Ediacarans

The Mistaken Point Assemblage: Ecology and Evolution of Earth's Earliest Ediacarans

Kyoto Abstract Reflections on Staggered Bilateral Symmetry in Dickinsonia and other Ediacarans

Kyoto Abstract Were Efficient Burrowers Responsible for the Disappearance of Ediacarans?

The garden of Ediacara: Discovering the first complex life by Mark A. S. McMenamin

N o paleontological subject comes close to stimulating the public's interest like dinosaurs, but the origin of animals is probably a solid second. As is well known, representatives of nearly all of the animal phyla (e.g., arthropods, molluscs, echino-derms) appear at roughly the same moment in geologic time, the beginning of the Cambrian period, about 550 million years ago. Their sudden appeara...

New perspectives on the origin of metazoan complexity: an introduction to the symposium.

Impressive gains have been made in our understanding of metazoan complexity at the molecular level, especially those in the field of developmental evolution, but our understanding at other levels has lagged behind. This symposium attempts to bring diverse perspectives to bear on the causes and mechanisms of the explosive growth in metazoan complexity in the late Precambrian and Lower Cambrian. ...