Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans

S Gutarra, EG Mitchell, FS Dunn, BM Gibson… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
The rise of animals across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition marked a step-change in the
history of life, from a microbially dominated world to the complex macroscopic biosphere we …

Transport of 'Nama'‐type biota in sediment gravity and combined flows: Implications for terminal Ediacaran palaeoecology

B O'Connell, WJ McMahon, A Nduutepo… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Hydrodynamic insights into the paleobiology of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Fractofusus misrai

D Pérez-Pinedo, R Nicholls, JM Neville, D McIlroy - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Summary The Ediacaran of Newfoundland preserves some of the oldest complex
macroscopic communities, several of which are dominated by the fractal-like rangeomorph …

Spatial distributions of Tribrachidium, Rugoconites, and Obamus from the Ediacara Member (Rawnsley Quartzite), South Australia

PC Boan, SD Evans, CMS Hall, ML Droser - Paleobiology, 2023 - cambridge.org
The spatial distribution of in situ sessile organisms, including those from the fossil record,
provides information about life histories, such as possible dispersal and/or settlement …

The life and times of Pteridinium simplex

SAF Darroch, BM Gibson, M Syversen, IA Rahman… - Paleobiology, 2022 - cambridge.org
Pteridinium simplex is an iconic erniettomorph taxon best known from late Ediacaran
successions in South Australia, Russia, and Namibia. Despite nearly 100 years of study …

Life on the way out of Shuram Excursion: New locality of Ediacaran biota in the Ura Uplift of the southern Siberian Platform

AV Kolesnikov, SV Rud'ko, MA Fedonkin - Gondwana Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ura Uplift section in the Patom Highlands area of Siberia is one of the most
complete Neoproterozoic carbonate-siliciclastic succession with excellent …

[HTML][HTML] The rangeomorph Pectinifrons abyssalis: Hydrodynamic function at the dawn of animal life

SAF Darroch, S Gutarra, H Masaki, A Olaru, BM Gibson… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Rangeomorphs are among the oldest putative eumetazoans known from the fossil record.
Establishing how they fed is thus key to understanding the structure and function of the …

[HTML][HTML] And now for something completely random: spatial distribution of Dickinsonia on the Ediacaran seafloor

PC Boan, SD Evans, ML Droser - Global and Planetary Change, 2024 - Elsevier
The oldest evidence of motile complex benthic multicellular organisms is found in Ediacaran
aged rocks. At Nilpena Ediacara National Park (NENP), South Australia, one of the most …