The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota

The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota\r......Page 2
Front matter\r......Page 11
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Insights in the Neoproterozoic–Early Cambrian transition of NW Argentina: facies, environments and fossils in the proto-margin of western Gondwana......Page 12
Climates and climate zonality of the Vendian: geological evidence\r......Page 26
Non-destructive method to detect the cycle of lamination in sedimentary rocks: rhythmite sequence in Neoproterozoic Cap carbonates......Page 38
Ediacaran rocks from the Cadomian basement of the Saxo-Thuringian Zone (NE Bohemian Massif, Germany): age constraints, geotectonic setting and basin development......Page 46
Siliciclastic prelude to Elatina–Nuccaleena deglaciation: lithostratigraphy and rock magnetism of the base of the Ediacaran system......Page 65
The rise and decline of the Ediacaran biota: palaeobiological and stable isotopic evidence from the NW and NE Lesser Himalaya, India......Page 90
Calcite–dolomite cycles in the Neoproterozoic Cap carbonates, Otavi Group, Namibia......Page 116
Correlating the Ediacaran of Australia......Page 128
‘Ediacaran’ as a name for the newly designated terminal \rProterozoic period......Page 150
First Early Cambrian Radiolaria\r......Page 156
Ciliated protozoans from the Precambrian Doushantuo\rFormation, Wengan, South China......Page 164
New data on Kimberella, the Vendian mollusc-like organism\r(White Sea region, Russia): palaeoecological and\revolutionary implications......Page 170
Comment: future research directions for further\ranalysis of Kimberella\r......Page 194
Ventogyrus, a possible siphonophore-like trilobozoan\rcoelenterate from the Vendian Sequence\r(late Neoproterozoic), northern Russia\r......Page 200
The provenance and palaeobiology of a new multi-vaned,\rchambered frondose organism from the Ediacaran (later\rNeoproterozoic) of South Australia\r......Page 208
A brief review of the fossil record of the Ediacaran–Cambrian\rtransition in the area of Montes de Toledo–Guadalupe, Spain\r......Page 236
Morphology and taphonomy of an Ediacaran frond: Charnia\rfrom the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland\r......Page 250
Comparative taphonomy of Vendian genera Beltanelloides and\rNemiana: taxonomy and lifestyle\r......Page 272
Upper Vendian assemblages of carbonaceous micro- and\rmacrofossils in the White Sea Region: systematic and\rbiostratigraphic aspects\r......Page 282
Ediacaria booleyi: weeded from the Garden of Ediacara?\r......Page 290
Discoidal fossils of the Ediacaran biota: a review of\rcurrent understanding\r......Page 310
Biota in the terminal Proterozoic successions on the Indian\rsubcontinent: a review\r......Page 328
Vendian Hiemalora from Arctic Siberia reinterpreted as\rholdfasts of benthic organisms\r......Page 344
A new reconstruction of Protolyellia (Early Cambrian psammocoral)\r......Page 352
Poriferan paraphyly and its implications for Precambrian\rpalaeobiology\r......Page 368
Seeing ghosts: Neoproterozoic bilaterian body plans\r......Page 382
Towards a morphospace for the Ediacara biota\r......Page 390
The nature of vendobionts\r......Page 400
Theoretical morphology of quilt structures in Ediacaran fossils\r......Page 412
The Verdun Syndrome: simultaneous origin of\rprotective armour and infaunal shelters at the\rPrecambrian–Cambrian transition\r......Page 418
The Cambrian ‘basement’ of gastropod evolution\r......Page 428
Siliceous microfossils and biosiliceous sedimentation in the\rlowermost Cambrian of China\r......Page 435
Fleshing out the Ediacaran period\r......Page 438
Rugosoopsis: a new group of Upper Riphean animals\r......Page 442
Microstratigraphy of the Late Ediacaran to the Ordovician\rin NW Iran (Takab area)\r......Page 446
d13C stratigraphy of the Birmania Basin, Rajasthan, India:\rimplications for the Vendian–Cambrian transition\r......Page 452
Sprigg, Glaessner and Wade and the discovery and international\rrecognition of the Ediacaran fauna\r......Page 456
Saline giants, cold cradles and global playgrounds of\rNeoproterozoic Earth: the origin of the Animalia\r......Page 460
Index\r......Page 462