Cambrian radiation speciation events driven by sea level and redoxcline changes on the Siberian Craton

AY Zhuravlev, RA Wood, FT Bowyer - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
The evolutionary processes of speciation during the Cambrian radiation and their potential
extrinsic drivers, such as episodic oceanic oxygenation events, remain unconfirmed. High …

Development of eodiscinid trilobites

T Dai, X Zhang - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A comprehensive review of a full developmental sequence of eodiscinid
trilobites reported in recent decades from Cambrian Series 2 and 3 strata is presented …

Quantitative ichnology: a novel framework to determine the producers of locomotory trace fossils with the ichnogenus Gordia as a case study

Z Wang, IA Rahman - Palaeontology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Trace fossils record the interactions between organisms and their surroundings, and can
therefore provide unique insights into the coevolution of trace makers and the environment …

U–Pb zircon ages from tuffaceous beds in the Terreneuvian to Cambrian Series 2 sections of Avalonian southern New Brunswick, Canada: new constraints on …

MA Hamilton, JJ Álvaro, SM Barr… - Geological Society …, 2024 - lyellcollection.org
Avalonian sections in the Saint John area, southern New Brunswick, have long contributed
to global understanding of Cambrian chronostratigraphy. A tuffaceous bed in the Ratcliffe …

[HTML][HTML] Function of flow wakes for queuing trilobites: Positioning rather than drag reduction–Criteria for drag force assessment in palaeontological CFD simulations

Z Wang, GD Edgecombe, J Hou - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2024 - Elsevier
Trilobites are one of the most important invertebrate clades in the Palaeozoic, with
significant disparity in morphology and behaviour, the latter including intriguing instances of …

Contrasting patterns of disparity suggest differing constraints on the evolution of trilobite cephalic structures during the Cambrian 'explosion'

JD Holmes - Palaeontology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Trilobites are an abundant group of Palaeozoic marine euarthropods that appear abruptly in
the fossil record c. 521 million years ago. Quantifying the development of morphological …

Ediacaran paleobiology and biostratigraphy of the Nama Group, Namibia, with emphasis on the erniettomorphs, tubular and trace fossils, and a new sponge, Arimasia …

B Runnegar, JG Gehling, S Jensen… - Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Ediacaran fossils, obtained in stratigraphic context in 1993, 1995, and 1996, with the
assistance of A. Seilacher, IGCP project 320 scientists, and the Geological Survey of …

An Atlas of Malformed Trilobites from North American Repositories Part 2. The American Museum of Natural History

RDC Bicknell, PM Smith, MJ Hopkins - American Museum Novitates, 2024 - BioOne
Trilobites with malformations present important insight into the paleoecology of the wholly
extinct arthropod group. This includes records of failed predation, developmental …

U-Pb zircon dates from North American and British Avalonia bracket the Lower–Middle Cambrian boundary interval, with evaluation of the Miaolingian Series as a …

E Landing, MD Schmitz, SR Westrop… - Geological Magazine, 2023 - cambridge.org
High-precision U-Pb zircon ages on SE Newfoundland tuffs now bracket the Avalonian
Lower–Middle Cambrian boundary. Upper Lower Cambrian Brigus Formation tuffs yield …

Cambrian origin but no early burst in functional disparity for Class Bivalvia

S Zhou, SM Edie, KS Collins, NMA Crouch… - Biology …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Both the Cambrian explosion, more than half a billion years ago, and its Ordovician
aftermath some 35 Myr later, are often framed as episodes of widespread ecological …