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 …

Abstract The Cambrian Explosion by nature is a three-phased explosion of animal body
plans alongside episodic biomineralization, pulsed change of generic diversity, body size …

The Ediacara Biota—the oldest communities of complex, macroscopic fossils—consists of
three temporally distinct assemblages: the Avalon (ca. 575–560 Ma), White Sea (ca. 560 …

The geologically rapid appearance of fossils of modern animal phyla within Cambrian strata
is a defining characteristic of the history of life on Earth. However, temporal calibration of the …

The driving forces behind the evolution of early metazoans are not well understood, but key
insights into their ecology and evolution can be gained through ecological analyses of the in …

Abstract The Nama Group exposed on the Neint Nababeep Plateau along the Orange River
in northwestern Republic of South Africa is now recognized as an expanded record of the …

Ediacara-type macrofossils characterize the late Ediacaran Period and are pivotal in
understanding the early evolution of animals on the eve of the Cambrian explosion and …

The end‐Neoproterozoic transition marked a gradual but permanent shift between distinct
configurations of Earth's biosphere. This interval witnessed the demise of the enigmatic …

Paraconularia ediacara n. sp., the oldest documented conulariid cnidarian, is described
based on a compressed thin specimen from the terminal Ediacaran Tamengo Formation …

The beginning of the Phanerozoic saw two biological events that set the stage for all life that
was to come:(a) the Cambrian Explosion (the appearance of most marine invertebrate …