Here we describe a late-Ediacaran fossil,Helicolocellus cantorigen. et sp. nov., from the Dengying Formation (around 551–539million years ago) of South China. This fossil is reconstructed as a large, stemmed b
A crown-group cnidarian from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK F. S. Dunn C. G. Kenchington P. R. Wilby Nature Ecology & Evolution(2022) The genome of the giant Nomura’s jellyfish sheds light on the early evolution of active predation ...
FOSSILLagerstättencomparable to that of the Burgess Shale potentially provide the detail necessary to resolve and assess the so-called Cambrian Explosion of multicellular life1,2; distributional and taphonomic biases, however, often limit the generalizations that can be drawn. Here I report widespread...
Additionally, the oceans experienced a decrease in temperature during the late Miocene (7–5.4 Ma ago)36. These results suggest that global cooling and environmental changes in the late Miocene were an important driver of demographic changes in both shallow-water and deep-sea holothurians. Hox/...
its body plan tens of millions of years before the Cambrian diversification of animal life.#A new fossil cnidarian,Auroralumina attenboroughi, from the Ediacaran of Charnwood Forest, UK, described as showing mosaic anthozoan and medusozoan characters, is the oldest yet-known crown-group cnidarian...
Auroralumina confirms the presence of crown-group cnidar- ians coeval with the oldest assemblage of the Ediacaran macrobiota and is the most ancient fossil that can be reliably ascribed to the crown group of any living animal phylum. Living cnidarians (other than derived, parasitic groups) use...