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Biostratigraphic and Geochronologic Constraints on Early Animal Evolution
Abstract
Two distinct evolutionary pulses, represented by the Vendian Ediacaran fauna and Cambrian small shelly faunas, are generally thought to characterize the emergence of macroscopic animals at the end of Precambrian time. Biostratigraphic and uranium-lead zircon age data from Namibia indicate that most globally distributed Ediacaran fossils are no older than 549 million years old and some are as young as 543 million years old, essentially coincident with the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary. These data suggest that the most diverse assemblages of Ediacaran animals existed within 6 million years of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary and that simple discoid animals may have appeared at least 50 million years earlier.
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“Their lowermost occurrence is documented from the Nama Group in Namibia”
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“Macroscopic fossils of the Ediacara biota span the upper half of the Ediacaran Period, from 575 to 542 Myr ago (Grotzinger et al. 1995; Martin et al. 2000; Bowring et al. 2003; Condon et al. 2005).”
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“The latest Precambrian also has yielded trace fossils of unmistakable bilaterian origin (5–7).”
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“But thus far, unequivocal paleontological evidence of bilaterian forms has extended only to the final period of the Neoproterozoic, a few million years before the Cambrian “explosion” (5–7, 19, 20).”
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- Authors
- Grotzinger, J. P., Bowring, S. A., Saylor, B. Z., & Kaufman, A. J.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Harvard University (US)
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1995-10-27
- Volume
- 270
- Issue
- 5236
- Pages
- 598-604
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1995137647
- Cited by
- 701
- References
- 46
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- FWCI
- 31.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Keywords
- early animal evolution, Ediacaran fauna, Ediacaran, Precambrian-Cambrian boundary, small shelly fossils, zircon U-Pb geochronology, biostratigraphy, Namibia
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