Age of Neoproterozoic bilatarian body and trace fossils, White Sea, Russia: implications for metazoan evolution.

M. Martin; D. Grazhdankin; S. Bowring; D. A. Evans; M. Fedonkin; J. Kirschvink

DOI:10.1126/SCIENCE.288.5467.841

Corpus ID: 1019572

Age of Neoproterozoic bilatarian body and trace fossils, White Sea, Russia: implications for metazoan evolution.

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  title={Age of Neoproterozoic bilatarian body and trace fossils, White Sea, Russia: implications for metazoan evolution.},
  author={M. Martin and D. Grazhdankin and S. Bowring and D. A. Evans and M. Fedonkin and J. Kirschvink},
  journal={Science},
  year={2000},
  volume={288 5467},
  pages={
          841-5
        }
}

M. Martin, D. Grazhdankin, +3 authors J. Kirschvink

Published 2000

Medicine, Geology

Science

A uranium-lead zircon age for a volcanic ash interstratified with fossil-bearing, shallow marine siliciclastic rocks in the Zimnie Gory section of the White Sea region indicates that a diverse assemblage of body and trace fossils occurred before 555.3 +/- 0.3 million years ago. This age is a minimum for the oldest well-documented triploblastic bilaterian Kimberella. It also makes co-occurring trace fossils the oldest that are reliably dated. This determination of age implies that there is no… CONTINUE READING

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