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Earth clock illustrating the life of the Earth in relation to Ediacara Biota
Illustration courtesy of Richard Corfield, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.
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Further Reading
Fedonkin, M.A. and others, The Rise of Animals (The John Hopkins University Press, 2007)
Corfield, Richard, The Silent Landscape: The Scientific Voyage of HMS Challenger (Joseph Henry Press, 2003)
Corfield, Richard, Architects of Eternity: The New Science of Fossils (Headline, 2001)
Brasier, Martin, Darwin’s Lost World: The hidden history of animal life (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Narbonne, Guy M., ‘THE EDIACARA BIOTA: Neoproterozoic Origin of Animals and Their Ecosystems’, in Annual Review of Earth Planetary Science (2005, Vol. 33)
Antcliffe, J.B., and Brasier, M.D., ‘Review Article. Charnia at fifty: developmental models for Ediacaran fronds’ 2008 Palaeontology, 51, 11-26
Brasier, M.D, and Antcliffe, J.B., ‘Dickinsonia from Ediacara: a new look at morphology and body construction’ Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2008 270, 311-323
Brasier, M.D., and Antcliffe, J.B., ‘Evolutionary relationships within the Avalonian Ediacara biota: new insights from Laser Analysis’, Journal of the Geological Society, 2009, 166, 363-384
Callow, R., H.T. and Brasier, M.D, ‘A solution to Darwin’s Dilemma of 1859: exceptional preservation in Salter’s material from the Ediacaran Longmyndian Supergroup, England’, Journal of the Geological Society, 2009, 166, 1-4
Zhuravlev, A. Yu., Wood, R.A, Pratt, B.R., and Spincer, B., ‘Lower Cambrian Reef Ecology’ in Advances in Cambrian Ecology (Columbia University Press, 2000)
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