Environmental and diagenetic controls on the morphology and calcification of the Ediacaran metazoan Cloudina [PDF]
Cloudina is a globally distributed Ediacaran metazoan, with a tubular, funnel-in-funnel form built of thin laminae (ca. 1–10 μm). To what degree local environmental controlled morphology, and whether early diagenesis controlled the degree of ...
Rachel Wood
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Ecological interactions in Cloudina from the Ediacaran of Brazil: implications for the rise of animal biomineralization [PDF]
At the Ediacaran/Cambrian boundary, ecosystems witnessed an unparalleled biological innovation: the appearance of shelled animals. Here, we report new paleoecological and paleobiological data on Cloudina, which was one of the most abundant shelled ...
Bruno Becker-Kerber +2 more
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Sesgo tafonómico en los datos de distribución de Cloudina en Siberia
En Siberia los morfotipos de Cloudina han sido tradicionalmente considerados como una variedad tafonómica de conchas de Anabarites, insertadas una dentro de otra, bajo condiciones hidrodinámicas específicas.
G. Markov +3 more
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Multiscale approach reveals that Cloudina aggregates are detritus and not in situ reef constructions. [PDF]
Significance Little is known about how the Ediacaran index fossil Cloudina lived and what impact it had on its surroundings. This uncertainty is due to the fact that Cloudina often is preserved with the same mineralogy as the rocks in which it is found; the lack of density contrast ...
Mehra A, Maloof A.
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Enduring evolutionary embellishment of cloudinids in the Cambrian [PDF]
The Ediacaran–Cambrian transition and the following Cambrian Explosion are among the most fundamental events in the evolutionary history of animals. Understanding these events is enhanced when phylogenetic linkages can be established among animal fossils
Tae-Yoon S. Park +7 more
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It is herein presented the unprecedented occurrence of Cloudina carinata Cortijo et al., 2010 in the American continent. This new occurrence expanded the geographic distribution of this species, until now reported from sections in Spain and Siberia.
R. R. Adôrno +8 more
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The evolution of reproduction in Ediacaran-Cambrian metazoans. [PDF]
ABSTRACT The evolution of reproductive style is a fundamental aspect of metazoan life history but has not been explored holistically through the Ediacaran–Cambrian rise of metazoans. Recent molecular clock analyses based on only unequivocal metazoan fossil calibrations suggest that Porifera were present by at least 590 million years ago (Ma), all major
Wood RA, Droser ML.
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Dawn of diverse shelled and carbonaceous animal microfossils at ~ 571 Ma [PDF]
The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition documents a critical stage in the diversification of animals. The global fossil record documents the appearance of cloudinomorphs and other shelled tubular organisms followed by non-biomineralized small carbonaceous ...
Luana Morais +15 more
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Corumbella and in situ Cloudina in association with thrombolites in the Ediacaran Itapucumi Group, Paraguay [PDF]
Terra Nova, 23, 382–389, 2011AbstractAn in situ assemblage of Cloudina, thrombolites and an ichnofossil (cf. Archaeonassa), together with fragments of Corumbella werneri, is reported here, from a tidally influenced, shallow, lagoonal setting on a carbonate ramp within the Itapucumi Group, Paraguay.
Warren, Lucas V. +6 more
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Ediacaran-Cambrian paleosols of Nevada and California. [PDF]
The Cambrian and Ediacaran sequence of California and Nevada is rife with unconformities, paleovalleys, paleosols, and fluvial facies. This study confirms shallow marine environments for grey stromatolitic dolostone and shale of northern localities (Mt ...
Gregory J Retallack
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