The origin of the Metazoa in the light of the Proterozoic fossil record

By M. Fedonkin. 2003

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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5. J. Gehling
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Citations in the corpus

• Tempo and mode of early animal evolution: inferences from rocks, Hox, and molecular clocks (2005, background): “…fossil record suggests that the benthos is the primitive site of animal evolution given that the earliest known bilaterian macrofossil, Kimberella, is a benthic animal (Fedonkin and Waggoner 1997), and pelagic forms are extremely rare, if present at all, in the Ediacara biotas (Fedonkin 2003).”
• Remarkable insights into the paleoecology of the Avalonian Ediacaran macrobiota (2015, unknown): “…structure (Grazhdankin and Ivantsov, 1996; Bottjer and Clapham, 2006; Droser et al., 2006), ichnological activity (Mángano and Buatois, 2014), and potential relationships between the biota and ambient environmental conditions (e.g. Fedonkin, 2003; Butterfield, 2009b; Lenton et al., 2014).”
• New data on Kimberella, the Vendian mollusc-like organism (White Sea region, Russia): palaeoecological and evolutionary implications (2007, background): “Major fossil localities occur between Medvezhy Creek and the Yorga River along the Winter Coast of the White Sea, about 100 km north of Arkhangelsk City, and from outcrops in the valleys of Suzma, Solza and Karakhta rivers, Summer Coast, on the northeastern Onega Peninsula.”
• Possible evolution of mobile animals in association with microbial mats (2011, background): “Examples of this include radular rasping at the top of fossil mat”
• The origins of molluscs (2015, background): “C, Kimberella quadrata (bf) associated with Kimberichnus (tf) at the presumed anterior end (PIN 3493/5137), also figured in Fedonkin (2003).”
• The architecture of Ediacaran Fronds (2012, background): “Interpretation of these and other Ediacaran fossils as multicellular animals ancestral to the Cambrian explosion of Metazoa has excited much interest (e.g. Glaessner 1966, 1984; Pflug 1971; Fedonkin 1985, 2003; Gehling 1991; Runnegar 1992; Fedonkin et al. 2007).”
• Assemblage palaeoecology of the Ediacara biota: The unabridged edition? (2006, background): “Another Ediacara-type organism, Kimberella, has also been found with structures that have been interpreted as trails and radular scratch marks (Gehling, 1996; Fedonkin, 2003).”