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- Title
Exceptional Fossil Preservation and the Cambrian Explosion.
- Authors
Butterfield, Nicholas J.
- Abstract
Considers the taphonomic issues relating to non-biomineralizing components of Proterozoic-Cambrian transition with an eye both to testing the Cambrian explosion hypothesis, and as a tool to be used in the interpretation of problematic fossils. Definition of Burgess Shale-type preservation; Connection between the evolutionary radiation of phytoplankton and large animals; Intermediate between the discrete preservation of cuticular structures of most Burgess Shale-type fossils and the non-preservation of cellular tissues.
- Subjects
CAMBRIAN stratigraphic geology; FOSSILS; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; TISSUES
- Publication
Integrative & Comparative Biology, 2003, Vol 43, Issue 1, p166
- ISSN
1540-7063
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/icb/43.1.166