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    sulphidic substrate Animals moving on / in surface of sea-floor Loose, oxygenated upper substrate with burrowing animals The "Cambrian substrate revolution" or...
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  • paleoecology of the earliest echinoderms: Helicoplacoids and the Cambrian substrate revolution". Geology. 28 (9): 839–842. Bibcode:2000Geo....28..839D. doi:10...
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  • Cambrian substrate revolution All pages with titles beginning with Agricultural revolution All pages with titles containing Agricultural revolution Revolution...
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    Microbial mat (category Cambrian life)
    Microbial mats were abundant on the shallow seabed until the Cambrian substrate revolution, when animals living in shallow seas increased their burrowing...
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    the Cambrian Kuanchuanpu Formation in South China. Bottjer, D.J.; Hagadorn, J.W.; Dornbos, S.Q. (September 2000). "The Cambrian substrate revolution" (PDF)...
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    The Cambrian ( /ˈkæmbri.ən, ˈkeɪm-/ KAM-bree-ən, KAYM-; sometimes symbolized Ꞓ) is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic...
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    Edrioasteroidea (category Cambrian first appearances)
    were destroyed in the Cambrian substrate revolution. The oldest undisputed fossils of Edrioasteroidea are known from Cambrian (Stage 3, about 515-520...
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  • This means it must have been well below a centimetre in length. As all Cambrian animals are marine, one can reasonably assume that the urbilaterian was...
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    classification of Kimberella is important for the scientific understanding of the Cambrian explosion; if it was a mollusc, or at least a protostome, this would mean...
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    stromatolite builders fell victims to grazing creatures (the Cambrian substrate revolution), implying that sufficiently complex organisms were common over...
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    burrowing, first for protection and later for feeding - the Cambrian substrate revolution. This combination of factors marks the end of the slow-moving...
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    stromatolite builders fell victim to grazing creatures (the Cambrian substrate revolution); this theory implies that sufficiently complex organisms were...
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    Burgess Shale (category Cambrian System of North America)
    preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At 508 million years old (middle Cambrian), it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints....
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  • microscopic size, making the sudden appearance of many animal phyla in the Cambrian explosion an illusion and merely represented a (geologically) sudden increase...
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  • assemblages based on taxonomic criteria only. The fauna of the middle Cambrian has a cosmopolitan range. All assemblages preserving soft-part anatomy...
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  • recording conditions up to a good forty to fifty million years before the Cambrian explosion at the beginning of the Phanerozoic. The whole sequence sits...
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  • Burgess Shale-type preservation (category Cambrian fossil record)
    Cambrian compared to later time periods, which represents a global megabias. The mode of preservation is more abundant before the Cambrian substrate revolution...
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    Maotianshan Shales (category Cambrian System of Asia)
    The Maotianshan Shales (帽天山页岩) are a series of Early Cambrian sedimentary deposits in the Chiungchussu Formation, famous for their Konservat Lagerstätten...
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    stem-group cnidarian, catching prey with its nematocysts. The Cambrian substrate revolution saw life on the sea floor change from minimal burrowing (left)...
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    Bell Island a globally unique location for the study of the Cambrian substrate revolution, one of the most important events in the history of life. The...
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    Pambdelurion (category Cambrian arthropods)
    Pambdelurion is an extinct genus of panarthropod from the Cambrian aged Sirius Passet site in northern Greenland. Like the morphologically similar Kerygmachela...
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  • paleoecology of the earliest echinoderms: Helicoplacoids and the Cambrian substrate revolution". Geology. 28 (9): 839–842. Bibcode:2000Geo....28..839D. doi:10...
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    Tamisiocaris (category Cambrian arthropods)
    radiodont genus initially only known from frontal appendages from the Cambrian Sirius Passet lagerstatte in northern Greenland. It was initially described...
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    Kerygmachela (category Cambrian arthropods)
    Kerygmachela kierkegaardi is a kerygmachelid gilled lobopodian from the Cambrian Stage 3 aged Sirius Passet Lagerstätte in northern Greenland. Its anatomy...
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  • Poleta Formation (category Cambrian System of North America)
    and Nevada. The formation dates to the Stage 3 of the yet-to-be-ratified Cambrian Series 2; the lower portion base of the formation and the youngest Lagerstätte...
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    the Cambrian explosion. The rapid event finished before 518 million years ago. Some mid-19th century scientists already knew about some Early Cambrian fossils...
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  • M. (eds.). "Early skeletal fossils" (PDF). Neoproterozoic- Cambrian Biological Revolutions. Paleontological Society Papers. 10: 67–78. Retrieved 2008-07-18...
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    the matgrounds disappearance. Cambrian substrate revolution Ediacaran matground ecology persisted into the earliest Cambrian, by Luis A. Buatois, Guy M....
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  • Kaili Formation (category Cambrian System of Asia)
    stratigraphic formation which was deposited during the Lower and Middle Cambrian (~513 to 506 million years ago). The formation is approximately 200 metres...
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    Halkieriid (category Cambrian molluscs)
    to Middle Cambrian. Their eponymous genus is Halkieria /hælˈkɪəriə/, which has been found on almost every continent in Lower to Mid Cambrian deposits,...
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