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 …

The rise of animals in a changing environment: global ecological innovation in the late Ediacaran

ML Droser, LG Tarhan… - Annual review of earth and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The evolutionary trajectory of early complex life on Earth is interpreted largely from the
fossils of the Precambrian soft-bodied Ediacara Biota, which appeared and evolved during a …

The tempo of Ediacaran evolution

C Yang, AD Rooney, DJ Condon, XH Li… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The rise of complex macroscopic life occurred during the Ediacaran Period, an interval that
witnessed large-scale disturbances to biogeochemical systems. The current Ediacaran …

Possible links between extreme oxygen perturbations and the Cambrian radiation of animals

T He, M Zhu, BJW Mills, PM Wynn, AY Zhuravlev… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The role of oxygen as a driver for early animal evolution is widely debated. During the
Cambrian explosion, episodic radiations of major animal phyla occurred coincident with …

A deep root for the Cambrian explosion: Implications of new bio-and chemostratigraphy from the Siberian Platform

M Zhu, AY Zhuravlev, RA Wood, F Zhao… - …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Much uncertainty remains as to the temporal relationship between the Ediacaran and
Cambrian biotas, yet this is critical to our understanding of the rise of metazoans. Here we …

A diverse Ediacara assemblage survived under low-oxygen conditions

LB Cherry, GJ Gilleaudeau, DV Grazhdankin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Ediacaran biota were soft-bodied organisms, many with enigmatic phylogenetic
placement and ecology, living in marine environments between 574 and 539 million years …

Was the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion a globally synchronized early diagenetic event? Insights from methane-derived authigenic carbonates in the uppermost …

H Cui, AJ Kaufman, S Xiao, C Zhou, XM Liu - Chemical Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran Period is characterized by the most profound negative carbon
isotope (δ 13 C) excursion in Earth history, the Shuram Excursion. Various hypotheses …

A late Ediacaran ice age: The key node in the Earth system evolution

R Wang, Z Yin, B Shen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Glacial depositions are widely discovered in the late Ediacaran strata all over the world, but
the temporal and spatial distributions of the Ediacaran glaciations remain poorly …

Implications of an integrated late Ediacaran to early Cambrian stratigraphy of the Siberian Platform, Russia

FT Bowyer, AY Zhuravlev, R Wood, F Zhao… - …, 2023 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The transition from the terminal Ediacaran to early Cambrian (ca. 550–530 Ma) witnessed
both the decline of Ediacaran-type soft-bodied and skeletal biota and the rapid …

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 …