Protracted development of bioturbation through the early Palaeozoic Era

Tarhan, Lidya G.; Droser, Mary L.; Planavsky, Noah J.; Johnston, David T.

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Protracted development of bioturbation through the early Palaeozoic Era

Tarhan, Lidya G., Droser, Mary L., Planavsky, Noah J., Johnston, David T.·2015·Nature Geoscience

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Pervasive deep mixing of sediments would not be seen until well into the Paleozoic, more than 100 million years after the Ediacaran.
“although pervasive deep mixing of sediments would not be seen until well into the Paleozoic, more than 100 million years after the Ediacaran (Tarhan et al., 2015).”
From Oxygenation, Life, and the Planetary System during Earth's Middle History: An Overview (2021) · cites this paper as Tarhan et al., 2015
Biological mixing of sediments on marine shelves at levels required to impact global-scale biogeochemical cycles was delayed well into the Paleozoic (likely at least the late Silurian), hundreds of millions of years after the ∼800 Ma window.
“In any case, this hypothesis is largely irrelevant to our discussion, as biological mixing of sediments on marine shelves at the levels required to impact global-scale biogeochemical cycles was delayed well into the Paleozoic (likely at least the late Silurian)—hundreds of millions of years after our ∼800 Ma window (Tarhan et al., 2015).”
From Oxygenation, Life, and the Planetary System during Earth's Middle History: An Overview (2021) · cites this paper as Tarhan et al., 2015

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Authors: Tarhan, L. G., Droser, M. L., Planavsky, N. J., & Johnston, D. T.
Affiliations: University of California, Riverside (US)
Yale University (US)
Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author: Tarhan, Lidya G.
ORCID: Tarhan, Lidya G.
Droser, Mary L.
Planavsky, Noah J.
Johnston, David T.
Venue: Nature Geoscience
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2015-09-28
Volume: 8
Issue: 11
Pages: 865-869
ISSN: 1752-0894 (ISSN-L)
1752-0908
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2537
OpenAlex: W2208461948
Cited by: 163
References: 41
Citations by year: 2026: 13 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 15 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 2
FWCI: 12.89
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature Geoscience (publishedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Earth-Surface Processes › Geological formations and processes
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
Keywords: bioturbation, Precambrian-Cambrian transition, Lower Paleozoic, sediment mixing, infauna, sulfur cycling, Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, Cambrian explosion, taphonomy, ichnology

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