Animal emergence during Snowball Earths by thermosynthesis in submarine hydrothermal vents [PDF]
, 2009 Darwin already commented on the lateness in the fossil record of the emergence of the animals, calling it a valid argument against his theory of evolution^1^.
Anthonie W. J. Muller
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Paradigm shift in determining Neoproterozoic atmospheric oxygen [PDF]
, 2016 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank the Geological Survey of Australia for permission to sample the Empress 1A and Lancer 1 cores, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for financial support (grant #7961–15) of U.
Benison, Kathleen +7 more
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Food sources for the Ediacara biota communities
Nature Communications, 2020 Complex macroscopic organisms are first found in the Ediacaran period, but their ecology during this time is not well understood. Here, Bobrovskiy et al.
Ilya Bobrovskiy +3 more
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Cryptic Disc Structures Resembling Ediacaran Discoidal Fossils from the Lower Silurian Hellefjord Schist, Arctic Norway [PDF]
, 2016 The Hellefjord Schist, a volcaniclastic psammite-pelite formation in the Caledonides of Arctic Norway contains discoidal impressions and apparent tube casts that share morphological and taphonomic similarities to Neoproterozoic stem-holdfast forms.
Daly, Stephen +3 more
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Ediacaran metazoan fossil record from South America and its implications in the studies about origin and complexification of animal life [PDF]
Geologia USP. Série Científica, 2013 The Ediacaran Period marks the first appearance of complex macroscopic organisms in the fossil record. Current evidence indicates that Ediacara biota is composed of animals, groups of extinct giant protists, algae and other organisms without proven ...
Bruno Becker Kerber +4 more
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Subsidence history of the Ediacaran Johnnie Formation and related strata of southwest Laurentia: Implications for the age and duration of the Shuram isotopic excursion and animal evolution [PDF]
, 2018 The Johnnie Formation and associated Ediacaran strata in southwest Laurentia are ~3000 m thick, with a Marinoan cap carbonate sequence at the bottom, and a transition from Ediacaran to Cambrian fauna at the top.
Wernicke, Brian P., Witkosky, Rebecca
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Arumberiamorph structure in modern microbial mats: implications for Ediacaran palaeobiology [PDF]
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2017 In the course of studying modern halotolerant microbial mats in salterns near the village of Kervalet, western France, we observed fanning-out and curved series of macroscopic ridges on the surface of a newly formed biofilm.
Kolesnikov Anton V. +4 more
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Geologica Acta, 2018 The Ediacaran-Lower Ordovician successions exposed in the Eastern Pyrenees are updated and revised based on recent U-Pb zircon radiometric ages, intertonguing relationships of carbonate-dominated strata, and onlapping patterns marking the top of volcano ...
M. Padel +3 more
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Aspects of the taphonomy of the Cambrian Explosion in North Greenland [PDF]
, 2017 This thesis describes and elucidates the taphonomic pathways responsible for the exceptional preservation of some of the most common elements of the Sirius Passet Lagerstätte (early Cambrian), North Greenland.
STRANG, KATIE,MARGARET
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Reconstructing the reproductive mode of an Ediacaran macro-organism. [PDF]
, 2015 Enigmatic macrofossils of late Ediacaran age (580-541 million years ago) provide the oldest known record of diverse complex organisms on Earth, lying between the microbially dominated ecosystems of the Proterozoic and the Cambrian emergence of the modern
A Baddeley +57 more
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