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LETHAIA
Volume 47, Issue 1, Pages 133-150Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/let.12045
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Agronomic revolution; Cambrian explosion; infauna; Mollusca; Nemathelminthes
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The profound ecological change of the marine benthos that eventually led to the almost complete destruction of the Precambrian matgrounds by benthic grazers and bioturbators (the agronomic revolution) was largely completed in the Tommotian. At that time, burrows produced by bottom-dwelling animals as shelters against predators were supplemented by burrowing for food by predators and sediment feeders. The limy mud ichnofauna of that age in Siberia was very different from the roughly coeval sand bottom faunas of Baltica. Although the exact zoological identity of the animals forming the infaunal Tommotian traces remains unknown, they probably mostly represent various kinds of early nemathelminthes. No apparent locomotion traces of mollusc origin have been encountered in the Early Cambrian, despite the abundant occurrence of skeletal fossils attributed to molluscs. Possibly the standard muscular foot, typical of modern molluscs, had not yet developed. Ichnotaxa represented are Teichichnus isp., Rhizocorallium isp., Chondrites isp., possibly the Buren ichnocomplex and others.
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