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 …

South America figures as one of the most fruitful continents for paleontological research on
the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, with almost 100 years of studies on organisms …

Abstract The Serra da Saudade Formation is part of the Bambuí Group, a cratonic cover from
the western São Francisco craton. It is composed by siliciclastic sediments deposited in a …

The establishment of extensive carbonate platforms characterized the Ediacaran period
during CaCO3 oversaturation events and the exceptional creation of accommodation space …

The post-snowball Earth world favors the development of hydrocarbon source rock
intimately linked to periods of post-glacial marine transgression generating important …

One of the hypotheses, explaining a sudden vanishing of the Ediacaran biota at the
Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, correlates this phenomenon with a disappearance of …

The stratigraphic architecture, changes of depositional systems in lateral and vertical extent,
and 3D-stacking pattern of second-and third-order sequences of the Cambrian successions …

Abstract The Triassic-Jurassic emplacement of large volumes of basaltic rocks termed the
Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP), preceded the Pangea break-up and the …

Abstract Neoproterozoic successions in South America are recorded in many areas of Brazil,
Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. Some of these units show glaciogenic formations …

Microbialites are the most abundant life evidence in Precambrian sedimentary rocks. They
are produced by microbial interaction activity and sedimentary processes reflecting …