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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Precambrian Earth: Co-evolution of life and geodynamics

F Westall, S Xiao - Precambrian Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The Precambrian covers 80% of the history the Earth. In this timespan, the Earth developed
from an anaerobic planet to the oxygenic planet dominated by Wilson-style plate tectonics …

Causes and consequences of end-Ediacaran extinction: An update

SAF Darroch, EF Smith, LL Nelson… - Cambridge Prisms …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Since the 1980s, the existence of one or more extinction events in the late Ediacaran has
been the subject of debate. Discussion surrounding these events has intensified in the last …

Three‐dimensional reconstruction, taphonomic and petrological data suggest that the oldest record of bioturbation is a body fossil coquina

C Psarras, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Garwood… - Papers in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Fossil material assigned to Nenoxites from the late Ediacaran Khatyspyt Formation of Arctic
Siberia (550–544 Ma) has been presented as evidence for bioturbation prior to the basal …

Himatiichnus mangano igen. et isp. nov., a scalidophoran trace fossil from the late Ediacaran of Namibia

KA Turk, MA Pulsipher, H Mocke… - Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Himatiichnus mangano igen. et isp. nov., a new trace fossil from the late Ediacaran Huns
Member of the Urusis Formation, southern Namibia, comprises intertwining tubes exhibiting …

First record of trace fossils in the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition on the northern Gondwana platform (Anti-Atlas, Morocco)

A Azizi, A El Bakhouch, A El Albani, K Kirsimäe… - Precambrian …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Anti-Atlas Mountains of Morocco preserve one of the most complete latest
Neoproterozoic to Cambrian stratigraphic successions worldwide, with high-resolution …

[PDF][PDF] A priapulid larva from the middle Cambrian (Wuliuan Stage) of North Greenland (Laurentia)

JS Peel - Bulletin of Geosciences, 2022 - geology.cz
A single phosphatised specimen from the middle Cambrian Henson Gletscher Formation
(Miaolingian Series, Wuliuan Stage) of North Greenland is interpreted as the hatching larva …

Assessing the correlation between Ediacaran-Cambrian units of SW Gondwana: The Tagatiya Guazú (Itapucumi Group, Paraguay) and Tamengo (Corumbá Group …

GC Antunes, LV Warren, J Okubo, BT Freitas… - Journal of South …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Tagatiya Guazú (PY) and Tamengo (BR) formations are South-American
Ediacaran-Cambrian carbonate units that share striking similarities between their …

The Lower Cambrian deposits of the Le Rozel Formation (Normandy, NW France): Insight into a newly described ichnofossil assemblage

B Coutret, D Néraudeau, D Gendry, A Loi… - Palaeogeography …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rise of morphological complexity and taxonomic diversity of trace fossils during the
Cambrian Period has been a prominent focus to track the evolution and diversification of …