The Emu Bay Shale: A unique early Cambrian Lagerstätte from a tectonically active basin

RR Gaines, DC García-Bellido, JB Jago, PM Myrow… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The Emu Bay Shale (EBS) of South Australia is anomalous among Cambrian Lagerstätten
because it captures anatomical information that is rare in Burgess Shale–type fossils, and …

A juvenile-rich palaeocommunity of the lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota sheds light on palaeo-boom or palaeo-bust environments

X Yang, J Kimmig, D Zhai, Y Liu, SR Kimmig… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
The fossil record, including the record of Burgess Shale-type deposits, is biased towards late
ontogenetic stages. Larval stages, juvenile and subadult specimens exist but are very rare …

Information landscapes and sensory ecology of the Cambrian Radiation

RE Plotnick, SQ Dornbos, J Chen - Paleobiology, 2010 - cambridge.org
Organisms emit, detect, and respond to a huge array of environmental signals. The
distribution of a given signal is dependent, first of all, upon the original spatial distribution of …