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) …

On the co‐evolution of surface oxygen levels and animals

DB Cole, DB Mills, DH Erwin, EA Sperling… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Few topics in geobiology have been as extensively debated as the role of Earth's
oxygenation in controlling when and why animals emerged and diversified. All currently …

Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity in the Neoproterozoic and Palaeozoic eras

RG Stockey, DB Cole, UC Farrell, H Agić, TH Boag… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A geologically rapid Neoproterozoic oxygenation event is commonly linked to the
appearance of marine animal groups in the fossil record. However, there is still debate about …

[HTML][HTML] The impacts of land plant evolution on Earth's climate and oxygenation state–An interdisciplinary review

TW Dahl, SKM Arens - Chemical Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
The Paleozoic emergence of terrestrial plants has been linked to a stepwise increase in
Earth's O 2 levels and a cooling of Earth's climate by drawdown of atmospheric CO 2 …

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 …

Global marine redox changes drove the rise and fall of the Ediacara biota

F Zhang, S **ao, SJ Romaniello, D Hardisty, C Li… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The role of O2 in the evolution of early animals, as represented by some members of the
Ediacara biota, has been heavily debated because current geochemical evidence paints a …

A long-term record of early to mid-Paleozoic marine redox change

EA Sperling, MJ Melchin, T Fraser, RG Stockey… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The extent to which Paleozoic oceans differed from Neoproterozoic oceans and the causal
relationship between biological evolution and changing environmental conditions are …

Current understanding on the Cambrian Explosion: questions and answers

X Zhang, D Shu - PalZ, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Cambrian Explosion by nature is a three-phased explosion of animal body
plans alongside episodic biomineralization, pulsed change of generic diversity, body size …

[HTML][HTML] The trace fossil record of the Nama Group, Namibia: exploring the terminal Ediacaran roots of the Cambrian explosion

SAF Darroch, AT Cribb, LA Buatois, GJB Germs… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran–Cambrian transition marks one of the most important geobiological
revolutions in Earth History, including multiple waves of evolutionary radiation and …

Phosphorus-limited conditions in the early Neoproterozoic ocean maintained low levels of atmospheric oxygen

R Guilbaud, SW Poulton, J Thompson, KF Husband… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The redox chemistry of anoxic continental margin settings evolved from widespread sulfide-
containing (euxinic) conditions to a global ferruginous (iron-containing) state in the early …