Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages through geologic time and space

AD Muscente, JD Schiffbauer, J Broce, M Laflamme… - Gondwana …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Geologic deposits containing fossils with remains of non-biomineralized tissues (ie
Konservat-Lagerstätten) provide key insights into ancient organisms and ecosystems. Such …

A modern definition of Fossil-Lagerstätten

J Kimmig, JD Schiffbauer - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2024‏ - cell.com
Fossil-Lagerstätten are amongst the most important windows onto the paleobiology of
ancient ecosystems. Inconsistencies surrounding what constitutes a Lagerstätte limits our …

The latest Ediacaran wormworld fauna: setting the ecological stage for the Cambrian explosion

JD Schiffbauer, JW Huntley, GR O'Neil, SAF Darroch… - 2016‏ - utoronto.scholaris.ca
As signposted by the fossil record, the early Cambrian period chronicles the appearance
and evolutionary diversification of most animal phyla in a geologically rapid event …

Seaweeds through time: morphological and ecological analysis of Proterozoic and early Paleozoic benthic macroalgae

N Bykova, ST LoDuca, Q Ye, V Marusin… - Precambrian …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Benthic marine macroalgae or seaweeds are key ecological players in oceans today and
have been since the Proterozoic. To date, however, morphological and evolutionary patterns …

The Weng'an biota and the Ediacaran radiation of multicellular eukaryotes

S **ao, AD Muscente, L Chen, C Zhou… - National Science …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
The rise of multicellularity represents a major evolutionary transition and it occurred
independently in multiple eukaryote clades. Although simple multicellular organisms may …

Ediacaran distributions in space and time: testing assemblage concepts of earliest macroscopic body fossils

TH Boag, SAF Darroch, M Laflamme - Paleobiology, 2016‏ - cambridge.org
The mid-late Ediacaran Period (~ 579–541 Ma) is characterized by globally distributed
marine soft-bodied organisms of unclear phylogenetic affinities colloquially called the …

Environmental context for the terminal Ediacaran biomineralization of animals

H Cui, AJ Kaufman, S **ao, S Peek, H Cao, X Min… - …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
In terminal Ediacaran strata of South China, the onset of calcareous biomineralization is
preserved in the paleontological transition from Conotubus to Cloudina in repetitious …

Discovery of bilaterian-type through-guts in cloudinomorphs from the terminal Ediacaran Period

JD Schiffbauer, T Selly, SM Jacquet, RA Merz… - Nature …, 2020‏ - nature.com
The fossil record of the terminal Ediacaran Period is typified by the iconic index fossil
Cloudina and its relatives. These tube-dwellers are presumed to be primitive metazoans, but …

Integrated carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen isotope chemostratigraphy of the Ediacaran Lantian Formation in South China: Spatial gradient, ocean redox oscillation, and …

W Wang, C Guan, C Zhou, Y Peng, LM Pratt… - …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in South China is a prime target for
geobiological investigation because it offers opportunities to integrate chemostratigraphic …

The end of the Ediacaran: Two new exceptionally preserved body fossil assemblages from Mount Dunfee, Nevada, USA

EF Smith, LL Nelson, MA Strange, AE Eyster… - …, 2016‏ - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Evaluation of hypotheses that relate environmental to evolutionary change across
the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition has been hampered by a dearth of sections that preserve …