Calibrating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation of animals

FT Bowyer, AY Zhuravlev, R Wood, GA Shields… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, which incorporates the radiation of animals,
lacks a robust global temporal and spatial framework, resulting in major uncertainty in the …

A Cenozoic Record of Deep Oceanic Zn Isotopic Composition in Ferromanganese Crusts

M Zhao, N Planavsky, X Wang, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ajsonline.org
Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

Late Ediacaran life on land: desiccated microbial mats and large biofilm streamers

S McMahon, JJ Matthews… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Ediacaran period witnessed transformational change across the Earth–life system, but
life on land during this interval is poorly understood. Non-marine/transitional Ediacaran …

The Ediacaran–Cambrian transition in the southern Great Basin, United States

EF Smith, LL Nelson, N O'Connell, A Eyster… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary strata in the Great Basin of the southwestern
United States record biological, geochemical, and tectonic change during the transformative …

The Importance of Size and Location Within Gregarious Populations of Ernietta plateauensis

BM Gibson, SAF Darroch, KM Maloney… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ernietta plateauensis is a semi-infaunal macroscopic eukaryote of unknown affinities
common in latest Ediacaran (∼ 548–539 Ma) shallow marine settings in Namibia. The …

The life and times of Pteridinium simplex

SAF Darroch, BM Gibson, M Syversen, IA Rahman… - Paleobiology, 2022 - cambridge.org
Pteridinium simplex is an iconic erniettomorph taxon best known from late Ediacaran
successions in South Australia, Russia, and Namibia. Despite nearly 100 years of study …

Paleontology and ichnology of the late Ediacaran Nasep–Huns transition (Nama Group, southern Namibia)

KA Turk, KM Maloney, M Laflamme… - Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
The Nasep and Huns members of the Urusis Formation (Nama Group), southern Namibia,
preserve some of the most diverse trace-fossil assemblages known from the latest …

The Ediacara Biota of the Wood Canyon formation: Latest Precambrian macrofossils and sedimentary structures from the southern Great Basin

SD Evans, EF Smith, P Vayda, LL Nelson… - Global and Planetary …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Fossils of the Ediacara Biota preserve the oldest indisputable evidence of
macroscopic animal life. Although new finds continue to expand the near global distribution …

[HTML][HTML] Initial cyclostratigraphy of the middle Nama Group (Schwarzrand Subgroup) in southern Namibia

BR Spiering, A Bissick, SAF Darroch, JHFL Davies… - Precambrian …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran Period includes critical evolutionary trends of early complex life as
well as climatic variations associated with ocean oxygenation, glaciations, and carbon …

Insights into the terminal Ediacaran marine carbonate record from shale-hosted carbonate carbon isotopes

F Bowyer, M Yilales, R Wood… - American Journal of …, 2023 - eprints.whiterose.ac.uk
The marine carbon isotope record (δ13C) used for chemostratigraphy and reconstruction of
carbon cycle dynamics is constructed using carbonate rocks, but there is evidence that …