Paleoecology of the earliest skeletal metazoan communities: Implications for early biomineralization

By Rachel Wood. 2011

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Subfields: Biomaterials, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Paleontology

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In Biomaterials

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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2. J. Vinther
3. Michael Benton
4. M. Friedman
5. R. Asher
6. T. Near
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2. Michael Benton
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8. M. Ezcurra

Citations in the corpus

• The rise of predators (2011, background): “Numerous hypotheses have been posed to explain the sudden appearance of skeletons in the latest Ediacaran and early Cambrian (e.g., Wood, 2011), but the most widely favored is that they evolved for defense against macrophagous predators—animals capable of consuming large prey (e.g., Bengtson, 1994).”
• Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history (2015, background): “, 2012), an open marine community that preserves the earliest biomineralized animals, including Cloudina, Namacalathus and Namapoika (Wood, 2011).”