10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE EDIACARAN»
Discover the use of
the Ediacaran in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
the Ediacaran and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Rise and Fall of
the Ediacaran Biota
This book is the culmination of two symposia of UNESCO International Geological Correlation Project 493, one in Prato (Italy) in 2004, the second in Kyoto (Japan) in 2006.
Patricia Vickers-Rich, Patricia Komarower, 2007
2
The Geologic Time Scale 2012 2-Volume Set
If redox structure changes of the Ediacaran ocean represent a global
oceanographic phenomenon, then Fe speciation and other redox-sensitive
geochemical parameters such as Mo/TOC (Scott et al., 2008) may assist in global
stratigraphic ...
F. M. Gradstein, Gabi Ogg, Mark Schmitz, 2012
3
Quantifying
the Evolution of Early Life: Numerical ...
5.6 Ecological dissimilarity between the Ediacaran, Cambrian, and Recent biotas
. Calculated as Manhattan distance based on the proportion of modes of life in
the tiering, motility, and feeding categories shown in Fig. 5.5b. (a) Dissimilarity ...
Marc Laflamme, James D. Schiffbauer, Stephen Q. Dornbos, 2011
4
Ediacaran-Ordovician Of East Laurenthia: S.W. Ford Memorial ...
"The Ediacaran-Ordovician of East Laurentia is a product of the 12th International Symposium on the Cambrian System held in eastern New York and western Vermont in July and August of 2007.
5
Neoproterozoic Geobiology and Paleobiology
A better understanding of the Ediacaran trace fossil record is therefore of great
interest because the complexity of trace fossils may tell us something about the
complexity of their producers. For example, Ediacaran imprints of arthropod-type
...
Shuhai Xiao, Alan Jay Kaufman, 2007
6
Evolution's Witness: How Eyes Evolved
Metazoan life was in full swing by the early phases of the Ediacaran,
approximately 650 million years ago, but these first steps were small
aggregations of cells with little more than eyespots or early cups of pigment lined
with photoreceptive ...
Ivan R. Schwab, Richard R. Dubielzig, Charles Schobert, 2012
7
Global Neoproterozoic Petroleum Systems:
The Emerging ...
Macroevolutionary turnover through the Ediacaran transition: ecological and
biogeochemical implications NICHOLAS J. BUTTERFIELD Department of Earth
Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK ...
8
The Geology of Central Europe: Precambrian and palaeozoic
The Ediacaran biota marks a critical stage in the evolution of life on Earth, the late
Neoproterozoic appearance of large, soft-bodied organisms including the oldest
definitve animals. Ediacaran fossils first appear significantly above the last ...
9
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History
Dolf began by showing that the traditional similarities of Ediacaran and modern
animals are misleading and superficial, and that the Ediacaran forms could not
work as their supposed living counterparts. Nearly all Ediacaran fossils have
been ...
10
Microbial Mats: Modern and Ancient Microorganisms in ...
Many of the examples cited are found in rocks older than the Ediacaran age.
Microbial mat related structures and “discoidal microbial colonies” offer
alternative and readily acceptable mechanisms for the features observed within
the Chorhat ...
Joseph Seckbach, Aharon Oren, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE EDIACARAN»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
the Ediacaran is used in the context of the following news items.
The first complex life on Earth got eaten to extinction
New fossil evidence from Namibia suggests that the Ediacarans, as these creatures are known, had their world turned upside by an explosion of life forms at the ... «New Scientist, Apr 15»
Are the Ediacarans Transitional Forms for the Cambrian Explosion?
Another paper in PNAS tackles the Cambrian explosion with the usual confident-sounding headline: "The advent of animals: The view from the Ediacaran. «Discovery Institute, Apr 15»
What was Earth's first predator and when did it live?
Between about 575 and 540 million years ago the world was occupied by a peculiar collection of organisms that have been labelled the Ediacaran biota. «BBC News, Dec 14»
Wonders of the Ediacaran
In 2004 the International Commission on Stratigraphy gave the name 'Ediacaran' to the period between 542 and 635 million years ago that was dominated by ... «ABC Science Online, Oct 14»
No! Really? Living Ediacarans?
Some unusual marine organisms don't seem to fit anywhere in the animal classification scheme. Are they remnants of the Ediacaran fauna that preceded the ... «Discovery Institute, Sep 14»
Simple Fractal Branching Explains the Ediacaran Rangeomorphs
As explained in Stephen Meyer's book Darwin's Doubt, the Ediacaran ... The unique rangeomorph fronds were fractal, surface area specialists of the Ediacaran. «Discovery Institute, Aug 14»
Funnel-Shaped Animals Invented Reefs Prior to Cambrian Explosion
Strangely shaped, large soft-bodied organisms were known to have lived in the period just prior -- the Ediacaran -- but they made few hard parts and scientists ... «Scientific American, Jul 14»
Fossils push animal-made reefs back in time
The reefs were built by tiny, filter-feeding animals called Cloudina that lived on shallow equatorial seabeds during the Ediacaran Period, which ended 541 ... «ABC Science Online, Jun 14»
Tapeworm-Like Fossil Suggests Origins of Left and Right
A puzzling fossil find from the Ediacaran period, an era that occurred more than 500 million years ago, has scientists curious about how "bilateral" creatures such ... «LiveScience.com, Jun 14»
Creatures of the Ediacaran
During the Ediacaran, the ocean was a very different place than what we can see today, snorkeling around in places like the Gulf of Mexico. A dense mat of ... «Scienceline, Mar 14»
