Early life
- A New Molecular Window on Early Life
- A uniquely preserved Ediacaran fossil with direct evidence for a quilted bodyplan
- An Early Cambrian archaeocyath–trilobite fauna in limestone erratics from the Upper Carboniferous Fitzroy Tillite Formation, Falkland Islands
- Assemblage Palaeoecology of the Ediacara Biota: The Unabridged Edition?
- Biodiversity of the Ediacaran-early Cambrian transition in northwestern Argentina and related areas
- Burgess Shale
- BurgessShale.com - Information and Resources about the Burgess Shale
- Burgess Shale fossils
- Burgess Shale-type microfossils from the middle Cambrian Kaili Formation, Guizhou Province, China
- Chris Nedin's Page
- Contributions to the Proterozoic and Cambrian Evolution of Eukaryotes
- Controversial “Cambrian” fossils of the Vindhyan are real but more than a billion years older
- Critters of the Burgess Shale
- Digital Burgess Shale Photo Album
- Ediacara
- Ediacaran Fossils of Canada
- First Animals: ca. 760-million-year-old Sponge-like Fossils from Namibia
- Fossils: The Key to the Past, Morphology of Early Life - 500 Million Years Ago
- From the beginning at The Natural History Museum
- History of Earth Origins of Life and Death
- Large spinose microfossils in Ediacaran rocks as resting stages of early animals
- Late Precambrian Fossils from Ediacara, South Australia
- Life on Earth Originated Where Later Microbial Oxygenic Photosynthesis Precipitated Banded Iron Formation, Suppressing Life Diversification for 1.4 Ga
- Mistaken Point, Newfoundland - Vendian locality
- National Museum of Natural History - Burgess Shale
- Origin of the Eumetazoa: Testing ecological predictions of molecular clocks against the Proterozoic fossil record
- Origins of Life Prebiotic Evolution and the Precambrian Fossil Record
- Precambrian Fossils
- Skeletons of Burgess Shale Animals
- Trace fossil preservation and the early evolution of animals
- Vendian Animals - The First Animals
- Yoho-Burgess Shale Foundation
Books about early life
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The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota The Proterozoic and early Phanerozoic was a time punctuated by a series of significant events in Earth history. Glaciations of global scale wracked the planet, interfingered with dramatic changes in oceanic and atmospheric chemistry and marked changes in continental configuration. It was during these dynamic and 'weedy' times that metazoans first appeared, diversified, culminating in the appearance of hard tissue skeletons and deep 'farming' of the marine substrate, in late Proterozoic and first few millions of years of the Phanerozoic. This book is the culmination of two symposia of UNESCO International Geological Correlation Project 493, one in Prato (Italy) in 2004, the second in Kyoto (Japan) in 2006. Both dealt specifically with the precise timing of physical events and teasing out of the effects which these changing environments, climates, global chemistry and palaeogeography had on the development and diversification of animals, culminating in the spectacular Ediacaran/Vendian faunas of the late Precambrian. |