[HTML][HTML] Resolving MISS conceptions and misconceptions: a geological approach to sedimentary surface textures generated by microbial and abiotic processes

NS Davies, AG Liu, MR Gibling, RF Miller - Earth-Science Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
The rock record contains a rich variety of sedimentary surface textures on siliciclastic
sandstone, siltstone and mudstone bedding planes. In recent years, an increasing number …

Remarkable preservation of microbial mats in Neoproterozoic siliciclastic settings: implications for Ediacaran taphonomic models

RHT Callow, MD Brasier - Earth-Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
It is beyond doubt that the appearance of infaunal bioturbation and metazoan
biomineralization across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition irreversibly affected the nature …

Early fossil record of Euarthropoda and the Cambrian Explosion

AC Daley, JB Antcliffe, HB Drage… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Euarthropoda is one of the best-preserved fossil animal groups and has been the most
diverse animal phylum for over 500 million years. Fossil Konservat-Lagerstätten, such as …

[HTML][HTML] Early Cambrian origin of the shelf sediment mixed layer

RC Gougeon, MG Mángano, LA Buatois… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The mixed layer of modern oceans is a zone of fully homogenized sediment resulting from
bioturbation. The mixed layer is host to complex biogeochemical cycles that directly impact …

Ecological expansion and extinction in the late Ediacaran: weighing the evidence for environmental and biotic drivers

LG Tarhan, ML Droser, DB Cole… - Integrative and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Ediacara Biota, Earth's earliest communities of complex, macroscopic,
multicellular organisms, appeared during the late Ediacaran Period, just prior to the …

The paleoenvironmental distribution of Phanerozoic wrinkle structures

SA Mata, DJ Bottjer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Wrinkle structures are microbially induced sedimentary structures that are known to have
formed in ancient marine siliciclastic environments. This study reviews the sedimentary …

Chemotrophic microbial mats and their potential for preservation in the rock record

JV Bailey, VJ Orphan, SB Joye, FA Corsetti - Astrobiology, 2009 - liebertpub.com
Putative microbialites are commonly regarded to have formed in association with
photosynthetic microorganisms, such as cyanobacteria. However, many modern microbial …

Precambrian–Cambrian trace fossils from the Yangtze Platform (South China) and the early evolution of bilaterian lifestyles

B Weber, M Steiner, MY Zhu - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2007 - Elsevier
Siliciclastic, carbonaceous and phosphoritic shallow marine sediments from several
Neoproterozoic (Ediacaran) and Precambrian–Cambrian (PC–C) boundary sections on the …

Microfossil assemblages and indication of the source and preservation pattern of organic matter from the early Cambrian in South China

S Zheng, Q Feng, S van de Velde, S Chang… - Journal of Earth …, 2022 - Springer
The beginning of the Phanerozoic was marked by abundant phytoplankton, the occurrence
of animals and a newly established ecosystem structure, which in turn, resulted in different …

Diverse microbially induced sedimentary structures from 1 Ga lakes of the Diabaig Formation, Torridon Group, northwest Scotland

RHT Callow, L Battison, MD Brasier - Sedimentary Geology, 2011 - Elsevier
The siliciclastic lacustrine rocks of the~ 1000Ma Diabaig Formation, northwest Scotland,
contain a remarkable diversity of macroscopic structures on bedding planes that can be …