Quantitative Approaches to Understanding Ediacaran Ecology

• Main Author: Mitchell, Emily G.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: 04 - Palaeobiology; Mistaken Point; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/3507/; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/3507/1/EGMitchellPhD.pdf; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/3507/2/e%20Mitchell.png

Ediacaran macrofossils occupy a crucial position in the history of life on Earth, marking the transition between the microbially dominated Proterozoic and the Cambrian explosion of modern animals. These Ediacaran organisms differ fundamentally from those found in other time periods, making it difficult...