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 …

'Conga lines' of Ediacaran fronds: insights into the reproductive biology of early metazoans

KM Delahooke, AG Liu… - Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Late Ediacaran strata from Newfoundland, Canada (~ 574–560 Ma) document near-census
palaeocommunities of some of the earliest metazoans. Such preservation enables …

Elongate Ediacaran fronds from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia

KF Grimes, GM Narbonne, JG Gehling… - Journal of …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Decimeter-scale, elongate, fossil fronds from the Ediacara Range in South Australia were
formally described as Rangea longa Glaessner and Wade, 1966, but the disparate nature of …

Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans

S Gutarra, EG Mitchell, FS Dunn, BM Gibson… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
The rise of animals across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition marked a step-change in the
history of life, from a microbially dominated world to the complex macroscopic biosphere we …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrodynamic insights into the paleobiology of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Fractofusus misrai

D Pérez-Pinedo, R Nicholls, JM Neville, D McIlroy - iScience, 2024 - cell.com
Summary The Ediacaran of Newfoundland preserves some of the oldest complex
macroscopic communities, several of which are dominated by the fractal-like rangeomorph …

The Palaeobiology of Two Crown Group Cnidarians: Haootia quadriformis and Mamsetia manunis gen. et sp. nov. from the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada

D McIlroy, G Pasinetti, D Pérez-Pinedo, C McKean… - Life, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The Ediacaran of eastern Newfoundland preserves the world's oldest known eumetazoan
body fossils, as well as the earliest known record of fossilized muscular tissue. Re …