Earliest Cambrian Fossils

[piranha]

While looking for a paper on the earliest Cambrian fossil record I got sidetracked and interested in a couple of related papers on the oldest Cambrian brachiopods. The good news is they are all open-access to add to your desktop library. The Maloof paper is slow downloading at 24 Mb so I linked directly to his publications page. The best method is to right-click and 'save target as' (paper #27).

Topper, T.P., Holmer, L.E., Skovsted, C.B., Brock, G.A., Balthasar, U., Larsson, C.M., Harper, D.A. (2013)

The oldest brachiopods from the lower Cambrian of South Australia.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58(1):93-109

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Kouchinsky, A., Bengtson, S., Murdock, D.J. (2010)

A new tannuolinid problematic from the lower Cambrian of the Sukharikha River in northern Siberia.

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55(2):321-331

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Maloof, A.C., Porter, S.M., Moore, J.L., Dudás, F.Ö., Bowring, S.A., Higgins, J. A., Eddy, M.P. (2010)

The earliest Cambrian record of animals and ocean geochemical change.

Geological Society of America Bulletin 122(11-12):1731-1774

LINK

[xonenine]

thanks Scott, that Maloof paper sounded interesting, as well as a few other papers there

[Wrangellian]

Thanks Scott, I have been wondering lately about fossils from the earliest Cambrian (pre-Tommotian) and why we never hear any from that time, hard or soft-bodied, just trace fossils.