Resolving the enigmatic Precambrian-Cambrian boundary event (BACE)

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• 20 Article

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• 2025

  Persistent dysoxia in very shallow seas across the Late Cambrian SPICE Event, Durness Group, UK

  Feng, K., Bowyer, F., Curtis, A., Poulton, S. W., Pichevin, L. & Wood, R., 2 May 2025, In: Geology.

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  • Shallow Water 100%
  • Atmospherics 66%
  • Trace Element 33%
  • Ordovician 33%
  • Redox Condition 33%

• Low oxygen but dynamic marine redox conditions permitted the Cambrian Radiation

  Alexander, R., Zhuravlev, A., Bowyer, F., Pichevin, L., Poulton, S. W., Kouchinsk, A. & Wood, R., 24 Jan 2025, In: Science Advances. 11, 4, eads2846.

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  • Spatial Distribution 100%
  • Shallow Water 100%
  • Reef 100%
  • Endemic Species 100%
  • Water Column 100%

• Clastic sedimentary record impacted by carbonate bioclasts in the Late Ediacaran

  Osés, G. L., Alfonso, J. W. L., Wood, R., Freitas, B. T., Romero, G. R., Paula-Santos, G. M., Filho, S. C., Pacheco, M. L. A. F., Rodrigues, C. L., da Silva, T. F. & Amorim, K. B., 13 Jan 2025, In: Geological Magazine. 162, e2.

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  • Phanerozoic 100%
  • Ediacaran 100%
  • Sedimentary Feature 66%
  • Microbial Mat 33%

• Possible glendonite mineral pseudomorphs in the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction

  Al Sarmi, M. & Wood, R., 6 Jan 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, 974.

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  • Permian 100%
  • Pseudomorph 100%
  • Mass Extinction 33%
  • Carbon Cycle 33%
  • Cold Water 33%

• Natural sampling and aliasing of marine geochemical signals

  Curtis, A., Bloem, H., Wood, R., Bowyer, F., Shields, G. A., Zhou, Y., Yilales, M. & Tetzlaff, D., 4 Jan 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, 760.

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  • Hiatus 100%
  • Sea Level Change 50%
  • Stratigraphy 50%
  • Geological Time 50%
  • Geodynamics 50%
• 2024

  Sea-level controls on Ediacaran-Cambrian animal radiations

  Bowyer, F., Wood, R. & Yilales Agelvis, M., 31 Jul 2024, In: Science Advances. 10, 31, p. eado6462 eado6462.

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  • Sea Level 100%
  • Ediacaran 100%
  • Sedimentary Rock 66%
  • Carbon 14 33%
  • Temporal Distribution 33%

• Sustained increases in atmospheric oxygen and marine productivity in both the Neoproterozoic and Paleozoic eras

  Stockey, R. G., Cole, D. B., Farrell, U. C., Agić, H., Boag, T. H., Brocks, J. J., Canfield, D. E., Cheng, M., Crockford, P. W., Cui, H., Dahl, T. W., Mouro, L. D., Dewing, K., Dornbos, S. Q., Emmings, J. F., Gaines, R. R., Gibson, T. M., Gill, B. C., Gilleaudeau, G. J. & Goldberg, K. & 37 others, Guilbaud, R., Halveson, G., Hammarlund, E. U., Hantsoo, K., Henderson, M. A., Henderson, C. M., Hodgskiss, M. S. W., Jarrett, A. J. M., Johnston, D. T., Kabanov, P., Kimmig, J., Knoll, A. H., Kunzmann, M., LeRoy, M. A., Li, C., Loydell, D. K., Macdonald, F. A., Magnall, J. M., Mills, N. T., Och, L. M., O'Connell, B., Pages, A., Peters, S. E., Porter, S. M., Poulton, S. W., Ritzer, S. R., Rooney, A. D., Schoepfer, S., Smith, E. F., Strauss, J. V., Uhlein, G. J., White, T., Wood, R., Woltz, C. R., Yurchenko, I., Planavsky, N. J. & Sperling, E. A., 2 Jul 2024, In: Nature Geoscience. 17, p. 667–674

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  • Atmospherics 100%
  • Paleozoic 100%
  • Paleozoic Era 100%
  • Shallow Water 50%
  • Food Supply 50%
• 2023

  Carbon isotopes from shales provide insight into the terminal Ediacaran marine carbonate record

  Bowyer, F., Yilales Agelvis, M., Wood, R. & Poulton, S. W., 8 Nov 2023, In: American Journal of Science. 323, 9, 9.

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  • Diagenesis 100%
  • Carbon 14 100%
  • Ediacaran 100%
  • Mudstone 50%
  • Chemostratigraphy 50%

• New Ediacaran biota from the oldest Nama Group, Namibia (Tsaus Mountains), and re-definition of the Nama Assemblage

  Wood, R., Bowyer, F., Alexander, R., Yilales Agelvis, M., Uahengo, C. I., Kaputuaza, K., Ndeunyema, J. & Curtis, A., 23 Oct 2023, In: Geological Magazine. p. 1-14

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  • Trace Fossil 100%
  • Ediacaran 100%
  • Nama 100%
  • Macrofossil 40%
  • Mountain Environment 33%

• Constraining the onset and environmental setting of metazoan biomineralization: the Ediacaran Nama Group of the Tsaus Mountains, Namibia

  Bowyer, F., Uahengo, C.-I., Kaputuaza, K., Ndeunyema, J., Yilales Agelvis, M., Alexander, R., Curtis, A. & Wood, R., 15 Oct 2023, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 620, 118336.

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  • Biomineralization 100%
  • Ediacaran 100%
  • Sea Level 33%
  • Shallow Water 33%
  • Biological Pest Control 33%

• Cambrian radiation speciation events driven by sea level and redoxcline changes on the Siberian Craton

  Zhuravlev, A., Wood, R. & Bowyer, F., 16 Jun 2023, In: Science Advances. 9, 24

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  • Sea Level 100%
  • Craton 100%
  • Endemic Species 66%
  • Spatial Distribution 33%
  • Endemism 33%

• Implications of an integrated late Ediacaran to early Cambrian stratigraphy of the Siberian Platform, Russia

  Bowyer, F., Zhuravlev, A., Wood, R., Zhao, F., Sukhov, S. S., Alexander, R., Poulton, S. W. & Zhu, M., 11 Jan 2023, In: GSA Bulletin. 135, 9-10, p. 2428-2450

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  • Stratigraphy 100%
  • Ediacaran 100%
  • Terreneuvian 28%
  • Sea Level 14%
  • Stacking 14%
• 2022

  Ediacaran Corumbella has a cataphract calcareous skeleton with controlled biomineralization

  Ladeira Osés, G., Wood, R., Raffaeli Romero, G., Prado, G. M. E. M., Bidola, P., Herzen, J., Pfeiffer, F., Nascimento Stampar, S. & Forancelli Pacheco, M. L. A., 22 Dec 2022, In: iScience. 25, 12, 105676.

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  • Skeleton 100%
  • Biomineralization 100%
  • Sclerite 100%
  • Aragonite 33%

• Increases in reef size, habitat, and metacommunity complexity associated with Cambrian Radiation oxygenation pulses

  Zhuravlev, A., Mitchell, E., Bowyer, F., Wood, R. & Penny, A., 6 Dec 2022, In: Nature Communications. 13, 7523.

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  • Reef 100%
  • Environmental Response 14%

• The record of sea water chemistry evolution during the Ediacaran–Cambrian from early marine cements

  Xiong, Y., Wood, R. & Pichevin, L., 14 Nov 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Depositional Record.

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  • Water Chemistry 100%
  • Calcite 100%
  • Aragonite 100%
  • Mineralogy 66%
  • Ediacaran 66%

• Calibrating the temporal and spatial dynamics of the Ediacaran - Cambrian radiation of animals

  Bowyer, F. T., Zhuravlev, A. Y., Wood, R., Shields, G. A., Zhou, Y., Curtis, A., Poulton, S. W., Condon, D. J., Yang, C. & Zhu, M., 1 Feb 2022, In: Earth-Science Reviews. 225, 103913.

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  • Ediacaran 100%
  • Geochemistry 11%
  • Chemostratigraphy 11%
  • Fossil Record 11%
  • Strontium 90 11%

• Early–Middle Cambrian stratigraphy and faunas from northern Siberia

  Kouchinsky, A., Alexander, R., Bengtson, S., Bowyer, F., Clausen, S., Holmer, L. E., Kolesnikov, K. A., Korovnikov, I., Pavlov, V., Skovsted, C. B., Ushatinkskaya, G., Wood, R. & Zhuravlev, A., 2022, In: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 67, 2, p. 341-464

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  • Stratigraphy 100%
  • Carbon 14 100%
  • Chemostratigraphy 50%
  • Fossil Assemblage 50%
  • Scanning Electron Microscopy 50%
• 2021

  Modelling Ediacaran metazoan–microbial reef growth

  Curtis, A., Wood, R., Bowyer, F., Shore, A., Curtis-Walcott, A. & Robertsson, J., 1 Aug 2021, In: Sedimentology. 68, 5, p. 1877-1892

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  • Reef 100%
  • Ediacaran 100%
  • Bioclastic Sediment 57%
  • Phanerozoic 42%
  • Stromatolite 42%

• Environmental and diagenetic controls on the morphology and calcification of the Ediacaran metazoan Cloudina

  Shore, A. & Wood, R., 11 Jun 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 12341.

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  • Reef 100%
  • Diagenesis 100%
  • Ediacaran 100%
  • Locale 50%
  • Breakage 50%

• Ediacaran metazoan reveals lophotrochozoan affinity and deepens root of Cambrian Explosion

  Shore, A., Wood, R., Butler, I., Zhuravlev, A. Y., McMahon, S., Curtis, A. & Bowyer, F., 1 Jan 2021, In: Science Advances. 7, 1, p. 1-8 8 p., eabf2933.

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  • Skeleton 100%
  • Ediacaran 100%
  • Morphology 50%
  • Gut 50%
  • Molecular Phylogeny 50%