Post-Cambrian closure of the deep-water slope-basin taphonomic window
Abstract
Exceptional faunas (Konservat-Lagerstatten that preserve traces of volatile nonmineralized tissues) are statistically overabundant in the Cambrian Period; almost all examples preserved in continental-slope and shelf-basin environments are of this age. The hypothesis that an increase in the amount and complexity of bioturbation was an important agent in the elimination of this deep-water slope-basin taphonomic window is supported. Post-Cambrian ichnofaunal assemblages contain a higher proportion of pascichnia and agrichnia, ethologies produced by a mobile infauna. They also illustrate the lateral partitioning of organisms into different environmental niches; both opportunistic and equilibrium infaunas occur in low-oxygen environments in which the preservation of nonbiomineralized tissues was favored. Direct consumption of carcasses by bioturbating organisms was less important than changes to sediment properties as a result of bioturbation, notably enhanced microbial degradation of reactive organic matter, increased permeability, and the disruption of geochemical gradients necessary for mineral authigenesis.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
During the Precambrian, from the late Archean until the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary interval, near-surface diagenetic processes including phosphatization and pyritization likely occurred closer to the sediment surface than at later times, leading to earlier and more rapid permineralization of unprocessed carbonaceous materials.
“The key feature of this model is that during the Precambrian, from the late Archean until the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary interval, near-surface diagenetic processes including phosphatization and pyritization likely occurred closer to the sediment surface than at later times (McIlroy & Logan, 1999; Orr et al., 2003; Bailey et al., 2006), leading to the earlier and more rapid permineralization of”
From Remarkable preservation of microbial mats in Neoproterozoic siliciclastic settings: Implications for Ediacaran taphonomic models (2009) · cites this paper as Orr et al., 2003
Cites
Oke, T. R. (2002) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9780203407219 · Cited by 5,261 · see citing works
Shi, C., & Nof, D. (1938) · Nature · doi:10.1038/141548c0 · Cited by 1,710 · see citing works
Practical Statistics for Field Biology.
Bjornsson, H., Fowler, J., & Cohen, L. (1991) · Biometrics · doi:10.2307/2532423 · Cited by 1,687 · see citing works
Seilacher, A. (1967) · Marine Geology · doi:10.1016/0025-3227(67)90051-5 · Cited by 1,130 · see citing works
Early animal evolution: emerging views from comparative biology and geology
Knoll, A. H., & Carroll, S. B. (1999) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.284.5423.2129 · Cited by 821 · see citing works
Trace Fossils: Biology, Taxonomy and Applications
Bromley, R. G. (1996) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 734 · see citing works
The role of anoxia in the decay and mineralization of proteinaceous macro-fossils
Allison, P. A. (1988) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1017/s009483730001188x · Cited by 317 · see citing works
<i>Konservat-Lagerstätten:</i> cause and classification
Allison, P. A. (1988) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1017/s0094837300012082 · Cited by 289 · see citing works
Organic preservation of non-mineralizing organisms and the taphonomy of the Burgess Shale
Butterfield, N. J. (1990) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1017/s0094837300009994 · Cited by 265 · see citing works
Decay and mineralization of shrimps
Briggs, D. E. G., & Kear, A. J. (1994) · PALAIOS · doi:10.2307/3515135 · Cited by 260 · see citing works
Self-citationSecular distribution of Burgess-Shale-type preservation
Butterfield, N. J. (1995) · Lethaia · doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1995.tb01587.x · Cited by 255 · cited 4× · see citing works
“…that preservation is the result of decay inhibition by clays and is controlled by long-term changes in clay mineralogy and ocean chemistry (Butterfield, 1995) is inconsistent with this temporal distribution because it predicts that exceptional faunas should disappear at about the same…”
InfluentialSagemann, J., Bale, S. J., Briggs, D. E. G., & Parkes, R. J. (1999) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/s0016-7037(99)00087-3 · Cited by 252 · see citing works
Self-citationCambrian Burgess Shale Animals Replicated in Clay Minerals
Orr, P. J., Briggs, D. E. G., & Kearns, S. (1998) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.281.5380.1173 · Cited by 230 · see citing works
Self-citationBIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF TUBE-DWELLINGS: A STUDY OF THE SEDENTARY POLYCHAETE AMPHITRITE ORNATA (LEIDY).
Aller, R. C., Aller, R. C., & Jy, Y. (1978) · Cited by 220 · see citing works
Decay and preservation of polychaetes: taphonomic thresholds in soft-bodied organisms
Briggs, D. E. G., & Kear, A. J. (1993) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1017/s0094837300012343 · Cited by 186 · see citing works
Self-citationPetrovich, R. (2001) · American Journal of Science · doi:10.2475/ajs.301.8.683 · Cited by 149 · see citing works
The persistence of Burgess Shale-type faunas: implications for the evolution of deeper-water faunas
Morris, S. C. (1989) · Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh · doi:10.1017/s0263593300028716 · Cited by 117 · see citing works
Fletcher, T. P., & Collins, D. H. (1998) · Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences · doi:10.1139/e97-120 · Cited by 106 · see citing works
Colonization of the deep‐marine environment during the early Phanerozoic: the ichnofaunal record
Orr, P. J. (2001) · Geological Journal · doi:10.1002/gj.891 · Cited by 91 · see citing works
Self-citationMicrobial biogeochemistry and bioturbation in the sediments of Great Bay, New Hampshire
Hines, M. E., & Jones, G. E. (1985) · Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science · doi:10.1016/0272-7714(85)90029-0 · Cited by 77 · see citing works
Xiao, S., Knoll, A. H., & Yuan, X. (1998) · Journal of Paleontology · doi:10.1017/s0022336000027414 · Cited by 68 · see citing works
Cunningham, C. R., Feldman, H. R., Franseen, E. K., Gastaldo, R. A., Mapes, G., Maples, C. G., & Schultze, H. (1993) · Lethaia · doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1993.tb01524.x · Cited by 40 · see citing works
Crimes, T. P., & Crossley, J. D. (1980) · Journal of Sedimentary Research · doi:10.1306/212f7af9-2b24-11d7-8648000102c1865d · Cited by 32 · see citing works
Fossil preservation in the Burgess Shale: Reply
Butterfield, N. J. F. (1996) · Lethaia · doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1996.tb01845.x · Cited by 31 · see citing works
A deep-marine ichnofaunal assemblage from Llandovery strata of the Welsh Basin, west Wales, UK
Orr, P. J. (1995) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756800013601 · Cited by 28 · see citing works
Self-citationLong survival of “living fossils” with low taxonomic diversities in an evolving food web
Yoshida, K. (2002) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1666/0094-8373(2002)028 · Cited by 26 · see citing works
Fossil preservation in the Burgess Shale
Towe, K. M. (1996) · Lethaia · doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1996.tb01844.x · Cited by 25 · see citing works
Decline of the Burgess Shale fauna: ecologic or taphonomic restriction?
Aronson, R. B. (1992) · Lethaia · doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1992.tb01390.x · Cited by 18 · see citing works
Allison, P., & Briggs, D. (1994) · Bristol Research (University of Bristol) · Cited by 8 · see citing works
Self-citationHigh rates of arc consumption by subduction processes: Some consequences
Lallemand, S. (1995) · Geology · doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1995)023
Multiple δ13C excursions spanning the Cambrian explosion to the Botomian crisis in Siberia
(1994) · doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1994)022
Self-citationKhawlie, M., Haddad, F., Barazangi, M., Seber, D., & Chaimov, T. (1993) · Geology · doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1993)021
Self-citationBest, J. A., Barazangi, M., Al-Saad, D., Sawaf, T., & Gebran, A. (1990) · Geology · doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1990)018
Flagged first, then by citations
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Animal evolution, bioturbation, and the sulfate concentration of the oceans
Canfield, D. E., & Farquhar, J. (2009) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0902037106 · Cited by 524 · see citing works
Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type
Van Roy, P., Orr, P. J., Botting, J. P., Muir, L. A., Vinther, J., Lefebvre, B., Hariri, K. E., & Briggs, D. E. G. (2010) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature09038 · Cited by 340 · see citing works
Self-citationSeilacher, A., Buatois, L. A., & Gabriela Mángano, M. (2005) · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2005.06.003 · Cited by 277 · see citing works
An expanded record of Early Cambrian carbon cycling from the Anti-Atlas Margin, Morocco
Maloof, A. C., Schrag, D. P., Crowley, J. L., & Bowring, S. A. (2005) · Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences · doi:10.1139/e05-062 · Cited by 229 · see citing works
Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze
Antcliffe, J. B., Callow, R. H. T., & Brasier, M. D. (2014) · Biological Reviews · doi:10.1111/brv.12090 · Cited by 192 · see citing works
Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale
Caron, J., & Jackson, D. A. (2007) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.05.023 · Cited by 191 · see citing works
SPERLING, E. A., ROBINSON, J. M., PISANI, D., & PETERSON, K. J. (2010) · Geobiology · doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2009.00225.x · Cited by 182 · see citing works
Schiffbauer, J. D., Xiao, S., Cai, Y., Wallace, A. F., Hua, H., Hunter, J. L., Xu, H., Peng, Y., & Kaufman, A. J. (2014) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms6754 · Cited by 179 · see citing works
Burgess shale-type preservation and its distribution in space and time
Gaines, R. R. (2014) · The Paleontological Society Papers · doi:10.1017/s1089332600002837 · Cited by 172 · see citing works
Callow, R. H. T., & Brasier, M. D. (2009) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2009.07.002 · Cited by 142 · see citing works
Cai, Y., Schiffbauer, J. D., Hua, H., & Xiao, S. (2012) · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.02.009 · Cited by 137 · see citing works
Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs): A new measure of early Paleozoic paleobiology
Butterfield, N. J. F., & Harvey, T. H. P. (2011) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g32580.1 · Cited by 132 · see citing works
Fossilized embryos are widespread but the record is temporally and taxonomically biased
Donoghue, P. C. J., Kouchinsky, A. V., Waloszek, D., Bengtson, S., Dong, X.-P., Val'kov, A. K., Cunningham, J. A., & Repetski, J. E. (2006) · Evolution & Development · doi:10.1111/j.1525-142x.2006.00093.x · Cited by 86 · see citing works
Heard, T. G., & Pickering, K. T. (2008) · Sedimentology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00922.x · Cited by 113 · see citing works
Anderson, E. P., Schiffbauer, J. D., & Xiao, S. (2011) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g31969.1 · Cited by 110 · see citing works
CAI, Y., Hua, H., Xiao, S., Schiffbauer, J. D., & LI, P. (2010) · Palaios · doi:10.2110/palo.2009.p09-133r · Cited by 103 · see citing works
TAPHONOMY OF THE GREATER PHYLLOPOD BED COMMUNITY, BURGESS SHALE
Caron, J., & Jackson, D. A. (2006) · Palaios · doi:10.2110/palo.2003.p05-070r · Cited by 102 · see citing works
Pikaia gracilensWalcott, a stem‐group chordate from the Middle Cambrian of British Columbia
Morris, S. C., & Caron, J. (2012) · Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · doi:10.1111/j.1469-185x.2012.00220.x · Cited by 99 · see citing works
Liu, A. (2016) · Palaios · doi:10.2110/palo.2015.095 · Cited by 90 · see citing works
The early Paleozoic development of bioturbation—Evolutionary and geobiological consequences
Tarhan, L. G. (2018) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.01.011 · Cited by 87 · see citing works
Marynowski, L., Zatoń, M., Simoneit, B. R. T., Otto, A., Jędrysek, M. O., Grelowski, C., & Kurkiewicz, S. (2007) · Applied Geochemistry · doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.06.015 · Cited by 87 · see citing works
Ye, Q., Tong, J., An, Z., Hu, J., Tian, L., Guan, K., & Xiao, S. (2017) · Journal of Systematic Palaeontology · doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1404499 · Cited by 76 · see citing works
Questioning the evidence of organic compounds called sponge biomarkers
Antcliffe, J. B. (2013) · Palaeontology · doi:10.1111/pala.12030 · Cited by 72 · see citing works
Tubular compression fossils from the Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia
Cohen, P. A., Bradley, A., Knoll, A. H., Grotzinger, J. P., Jensen, S., Abelson, J., Hand, K., Love, G., Metz, J., McLoughlin, N., et al. (2009) · Journal of Paleontology · doi:10.1666/09-040r.1 · Cited by 71 · see citing works
Exceptional Fossil Conservation through Phosphatization
Schiffbauer, J., Wallace, A., Broce, J. S., & Xiao, S. (2014) · The Paleontological Society Papers · doi:10.1017/s1089332600002801 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
The paleoredox setting of Burgess Shale-type deposits
Gaines, R. R., & Droser, M. L. (2010) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.09.014 · Cited by 69 · see citing works
Brett, C. E., Allison, P. A., DeSantis, M. K., Liddell, W. D., & Kramer, A. T. (2009) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.02.010 · Cited by 68 · see citing works
A cryptic record of Burgess Shale‐type diversity from the early Cambrian of Baltica
Slater, B. J., Harvey, T. H. P., Guilbaud, R., & Butterfield, N. J. F. (2016) · Palaeontology · doi:10.1111/pala.12273 · Cited by 63 · see citing works
von Bitter, P. H., Purnell, M. A., Tetreault, D. K., & Stott, C. A. (2007) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g23894a.1 · Cited by 61 · see citing works
Buatois, L. A., Mángano, M. G., Brussa, E. D., Benedetto, J. L., & Pompei, J. F. (2009) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.06.014 · Cited by 60 · see citing works
Lefèbvre, B., Allaire, N., Guensburg, T. E., Hunter, A. W., Kouraïss, K., Martin, E. L. O., Nardin, É., Noailles, F., Pittet, B., Sumrall, C. D., et al. (2016) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.02.039 · Cited by 58 · see citing works
Sedimentation of the Phyllopod Bed within the Cambrian Burgess Shale Formation of British Columbia
Gabbott, S. E., Zalasiewicz, J., & Collins, D. (2008) · Journal of the Geological Society · doi:10.1144/0016-76492007-023 · Cited by 57 · see citing works
Krobicki, M., & Zatoń, M. (2008) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.01.025 · Cited by 56 · see citing works
Halgedahl, S. L., Jarrard, R. D., Brett, C. E., & Allison, P. A. (2009) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.02.011 · Cited by 53 · see citing works
Taphonomy: Bias and Process Through Time
Allison, P. A., & Bottjer, D. J. (2010) · Topics in geobiology · doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8643-3_1 · Cited by 54 · see citing works
Widespread delayed mixing in early to middle Cambrian marine shelfal settings
Tarhan, L. G., & Droser, M. L. (2014) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.01.024 · Cited by 52 · see citing works
Lin, J., Zhao, Y., Rahman, I. A., Xiao, S., & Wang, Y. (2010) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2010.03.048 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
Wang, Y., Lin, J., Zhao, Y., & Orr, P. J. (2009) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.02.017 · Cited by 49 · see citing works
Self-citationBurgess shale−type biotas were not entirely burrowed away
Gaines, R. R., Droser, M. L., Orr, P. J., Garson, D., Hammarlund, E., Qi, C., & Canfield, D. E. (2012) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g32555.1 · Cited by 47 · see citing works
Self-citationMicrofossil Phosphatization and Its Astrobiological Implications
Xiao, S., & Schiffbauer, J. D. (2008) · Cellular origin and life in extreme habitats · doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-8837-7_5 · Cited by 45 · see citing works
Mouro, L. D., Rakociński, M., Marynowski, L., Pisarzowska, A., Musabelliu, S., Zatoń, M., Carvalho, M. A., Fernandes, A. C., & Waichel, B. L. (2017) · Global and Planetary Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.09.017 · Cited by 42 · see citing works
Oxygen as a Driver of Early Arthropod Micro-Benthos Evolution
Williams, M., Vannier, J., Corbari, L., & Massabuau, J. (2011) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028183 · Cited by 40 · see citing works
Identification of chitin in 200-million-year-old gastropod egg capsules
Wysokowski, M., Zatoń, M., Bazhenov, V. V., Behm, T., Ehrlich, A., Stelling, A. L., Hog, M., & Ehrlich, H. (2014) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1666/13083 · Cited by 40 · see citing works
Kosnik, M. A., Alroy, J., Behrensmeyer, A. K., Fursich, F. T., Gastaldo, R. A., Kidwell, S. M., Kowalewski, M., Plotnick, R. E., Rogers, R. R., & Wagner, P. J. (2011) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1666/10022.1 · Cited by 36 · see citing works
MAEDA, H., Tanaka, G., Shimobayashi, N., Ohno, T., & MATSUOKA, H. (2011) · Palaios · doi:10.2110/palo.2010.p10-042r · Cited by 36 · see citing works
Preservation of early and Middle Cambrian soft-bodied arthropods from the Pioche Shale, Nevada, USA
Moore, R. A., & Lieberman, B. S. (2009) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.02.014 · Cited by 35 · see citing works
Heard, T. G., Pickering, K. T., & Clark, J. (2013) · Sedimentology · doi:10.1111/sed.12101 · Cited by 34 · see citing works
Deep-Water Microbially Induced Sedimentary Structures (MISS) in Deep Time
Laflamme, M., Schiffbauer, J. D., & Narbonne, G. M. (2012) · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks · doi:10.2110/sepmsp.101.111 · Cited by 32 · see citing works
Microbes and the Fossil Record: Selected Topics in Paleomicrobiology
Tomescu, A. M. F., Klymiuk, A. A., Matsunaga, K. K. S., Bippus, A. C., & Shelton, G. W. K. (2016) · Advances in environmental microbiology · doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28071-4_3 · Cited by 30 · see citing works
Powell, W. G. (2009) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2009.02.016 · Cited by 28 · see citing works
Liu, M., Chen, D., Zhou, X., Tang, D., Them, T. R., & Jiang, M. (2019) · Global and Planetary Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2019.103032 · Cited by 26 · see citing works
EXCEPTIONAL FOSSIL PRESERVATION IN THE CONASAUGA FORMATION, CAMBRIAN, NORTHWESTERN GEORGIA, USA
Schwimmer, D. R., & Montante, W. M. (2007) · Palaios · doi:10.2110/palo.2005.p05-109r · Cited by 27 · see citing works
Zong, R., Liu, Q., Wei, F., & Gong, Y. (2017) · The Journal of Geology · doi:10.1086/692331 · Cited by 25 · see citing works
The oldest Zoophycos and implications for Early Cambrian deposit feeding
Sappenfield, A., Droser, M. L., Kennedy, M. J., & McKenzie, R. (2012) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756812000313 · Cited by 24 · see citing works
Pazos, P. J., Gutiérrez, C., Fernández, D. E., Heredia, A. M., & Comerio, M. (2015) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.05.005 · Cited by 20 · see citing works
Orr, P. J. (2014) · The Paleontological Society Papers · doi:10.1017/s1089332600002904 · Cited by 16 · see citing works
Self-citationPratt, B. R., & Kimmig, J. (2019) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g45551.1 · Cited by 16 · see citing works
Zhang, L., Chang, S., Khan, M. Z., Feng, Q., Luo, C., Steiner, M., Forel, M., Liu, K., & Clausen, S. (2020) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109696 · Cited by 14 · see citing works
Fossil Lagerstätten and the enigma of anactualistic fossil preservation
Gaines, R. R., & Droser, M. (2025) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1017/pab.2024.38 · Cited by 14 · see citing works
Warren, L. V., Quaglio, F., Simões, M. G., Assine, M. L., Alessandretti, L., Luvizotto, G. L., Riccomini, C., & Stríkis, N. M. (2017) · Brazilian Journal of Geology · doi:10.1590/2317-4889201720170125 · Cited by 10 · see citing works
Deciphering trophic interactions in a mid-Cambrian assemblage
Swain, A., Devereux, M., & Fagan, W. F. (2021) · iScience · doi:10.1016/j.isci.2021.102271 · Cited by 9 · see citing works
Earth and life: origins of Phanerozoic diversity ∗
McNamara, K. J. (2008) · Australian Journal of Earth Sciences · doi:10.1080/08120090802395888 · Cited by 8 · see citing works
A late surviving xenopod (Arthropoda) from the Ordovican Period, Wales
David, L., & Hearing, T. W. W. (2015) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s001675681400065x · Cited by 8 · see citing works
Tomášových, A., Kidwell, S. M., Dai, R., Alexander, C., Kaufman, D. S., Edie, S. M., Leonard‐Pingel, J. S., McNinch, J., Parker, T., & Wadman, H. M. (2024) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1017/pab.2024.39 · Cited by 6 · see citing works
Meyer, M., Ganis, G. R., Wittmer, J., Zalasiewicz, J., & Baets, K. D. (2018) · Palaios · doi:10.2110/palo.2017.036 · Cited by 5 · see citing works
Zong, R., Liu, Y., Liu, Q., Ma, J., & Liu, S. (2024) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g53042.1 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
Richards, J., & Ortega‐Hernández, J. (2026) · Biology Letters · doi:10.1098/rsbl.2025.0650 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Palaeontology: The New Conservative
Maderspacher, F. (2010) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2010.05.025 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
Hou, X.-G., Siveter, D. J., Siveter, D. J., Aldridge, R. J., Cong, P.-Y., Gabbott, S. E., Ma, X., Purnell, M. A., & Williams, M. (2017) · Wiley eBooks · doi:10.1002/9781118896372.refs
Yang, B., Zong, R., Xia, H., Zhang, X., Li, W., & Sun, S. (2025) · Historical Biology · doi:10.1080/08912963.2025.2539302
Melchor, R. N., Contreras, V. H., & Feola, S. F. (2026) · Evolving Earth · doi:10.1016/j.eve.2026.100129
- Authors
- Orr, P. J., Benton, M. J., & Briggs, D. E. G.
- Affiliations
- University College Dublin (IE)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Yale University (US)
- Venue
- Geology
- Publisher
- Geological Society of America
- Published
- 2003
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 769
- ISSN
- 0091-7613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2087292482
- Semantic Scholar
- 0b8ad8fd0ac5c372b4a58bb72e22fa84181bde92
- Cited by
- 73
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 7 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 1.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Geology (publishedVersion)
- Explore Bristol Research (submittedVersion)
- Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- University of Chicago
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Earth-Surface Processes › Geological formations and processes
- Keywords
- taphonomy, Lagerstätte, bioturbation, continental slope, infauna, low oxygen environment, authigenesis, microbial degradation, sediment permeability, geochemical gradients, Cambrian
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
