Ediacaran life close to land: coastal and shoreface habitats of the Ediacaran macrobiota in the central and southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia

• Published in: Journal of Sedimentary Research
• Main Authors: McMahon, William J., Liu, Alexander G., Tindal, Benjamin, Kleinhans, Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SEPM 2020
• Subjects: 04 - Palaeobiology; 07 - Sedimentary Geology; Flinders; White Sea
• Online Access: http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/5975/; http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/5975/1/i1527-1404-90-11-1463.pdf; https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/sepm/jsedres/article/90/11/1463/593831/Ediacaran-life-close-to-land-Coastal-and-shoreface; https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2020.029

The Rawnsley Quartzite of South Australia hosts some of the world's most diverse Ediacaran macrofossil assemblages, with many of the constituent taxa interpreted as early representatives of metazoan clades. Globally, a link has been recognized between the taxonomic composition of individual Edi...