Abstract The Cambrian Period is the first period of the Phanerozoic Eon and witnessed the
explosive appearance of the metazoans, representing the beginning of the modern earth-life …

Use of the first appearance datum (FAD) of a fossil to define a global chronostratigraphic
unit's base can lead to intractable correlation and stability problems. FADs are diachronous …

The temporal link between large igneous province (LIP) eruptions and at least half of the
major extinctions of the Phanerozoic implies that large scale volcanism is the main driver of …

Appearance of metazoans with mineralized skeletons,“explosion” in biotic diversity and
disparity, infaunalization of the substrate, occurrence of metazoan Konservat Fossil …

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 …

Papers resulting from the Fourth International Symposium on the Cambrian System, held in
Nan**g, China, in 2005 cover three major aspects of geology and paleontology:(1) the …

A growing body of evidence suggests that the deep oceans during the early Paleozoic Era
were widely oxygen deficient, despite evidence for increased marine oxygenation during the …

Earth experienced major changes during the late Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian and
Ediacaran) to early Cambrian transition. Notably, these include continental rearrangement …

The most successful chronostratigraphic correlation methods enlist multiple proxies such as
biostratigraphy and chemostratigraphy to constrain the timing of globally important bio-and …

Abstract The Steptoean Positive Isotopic Carbon Excursion (SPICE) is a prominent
chemostratigraphic feature in the Lower Paleozoic. It has been used to correlate Upper …