On the co‐evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals

DB Cole, DB Mills, DH Erwin, EA Sperling… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Few topics in geobiology have been as extensively debated as the role of Earth's
oxygenation in controlling when and why animals emerged and diversified. All currently …

The redox structure of Ediacaran and early Cambrian oceans and its controls

C Li, W Shi, M Cheng, C **, TJ Algeo - Science Bulletin, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapid diversification of early animals during the Ediacaran (635–541 Ma) and early
Cambrian (ca. 541–509 Ma) has frequently been attributed to increasing oceanic …

Uncovering the Ediacaran phosphorus cycle

MS Dodd, W Shi, C Li, Z Zhang, M Cheng, H Gu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Phosphorus is a limiting nutrient that is thought to control oceanic oxygen levels to a large
extent,–. A possible increase in marine phosphorus concentrations during the Ediacaran …

Calibrating the coevolution of Ediacaran life and environment

AD Rooney, MD Cantine… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The rise of animals occurred during an interval of Earth history that witnessed dynamic
marine redox conditions, potentially rapid plate motions, and uniquely large perturbations to …

Sulfate triple-oxygen-isotope evidence confirming oceanic oxygenation 570 million years ago

H Wang, Y Peng, C Li, X Cao, M Cheng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The largest negative inorganic carbon isotope excursion in Earth's history, namely the
Ediacaran Shuram Excursion (SE), closely followed by early animal radiation, has been …

Recurrent photic zone euxinia limited ocean oxygenation and animal evolution during the Ediacaran

W Zheng, A Zhou, SK Sahoo, MR Nolan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Ediacaran Period (~ 635–539 Ma) is marked by the emergence and
diversification of complex metazoans linked to ocean redox changes, but the processes and …

Global marine redox evolution from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic constrained by the integration of Mo and U isotope records

GY Wei, NJ Planavsky, T He, F Zhang, RG Stockey… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence and diversification of early animals is commonly thought to have coincided
with atmosphere and ocean oxygenation across the terminal Neoproterozoic and early …

Uranium isotopes in marine carbonates as a global ocean paleoredox proxy: a critical review

F Zhang, TM Lenton, Á del Rey, SJ Romaniello… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The protracted oxygenation of the ocean-atmosphere system is one of the most fundamental
changes to the Earth system through its history. The uranium isotopic composition (238 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Sedimentary Ce anomalies: Secular change and implications for paleoenvironmental evolution

K Zhang, GA Shields - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Although Ce anomalies are commonly used to reconstruct past seawater redox conditions,
published interpretations are based on various proxy materials and analytical approaches …