Ediacaran Discs: Elucidating the Form and Function of the Discoid Fossils at the Root of Metazoan Evolution

• Main Author: Burzynski, Gregory
• Other Authors: Narbonne, M. Guy, Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Ediacaran; Taphonomy; Paleobiology; Aspidella; Eoporpita; Hiemalora; Canada; Holdfast; Mackenzie mountains; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/15860

Recent suggestions that Ediacaran discs, the most common and ubiquitous fossils of the Ediacara biota, represent the holdfasts of fronds has led them to be relatively unstudied in recent years. This thesis utilizes biometric, sedimentologic, and morphologic data from Ediacaran sites in Avalonian New...