Quantifying ecospace utilization and ecosystem engineering during the early Phanerozoic—The role of bioturbation and bioerosion

A high-resolution summary of Cambrian to Early Triassic marine invertebrate biodiversity

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The rise and early evolution of animals: where do we stand from a trace-fossil perspective?

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Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion

(2019) Rachel Wood et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Atmosphere–ocean oxygen and productivity dynamics during early animal radiations

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Increase in metazoan ecosystem engineering prior to the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary in the Nama Group, Namibia

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Marine oxygenation, lithistid sponges, and the early history of Paleozoic skeletal reefs

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The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): definition, concept and duration

(2018) Thomas Servais et al.   LETHAIA

Ediacaran Extinction and Cambrian Explosion

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Early Palaeozoic ocean anoxia and global warming driven by the evolution of shallow burrowing

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Early Cambrian origin of the shelf sediment mixed layer

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A record of deep-ocean dissolved O2 from the oxidation state of iron in submarine basalts

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Stepwise oxygenation of the Paleozoic atmosphere

(2018) Alexander J. Krause et al.   Nature Communications

Links between early Paleozoic oxygenation and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE): A review

(2018) Cole T. Edwards   Palaeoworld

Modelling the long-term carbon cycle, atmospheric CO2, and Earth surface temperature from late Neoproterozoic to present day

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On formation-based sampling proxies and why they should not be used to correct the fossil record

(2017) Alexander M. Dunhill et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Early bursts of diversification defined the faunal colonization of land

(2017) Nicholas J. Minter et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Heterogenous oceanic redox conditions through the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary limited the metazoan zonation

(2017) Junpeng Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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Persistent oceanic anoxia and elevated extinction rates separate the Cambrian and Ordovician radiations

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Limited role of functional differentiation in early diversification of animals

(2015) M.L. Knope et al.   Nature Communications

Rise to modern levels of ocean oxygenation coincided with the Cambrian radiation of animals

(2015) Xi Chen et al.   Nature Communications

Stabilization of the coupled oxygen and phosphorus cycles by the evolution of bioturbation

(2014) R. A. Boyle et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

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Did Cooling Oceans Trigger Ordovician Biodiversification? Evidence from Conodont Thermometry

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