Possible evolution of mobile animals in association with microbial mats

• Published in: Nature Geoscience
• Main Authors: Gingras, Murray, Hagadorn, James, Seilacher, Adolf, Lalonde, Stefan V., Pecoits, Ernesto, Petrash, Daniel, Konhauser, Kurt
• Other Authors: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Edmonton, University of Alberta, Department of Earth Sciences Denver, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University New Haven, Domaines Océaniques (LDO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut d'écologie et environnement-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2011
• Subjects: TRACE FOSSIL RECORD; CAMBRIAN TRANSITION; EDIACARA-BIOTA; WHITE SEA; SULFUR; RUSSIA; OXYGEN; LIFE; RISE; [SDE]Environmental Sciences; [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry; [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes; Burrows; White Sea
• Online Access: https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00808481; https://doi.org/10.1038/NGEO1142

International audience Complex animals first evolved during the Ediacaran period, between 635 and 542 million years ago, when the oceans were just becoming fully oxygenated. In situ fossils of the mobile forms of these animals are associated with microbial sedimentary structures(1-3), and the animal...