Predation in the marine fossil record: studies, data, recognition, environmental factors, and behavior

AA Klompmaker, PH Kelley, D Chattopadhyay… - Earth-science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The fossil record is the primary source of data used to study predator-prey interactions in
deep time and to evaluate key questions regarding the evolutionary and ecological …

Decline and fall of the Ediacarans: late‐Neoproterozoic extinctions and the rise of the modern biosphere

G Mussini, FS Dunn - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

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 …

Discovery of bilaterian-type through-guts in cloudinomorphs from the terminal Ediacaran Period

JD Schiffbauer, T Selly, SM Jacquet, RA Merz… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The fossil record of the terminal Ediacaran Period is typified by the iconic index fossil
Cloudina and its relatives. These tube-dwellers are presumed to be primitive metazoans, but …

Sedimentology and chemostratigraphy of the terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation at the Gaojiashan section, South China

H Cui, S Xiao, Y Cai, S Peek, RE Plummer… - Geological …, 2019 - cambridge.org
The terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation (c. 551.1–538.8 Ma) in South China is one of
two successions where Ediacara-type macrofossils are preserved in carbonate facies along …

A new conulariid (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) from the terminal Ediacaran of Brazil

JM Leme, H Van Iten, MG Simões - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Paraconularia ediacara n. sp., the oldest documented conulariid cnidarian, is described
based on a compressed thin specimen from the terminal Ediacaran Tamengo Formation …

Early evolution of colonial animals (Ediacaran evolutionary radiation–Cambrian evolutionary radiation–Great Ordovician Biodiversification interval)

E Landing, JB Antcliffe, G Geyer, A Kouchinsky… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Re-evaluation of eumetazoan modular coloniality gives a new perspective to Ediacaran–
Ordovician animal diversification. Highly integrated eumetazoan colonies (porpitids …

Treptichnus pedum in the Três Marias Formation, south-central Brazil, and its implications for the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in South America

EAM Sanchez, A Uhlein, TR Fairchild - Journal of South American Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
The index ichnofossil Treptichnus pedum Seilacher 1955 and four types of Microbially
Induced Sedimentary Structures (MISS)-variants of wrinkle and elephant skin structures–are …

[HTML][HTML] Cadmium isotopes in Late Ediacaran–Early Cambrian Yangtze Platform carbonates–Reconstruction of bioproductivity in ambient surface seawater

JA Frederiksen, W Wei, EJ Rugen, HF Ling… - Palaeogeography …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cadmium (Cd) isotope signatures (expressed as δ 114 Cd values) in seawater and in
suitable modern and ancient sediments have been proposed as a useful tracer for …

Sedimentary evolution and sequence stratigraphy of Ediacaran high‐grade phosphorite–dolomite–shale successions of the Bocaina formation (Corumbá Group) …

JPTM Hippertt, ID Rudnitzki, L Morais, B Freitas… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Extensive phosphorite deposition is observed in the Neoproterozoic after a prolonged hiatus
during most of the Mesoproterozoic era. This event is thought to represent an important …