Brasier, M. D., Shields, G., Kuleshov, V. N., Zhegallo, E. A. (1996) Integrated chemo- and biostratigraphic calibration of early animal evolution: Neoproterozoic–early Cambrian of southwest Mongolia. Geological Magazine, 133 (4) 445-485 doi:10.1017/s0016756800007603
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Title | Integrated chemo- and biostratigraphic calibration of early animal evolution: Neoproterozoic–early Cambrian of southwest Mongolia | ||
Journal | Geological Magazine | ||
Authors | Brasier, M. D. | Author | |
Shields, G. | Author | ||
Kuleshov, V. N. | Author | ||
Zhegallo, E. A. | Author | ||
Year | 1996 (July) | Volume | 133 |
Issue | 4 | ||
Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) | ||
DOI | doi:10.1017/s0016756800007603Search in ResearchGate | ||
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Mindat Ref. ID | 257037 | Long-form Identifier | mindat:1:5:257037:6 |
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Full Reference | Brasier, M. D., Shields, G., Kuleshov, V. N., Zhegallo, E. A. (1996) Integrated chemo- and biostratigraphic calibration of early animal evolution: Neoproterozoic–early Cambrian of southwest Mongolia. Geological Magazine, 133 (4) 445-485 doi:10.1017/s0016756800007603 | ||
Plain Text | Brasier, M. D., Shields, G., Kuleshov, V. N., Zhegallo, E. A. (1996) Integrated chemo- and biostratigraphic calibration of early animal evolution: Neoproterozoic–early Cambrian of southwest Mongolia. Geological Magazine, 133 (4) 445-485 doi:10.1017/s0016756800007603 | ||
In | (1996, July) Geological Magazine Vol. 133 (4) Cambridge University Press (CUP) | ||
Abstract/Notes | AbstractFive overlapping sections from the thick Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian sediments of western Mongolia were analysed to yield a remarkable carbon-isotope, strontium-isotope and small shellyfossil (SSF) record. Chemostratigraphy suggests that barren limestones of sequences 3 and 4, which lie above the two Maikhan Uul diamictites, are post-Sturtian but pre-Varangerian in age. Limestones and dolomites of sequence 5, with Boxonia grumulosa, have geochemical signatures consistent with a post-Varangerian (Ediacarian) age. A major negative δ13C anomaly (feature ‘W’) in sequence 6 lies a shortdistance above an Anabarites trisulcatus Zone SSF asemblage with hexactinellid sponges, of probable late Ediacarian age. Anomaly ‘W’ provides an anchor point for cross-correlation charts of carbon isotopes and small shelly fossils. Trace fossil assemblages with a distinctly Cambrian character first appear in sequence 8(Purella Zone), at the level of carbon isotopic feature ‘B’, provisionally correlated with the upper part of cycle Z in Siberia. A paradox is found from sequence 10 to 12 in Mongolia: Tommotian-type SSFs continue to appear, accompanied by Nemakit-Daldynian/Tommotian-type 87Sr/86Sr ratios but by increasingly heavyδ13C values that cannot be matched in the Tommotian of eastern Siberia. The steady rate of generic diversification in Mongolia also contrasts markedly with the Tommotian ‘diversity explosion’ in eastern Siberia, which occurs just above a major karstic emergence surface. One explanation is that sequences 10 to 12 in Mongolia preserve a pre-Tommotian portion of the fossil record that was missing or removed in easternSiberia. The Mongolian sections certainly deserve an important place in tracing the true course and timing of the ‘Cambrian radiation’. |
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