Ediacara biota flourished in oligotrophic and bacterially dominated marine environments across Baltica

Kelden Pehr; Gordon D. Love; Anton Kuznetsov; Victor Podkovyrov; Christopher K. Junium; Leonid Shumlyanskyy; Tetyana Sokur; Andrey Bekker

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04195-8

Nature Communications (May 2018)

Ediacara biota flourished in oligotrophic and bacterially dominated marine environments across Baltica

Kelden Pehr,
Gordon D. Love,
Anton Kuznetsov,
Victor Podkovyrov,
Christopher K. Junium,
Leonid Shumlyanskyy,
Tetyana Sokur,
Andrey Bekker

Affiliations

Kelden Pehr: Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside
Gordon D. Love: Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside
Anton Kuznetsov: Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology
Victor Podkovyrov: Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology
Christopher K. Junium: Department of Earth Sciences, Syracuse University
Leonid Shumlyanskyy: M.P. Semenko Institute of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Ore Formation, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Tetyana Sokur: Institute of Geological Sciences, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Andrey Bekker: Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04195-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The environments and food sources that sustained Ediacara biota 575-541 million years ago remain unclear. Here, the authors perform lipid biomarker and isotopic analyses on biota fossil-containing Ediacaran strata from Baltica and propose the presence of a microbial loop bolstered by bacteria.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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