Defining the morphological quality of fossil footprints. Problems and principles of preservation in tetrapod ichnology with examples from the Palaeozoic to the present

L Marchetti, M Belvedere, S Voigt, H Klein… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The morphology of fossil footprints is the basis of vertebrate footprint ichnology. However,
the processes acting during and after trace fossil registration which are responsible for the …

Coordinated biotic and abiotic change during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Darriwilian assembly of early Paleozoic building blocks

AL Stigall, CT Edwards, RL Freeman… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ordovician Period records an extraordinary biodiversity increase known as the
Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE), which coincided with a series of …

Bioerosion ichnotaxa: review and annotated list

M Wisshak, D Knaust, M Bertling - Facies, 2019 - Springer
A remarkable diversity of bioerosion trace fossils is reflected by the plethora of ichnotaxa that
has been proposed for these structures during the past two centuries. Bioerosion traces …

Resilience of infaunal ecosystems during the Early Triassic greenhouse Earth

X Feng, ZQ Chen, MJ Benton, C Su, DJ Bottjer… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
The Permian-Triassic mass extinction severely depleted biodiversity, primarily observed in
the body fossil of well-skeletonized animals. Understanding how whole ecosystems were …

Quantifying ecospace utilization and ecosystem engineering during the early Phanerozoic—The role of bioturbation and bioerosion

LA Buatois, MG Mángano, NJ Minter, K Zhou… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The Cambrian explosion (CE) and the great Ordovician biodiversification event (GOBE) are
the two most important radiations in Paleozoic oceans. We quantify the role of bioturbation …

[HTML][HTML] The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion

SAF Darroch, AT Cribb, LA Buatois, GJB Germs… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran–Cambrian transition marks one of the most important geobiological
revolutions in Earth History, including multiple waves of evolutionary radiation and …

Biosedimentological features of major microbe-metazoan transitions (MMTs) from Precambrian to Cenozoic

ZQ Chen, C Tu, Y Pei, J Ogg, Y Fang, S Wu… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Biotic activities are involved in almost all sedimentation processes throughout the
evolutionary history of life on our planet. However, deep-time organism-induced …

The rise and early evolution of animals: where do we stand from a trace-fossil perspective?

MG Mángano, LA Buatois - Interface Focus, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The trace-fossil record provides a wealth of information to track the rise and early evolution
of animals. It comprises the activity of both hard-and soft-bodied organisms, is continuous …

Ediacaran biozones identified with network analysis provide evidence for pulsed extinctions of early complex life

AD Muscente, N Bykova, TH Boag, LA Buatois… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Rocks of Ediacaran age (~ 635–541 Ma) contain the oldest fossils of large, complex
organisms and their behaviors. These fossils document developmental and ecological …

Late Ediacaran trackways produced by bilaterian animals with paired appendages

Z Chen, X Chen, C Zhou, X Yuan, S Xiao - Science Advances, 2018 - science.org
Ediacaran trace fossils provide key paleontological evidence for the evolution of early
animals and their behaviors. Thus far, however, this fossil record has been limited to simple …