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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021

Late Ediacaran life on land: desiccated microbial mats and large biofilm streamers.

S McMahon, J J Matthews, A Brasier, J Still

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 authors.

S McMahonUK Centre for Astrobiology, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8589-2041
J J MatthewsOxford University Museum of Natural History, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PW, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5350-8439
A BrasierSchool of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK.
J StillSchool of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0249-3876

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Ediacaran period witnessed transformational change across the Earth-life system, but life on land during this interval is poorly understood. Non-marine/transitional Ediacaran sediments preserve a variety of probable microbially induced sedimentary structures and fossil matgrounds, and the ecology, biogeochemistry and sedimentological impacts of the organisms responsible are now ripe for investigation. Here, we report well-preserved fossils from emergent siliciclastic depositional environments in the Ediacaran of Newfoundland, Canada. These include exquisite, mouldically preserved microbial mats with desiccation cracks and flip-overs, abundant

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Biological EvolutionEcosystemBiofilmsFossilsGeologic SedimentsArumberiaEdiacaranmatgroundnon-marinestreamersterrestrial

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