Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

R Wood, AG Liu, F Bowyer, PR Wilby… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The 'Cambrian Explosion'describes the rapid increase in animal diversity and
abundance, as manifest in the fossil record, between~ 540 and 520 million years ago (Ma) …

Coordinated biotic and abiotic change during the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event: Darriwilian assembly of early Paleozoic building blocks

AL Stigall, CT Edwards, RL Freeman… - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ordovician Period records an extraordinary biodiversity increase known as the
Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE), which coincided with a series of …

A high-resolution record of early Paleozoic climate

SL Goldberg, TM Present, S Finnegan… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
The spatial coverage and temporal resolution of the Early Paleozoic paleoclimate record are
limited, primarily due to the paucity of well-preserved skeletal material commonly used for …

Marine anoxia and delayed Earth system recovery after the end-Permian extinction

KV Lau, K Maher, D Altiner, BM Kelley… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - pnas.org
Delayed Earth system recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction is often attributed
to severe ocean anoxia. However, the extent and duration of Early Triassic anoxia remains …

Co-evolution of oceans, climate, and the biosphere during the 'Ordovician Revolution': a review

TJ Algeo, PJ Marenco, MR Saltzman - Palaeogeography …, 2016 - Elsevier
The Ordovician Period (~ 485-444 Ma) was an interval of major, causally interconnected 15
changes in the Earth's biotic, climatic, and environmental systems. The diversity of marine …

Oxygenation as a driver of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

CT Edwards, MR Saltzman, DL Royer, DA Fike - Nature Geoscience, 2017 - nature.com
The largest radiation of Phanerozoic marine animal life quadrupled genus-level diversity
towards the end of the Ordovician Period about 450 million years ago. A leading hypothesis …

Global marine redox evolution from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic constrained by the integration of Mo and U isotope records

GY Wei, NJ Planavsky, T He, F Zhang, RG Stockey… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence and diversification of early animals is commonly thought to have coincided
with atmosphere and ocean oxygenation across the terminal Neoproterozoic and early …

The rise of animals in a changing environment: global ecological innovation in the late Ediacaran

ML Droser, LG Tarhan… - Annual review of earth and …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The evolutionary trajectory of early complex life on Earth is interpreted largely from the
fossils of the Precambrian soft-bodied Ediacara Biota, which appeared and evolved during a …

Quantifying ecospace utilization and ecosystem engineering during the early Phanerozoic—The role of bioturbation and bioerosion

LA Buatois, MG Mángano, NJ Minter, K Zhou… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
The Cambrian explosion (CE) and the great Ordovician biodiversification event (GOBE) are
the two most important radiations in Paleozoic oceans. We quantify the role of bioturbation …

Synchronizing rock clocks in the late Cambrian

Z Zhao, NR Thibault, TW Dahl, NH Schovsbo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Cambrian is the most poorly dated period of the past 541 million years. This hampers
analysis of profound environmental and biological changes that took place during this …