Over 3.7 billion years of Earth history, life has evolved complex adaptations to help navigate
and interact with the fluid environment. Consequently, fluid dynamics has become a …

Earth's earliest fossils of complex macroscopic life are recorded in Ediacaran-aged
siliciclastic deposits as exceptionally well-preserved three-dimensional casts and molds …

The broad-scale environment plays a substantial role in sha** modern marine
ecosystems, but the degree to which palaeocommunities were influenced by their …

ABSTRACT The lower Nama Group in southern Namibia contains trace fossils and soft‐
bodied and biomineralized macro‐organisms from the terminal Ediacaran Period (ca 550 to …

Biogenic sedimentary structures offer a unique perspective for understanding the role of the
biosphere in the interaction with other Earth subsystems and the building up of our planet …

Molecular clocks and Cambrian-derived metazoans strongly suggest a Neoproterozoic
origin of many animal clades. 1, 2, 3, 4 However, fossil bilaterians are rare in the Ediacaran …

Boron content is an indicator of paleosalinity for Mesozoic and Cenozoic clayey sediments,
but is compromised by clay diagenesis in deeply-buried sediments of Paleozoic and …

The Ediacara Biota preserves the oldest fossil evidence of abundant, complex metazoans.
Despite their significance, assigning individual taxa to specific phylogenetic groups has …

Problematic fossils are described from Late Ediacaran to Early Cambrian red sandstones of
the Arumbera Sandstone, Grant Bluff, and Central Mount Stuart Formations in central …

Several specimens of Dickinsonia cf. D. menneri, originating from a single burial event at the
Lyamtsa locality of the late Ediacaran (Vendian) in the southeastern White Sea area, Russia …