Across space and time: A review of sampling, preservational, analytical, and anthropogenic biases in fossil data across macroecological scales

K Nanglu, TM Cullen - Earth-Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantitative studies of fossil data have proven critical to a number of major
macroevolutionary and macroecological discoveries, such as the 'Big 5'mass extinctions of …

The Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte: a view of Cambrian life from East Gondwana

JR Paterson, DC García-Bellido, JB Jago… - Journal of the …, 2016 - lyellcollection.org
Recent fossil discoveries from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale (EBS) on Kangaroo
Island, South Australia, have provided critical insights into the tempo of the Cambrian …

The Qingjiang biota—a Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China

D Fu, G Tong, T Dai, W Liu, Y Yang, Y Zhang, L Cui… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätten provide the best evidence for deciphering the biotic
patterns and magnitude of the Cambrian explosion. Here, we report a Lagerstätte from …

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 …

Early fossil record of Euarthropoda and the Cambrian Explosion

AC Daley, JB Antcliffe, HB Drage… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Euarthropoda is one of the best-preserved fossil animal groups and has been the most
diverse animal phylum for over 500 million years. Fossil Konservat-Lagerstätten, such as …

Protomelission is an early dasyclad alga and not a Cambrian bryozoan

J Yang, T Lan, X Zhang, MR Smith - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The animal phyla and their associated body plans originate from a singular burst of
evolution occurring during the Cambrian period, over 500 million years ago. The phylum …

Priapulid neoichnology, ecosystem engineering, and the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition

KA Turk, A Wehrmann, M Laflamme… - Palaeontology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The evolutionary rise of powerful new ecosystem engineering impacts is thought to have
played an important role in driving waves of biospheric change across the Ediacaran …

The Burgess Shale paleocommunity with new insights from Marble Canyon, British Columbia

K Nanglu, JB Caron, RR Gaines - Paleobiology, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The middle (Wuliuan Stage) Cambrian Burgess Shale is famous for its exceptional
preservation of diverse and abundant soft-bodied animals through the “thick” Stephen …

Reappraising the early evidence of durophagy and drilling predation in the fossil record: implications for escalation and the C ambrian E xplosion

RDC Bicknell, JR Paterson - Biological Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Cambrian Explosion is arguably the most extreme example of a biological
radiation preserved in the fossil record, and studies of Cambrian Lagerstätten have …

A new phyllopod bed-like assemblage from the Burgess Shale of the Canadian Rockies

JB Caron, RR Gaines, C Aria, MG Mángano… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Burgess Shale-type fossil assemblages provide the best evidence of the 'Cambrian
explosion'. Here we report the discovery of an extraordinary new soft-bodied fauna from the …