Ediacaran Macro Body Fossils [PDF]
Nature Precedings, 2010 AbstractThis paper, Ediacaran Macro Body Fossils, reports a new discovery of well preserved three dimensional macro body fossils of the Ediacaran Period in central YunNan province in the People's Republic of China. These body fossils will enable more detailed and in-depth exploration of the evolution of multi-cellular macro organisms on this planet ...
Timothy D. Huang +5 more
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Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 1-26., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Richard E. Ernst +8 more
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Ediacaran oxidation and biotic evolution [PDF]
Nature, 2007 The link between the radiation of various lineages of eukaryotes in the latest Proterozoic and massive environmental changes--oxygenation, global ice ages and bolide impact--is the focus of much research interest. Fike et al. use carbon and sulphur isotope-chemostratigraphic data from Oman to propose three stages of oxidation in the Ediacaran oceans ...
Kathleen Grey, Clive R. Calver
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An Increase in Animal Diversity was Facilitated by Ecologically-Driven Brain Complexity Throughout the Cambrian. [PDF]
BioessaysThe Brain‐First Hypothesis suggests that the Cambrian transition from animals with simple body plans and simple brains to more complex animals was driven by a selection for brains with increased neural processing, following increased ecological complexity, and the networks underlying brain development were co‐opted to pattern other complex systems ...
Chipman AD.
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Evolution of Holdfast Diversity and Attachment Strategies of Ediacaran Benthic Macroalgae
Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021 Holdfast morphologies and attachment strategies of benthic macroalgae are somewhat flexible and controlled by both the substrate condition and species.
Xiaopeng Wang +15 more
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Carbonate storm deposits and C, O isotopes of the Lagoa do Jacaré Formation (Ediacaran) in the Paraopeba area, Bambuí Group, Brazil [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Geology, 2022 A section investigated in the region of Paraopeba, Minas Gerais, provided detailed sedimentologic, stratigraphic and chemostratigraphic data from the Ediacaran Lagoa do Jacaré Formation, Bambuí Group, Southeast Brazil.
Marcio Vinicius Santana Dantas +6 more
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Геодинамика и тектонофизика, 2023 Studies have been made of the carbon and strontium isotope composition in carbonate sediments of the Khorbusuonka group and Kessyusa formation corresponding to the Upper Vendian in deep Khastakhskaya-930 and Burskaya-341-0 boreholes at the northeastern ...
B. B. Kochnev +2 more
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Stratigraphy of the Khuvsgul Group, Mongolia
Mongolian Geoscientist, 2021 The Khuvsgul Group (Khuvsgul Province, Mongolia) is a Late Neoproterozoic to Cambrian carbonate-dominated succession that includes minor glacial diamictite and one of the largest known ore-grade phosphate deposits in the world.
Eliel Anttila +2 more
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Ediacaran origin and Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa. [PDF]
Sci AdvThe timescale of animal diversification has been a focus of debate over how evolutionary history should be calibrated to geologic time. Molecular clock analyses have invariably estimated a Cryogenian or Tonian origin of animals while unequivocal animal fossils first occur in the Ediacaran.
Carlisle E +3 more
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Increase in metazoan ecosystem engineering prior to the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary in the Nama Group, Namibia [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 The disappearance of the soft-bodied Ediacara biota at the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary potentially represents the earliest mass extinction of complex life, although the precise driver(s) of this extinction remain unresolved.
Alison T. Cribb +8 more
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