Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

R Wood, AG Liu, F Bowyer, PR Wilby… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The 'Cambrian Explosion'describes the rapid increase in animal diversity and
abundance, as manifest in the fossil record, between~ 540 and 520 million years ago (Ma) …

The Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Environmental perturbations and biogeochemical cycling

LM Och, GA Shields-Zhou - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
The oxygen content of the Earth's surface environment is thought to have increased in two
broad steps: the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) around the Archean–Proterozoic boundary …

The Cambrian conundrum: early divergence and later ecological success in the early history of animals

DH Erwin, M Laflamme, SM Tweedt, EA Sperling… - science, 2011 - science.org
Diverse bilaterian clades emerged apparently within a few million years during the early
Cambrian, and various environmental, developmental, and ecological causes have been …

[LIVRE][B] Ichnology: Organism-substrate interactions in space and time

LA Buatois, MG Mángano - 2011 - books.google.com
Ichnology is the study of traces created in the substrate by living organisms. This is the first
book to systematically cover basic concepts and applications in both paleobiology and …

Rise to modern levels of ocean oxygenation coincided with the Cambrian radiation of animals

X Chen, HF Ling, D Vance, GA Shields-Zhou… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
The early diversification of animals (∼ 630 Ma), and their development into both motile and
macroscopic forms (∼ 575–565 Ma), has been linked to stepwise increases in the …

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 …

Oxygen, ecology, and the Cambrian radiation of animals

EA Sperling, CA Frieder, AV Raman… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The Proterozoic-Cambrian transition records the appearance of essentially all animal body
plans (phyla), yet to date no single hypothesis adequately explains both the timing of the …

Palaeoecology and evolution of marine hard substrate communities

PD Taylor, MA Wilson - Earth-Science Reviews, 2003 - Elsevier
Marine organisms have occupied hard substrates since the Archaean. Shells, rocks, wood
and sedimentary hardgrounds offer relatively stable habitats compared to unconsolidated …

The Ediacara biota: Neoproterozoic origin of animals and their ecosystems

GM Narbonne - Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract The Ediacara biota (575–542 Ma) marks the first appearance of large,
architecturally complex organisms in Earth history. Present evidence suggests that the …

Uranium and molybdenum isotope evidence for an episode of widespread ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Period

B Kendall, T Komiya, TW Lyons, SM Bates… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015 - Elsevier
To improve estimates of the extent of ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Period,
we measured the U and Mo isotope compositions of euxinic (anoxic and sulfidic) organic …