Priapulid worms: Pioneer horizontal burrowers at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary

• Published in: Geology
• Main Authors: Vannier, Jean, Calandra, Ivan, Gaillard, Christian, Zylinska, Anna
• Other Authors: PaleoEnvironnements et PaleobioSphere (PEPS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Biozentrum Grindel und Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg (UHH), Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw (UW)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2010
• Subjects: maotianshan shale biota; Burgess shale; fortune head; SW China; caudatus; fossil; paleoecology; newfoundland; ecosystems; transition; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; Burgess; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://insu.hal.science/insu-00670832; https://doi.org/10.1130/G30829.1

International audience The major evolutionary events that characterize the Precambrian-Cambrian transition are accompanied by profound ecological changes in the composition of benthic communities, the nature of the substrate, and the occupation of marine ecospace. The increased animal activity on an...