The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland—A geochemical window on early Cambrian low-oxygen environments and ecosystems

• Published in: Geobiology
• Main Authors: Hammarlund, Emma U., Smith, M. Paul, Rasmussen, Jan A., Nielsen, Arne T., Canfield, Donald E., Harper, David A.T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2019
• Subjects: Geochemistry; Cambrian explosion; oxygen minimum zone; Sirius Passet; soft-tissue fossil preservation; water-column chemistry; Greenland; Sirius; North Greenland
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/66b54126-6db7-4dd6-a08e-a10361dd5f55; https://doi.org/10.1111/gbi.12315

The early Cambrian Sirius Passet fauna of northernmost Greenland (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 3) contains exceptionally preserved soft tissues that provide an important window to early animal evolution, while the surrounding sediment holds critical data on the palaeodepositional water-column chemistry....