Calibrating the coevolution of Ediacaran life and environment

  • Alan D. Rooney
    Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520;
  • Marjorie D. Cantine
    Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
  • Kristin D. Bergmann
    Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139;
  • Irene Gómez-Pérez
    Petroleum Development Oman, Exploration Directorate, Muscat 100, Oman;
  • Badar Al Baloushi
    Petroleum Development Oman, Exploration Directorate, Muscat 100, Oman;
  • Thomas H. Boag
    Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305;
  • James F. Busch
    Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755
  • Erik A. Sperling
    Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305;
  • Justin V. Strauss
    Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755

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公開日
2020-07-06
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  • https://www.pnas.org/site/aboutpnas/licenses.xhtml
DOI
  • 10.1073/pnas.2002918117
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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<jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p>Our understanding of the interactions between animal evolution, biogeochemical cycling, and global tectonics during the Ediacaran Period (635 to 541 Ma) is severely hampered by lack of a robust temporal framework. The appearance and extinction of the earliest fossil animals are hypothesized to correlate with upheavals in biogeochemical cycles—foremost the Shuram carbon isotope excursion, possibly the largest known disturbance to the global carbon cycle. However, without age constraints on the excursion’s timing and duration, its driving mechanisms, global synchroneity, and role in Ediacaran geobiological evolution cannot be evaluated. We provide radioisotopic ages for the onset and termination of the Shuram, evaluate its global synchroneity, and show that it is divorced from the rise of the earliest preserved animal ecosystems.</jats:p>

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