Cambrian Trace Fossil Zoophycos from the Czech Republic

Significance of the Trace Fossil Zoophycos in Pliocene Deposits, Antarctic Continental Margin (ANDRILL 1B Drill Core)

Zoophycos is a complex three dimensional trace fossil that is abundant in deep ocean sediments worldwide, but has not been described previously from Cenozoic continental margin deposits of Antarctica. In the ANDRILL 1B core drilled through the northwest McMurdo ice shelf, Zoophycos occurs in a 17m thick unit of interglacial sediments bounded above and below by glacial surfaces of erosion. This ...

Evidence from the Czech Republic

Shallow−water occurrence of Wiwaxia in the middle Cambrian of the Barrandian area, Czech Republic

A rich record of specimens with slightly sclerotised skeletal parts or even soft−bodied fossils have been established from several well−known lower and middle Cambrian Lagerstätte, e.g., Bur− gess Shale of the Stephen Formation, Kinzers, Marjum, and Wheeler formations in North America; Buen Formation in North Greenland; Doushantuo, Chengjiang, and Kaili in China; Emu Bay Shale in Australia and ...

A view from the Czech Republic.

The proterozoic and earliest cambrian trace fossil record; patterns, problems and perspectives.

The increase in trace fossil diversity across the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian boundary often is presented in terms of tabulations of ichnogenera. However, a clearer picture of the increase in diversity and complexity can be reached by combining trace fossils into broad groups defined both on morphology and interpretation. This also focuses attention on looking for similarites between Neoproterozoic...