[HTML][HTML] Remarkable insights into the paleoecology of the Avalonian Ediacaran macrobiota

AG Liu, CG Kenchington, EG Mitchell - Gondwana Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Ediacaran macrofossils from the Avalon Terrane (primarily eastern Newfoundland and the
central UK) record some of the earliest large and complex multicellular organisms on Earth …

Reappraising the early evidence of durophagy and drilling predation in the fossil record: implications for escalation and the C ambrian E xplosion

RDC Bicknell, JR Paterson - Biological Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Cambrian Explosion is arguably the most extreme example of a biological
radiation preserved in the fossil record, and studies of Cambrian Lagerstätten have …

A Great late Ediacaran ice age

R Wang, B Shen, X Lang, B Wen… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The emergence of the Ediacara biota soon after the Gaskiers glaciation ca. 580 million years
ago (Ma) implies a possible glacial fuse for the evolution of animals. However, the timing of …

Ediacaran 2,500-km-long synchronous deep continental subduction in the West Gondwana Orogen

CE Ganade de Araujo, D Rubatto, J Hermann… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The deeply eroded West Gondwana Orogen is a major continental collision zone
that exposes numerous occurrences of deeply subducted rocks, such as eclogites. The …

The tectonic evolution of the Neoproterozoic Brasília Belt, central Brazil: a geochronological and isotopic approach

MM Pimentel - Brazilian Journal of Geology, 2016 - SciELO Brasil
The Brasília Belt is one of the most complete Neoproterozoic orogens in western Gondwana.
Rapid progress on the understanding of the tectonic evolution of the belt was achieved due …

Identifying Laurentian and SW Gondwana sources in the Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic metasedimentary rocks of the Sierras Pampeanas: Paleogeographic and …

CW Rapela, SO Verdecchia, C Casquet… - Gondwana …, 2016 - Elsevier
The provenance of Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the Sierras
Pampeanas has been established using U–Pb SHRIMP age determination of detrital zircons …

The Araçuaí Belt

FF Alkmim, M Kuchenbecker, HLS Reis… - São Francisco craton …, 2017 - Springer
The Araçuaí belts extends along the curved southeastern margin of the São Francisco
craton between the Brazilian coast and Lat 21° S, where it merges with the Ribeira belt. It …

New evidence of an Ediacaran age for the Bambuí Group in southern São Francisco craton (eastern Brazil) from zircon U–Pb data and isotope chemostratigraphy

GM Paula-Santos, M Babinski, M Kuchenbecker… - Gondwana …, 2015 - Elsevier
Extensive carbonate–siliciclastic successions of the Bambuí Group, which overlie
Neoproterozoic glaciogenic diamictites, cover most of the southern São Francisco craton …

Goldilocks at the dawn of complex life: mountains might have damaged Ediacaran–Cambrian ecosystems and prompted an early Cambrian greenhouse world

F Caxito, C Lana, R Frei, GJ Uhlein, AN Sial… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
We combine U–Pb in-situ carbonate dating, elemental and isotope constraints to calibrate
the synergy of integrated mountain-basin evolution in western Gondwana. We show that …

Controls on the evolution of Ediacaran metazoan ecosystems: a redox perspective

F Bowyer, RA Wood, SW Poulton - Geobiology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A growing number of detailed geochemical studies of Ediacaran (635–541 Ma) marine
successions have provided snapshots into the redox environments that played host to the …