The Ediacaran microbiota and the survival of Snowball Earth conditions
Recently recovered assemblage of late Ediacaran cyanobacteria, phytoplankton and some microfossils of uncertain origin from the subsurface Włodawa Formation on the Lublin Slope in Poland, allowed to extend their stratigraphic ranges and provided a new evidence that more species survived the Cryogeni...
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ftuppsalauniv:oai:DiVA.org:uu-85684 2023-11-12T04:03:13+01:00 The Ediacaran microbiota and the survival of Snowball Earth conditions Moczydlowska, Malgorzata 2008 application/pdf http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-85684 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2008.06.008 eng eng Paleobiologi Amsterdam : Elsevier Precambrian Research, 0301-9268, 2008, 167:1-2, s. 1-15 orcid:0000-0003-4207-3323 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-85684 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2008.06.008 ISI:000261552100001 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess acritarcha cyanobacteria Ediacaran Snowball Earth Slushball Earth Earth and Related Environmental Sciences Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap Article, review/survey info:eu-repo/semantics/article text 2008 ftuppsalauniv https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2008.06.008 2023-11-01T23:32:04Z Recently recovered assemblage of late Ediacaran cyanobacteria, phytoplankton and some microfossils of uncertain origin from the subsurface Włodawa Formation on the Lublin Slope in Poland, allowed to extend their stratigraphic ranges and provided a new evidence that more species survived the Cryogenian Period. Numerous other species of unicellular eukaryotes (informally called acritarchs) and prokaryotes (also coenobial and colonial) have been documented in recent years to lived-over to the Ediacaran, enlarging the global list of biota surviving the Neoproterozoic icehouse intervals. This compelling record revives the issue how marine biota could coup with the catastrophic consequences imposed by the global glaciations and/or to what extent the environmental and climatic change reduced the life habitats. For this purpose, the metabolic processes, modes of life and ecologic habitats of the biota are inferred and analyzed. The reviewed biota are autotrophic and aerobic: benthic cyanobacteria, which were solitary and largely colonial, living in functionally complex communities of mat-builders, and planktic and/or facultative benthic eukaryotes, which reproduced also sexually and some had advanced life cycle with alternating vegetative and reproductive generations. The environmental requirements of these microorganisms are well-oxygenated open marine waters in the photic zone, and permanent seafloor substrate for benthic and periodic access to bottom sediment for some planktic species with sexual reproduction to rest the cyst. Such natural habitats must have been preserved throughout the Cryogenian Period, and in a substantial extent (environmental “critical mass”) to sustain viable populations in the lineages that are represented by surviving species. Modern analogues of extraordinary adaptations of diverse biota to extreme conditions have their limitations when applied to the Cryogenian Period. Modern extreme environments (like those in Antarctica) with highly specialized organisms are maintained over relatively ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Uppsala University: Publications (DiVA) Precambrian Research 167 1-2 1 15 |
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Recently recovered assemblage of late Ediacaran cyanobacteria, phytoplankton and some microfossils of uncertain origin from the subsurface Włodawa Formation on the Lublin Slope in Poland, allowed to extend their stratigraphic ranges and provided a new evidence that more species survived the Cryogenian Period. Numerous other species of unicellular eukaryotes (informally called acritarchs) and prokaryotes (also coenobial and colonial) have been documented in recent years to lived-over to the Ediacaran, enlarging the global list of biota surviving the Neoproterozoic icehouse intervals. This compelling record revives the issue how marine biota could coup with the catastrophic consequences imposed by the global glaciations and/or to what extent the environmental and climatic change reduced the life habitats. For this purpose, the metabolic processes, modes of life and ecologic habitats of the biota are inferred and analyzed. The reviewed biota are autotrophic and aerobic: benthic cyanobacteria, which were solitary and largely colonial, living in functionally complex communities of mat-builders, and planktic and/or facultative benthic eukaryotes, which reproduced also sexually and some had advanced life cycle with alternating vegetative and reproductive generations. The environmental requirements of these microorganisms are well-oxygenated open marine waters in the photic zone, and permanent seafloor substrate for benthic and periodic access to bottom sediment for some planktic species with sexual reproduction to rest the cyst. Such natural habitats must have been preserved throughout the Cryogenian Period, and in a substantial extent (environmental “critical mass”) to sustain viable populations in the lineages that are represented by surviving species. Modern analogues of extraordinary adaptations of diverse biota to extreme conditions have their limitations when applied to the Cryogenian Period. Modern extreme environments (like those in Antarctica) with highly specialized organisms are maintained over relatively ... |
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