Ediacaran-Cambrian Boundary in the Anti-Atlas belt (Morocco): A review of biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and geochronology

J El Kabouri, E Errami, FT Bowyer, B Beker-Kerber… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition represents a pivotal geological marker,
denoting the decline of the Ediacaran biota and the emergence of most modern phyla in an …

The Ediacaran paleontological record in South America

LV Warren, B Becker-Kerber, L Inglez, FG Varejão… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
South America figures as one of the most fruitful continents for paleontological research on
the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, with almost 100 years of studies on organisms …

Arumberia and other Ediacaran–Cambrian fossils of central Australia

GJ Retallack, AP Broz - Historical Biology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Problematic fossils are described from Late Ediacaran to Early Cambrian red sandstones of
the Arumbera Sandstone, Grant Bluff, and Central Mount Stuart Formations in central …

Ediacaran biota from Ougnat Massif (Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco): Paleoenvironmental and stratigraphic constraints

J El Kabouri, E Errami, B Becker-Kerber… - Journal of African Earth …, 2023 - Elsevier
The Ediacaran period records the appearance of the first multicellular and complex
organisms in Earth's history. Within the West African Craton, just a few simple discoidal …

The oldest record of Ediacaran macrofossils in Gondwana (~ 563 Ma, Itajaí Basin, Brazil)

B Becker-Kerber, PSG Paim, FC Junior, TJ Girelli… - Gondwana …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Avalon biota (Ediacaran Period, 570–559 Ma) marks the first appearance of
macroscopic and complex benthic communities in the fossil record. This assemblage is …

Scratching the discs: evaluating alternative hypotheses for the origin of the Ediacaran discoidal structures from the Cerro Negro Formation, La Providencia Group …

L Inglez, LV Warren, F Quaglio, RG Netto… - Geological …, 2022 - cambridge.org
In the Ediacaran marine succession of the Cerro Negro Formation (Tandilia System, NE
Argentina), abundant microbially induced sedimentary structures indicate general conditions …

Ediacaran tectographs from the Itajaí Basin: A cautionary tale from the Precambrian

BB Kerber, G Prado, NL Archilha, LV Warren… - Precambrian …, 2024 - Elsevier
Simple and horizontal trace fossils from the Ediacaran Period (635–538.8 Ma) compose
some of the oldest evidence for the presence of metazoans in the Proterozoic fossil record …

Characteristics of a Tonian reef rimmed shelf before the onset of Cryogenian: insights from Neoproterozoic Kunihar Formation, Simla Group, Lesser Himalaya

A Thorie, A Mukhopadhyay, P Mazumdar… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Kunihar Formation records evolution of a unique rimmed shelf during the
Tonian, before the Cryogenian/Marinoan glaciation of Krol Formation, Lesser Himalaya. The …

Fossils or sedimentary structures? Carbonaceous spheroids from the shale of the Cryogenian Nantuo Formation in Shengnongjia area, South China

Q Ye, J Tong, K Pang, L Tian, J Hu, Z An - Precambrian Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Black shale of the Cryogenian Nantuo Formation, Shennongjia area, South China contains
spheroids which co-occur with fossils of macroalgae. These three-dimensional structures …

Biological and ecological insights from the preservational variability of Funisia dorothea, Ediacara Member, South Australia

RL Surprenant, JG Gehling, ML Droser - Palaios, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
ABSTRACT The Ediacara Biota represents a turning point in the evolution of life on Earth,
signifying the transition from single celled organisms to complex, community-forming …