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Plummer, 2021

Was the Amadeus Basin of Central Australia a crucible for pre-Ediacaran macro-biotic evolutionary trials?

Plummer, P. S.
DOI
DOI10.1080/03721426.2021.1935585
Aasta2021
Köide145
Number2
Leheküljed125-142
Tüüpartikkel ajakirjas
Keelinglise
Id53199

Abstrakt

Vertical burrowing is a biological activity deemed to have evolved during the earliest Cambrian, the older soft-bodied fossils of the Ediacaran Period, that thrived between 575 and 541 Ma, seemingly being restricted to occupying the sea!oor/ocean interface. Yet at two levels within the pre-Ediacaran sequence of the Amadeus Basin, central Australia, are vertical tubular features that have previously
been reported as possibly of biogenic origin: a suite of such tubes occurs within the Areyonga Formation, dated at about 700 Ma, while two other tubular structures occur within the older Heavitree Formation that is perhaps 970–950 million years old. Should these structures prove, on re-examination, to indeed have been biologically formed, then vertical burrowing initially evolved possibly as much as 435 million years earlier than previously believed and these features would make the Amadeus Basin an isolated crucible of, seemingly, two evolutionary trials of vertical burrowing, albeit trials that ultimately failed for reasons that are discussed. Additionally, the same two stratigraphic levels each contain another structure that was also initially described as of biogenic origin, one being a possible body-fossil.

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