Spatial analyses of Ediacaran communities at Mistaken Point

• Published in: Paleobiology
• Main Authors: Mitchell, Emily G., Butterfield, Nicholas J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2018
• Subjects: 04 - Palaeobiology; Mistaken Point; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/4240/; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/4240/1/Mitchell_and_Butterfield_Spatial_Analyses_of_Ediacaran_communities_at_Mistaken_Point_final_includingSI.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2017.35

Bedding-plane assemblages of Ediacaran fossils from Mistaken Point, Newfoundland, are among the oldest known records of complex multicellular life on Earth (dated to ~565 Ma). The in situ preservation of these sessile but otherwise deeply enigmatic organisms means that statistical analyses of specim...