Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: The earth's changing climate during the last 540 million years

CR Scotese, H Song, BJW Mills, DG van der Meer - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
This study provides a comprehensive and quantitative estimate of how global temperatures
have changed during the last 540 million years. It combines paleotemperature …

Cambrian integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

M Zhu, A Yang, J Yuan, G Li, J Zhang, F Zhao… - Science China Earth …, 2019‏ - Springer
Abstract The Cambrian Period is the first period of the Phanerozoic Eon and witnessed the
explosive appearance of the metazoans, representing the beginning of the modern earth-life …

[HTML][HTML] Epochs, events and episodes: Marking the geological impact of humans

CN Waters, M Williams, J Zalasiewicz, SD Turner… - Earth-Science …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Event stratigraphy is used to help characterise the Anthropocene as a chronostratigraphic
concept, based on analogous deep-time events, for which we provide a novel …

The Qingjiang biota—a Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China

D Fu, G Tong, T Dai, W Liu, Y Yang, Y Zhang, L Cui… - Science, 2019‏ - science.org
Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätten provide the best evidence for deciphering the biotic
patterns and magnitude of the Cambrian explosion. Here, we report a Lagerstätte from …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history

MJ Benton, PCJ Donoghue, RJ Asher, M Friedman… - 2015‏ - palaeo-electronica.org
Dating the tree of life is a core endeavor in evolutionary biology. Rates of evolution are
fundamental to nearly every evolutionary model and process. Rates need dates. There is …

Cascading trend of Early Paleozoic marine radiations paused by Late Ordovician extinctions

CMØ Rasmussen, B Kröger, ML Nielsen… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
The greatest relative changes in marine biodiversity accumulation occurred during the Early
Paleozoic. The precision of temporal constraints on these changes is crude, hampering our …

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 …

New high‐resolution age data from the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary indicate rapid, ecologically driven onset of the Cambrian explosion

U Linnemann, M Ovtcharova, U Schaltegger… - Terra …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The replacement of the late Precambrian Ediacaran biota by morphologically disparate
animals at the beginning of the Phanerozoic was a key event in the history of life on Earth …

Cambrian explosion condensed: high-precision geochronology of the lower Wood Canyon Formation, Nevada

LL Nelson, JL Crowley, EF Smith, DM Schwartz… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
The geologically rapid appearance of fossils of modern animal phyla within Cambrian strata
is a defining characteristic of the history of life on Earth. However, temporal calibration of the …