Origin and early evolution of the Metazoa

Abstract

Origin and early radiation of the Metazoa / Philip W. Signor and Jere H. Lipps -- Faunas and facies : fact and artifact : paleoenvironmental controls on the distribution of Early Cambrian faunas / Jeffrey F. Mount and Philip W. Signor -- Biological and biogeochemical preludes to the Ediacaran radiation / Andrew H. Knoll -- Vendian faunas and the early evolution of Metazoa / M.A. Fedonkin -- Functional and ecological aspects of Ediacaran assemblages / Richard J.F. Jenkins -- The record of trace fossils across the Proterozoic-Cambrian boundary / Thomas Peter Grimes -- The Lower Cambrian fossil record of the Soviet Union / Alexei Yu. Rozanov and Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev -- Lower Cambrian of southeastern Newfoundland : epeirogeny and Lazurus faunas, lithofacies-biofacies linkages, and the myth of a global chronostratigraphy / Ed Landing -- The Lower Cambrian fossil record of China / Jiang Zhi-Wen -- The Early Cambrian radiation of arthropods / Derek E.G. Briggs and Richard A. Fortey -- Radiation of Echinodermata / James Sprinkle -- The Cambrian radiation of brachiopods / Leonid Ye. Popov -- Diversification of Archaeocyatha / Françoise Debrenne -- Early radiation of biomineralizing phyla / Stefan Bengston and Simon Conway Morris -- Paleoceanography and changes in the biological cycling of phosphorus across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary / M.D. Brasier -- The macroevolution of phyla / James W. Valentine.