A Cenozoic Record of Deep Oceanic Zn Isotopic Composition in Ferromanganese Crusts

M Zhao, N Planavsky, X Wang, Y Zhang… - American Journal of …, 2023 - ajsonline.org
Water plays a critical role in erosion and sediment transport and this relationship is most
evident in the hyperarid Atacama Desert of Northern Chile, a region characterized by …

[HTML][HTML] Locating the BACE of the Cambrian: Bayan Gol in southwestern Mongolia and global correlation of the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary

T Topper, MJ Betts, D Dorjnamjaa, G Li, L Li… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
The diversification of animals during the Cambrian Period is one of the most significant
evolutionary events in Earth's history. However, the sequence of events leading to the origin …

Cambrian explosion condensed: High-precision geochronology of the lower Wood Canyon Formation, Nevada

LL Nelson, JL Crowley, EF Smith… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The geologically rapid appearance of fossils of modern animal phyla within Cambrian strata
is a defining characteristic of the history of life on Earth. However, temporal calibration of the …

Sea level controls on Ediacaran-Cambrian animal radiations

FT Bowyer, RA Wood, M Yilales - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
The drivers of Ediacaran-Cambrian metazoan radiations remain unclear, as does the fidelity
of the record. We use a global age framework [580–510 million years (Ma) ago] to estimate …

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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Constraining the onset and environmental setting of metazoan biomineralization: the Ediacaran Nama Group of the Tsaus Mountains, Namibia

FT Bowyer, CI Uahengo, K Kaputuaza… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The advent of animal (metazoan) biomineralization marks a fundamental transition in Earth's
history, facilitating the diversification of novel body plans as well as the biological control of …

Priapulid neoichnology, ecosystem engineering, and the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition

KA Turk, A Wehrmann, M Laflamme… - Palaeontology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The evolutionary rise of powerful new ecosystem engineering impacts is thought to have
played an important role in driving waves of biospheric change across the Ediacaran …

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 …

Life on the Edge: The Cambrian Marine Realm and Oxygenation

SB Pruss, BC Gill - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The beginning of the Phanerozoic saw two biological events that set the stage for all life that
was to come:(a) the Cambrian Explosion (the appearance of most marine invertebrate …