Glacial depositions are widely discovered in the late Ediacaran strata all over the world, but the temporal and spatial distributions of the Ediacaran glaciations remain poorly constrained, preventing our further understanding of the nature and consequence of this ice age. In this study, we reviewed...

New radio-isotopic data bracket the age of late Ediacaran fossil assemblages and two negative carbon isotope excursions.

The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition, which incorporates the radiation of animals, lacks a robust global temporal and spatial framework, resulting in major uncertainty in the evolutionary dynamics of this critical radiation and its relationship to changes in palaeoenvironmental geochemistry. We first p...

The rise of complex macroscopic life occurred during the Ediacaran Period, an interval that witnessed large-scale disturbances to biogeochemical systems. The current Ediacaran chronostratigraphic framework is of insufficient resolution to provide robust global correlation schemes or test hypotheses ...