Decline and fall of the Ediacarans: late‐Neoproterozoic extinctions and the rise of the modern biosphere

G Mussini, FS Dunn - Biological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The end‐Neoproterozoic transition marked a gradual but permanent shift between distinct
configurations of Earth's biosphere. This interval witnessed the demise of the enigmatic …

Early evolution of colonial animals (Ediacaran evolutionary radiation–Cambrian evolutionary radiation–Great Ordovician Biodiversification interval)

E Landing, JB Antcliffe, G Geyer, A Kouchinsky… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Re-evaluation of eumetazoan modular coloniality gives a new perspective to Ediacaran–
Ordovician animal diversification. Highly integrated eumetazoan colonies (porpitids …

A new conulariid (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) from the terminal Ediacaran of Brazil

JM Leme, H Van Iten, MG Simões - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Paraconularia ediacara n. sp., the oldest documented conulariid cnidarian, is described
based on a compressed thin specimen from the terminal Ediacaran Tamengo Formation …

Global or regional? Constraining the origins of the middle Bambuí carbon cycle anomaly in Brazil

H Cui, LV Warren, GJ Uhlein, J Okubo, XM Liu… - Precambrian …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran-Cambrian Bambuí Group in Brazil records an anomalously positive
excursion in carbonate carbon isotopes (δ 13 C carb) with a sustained plateau of ca.+ …

A new cloudinid fossil assemblage from the terminal Ediacaran of Nevada, USA

T Selly, JD Schiffbauer, SM Jacquet… - Journal of Systematic …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Owing to their temporal position during the decline of the classic Ediacara biota and the
appearance of the more recognizable metazoans of the Cambrian Period, the terminal …

Treptichnus pedum in the Três Marias Formation, south-central Brazil, and its implications for the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in South America

EAM Sanchez, A Uhlein, TR Fairchild - Journal of South American Earth …, 2021 - Elsevier
The index ichnofossil Treptichnus pedum Seilacher 1955 and four types of Microbially
Induced Sedimentary Structures (MISS)-variants of wrinkle and elephant skin structures–are …

Taxonomic revision of Ediacaran tubular fossils: Cloudina, Sinotubulites and Conotubus

B Yang, LV Warren, M Steiner, EF Smith… - Journal of …, 2022 - cambridge.org
The Ediacaran tubular fossils Cloudina, Sinotubulites, and Conotubus are taxonomically
revised with type materials. It is proposed that Aulophycus lucianoi Beurlen and Sommer …

Sedimentary facies, fossil distribution and depositional setting of the late Ediacaran Tamengo Formation (Brazil)

KB Amorim, JWL Afonso, JM Leme, CQC Diniz… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mixed carbonate–siliciclastic deposits of the Tamengo Formation (terminal Ediacaran),
record the rise of calcifying metazoans and the origin of exoskeletons in animals. To explore …

The Ediacaran record of glaciogenic dropstones, diamictites and cap carbonates associated with non-metamorphosed banded iron formations (BIFs) in Iran

A Aftabi, H Atapour, S Mohseni - Precambrian Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The Ediacaran period is marked by global icehouse episode, greenhouse period, increasing
levels of oxygen-carbon dioxide, syn-glaciogenic structures-BIFs, typical Ediacaran biota …

A new record of late Ediacaran acritarchs from La Providencia Group (Tandilia System, Argentina) and its biostratigraphical significance

MJ Arrouy, C Gaucher, DG Poire, S Xiao… - Journal of South …, 2019 - Elsevier
A well preserved assemblage of organic-walled microfossils is described from the Alicia and
Cerro Negro formations of the La Providencia Group. The microbiota is dominated by …