lacinia mobilis and similar structures: a useful character for arthropod phylogenetics? Zoologischer Anzeiger 241 : 339-361 . 10.1078/0044-5231-00083
• Wheeler, W.C., Giribet, G. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2002 ) Arthropods, In: Pagel, M. (ed.), Encyclopaedia of Evolution . Oxford University Press 74-77 .

2001

• Adrain, J.M., Edgecombe, G.D. and Lieberman, B.S. (eds.) ( 2001 ) Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form: An Analytical Approach . Kluwer/Plenum, 402 p .
• Ebach, M.C. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2001 ) Cladistic biogeography: component-based methods and paleontological application, In: Adrain, J.M., Edgecombe, G.D. and Lieberman, B.S. (eds.), Fossils, Phylogeny, and Form: An Analytical Approach . Kluwer/Plenum 235-289 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2001 ) Revision of Paralamyctes (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Henicopidae), with six new species from eastern Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 53 : 201-241 . Records of the Australian Museum
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2001 ) Centipedes: the great Australian bite. Nature Australia 42-51 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Sherwin, L. ( 2001 ) Early Silurian (Llandovery) trilobites from the Cotton Formation, near Forbes, New South Wales, Australia. Alcheringa 25 : 87-105 . 10.1080/03115510108619215
• Giribet, G., Edgecombe, G.D. and Wheeler, W.C. ( 2001 ) Arthropod phylogeny based on eight molecular loci and morphology. Nature 413 : 157-161 . 10.1038/35093097
• Ritchie, A. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2001 ) An odontogriphid from the Upper Permian of Australia. Palaeontology 44 : 861-874 . 10.1111/1475-4983.00205
• Waisfeld, B.G., Vaccari, N.E., Chatterton. B.D.E. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2001 ) Systematics of Shumardiidae (Trilobita), with species from the Ordovician of Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 75 : 827-859 . Journal of Paleontology

2000

• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2000 ) Trilobites., In: Talent, J.A. et al. Devonian palaeobiogeography of Australia and adjoining regions. In: Wright, A.J., Talent, J.A., Young, G.C. and Laurie, J.R (eds.), Palaeobiogeography of Australasian faunas and floras. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists . Memoir 23, 203-205 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Fortey, R.A. ( 2000 ) Silurian trilobites from the El Carmen Formation, Bolivia. Senckenbergiana lethaea 79 : 329-355 .
• Edgecombe, G.D., Wilson, G.D.F., Colgan, D.J., Gray, M.R. and Cassis, G. ( 2000 ) Arthropod cladistics: combined analysis of Histone H3 and U2 snRNA sequences and morphology. Cladistics 16 : 155-203 . 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2000.tb00352.x
• Webby, B.D. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 2000 ) Biogeographic relationships - Trilobites, In: Webby, B.D. et al. Ordovician biogeography of Australasia. In: Wright, A.J., Talent, J.A., Young, G.C. and Laurie, J.R. (eds.), Palaeobiogeography of Australasian faunas and floras. Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, Memoir 23 . 81-86 .

1999

• Chatterton, B.D.E., Edgecombe, G.D., Vaccari, N.E. and Waisfeld, B.G. ( 1999 ) Ontogenies of some Ordovician Telephinidae from Argentina, and larval patterns in the Proetida (Trilobita). Journal of Paleontology 73 : 219-239 . Journal of Paleontology
• Ebach, M.C. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1999 ) The Devonian trilobite Cordania from Australia. Journal of Paleontology 73 : 431-436 . Journal of Paleontology
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Morgan, H. ( 1999 ) Synaustrus and the euthycarcinoid puzzle. Alcheringa 23 : 193-213 . 10.1080/03115519908619516
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Ramsköld, L. ( 1999 ) Relationships of Cambrian Arachnata and the systematic position of Trilobita. Journal of Paleontology 73 : 263-287 . Journal of Paleontology
• Edgecombe, G.D., Banks, M.R. and Banks, D.M. ( 1999 ) Upper Ordovician Phacopida (Trilobita) from Tasmania. Alcheringa 23 : 235-257 . 10.1080/03115519908527808
• Edgecombe, G.D., Chatterton, B.D.E., Vaccari, N.E. and Waisfeld, B.G. ( 1999 ) Ordovician cheirurid trilobites from the Argentine Precordillera. Journal of Paleontology 73 : 1155-1175 . Journal of Paleontology
• Edgecombe, G.D., Chatterton, B.D.E., Waisfeld, B.G. and Vaccari, N.E. ( 1999 ) Ordovician pliomerid and prosopiscid trilobites from Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 73 : 1144-1154 . Journal of Paleontology
• Edgecombe, G.D., Giribet, G. and Wheeler, W.C. ( 1999 ) Phylogeny of Chilopoda: Combining 18S and 28S rRNA sequences and morphology., In: Melic, A., de Haro, J.J., Mendez, M. and Ribera, I. (eds.), Evolución y Filogenia de Arthropoda. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa . 26,  293-331 .
• Giribet, G., Edgecombe, G.D. and Wheeler, W.C. ( 1999 ) Sistemática y filogenia de artrópodos: Estado de la cuestión con énfasis en análisis de datos moleculares., In: Melic, A., de Haro, J.J., Mendez, M. and Ribera, I. (eds.), Evolución y Filogenia de Arthropoda. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa . 26, 197-212, 1998 .

1998

• Chatterton, B.D.E., Edgecombe, G.D., Waisfeld, B.G. and Vaccari, N.E. ( 1998 ) Ontogeny and systematics of Toernquistiidae (Trilobita, Proetida) from the Ordovician of the Argentine Precordillera. Journal of Paleontology 72 : 273-303 .
• Colgan, D.J., McLaughlan, A., Wilson, G.D.F., Livingston, S., Edgecombe, G.D., Macaranas, J., Cassis, G. and Gray, M.R. ( 1998 ) Histone H3 and U2 snRNA sequences and arthropod molecular evolution. Australian Journal of Zoology 46 : 419-437 . Australian Journal of Zoology
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1998 ) Devonian terrestrial arthropods from Gondwana. Nature 394 : 172-175 . 10.1038/28156
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1998 ) Early myriapodous arthropods from Australia: Maldybulakia from the Devonian of New South Wales. Records of the Australian Museum 50 : 293-314 . Records of the Australian Museum
• Edgecombe, G.D., Chatterton, B.D.E., Waisfeld, B.G. and Vaccari, N.E. ( 1998 ) Ordovician (Whiterock) calymenid and encrinurid trilobites from the Precordillera of Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 72 : 678-697 . Journal of Paleontology
• Edgecombe, G.D.  ( 1998 ) The role of extinct taxa in arthropod phylogeny., In: Edgecombe, G.D. (ed.), Arthropod Fossils and Phylogeny . Columbia University Press 1-7 .

1997

• Adrain, J.M. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1997 ) Silurian (Wenlock) calymenid trilobites from the Cape Phillips Formation, Central Canadian Arctic. Journal of Paleontology 71 : 657-682 . Journal of Paleontology
• Adrain, J.M. and Edgecombe, G.D.   ( 1997 ) Silurian encrinurine trilobites from the Central Canadian Arctic. Palaeontographica Canadiana 15 : 1-109 .
• Carvalho, M. da G.P., Edgecombe, G.D. and Lieberman, B.S. ( 1997 ) Middle Devonian calmoniid trilobites from the Parnaíba Basin, Piauí State, Brazil. American Museum Novitates 3192 : 1-11 .
• Chatterton, B.D.E., Edgecombe, G.D., Vaccari, N.E. and Waisfeld, B.G. ( 1997 ) Ontogeny and relationships of the Ordovician odontopleurid trilobite Ceratocara, with new species from Argentina and New York. Journal of Paleontology 71 : 108-125 . Journal of Paleontology
• Chen J.-y., Edgecombe, G.D. and Ramsköld, L. ( 1997 ) Morphological and ecological disparity in naraoiids (Arthropoda) from the Early Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, China. Records of the Australian Museum 49 : 1-24 . Records of the Australian Museum
• Edgecombe, G.D., Chatterton, B.D.E., Vaccari, N.E. and Waisfeld, B.G. ( 1997 ) Ontogeny of the proetoid trilobite Stenoblepharum, and relationships of a new species from the Upper Ordovician of Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 71 : 419-433 . Journal of Paleontology
• Ramsköld, L., Chen J.-y., Edgecombe, G.D. and Zhou G.-q. ( 1997 ) Cindarella and the arachnate clade Xandarellida (Arthropoda, Early Cambrian) from China. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 88 : 19-38 .

1996

• Adrain, J.M. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1996 ) Devonian aulacopleurid trilobites of the Malvinokaffric Realm. Geobios 29 : 417-436 .
• Blieck, A., Gagnier, P.-Y., Bigey, F.P., Edgecombe, G.D., Janvier, P., Loboziak, S., Racheboeuf, P.R., Sempere, T. and Steemans, P. ( 1996 ) New Devonian fossil localities in Bolivia. Journal of South American Earth Sciences 9 : 295-308 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Ramsköld, L. ( 1996 ) The "Encrinurus" variolaris plexus (Trilobita, Silurian): relationships of Llandovery species. Geobios 29 : 209-233 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Ramsköld, L. ( 1996 ) Classification of the Cambrian arthropod Fuxianhuia. Science 272 : 747-748 .
• Ramsköld, L. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1996 ) Trilobite appendage structure - Eoredlichia reconsidered. Alcheringa 20 : 269-276 . 10.1080/03115519608619471
• Ramsköld, L., Chen J.-y., Edgecombe, G.D. and Zhou G.-q. ( 1996 ) Preservational folds simulating tergite junctions in tegopeltid and naraoiid arthropods. Lethaia 29 : 15-20 .

1995

• Adrain, J.M. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1995 ) Balizoma and the new genera Aegrotocatellus and Perirehaedulus: encrinurid trilobites from the Douro Formation (Silurian, Ludlow) of the central Canadian Arctic. Journal of Paleontology 69 : 736-752 . Journal of Paleontology
• Chen J.-y, Dzik, J., Edgecombe, G.D., Ramsköld, L. and Zhou G.-q. ( 1995 ) A possible Early Cambrian chordate. Nature 377 : 720-722 . 10.1038/377720a0
• Chen J.-y., Edgecombe, G.D., Ramsköld, L. and Zhou G.-q. ( 1995 ) Head segmentation in Early Cambrian Fuxianhuia: implications for arthropod evolution. Science 268 : 1339-1343 . 10.1126/science.268.5215.1339
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Adrain, J.M. ( 1995 ) Silurian calymenid trilobites from the United States. Palaeontographica (A) 235 : 1-19 .

1994

• Chatterton, B.D.E., Edgecombe, G.D., Speyer, S.E., Hunt, A.S. and Fortey, R.A. ( 1994 ) Ontogeny and relationships of Trinucleoidea (Trilobita). Journal of Paleontology 68 : 523-540 . Journal of Paleontology
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1994 ) New Lower Silurian (Llandovery) encrinurine trilobites from the Mackenzie Mountains, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 68 : 824-837 . Journal of Paleontology
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1994 ) Calmoniid trilobites from the Devonian Fox Bay Formation, Falkland Islands: systematics and biogeography, In: Landing, E. (ed.), Studies in Paleontology and Stratigraphy in Honor of Donald W. Fisher. New York State Museum Bulletin . 481:55-68 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Ramsköld, L. ( 1994 ) Earliest Devonian phacopide trilobites from central Bolivia. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 68 : 393-406 .
• Edgecombe, G.D., Vaccari, N.E. and Waisfeld, B.G. ( 1994 ) Lower Devonian calmoniid trilobites from the Argentine Precordillera: new taxa of the Bouleia Group, and remarks on the tempo of calmoniid radiation. Geological Magazine 131 : 449-464 .
• Edgecombe, G.D., Waisfeld, B.G. and Vaccari, N.E. ( 1994 ) Andinacaste (Trilobita) from the earliest Devonian of Argentina. Journal of Paleontology 68 : 837-841 . Journal of Paleontology
• Ramsköld, L. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1994 ) Revision of the Silurian encrinurine trilobite Wallacia Lamont, 1978, with species from Gotland and Canada. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 68 : 89-115 .
• Ramsköld, L., Adrain, J.M., Edgecombe, G.D. and Siveter, D.J. ( 1994 ) The Silurian calymenid trilobite Alcymene n. gen., with new species from the Ludlow of Gotland, Sweden. Journal of Paleontology 68 : 556-569 . Journal of Paleontology
• Vaccari, N.E., Waisfeld, B.G. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1994 ) Calmoniid trilobites of the Lower Devonian Scaphiocoelia Zone in the Argentine Precordillera. Geobios 27 : 591-608 .
• Waisfeld, B.G., Edgecombe, G.D. and Vaccari, N.E. ( 1994 ) Tormesiscus, a new blind calmoniid trilobite from the Lower Devonian, Argentine Precordillera. Geologica et Palaeontologica 28 : 27-43 .

1993

• Briggs, D.E.G. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1993 ) Beecher's Trilobite Bed. Geology Today 9 : 97-102 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1993 ) Silurian acastacean trilobites of the Americas. Journal of Paleontology 67 : 535-548 . Journal of Paleontology
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1993 ) A revision of the Devonian dalmanitid trilobite Gamonedaspis., In: Suárez Soruco, R. (ed.), Fósiles y Facies de Bolivia, 2. Invertebrados y Paleobotánica . Revista Técnica de YPFB : Santa Cruz , 161-166 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Chatterton, B.D.E. ( 1993 ) Silurian (Wenlock-Ludlow) encrinurine trilobites from the Mackenzie Mountains, Canada, and related species. Palaeontographica (A) 229 : 75-112 .
• Ramsköld, L. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1993 ) Silurian acastid trilobites from Gotland and Scania, Sweden. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 67 : 261-285 .
• Romano, M., Chang,  W.T., Dean, W.T., Edgecombe, G.D., Fortey, R.A., Holloway, D.J., Lane, P.D., Owen, A.W., Owens, R.M., Palmer, A.R., Rushton, A.W.A., Shergold, J.H., Siveter, D.J. and Whyte, M.A. ( 1993 ) Arthropoda (Trilobita), In: Benton, M.J. (ed.), The Fossil Record 2 . Chapman & Hall 279-296 .

1992

• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1992 ) Trilobite phylogeny and the Cambrian-Ordovician "event": cladistic reappraisal., In: Novacek, M.J. and Wheeler, Q.D. (eds.), Extinction and Phylogeny . Columbia University Press 144-177 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Chatterton, B.D.E. ( 1992 ) Early Silurian (Llandovery) encrinurine trilobites from the Mackenzie Mountains, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 66 : 52-74 . Journal of Paleontology
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Ramsköld, L. ( 1992 ) The Silurian encrinurine trilobite Pacificurus: new species from North America. Journal of Paleontology 66 : 255-262 . Journal of Paleontology
• Gass, K.C., Edgecombe, G.D., Ramsköld, L., Mikulic, D.G. and Watkins, R. ( 1992 ) Silurian Encrinurinae (Trilobita) from the central United States. Journal of Paleontology 66 : 75-89 . Journal of Paleontology

1991

• Carvalho, M. da G.P. and Edgecombe, G.D.   ( 1991 ) Lower-Early Middle Devonian calmoniid trilobites from Mato Grosso, Brazil, and related species from Paraná. American Museum Novitates 3022 : 1-13 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1991 ) Phyla, phylogeny and fantasy. Cladistics 7 : 101-103 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1991 ) Morocconites Struve, 1989, a Devonian acastine trilobite (Calmoniidae, Acastinae). American Museum Novitates 2998 : 1-7 . American Museum Novitates
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1991 ) The Silurian dalmanitid trilobite Glyptambon Holloway: new species from Tennessee and Illinois. Journal of Paleontology 65 : 294-300 .
• Lieberman, B.S., Edgecombe, G.D. and Eldredge, N. ( 1991 ) Systematics and biogeography of the "Malvinella" group, Calmoniidae (Trilobita, Devonian). Journal of Paleontology 65 : 824-843 . Journal of Paleontology
• Ramsköld, L. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1991 ) Trilobite monophyly revisited. Historical Biology 4 : 267-283 .

1990

• Chatterton, B.D.E., Edgecombe, G.D. and Tuffnell, P.A. ( 1990 ) Extinction and migration in Silurian trilobites and conodonts of northwestern Canada. Journal of the Geological Society, London 147 : 703-715 .
• Chatterton, B.D.E., Edgecombe, G.D., Siveter, D.J. and Hunt, A.S. ( 1990 ) Larvae and relationships of the Calymenina (Trilobita). Journal of Paleontology 64 : 255-277 . Journal of Paleontology
• Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1990 ) Encrinurine trilobites from the Silurian Brownsport Formation of Tennessee. Journal of Paleontology 64 : 961-967 .
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Chatterton, B.D.E. ( 1990 ) Mackenziurus, a new genus of the Silurian "Encrinurus" variolaris plexus (Trilobita, Silurian). American Museum Novitates 2968 : 1-22 . American Museum Novitates
• Edgecombe, G.D. and Chatterton, B.D.E. ( 1990 ) Systematics of Encrinuroides and Curriella (Trilobita), with a new Early Silurian encrinurine from the Mackenzie Mountains. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 27 : 820-833 .

1988

• Edgecombe, G.D., Speyer, S.E. and Chatterton, B.D.E. ( 1988 ) Protaspid larvae and phylogenetics of encrinurid trilobites. Journal of Paleontology 62 : 779-799 .
• Jones, B., Pemberton, S.G. and Edgecombe, G.D. ( 1988 ) The influence of Trypanites in the diagenesis of Devonian stromatoporoids. Journal of Paleeontology 62 : 22-31 .