Kimberella Type post Author Günter Bechly Date September 7, 2020 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , animals, bilaterians, Burgess Shale, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Ediacaran Period, feeding traces, fossil record, Kimberella, Kimberella series, limpets, motility, Precambrian strata, taphonomy, trace fossils Kimberella — Conflicting Evidence from Taphonomy Günter Bechly September 7, 2020 Evolution, Paleontology 3 The fossilization of Kimberella specimens was most likely based on rapid burial with sand during storm events. Read More ›
Kimberella Type post Author Günter Bechly Date September 6, 2020 CategoriesEcologyEvolution Tagged , Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, ecosystem, Ediacaran biota, feeding traces, fossil record, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series Conflicting Views about Kimberella’s Ecology Günter Bechly September 6, 2020 Ecology, Evolution 2 Based on the same fossil evidence, there is obviously much room for speculation and quite different opinions. Read More ›
Kimberella quadrata Type post Author Günter Bechly Date September 4, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Dickinsonia, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, holotype, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Mark McMenamin, mollusks, Precambrian strata, Tribrachidium, White Sea Kimberella — A Checkered History Günter Bechly September 4, 2020 Evolution 7 John Kimber collected the first fossils of this organism and died tragically at age 38 during an expedition in South Australia in 1964. Read More ›
Kimberella quadrata Type post Author Günter Bechly Date September 3, 2020 CategoriesEvolution Tagged , animal phyla, Bilateria, Cambrian Explosion, Cambrian News, Darwin's Doubt, Ediacaran biota, Ediacaran Period, Eumetazoa, evidence, evolution, evolutionary biology, intelligent design, jellyfish, Kimberella, Kimberella series, Lophotrochozoa, Metazoa, molecular clock, mollusks Was Kimberella a Precambrian Mollusk? Günter Bechly September 3, 2020 Evolution 3 If identified as an animal, it would “predate the Cambrian explosion of bilaterian animal phyla as a kind of ‘advance guard.’” Read More ›
