International Symposium on the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition

The International Symposium on the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition took place in St. John’s, Newfoundland, in June 2017. The ISECT meeting brought together 150 researchers working on aspects of the stratigraphy, sedimentology, geochemistry and palaeobiology of the Ediacaran and Cambrian Systems.

Paleoenvironmental distribution and taphonomic diversity of terminal Ediacaran macrofossils: Insights from the Shibantan Member (China) and the Khatyspyt Formation (Siberia)
Xiao, S.*, Pang, K., Bykova, N., Chen, Z., Zhou, C., Yuan, X., Grazhdankin, D.V., and Kaufman, A.J.

Effects of bioturbation on carbon and sulfur cycling across the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition at the GSSP in Newfoundland
Kaufman, A.J.*, Hantsoo, K.G., Cui, H., Plummer, R.E., and Narbonne, G.M.

Microfossil-based subdivision of the Ediacaran System in South China and globally
Moczydłowska, M.* and Liu, P.

The ins and outs of Ediacaran discs
Burzynski, G.*, Narbonne, G.M., and Dececchi, T.A.

Calibrating global changes across the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary: New insights from the Great Basin of California and Nevada, USA
Smith, E.F.*, and Nelson, L.L.

Relating Ediacaran Fronds
Dececchi, T.A.*, Narbonne, G.M., Greentree, C., and Laflamme, M.

Ediacaran pre-placozoan diploblasts in the Avalonian biota: the role of chemosynthesis in the evolution of early animal life
Dufour, S.C. and McIlroy, D.*

Testing niche versus neutral models of Ediacaran community assembly
Mitchell, E.*, Kenchington, C., Liu, A.G., Harris, S., Wilby, P., and Butterfield, N.J.

The chronicles of Charnia : morphology and morphogenesis in an iconic Ediacaran taxon
Dunn, F.S.*, Liu, A.G., Wilby, P.R., Hoekzema, R.S., Grazhdankin, D.V., Kenchington, C.G., and Donoghue, P.C.J.

The palaeobiology of Ediacaran rangeomorphs: reproduction, environmental sensitivity and ecological succession
Kenchington, C.G.* and Wilby, P.R.

Ichnological evidence for meiofaunal bilaterians from the terminal Ediacaran and earliest Cambrian of Brazil
Parry, L., Boggiani, P.C., Condon, D., Garwood, R., Leme, J.M.*, McIlroy, D., Brasier, M.D., Trindade, R., Campanha, G.A.C., Pacheco, M.L.A.F., Diniz, C.Q.C., and Liu, A.G.

Engineering the Explosion: early Cambrian bioturbators as ecosystem engineers
Herringshaw, L.G.*, Callow, R.H.T., and McIlroy, D.

Mistaken Point: an Overview of Canada’s Newest World Heritage Site.
Thomas, R.G.* and Narbonne, G.M.

Geoconservation Research to Inform Management Policy at the Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve
Matthews, J.J.*

Critical review of C-isotope data across the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary on the Siberian Platform
Parkhaev, P. Yu.* and Shuvalova, Yu. V.

Insight into the base of the Cambrian: New data from South China and Siberia
Zhu, M.*, Yang, B., Ahn, S.Y., Tsukui, K., Zhuravlev, A.Y., Steiner, M., Zhao, F., Ramezani, J., Wood, R.A., and Bowring, S.A.

New geochronological and stratigraphic constraints on the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary (Swartpunt section, South Namibia)
Linnemann, U.*, Ovtcharova, M., Schaltegger, U., Vickers-Rich, P., Gärtner, A., Hofmann, M., Zieger, J., Krause, R., Kriesfeld, L., and Smith, J.

Telling early Cambrian time: A new chronostratigraphic framework for Australia
Betts, M.J.*, Brock, G.A., Paterson, J.R., Skovsted, C.B., Topper, T.P., Jagodzinski, E.A., Preiss, W.V., Crowley, J.L., Jago, J.B., Andrew, A.S., Hall, P.A., Jacquet, S.M., and Mathewson, C.P.

New insights into the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition from high-precision U-Pb geochronology
Ramezani, J.*, Pu, J., Tsukui, K., Zhu, M., Macdonald, F.A., and Bowring, S.A.

Early sponges and toxic protists: Cryostane, a new biomarker antedating Sturtian Snowball Earth
Brocks, J.J.*, Jarrett, A., Sirantoine, E., Kenig, F., Adam, P., Schaeffer, P., Moczydłowska, M., and Porter, S.

Evolutionary history of the late Ediacaran Nama-type biota
Grazhdankin, D.*

Ediacaran tubular agglutinating and organically preserved metazoan macrofossils associated with trace fossils from Baltica
Moczydłowska, M.*

The Cambrian radiation in East Gondwana: an Austral review of animal evolution, ecology and environments
Brock, G.A.*, Paterson, J.R., Betts, M.J., Jacquet, S.M., Bicknell, R.D.C., Skovsted, C.B., Claybourn, T.M., Topper, T.P., and Holmer, L.E.

Bucking the BST brand: New investigations into the palaeoenvironment and preservation of the early Cambrian Emu Bay Shale biota, South Australia
Paterson, J.R.*, Gaines, R.R., García-Bellido, D., Jago, J.B., and Gehling, J.G.

The significance of lithistid sponge-microbial reefs for mid-late Cambrian environments and early Paleozoic marine evolution
Lee, J-H.*, and Riding, R.