The evolutionary trajectory of early complex life on Earth is interpreted largely from the
fossils of the Precambrian soft-bodied Ediacara Biota, which appeared and evolved during a …

ABSTRACT Rocks of the Ediacaran System (635–541 Ma) preserve fossil evidence of some
of the earliest complex macroscopic organisms, many of which have been interpreted as …

Molecular timescales estimate that early animal lineages diverged tens of millions of years
before their earliest unequivocal fossil evidence. The Ediacaran macrobiota (~ 574 to 538 …

The driving forces behind the evolution of early metazoans are not well understood, but key
insights into their ecology and evolution can be gained through ecological analyses of the in …

Late Ediacaran strata from Newfoundland, Canada (~ 574–560 Ma) document near-census
palaeocommunities of some of the earliest metazoans. Such preservation enables …

The relative influence of niche vs. neutral processes in ecosystem dynamics is an on‐going
debate, but the extent to which they structured the earliest animal communities is unknown …

The terminal Ediacaran Shibantan biota (~ 550–543 Ma) from the Dengying Formation in the
Yangtze Gorges area of South China represents one of the rare examples of carbonate …

Disturbances often control community structure by removing large dominant species,
allowing new species to colonize. Disturbances vary in intensity and extent, and their effects …

Fossils of the Ediacaran macrobiota (∼ 571–539 mya) record phylogenetically diverse
marine palaeocommunities, including early animals, which pre-date the" Cambrian …

The Ediacaran rangeomorph Fractofusus misrai is the most common and best-preserved of
the E Surface fossil assemblage in the Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve of southeastern …