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 and Andrey Bekker ()
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Kelden Pehr: University of California, Riverside
Gordon D. Love: University of California, Riverside
Anton Kuznetsov: Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology
Victor Podkovyrov: Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology
Christopher K. Junium: Syracuse University
Leonid Shumlyanskyy: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Tetyana Sokur: National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Andrey Bekker: University of California, Riverside

Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract Middle-to-late Ediacaran (575–541 Ma) marine sedimentary rocks record the first appearance of macroscopic, multicellular body fossils, yet little is known about the environments and food sources that sustained this enigmatic fauna. Here, we perform a lipid biomarker and stable isotope (δ15Ntotal and δ13CTOC) investigation of exceptionally immature late Ediacaran strata (

Date: 2018
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