The Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte: a view of Cambrian life from East Gondwana

John Paterson; Diego Garcia-Bellido; James Jago; James Gehling; Michael S.Y. Lee; Gregory Edgecombe

doi:10.1144/jgs2015-083

The Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte: a view of Cambrian life from East Gondwana

John Paterson, Diego Garcia-Bellido, James Jago, James Gehling, Michael S.Y. Lee, Gregory Edgecombe

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Abstract

Recent fossil discoveries from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale (EBS) on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, have provided critical insights into the tempo of the Cambrian explosion of animals, such as the origin and seemingly rapid evolution of arthropod compound eyes, as well as extending the geographical ranges of several groups to the East Gondwanan margin, supporting close faunal affinities with South China. The EBS also holds great potential for broadening knowledge on taphonomic pathways involved in the exceptional preservation of fossils in Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstätten. EBS fossils display a range of taphonomic modes for a variety of soft tissues, especially phosphatization and pyritization, in some cases recording a level of anatomical detail that is absent from most Cambrian Konservat-Lagerstätten.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-11
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of The Geological Society
Volume	173
Issue number	1
Early online date	10 Nov 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2015-083
Publication status	Published - Jan 2016

Keywords

Adaptive radiation
Arthropoda
Australasia
Australia
Biodiversity
Biogeography
Cambrian
Communities
Gondwana
Invertebrata
Kangaroo Island
Lagerstatten
Lower Cambrian
Nearshore environment
Paleoenvironment
Paleozoic
Porifera
Preservation
Problematic fossils
South Australia
Taphonomy
Trilobita
Trilobitomorpha
Emu Bay Shale
Palaeoscolecida
Lobopodia
Vetulicolia
Lamellipedia
Spiralia
Myoscolex

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