Slime travelers: Early evidence of animal mobility and feeding in an organic mat world

Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia

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Simple sediment rheology explains the Ediacara biota preservation

(2019) Ilya Bobrovskiy et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Timing and style of high-temperature metamorphism across the Western Gawler Craton during the Paleo- to Mesoproterozoic

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Evidence of sensory-driven behavior in the Ediacaran organism Parvancorina : Implications and autecological interpretations

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Late Ediacaran trackways produced by bilaterian animals with paired appendages

(2018) Zhe Chen et al.   Science Advances

Ancient steroids establish the Ediacaran fossil Dickinsonia as one of the earliest animals

(2018) Ilya Bobrovskiy et al.   SCIENCE

New high-resolution age data from the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary indicate rapid, ecologically driven onset of the Cambrian explosion

(2018) Ulf Linnemann et al.   TERRA NOVA

Piecing together the puzzle of the Ediacara Biota: Excavation and reconstruction at the Ediacara National Heritage site Nilpena (South Australia)

(2017) Mary L. Droser et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Possible evidence of primary succession in a juvenile-dominated Ediacara fossil surface from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia

(2017) Lily M. Reid et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

MICROBIAL MAT SANDWICHES AND OTHER ANACTUALISTIC SEDIMENTARY FEATURES OF THE EDIACARA MEMBER (RAWNSLEY QUARTZITE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA): IMPLICATIONS FOR INTERPRETATION OF THE EDIACARAN SEDIMENTARY RECORD

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Quantitative study of developmental biology confirms Dickinsonia as a metazoan

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Highly regulated growth and development of the Ediacara macrofossil Dickinsonia costata

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Rheotaxis in the Ediacaran epibenthic organism Parvancorina from South Australia

(2017) John R. Paterson et al.   Scientific Reports

How diverse were early animal communities? An example from Ediacara Conservation Park, Flinders Ranges, South Australia

(2016) Felicity J. Coutts et al.   ALCHERINGA

Resolving MISS conceptions and misconceptions: A geological approach to sedimentary surface textures generated by microbial and abiotic processes

(2016) Neil S. Davies et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Exceptional preservation of soft-bodied Ediacara Biota promoted by silica-rich oceans

(2016) Lidya G. Tarhan et al.   GEOLOGY

Microbial Origin of Early Animal Trace Fossils?

(2016) Giulio Mariotti et al.   JOURNAL OF SEDIMENTARY RESEARCH

A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia

(2016) Simon A.F. Darroch et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Ediacaran distributions in space and time: testing assemblage concepts of earliest macroscopic body fossils

(2016) Thomas H. Boag et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Decoupled evolution of soft and hard substrate communities during the Cambrian Explosion and Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event

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The origin of the animals and a ‘Savannah’ hypothesis for early bilaterian evolution

(2015) Graham E. Budd et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Ancestral state reconstruction of ontogeny supports a bilaterian affinity forDickinsonia

(2015) David A. Gold et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Protracted development of bioturbation through the early Palaeozoic Era

(2015) Lidya G. Tarhan et al.   Nature Geoscience

Dickinsonia liftoff: Evidence of current derived morphologies

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The advent of animals: The view from the Ediacaran

(2015) Mary L. Droser et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Suspension feeding in the enigmatic Ediacaran organism Tribrachidium demonstrates complexity of Neoproterozoic ecosystems

(2015) I. A. Rahman et al.   Science Advances

Tetraradial symmetry in early poriferans

(2014) Joseph P. Botting et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Scratch Traces of Large Ediacara Bilaterian Animals

(2014) James G. Gehling et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Paleoecological reconstruction of the Ediacaran benthic macroscopic communities of the White Sea (Russia)

(2014) Maria Zakrevskaya   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

CONFIRMING THE METAZOAN CHARACTER OF A 565 MA TRACE-FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE FROM MISTAKEN POINT, NEWFOUNDLAND

(2014) A. G. LIU et al.   PALAIOS

Decoupling of body-plan diversification and ecological structuring during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition: evolutionary and geobiological feedbacks

(2014) M. G. Mangano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evidence for Cnidaria-like behavior in ca. 560 Ma Ediacaran Aspidella

(2013) Latha R. Menon et al.   GEOLOGY

How well do fossil assemblages of the Ediacara Biota tell time?

(2013) J. G. Gehling et al.   GEOLOGY

Interactions between Ediacaran animals and microbial mats: Insights from Lamonte trevallis, a new trace fossil from the Dengying Formation of South China

(2013) Mike Meyer et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Population structure of the oldest known macroscopic communities from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland

(2013) Simon A. F. Darroch et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Trace fossils of precambrian metazoans “Vendobionta” and “Mollusks”

(2013) A. Yu. Ivantsov   STRATIGRAPHY AND GEOLOGICAL CORRELATION

Immunohistochemical and ultrastructural analysis of the muscular and nervous systems in the interstitial polychaete Polygordius appendiculatus (Annelida)

(2013) Christine Lehmacher et al.   ZOOMORPHOLOGY

Independent evolution of striated muscles in cnidarians and bilaterians

(2012) Patrick R. H. Steinmetz et al.   NATURE

EXPERIMENTAL FORMATION OF A MICROBIAL DEATH MASK

(2012) S. A. F. DARROCH et al.   PALAIOS

Trace fossil evidence for Ediacaran bilaterian animals with complex behaviors

(2012) Zhe Chen et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Problematica, trace fossils, and tubes within the Ediacara Member (South Australia): redefining the ediacaran trace fossil record one tube at a time

(2011) Aaron Sappenfield et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Increased plastic litter cover affects the foraging activity of the sandy intertidal gastropod Nassarius pullus

(2011) Alexander B. Aloy et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Possible evolution of mobile animals in association with microbial mats

(2011) Murray Gingras et al.   Nature Geoscience

Feeding traces of proarticulata—the Vendian metazoa

(2011) A. Yu. Ivantsov   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

A placozoan affinity for Dickinsonia and the evolution of late Proterozoic metazoan feeding modes

(2010) Erik A. Sperling et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

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

(2010) Alexander G. Liu et al.   GEOLOGY

Directional orientation of migration in an aseasonal explosive-breeding toad from Brazil

(2010) Raquel Rocha Santos et al.   JOURNAL OF TROPICAL ECOLOGY

Microbial biofilms and the preservation of the Ediacara biota

(2010) MARC LAFLAMME et al.   LETHAIA

TAPHONOMIC CONTROLS ON EDIACARAN DIVERSITY: UNCOVERING THE HOLDFAST ORIGIN OF MORPHOLOGICALLY VARIABLE ENIGMATIC STRUCTURES

(2010) L. G. TARHAN et al.   PALAIOS

Textured organic surfaces associated with the Ediacara biota in South Australia

(2009) James G. Gehling et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Remarkable preservation of microbial mats in Neoproterozoic siliciclastic settings: Implications for Ediacaran taphonomic models

(2009) Richard H.T. Callow et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Smothering of microbial mats by macrobiota: implications for the Ediacara biota

(2009) DUNCAN McILROY et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

New reconstruction of Kimberella, problematic Vendian metazoan

(2009) A. Yu. Ivantsov   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Early origin of the bilaterian developmental toolkit

(2009) D. H. Erwin   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Giant Deep-Sea Protist Produces Bilaterian-like Traces

(2008) Mikhail V. Matz et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Synchronous Aggregate Growth in an Abundant New Ediacaran Tubular Organism

(2008) M. L. Droser et al.   SCIENCE