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  • Paleontology
  • Geochemistry

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  • The late Ediacaran period saw increased metazoan diversity and ecological complexity, preceding the Cambrian Explosion.
  • Understanding the environmental drivers of this diversification is crucial for reconstructing early animal evolution.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between marine redox conditions, nutrient dynamics, and biotic diversification in the Nama Group, Namibia (~550 to ~538 Million years ago).
  • To constrain the environmental factors that promoted or inhibited metazoan radiation during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of redox and nutrient data (including phosphorus speciation) from two shelf transects.
  • Inventory of biotic diversity and distribution from the Nama Group fossil record.

Main Results:

  • Unstable marine redox conditions prevailed from ~550 to 547 Million years ago (Ma), coinciding with the appearance of the first skeletal metazoans.
  • A deepening of the redoxcline and reduced anoxic events occurred from ~547 Ma onwards, leading to basin ventilation by ~542 Ma.
  • Initially, anoxic conditions facilitated phosphorus drawdown but allowed some recycling; decreased nutrient delivery and upwelling led to reduced recycling and promoted stable oxic conditions.

Conclusions:

  • Gradual ventilation of Nama Group basins, driven by decreased nutrient input and possibly reduced upwelling, altered phosphorus cycling.
  • The shift to stable oxic conditions, resulting from decreased anoxic phosphorus recycling, was a key factor in the radiation of new mobile metazoan taxa during the late Ediacaran.