Insights into soft-part preservation from the Early Ordovician Fezouata Biota

F Saleh, R Vaucher, JB Antcliffe, AC Daley… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fezouata Biota in Morocco is the only Lower Ordovician Lagerstätte yielding a
biologically diverse assemblage in a fully marine environment, whilst also containing …

Rapid volcanic ash entombment reveals the 3D anatomy of Cambrian trilobites

A El Albani, A Mazurier, GD Edgecombe, A Azizi… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Knowledge of Cambrian animal anatomy is limited by preservational processes that result in
compaction, size bias, and incompleteness. We documented pristine three-dimensional (3D) …

Cambrian comb jellies from Utah illuminate the early evolution of nervous and sensory systems in ctenophores

LA Parry, R Lerosey-Aubril, JC Weaver… - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Ctenophores are a group of predatory macroinvertebrates whose controversial phylogenetic
position has prompted several competing hypotheses regarding the evolution of animal …

The Vicissicaudata revisited–insights from a new aglaspidid arthropod with caudal appendages from the Furongian of China

R Lerosey-Aubril, X Zhu, J Ortega-Hernández - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Cambrian marine ecosystems were dominated by arthropods, and more specifically
artiopods. Aglaspidids represent an atypical group amongst them, not the least because …

Influence of dissolved oxygen on secular patterns of marine microbial carbonate abundance during the past 490 Myr

R Riding, L Liang, JH Lee, A Virgone - Palaeogeography …, 2019 - Elsevier
Shallow marine benthic microbial carbonate sediments declined episodically during the
Phanerozoic. They were relatively abundant during the Cambrian/mid-Ordovician, late …

The Late Ordovician Tafilalt Biota, Anti-Atlas, Morocco: a high-latitude perspective on the GOBE

B Lefebvre, P Van Roy, S Zamora, JC Gutiérrez-Marco… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The extensive, predominantly siliciclastic deposits of the Upper Ordovician of the Tafilalt
have long been the subject of scientific investigation. In the past 25 years, intensified …

The trilobite Redlichia from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte of South Australia: systematics, ontogeny and soft-part anatomy

JD Holmes, JR Paterson… - Journal of Systematic …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The trilobite Redlichia Cossmann, is an abundant element of the lower Cambrian (Series 2,
Stage 4) Emu Bay Shale (EBS) Konservat-Lagerstätte on Kangaroo Island, South Australia …

[PDF][PDF] First palaeoscolecid from the Cambrian (Miaolingian, Drumian) Marjum formation of western Utah

W Leibach, R Lerosey-Aubril, A Whitaker… - Acta Palaeontologica …, 2021 - par.nsf.gov
The middle Marjum Formation is one of five Miaolingian Burgess Shale-type deposits in
Utah, USA. It preserves a diverse non-biomineralized fossil assemblage, which is dominated …

Taphonomic pathway of exceptionally preserved fossils in the Lower Ordovician of Morocco

F Saleh, B Pittet, P Sansjofre, P Guériau, S Lalonde… - Geobios, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Fezouata Shale in Morocco is the only Lower Ordovician Lagerstätte to yield a
diverse exceptionally preserved marine fauna. Sediments of this formation have yielded soft …

Ordovician stratigraphy and benthic community replacements in the eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco

JJ Álvaro, M Benharref, J Destombes… - 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Anti-Atlas contains a thick, volcanic-free Ordovician succession that originally
deposited in a passive-margin basin. Three main sedimentary packages are bounded by …