The Cambrian Explosion: macroevolution and biomineralization by Mark A. S. McMenamin

Subjects: “…cambrian explosion…”
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Ichnologic and sedimentologic datasets from the Ediacaran–Cambrian Chapel island formation, Newfoundland, CanadaMendeley Data by Romain Gougeon, M. Gabriela Mángano, Luis A. Buatois, Guy M. Narbonne, Brittany A. Laing, Maximiliano Paz

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The Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation of Animals within the Villuercas-Ibores-Jara UNESCO Global Geopark, Spain by Iván Cortijo, Teodoro Palacios, Sören Jensen, José María Barrera

“…Within a few tens of millions of years into the Cambrian Period an array of animal groups appeared, some extinct and others ancestral to modern groups, the Cambrian “explosion”. Two key elements were the appearance of biomineralized hard parts and the rise of animal disturbance of the sea floor (bioturbation), which continued into the great Ordovician biodiversification event (GOBE). …”
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