Late Ediacaran redox stability and metazoan evolution

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 335-336, Issue , 2012, Pages 25-35

  Johnston, D T ^a   Poulton, S W ^b   Goldberg, T ^c   Sergeev, V N ^d   Podkovyrov, V ^e   Vorob'eva, N G ^d   Bekker, A ^f   Knoll, A H ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e INSTITUTE OF PRECAMBRIAN GEOLOGY AND GEOCHRONOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animals; Atmospheric oxygen; Ediacaran; Evolution; Neoproterozoic; Russia

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN; EDIACARAN; EVOLUTION; NEOPROTEROZOIC; RUSSIA;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ECOLOGY; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; OXYGENATION; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFUR;

ANIMALS;

CAMBRIAN; EDIACARAN; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METAZOAN; OXYGEN; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PALEONTOLOGY; PREDATION; PROTEROZOIC; REDOX CONDITIONS; TRACE FOSSIL;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

ANIMALIA; BILATERIA; METAZOA;

EID: 84861982315     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.05.010     Document Type: Article

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