Ediacaran extinction and Cambrian explosion

SAF Darroch, EF Smith, M Laflamme… - Trends in ecology & …, 2018 - cell.com
The Ediacaran–Cambrian (E–C) transition marks the most important geobiological
revolution of the past billion years, including the Earth's first crisis of macroscopic eukaryotic …

The rise of animals in a changing environment: global ecological innovation in the late Ediacaran

ML Droser, LG Tarhan… - Annual review of earth and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The evolutionary trajectory of early complex life on Earth is interpreted largely from the
fossils of the Precambrian soft-bodied Ediacara Biota, which appeared and evolved during a …

New high‐resolution age data from the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary indicate rapid, ecologically driven onset of the Cambrian explosion

U Linnemann, M Ovtcharova, U Schaltegger… - Terra …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The replacement of the late Precambrian Ediacaran biota by morphologically disparate
animals at the beginning of the Phanerozoic was a key event in the history of life on Earth …

[HTML][HTML] The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion

SAF Darroch, AT Cribb, LA Buatois, GJB Germs… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran–Cambrian transition marks one of the most important geobiological
revolutions in Earth History, including multiple waves of evolutionary radiation and …

Ediacaran integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

C Zhou, X Yuan, S Xiao, Z Chen, H Hua - Science China Earth Sciences, 2019 - Springer
Ediacaran successions occur widely in various depositional facies in South China and yield
a series of fossil Lagerstätten, providing a complete fossil record for the evolution of marine …

The Cambrian revolutions: trace-fossil record, timing, links and geobiological impact

MG Mángano, LA Buatois - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Several concepts pertaining to the dramatic changes that occurred during the Cambrian
have been proposed, namely the Agronomic Revolution (AR), the Cambrian Substrate …

[PDF][PDF] The latest Ediacaran wormworld fauna: setting the ecological stage for the Cambrian explosion

JD Schiffbauer, JW Huntley, GR O'Neil, SAF Darroch… - GSA Today, 2016 - academia.edu
As signposted by the fossil record, the early Cambrian period chronicles the appearance
and evolutionary diversification of most animal phyla in a geologically rapid event …

Pushing the boundary: A calibrated Ediacaran-Cambrian stratigraphic record from the Nama Group in northwestern Republic of South Africa

LL Nelson, J Ramezani, JE Almond… - Earth and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Nama Group exposed on the Neint Nababeep Plateau along the Orange River
in northwestern Republic of South Africa is now recognized as an expanded record of the …

The rise and early evolution of animals: where do we stand from a trace-fossil perspective?

MG Mángano, LA Buatois - Interface Focus, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The trace-fossil record provides a wealth of information to track the rise and early evolution
of animals. It comprises the activity of both hard-and soft-bodied organisms, is continuous …

Controls on the evolution of Ediacaran metazoan ecosystems: a redox perspective

F Bowyer, RA Wood, SW Poulton - Geobiology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A growing number of detailed geochemical studies of Ediacaran (635–541 Ma) marine
successions have provided snapshots into the redox environments that played host to the …