First evidence for locomotion in the Ediacara biota from the 565 Ma Mistaken Point Formation, Newfoundland

By Alexander G. Liu, D. McIlroy, M. Brasier. 2010

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The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity (2011, background): “It is difficult to exclude large coenocytic protists as the makers of these traces, but Liu et al. (2010) note their similarity to sea anemone trails produced experimentally.”
Remarkable insights into the paleoecology of the Avalonian Ediacaran macrobiota (2015, unknown): “…2007; Grazhdankin et al., 2008; Hofmann et al., 2008; Grazhdankin et al., 2009; Liu et al., 2010a, 2012; Gehling and Droser, 2013; Macdonald et al., 2013; Mason et al., 2013; as discussed in Liu et al., 2010b; Callow et al., 2012; Antcliffe and Hancy, 2013; Xiao et al., 2013; Z. Chen et al., 2014).”
Constraints on the timescale of animal evolutionary history (2015, background): “565 Ma trace fossils, which they interpret as evidence of a muscular metazoan-grade organism, drawing particular comparison to polypoid cnidarians, though they later retreat from arguing that these traces necessarily indicate the existence of animals (Liu et al., 2010).”
First evidence for locomotion in the Ediacara biota from the 565 Ma Mistaken Point Formation, Newfou (2010, background): “Oregon 97403, USA Liu et al. (2010) claim to have found the fi rst evidence for locomotion in the form of putative locomotion traces from the Ediacaran (565 Ma) Mistaken Point Formation of Newfoundland.”