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 …

Stromatolites are abundant in shallow marine sediments deposited before the evolution of
animals, but in the modern ocean they are restricted to locations where the activity of …

Recent studies on δ 13 C chemostratigraphy have produced a wealth of new information of
major importance for clarification of local and global stratigraphic relationships. Currently …

Continuous and biostratigraphically well-constrained carbon isotope (δ 13 C org) profiles
through the upper Miaolingian (middle Cambrian) to Tremadocian (Lower Ordovician) part …

Two major, extended diversifications punctuated the evolution of marine life during the Early
Palaeozoic. The interregnum, however, between the Cambrian Explosion and the Great …

Recent reconnaissance geological map**, identification of unconformities and
chronostratigraphic dating of Miaolingian to Ordovician strata in the eastern Alborz …

Cambrian carbonates with abundant fossils of agnostoid trilobites deposited on the southern
slope (Jiangnan slope belt) of the Yangtze Platform and in the Jiangnan deepwater basin …

The Deh‐Molla Formation of the Alborz Zone in northern Iran is a key unit to understanding
global sea‐level fluctuations, and likely climate changes during the Furongian Epoch. The …

Recent work has focused on erecting new Seilacherian ichnofacies for depositional
environments subject to recurring temporal and spatial variations in physico-chemical stress …

Cambrian–Ordovician sponge-microbial mounds in the Great Basin of the western USA
reveal reef structure and composition immediately prior to the Great Ordovician …