Calibrating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation of animals

FT Bowyer, AY Zhuravlev, R Wood, GA Shields… - Earth-Science …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, which incorporates the radiation of animals,
lacks a robust global temporal and spatial framework, resulting in major uncertainty in the …

Co-evolution of eukaryotes and ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic era

TM Lenton, RA Boyle, SW Poulton… - Nature …, 2014‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Neoproterozoic era (about 1,000 to 542 million years ago) was a time of
turbulent environmental change. Large fluctuations in the carbon cycle were associated with …

The tempo of Ediacaran evolution

C Yang, AD Rooney, DJ Condon, XH Li… - Science …, 2021‏ - science.org
The rise of complex macroscopic life occurred during the Ediacaran Period, an interval that
witnessed large-scale disturbances to biogeochemical systems. The current Ediacaran …

Towards an Ediacaran time scale: problems, protocols, and prospects

S **ao, GM Narbonne, C Zhou… - …, 2016‏ - indianjournalofentrepreneurship …
Abstract The Ediacaran Period follows the Cryogenian Period in the wake of a snowball
Earth glaciation and precedes the Cambrian Period with its rising tide of animal radiation. It …

Possible links between extreme oxygen perturbations and the Cambrian radiation of animals

T He, M Zhu, BJW Mills, PM Wynn, AY Zhuravlev… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
The role of oxygen as a driver for early animal evolution is widely debated. During the
Cambrian explosion, episodic radiations of major animal phyla occurred coincident with …

Unique Neoproterozoic carbon isotope excursions sustained by coupled evaporite dissolution and pyrite burial

GA Shields, BJW Mills, M Zhu, TD Raub, SJ Daines… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
The Neoproterozoic era witnessed a succession of biological innovations that culminated in
diverse animal body plans and behaviours during the Ediacaran–Cambrian radiations …

The links between Neoproterozoic tectonics, paleoenvironment and Cambrian explosion in the Yangtze Block, China

Y Dong, B Hui, S Sun, J Sun, R Zang, B Zhang… - Earth-Science …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The correlation between Neoproterozoic tectonics, paleoenvironment and early life are
crucial for understanding the evolution of the Earth's habitability. The Yangtze Block …

Was the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion a globally synchronized early diagenetic event? Insights from methane-derived authigenic carbonates in the uppermost …

H Cui, AJ Kaufman, S **ao, C Zhou, XM Liu - Chemical Geology, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran Period is characterized by the most profound negative carbon
isotope (δ 13 C) excursion in Earth history, the Shuram Excursion. Various hypotheses …

Ediacaran integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

C Zhou, X Yuan, S **ao, Z Chen, H Hua - Science China Earth Sciences, 2019‏ - Springer
Ediacaran successions occur widely in various depositional facies in South China and yield
a series of fossil Lagerstätten, providing a complete fossil record for the evolution of marine …

Uncovering the spatial heterogeneity of Ediacaran carbon cycling

C Li, DS Hardisty, G Luo, J Huang, TJ Algeo… - …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Records of the Ediacaran carbon cycle (635–541 million years ago) include the Shuram
excursion (SE), the largest negative carbonate carbon isotope excursion in Earth history …