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Decline and fall of the Ediacarans: late‐Neoproterozoic extinctions and the rise of the modern biosphere by Mussini, Giovanni, Dunn, Frances S.

“…ABSTRACT The end‐Neoproterozoic transition marked a gradual but permanent shift between distinct configurations of Earth's biosphere. This interval witnessed…”
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The rangeomorph Pectinifrons abyssalis: Hydrodynamic function at the dawn of animal life by Darroch, Simon A.F., Gutarra, Susana, Masaki, Hale, Olaru, Andrei, Gibson, Brandt M., Dunn, Frances S., Mitchell, Emily G., Racicot, Rachel A., Burzynski, Gregory, Rahman, Imran A.

“…Rangeomorphs are among the oldest putative eumetazoans known from the fossil record. Establishing how they fed is thus key to understanding the structure and…”
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Filamentous Connections between Ediacaran Fronds by Liu, Alexander G., Dunn, Frances S.

“…Fossils of the Ediacaran macrobiota (∼571–539 mya) record phylogenetically diverse marine palaeocommunities, including early animals, which pre-date the…”
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Ediacaran developmental biology by Dunn, Frances S., Liu, Alexander G., Donoghue, Philip C. J.

“…ABSTRACT Rocks of the Ediacaran System (635–541 Ma) preserve fossil evidence of some of the earliest complex macroscopic organisms, many of which have been…”
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Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion by Wood, Rachel, Liu, Alexander G., Bowyer, Frederick, Wilby, Philip R., Dunn, Frances S., Kenchington, Charlotte G., Cuthill, Jennifer F. Hoyal, Mitchell, Emily G., Penny, Amelia

“…The ‘Cambrian Explosion’ describes the rapid increase in animal diversity and abundance, as manifest in the fossil record, between ~540 and 520 million years…”
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Quantitative study of developmental biology confirms Dickinsonia as a metazoan by Hoekzema, Renee S., Brasier, Martin D., Dunn, Frances S., Liu, Alexander G.

“…The late Ediacaran soft-bodied macroorganism Dickinsonia (age range approx. 560–550 Ma) has often been interpreted as an early animal, and is increasingly…”
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Cambrian stem-group ambulacrarians and the nature of the ancestral deuterostome by Li, Yujing, Dunn, Frances S., Murdock, Duncan J.E., Guo, Jin, Rahman, Imran A., Cong, Peiyun

“…Deuterostomes are characterized by some of the most widely divergent body plans in the animal kingdom. These striking morphological differences have hindered…”
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Modularity and Overcompensatory Growth in Ediacaran Rangeomorphs Demonstrate Early Adaptations for Coping with Environmental Pressures by Kenchington, Charlotte G., Dunn, Frances S., Wilby, Philip R.

“…The first known diverse, complex, macroscopic benthic marine ecosystems (late Ediacaran, ca. 571–541 Ma) were dominated by the Rangeomorpha, an enigmatic group…”
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Anatomical and ontogenetic reassessment of the Ediacaran frond Arborea arborea and its placement within total group Eumetazoa by Dunn, Frances S., Liu, Alexander G., Gehling, James G., Rahman, Imran

“…Organisms in possession of a frondose body plan are amongst the oldest and most enigmatic members of the soft‐bodied Ediacaran macrobiota. Appraisal of…”
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Exploring the macroevolutionary impact of ecosystem engineers using an individual‐based eco‐evolutionary simulation by Smith, Thomas J., Parry, Luke A., Dunn, Frances S., Garwood, Russell J.

“…Ecosystem engineers can radically reshape ecosystems by modulating the availability of resources to other organisms through modifying either physical or…”
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Ediacaran marine animal forests and the ventilation of the oceans by Gutarra, Susana, Mitchell, Emily G, Dunn, Frances S, Gibson, Brandt M, Racicot, Rachel A, Darroch, Simon A F, Rahman, Imran A

“…The rise of animals across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition marked a step-change in the history of life, from a microbially dominated world to the complex…”
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The developmental biology of Charnia and the eumetazoan affinity of the Ediacaran rangeomorphs by Dunn, Frances S., Liu, Alexander G., Grazhdankin, Dmitriy V., Vixseboxse, Philip, Flannery-Sutherland, Joseph, Green, Emily, Harris, Simon, Wilby, Philip R., Donoghue, Philip C. J.

“…Rangeomorphs represent a long-extinct group of eumetazoans with a bodyplan unlike anything alive today. Molecular timescales estimate that early animal…”
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Viewing the Ediacaran biota as a failed experiment is unhelpful by Dunn, Frances S., Liu, Alexander G.

“…Macroscopic organisms from the late Ediacaran period have often been described as failed experiments in the history of life. We argue that the field of…”
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Orientations of Mistaken Point Fronds Indicate Morphology Impacted Ability to Survive Turbulence by Vixseboxse, Philip B., Kenchington, Charlotte G., Dunn, Frances S., Mitchell, Emily G.

“…The Ediacaran fossils of the Mistaken Point E surface have provided crucial insight into early animal communities, including how they reproduced, the…”
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An early Cambrian polyp reveals a potential anemone‐like ancestor for medusozoan cnidarians by Zhao, Yang, Parry, Luke A., Vinther, Jakob, Dunn, Frances S., Li, Yu‐Jing, Wei, Fan, Hou, Xian‐Guang, Cong, Pei‐Yun, Álvaro, Javier

“…Cnidarians form a disparate phylum of animals and their diploblastic body plan represents a key step in animal evolution. Cnidarians are split into two main…”
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Anatomy of the Ediacaran rangeomorph Charnia masoni by Dunn, Frances S., Wilby, Philip R., Kenchington, Charlotte G., Grazhdankin, Dmitriy V., Donoghue, Philip C. J., Liu, Alexander G., Sevastopulo, George

“…The Ediacaran macrofossil Charnia masoni Ford is perhaps the most iconic member of the Rangeomorpha: a group of seemingly sessile, frondose organisms that…”
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Author Correction: Integrated records of environmental change and evolution challenge the Cambrian Explosion by Wood, Rachel, Liu, Alexander G., Bowyer, Frederick, Wilby, Philip R., Dunn, Frances S., Kenchington, Charlotte G., Cuthill, Jennifer F. Hoyal, Mitchell, Emily G., Penny, Amelia

“…In the version of this article initially published, the reference “Mitchell, E. G., & Kenchington, C. G. The utility of height for the Ediacaran organisms of…”
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Quantitative study of developmental biology confirms Dickinsonia as a metazoan by Hoekzema, Renee S., Brasier, Martin D., Dunn, Frances S., Liu, Alexander G.

“…The late Ediacaran soft-bodied macraorganism Dickinsonia (age range approx. 560-550 Ma) has often been interpreted as an early animal, and is increasingly…”
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TREvoSim v3: An individual based simulation for generating trees and character data by Garwood, Russell J., Spencer, Alan R. T., Bates, Charles T. M., Callender-Crowe, Leah M., Dunn, Frances S., Halliday, Thomas J. D., Keating, Joseph N., Mongiardino Koch, Nicolás, Parry, Luke A., Sansom, Robert S., Smith, Thomas J., Sutton, Mark D., Vanteghem, Thomas

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