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Commencement period of the Paleozoic Era, 539–485 million years ago

Cambrian
538.8 ± 0.2 – 485.4 ± ane.9 Ma

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Earth in the middle of the Cambrian Catamenia

Chronology
Etymology
Name formality Formal
Usage information
Celestial torso Earth
Regional usage Global (ICS)
Fourth dimension scale(s) used ICS Time Calibration
Definition
Chronological unit Menstruum
Stratigraphic unit of measurement Arrangement
First proposed by Adam Sedgwick, 1835
Fourth dimension bridge formality Formal
Lower boundary definition Appearance of the Ichnofossil Treptichnus pedum
Lower purlieus GSSP Fortune Head department, Newfoundland, Canada
47°04′34″N 55°49′52″W  /  47.0762°N 55.8310°Westward  / 47.0762; -55.8310
GSSP ratified 1992[ii]
Upper purlieus definition FAD of the Conodont Iapetognathus fluctivagus.
Upper boundary GSSP Greenpoint section, Green Signal, Newfoundland, Canada
49°40′58″N 57°57′55″W  /  49.6829°N 57.9653°West  / 49.6829; -57.9653
GSSP ratified 2000[3]
Atmospheric and climatic data
Sea level above present 24-hour interval Rising steadily from 4m to 90m[4]

The Cambrian Period ( KAM-bree-ən, KAYM-; sometimes symbolized ) was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon.[v] The Cambrian lasted 53.four million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran Period 538.viii million years ago (mya) to the commencement of the Ordovician Menstruation 485.4 mya.[6] Its subdivisions, and its base, are somewhat in flux. The period was established as "Cambrian series" by Adam Sedgwick,[5] who named it later on Cambria, the Latin name for 'Cymru' (Wales), where Uk's Cambrian rocks are all-time exposed.[7] [8] [9] Sedgwick identified the layer as part of his job, along with Roderick Murchison, to subdivide the big "Transition Series", although the two geologists disagreed for a while on the appropriate categorization.[5] The Cambrian is unique in its unusually loftier proportion of lagerstätte sedimentary deposits, sites of infrequent preservation where "soft" parts of organisms are preserved likewise as their more resistant shells. As a result, our understanding of the Cambrian biology surpasses that of some after periods.[x]

The Cambrian marked a profound change in life on Globe; prior to the Cambrian, the majority of living organisms on the whole were small, unicellular and simple (Ediacaran fauna being notable exceptions). Circuitous, multicellular organisms gradually became more common in the millions of years immediately preceding the Cambrian, merely it was not until this period that mineralized—hence readily fossilized—organisms became common.[11] The rapid diversification of life forms in the Cambrian, known as the Cambrian explosion, produced the beginning representatives of all modern animate being phyla. Phylogenetic analyses has supported the view that before the Cambrian radiation, in the Cryogenian[12] [thirteen] [fourteen] or Tonian,[fifteen] animals (metazoans) evolved monophyletically from a single common ancestor: flagellated colonial protists like to mod choanoflagellates.[xvi] Although various life forms prospered in the oceans, the land is thought to have been comparatively arid—with nothing more circuitous than a microbial soil crust[17] and a few molluscs and arthropods (albeit not terrestrial) that emerged to browse on the microbial biofilm.[eighteen] By the end of the Cambrian, myriapods,[19] [20] arachnids,[21] and hexapods[22] would start adapting to the land, along with the get-go plants.[23] [24] Nigh of the continents were probably dry out and rocky due to a lack of vegetation. Shallow seas flanked the margins of several continents created during the breakup of the supercontinent Pannotia. The seas were relatively warm, and polar ice was absent for much of the flow.

Stratigraphy [edit]

The Cambrian Catamenia followed the Ediacaran Period and was followed past the Ordovician Catamenia.

The base of operations of the Cambrian lies atop a circuitous aggregation of trace fossils known equally the Treptichnus pedum aggregation.[25] The use of Treptichnus pedum, a reference ichnofossil to mark the lower boundary of the Cambrian, is problematic because very similar trace fossils belonging to the Treptichnids group are constitute well below T. pedum in Namibia, Spain and Newfoundland, and possibly in the western The states. The stratigraphic range of T. pedum overlaps the range of the Ediacaran fossils in Namibia, and probably in Kingdom of spain.[26] [27]

Subdivisions [edit]

The Cambrian is divided into iv epochs (serial) and 10 ages (stages). Currently only three series and six stages are named and take a GSSP (an internationally agreed-upon stratigraphic reference betoken).

Because the international stratigraphic subdivision is not yet consummate, many local subdivisions are however widely used. In some of these subdivisions the Cambrian is divided into three epochs with locally differing names – the Early Cambrian (Caerfai or Waucoban, 538.8 ± 0.ii to 509 ± i.9 mya), Middle Cambrian (St Davids or Albertan, 509 ± 0.2 to 497 ± 1.9 mya) and Tardily Cambrian (497 ± 0.2 to 485.4 ± i.9 mya; also known as Merioneth or Croixan). Trilobite zones allow biostratigraphic correlation in the Cambrian. Rocks of these epochs are referred to as belonging to the Lower, Center, or Upper Cambrian.

Each of the local serial is divided into several stages. The Cambrian is divided into several regional faunal stages of which the Russian-Kazakhian system is most used in international parlance:

Correlation of global and regional Cambrian stratigraphy [ citation needed ]
International Serial Chinese North American Russian-Kazakhian Australian Regional[ where? ]
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Furongian Ibexian (part) Ayusokkanian Datsonian Dolgellian (Trempealeauan, Fengshanian)
Payntonian
Sunwaptan Sakian Iverian Ffestiniogian (Franconian, Changshanian)
Steptoan Aksayan Idamean Maentwrogian (Dresbachian)
Marjuman Batyrbayan Mindyallan
Miaolingian Maozhangian Mayan Boomerangian
Zuzhuangian Delamaran Amgan Undillian
Zhungxian Florian
Templetonian
Dyeran Ordian
Cambrian Series ii Longwangmioan Toyonian Lenian
Changlangpuan Montezuman Botomian
Qungzusian Atdabanian
Terreneuvian
Meishuchuan
Jinningian
Placentian Tommotian
Nemakit-Daldynian*
Cordubian
Precambrian Sinian Hadrynian Nemakit-Daldynian*
Sakharan
Adelaidean

*Most Russian paleontologists ascertain the lower boundary of the Cambrian at the base of operations of the Tommotian Stage, characterized by diversification and global distribution of organisms with mineral skeletons and the advent of the first Archaeocyath bioherms.[28] [29] [30]

Dating the Cambrian [edit]

The International Commission on Stratigraphy lists the Cambrian Period as commencement at 538.8 one thousand thousand years ago and ending at 485.4 million years ago.

The lower boundary of the Cambrian was originally held to represent the first appearance of complex life, represented by trilobites. The recognition of small shelly fossils before the first trilobites, and Ediacara biota substantially before, led to calls for a more precisely defined base of operations to the Cambrian Menses.[31]

Despite the long recognition of its distinction from younger Ordovician rocks and older Precambrian rocks, it was not until 1994 that the Cambrian system/period was internationally ratified. After decades of careful consideration, a continuous sedimentary sequence at Fortune Head, Newfoundland was settled upon as a formal base of operations of the Cambrian Period, which was to exist correlated worldwide by the primeval appearance of Treptichnus pedum.[31] Discovery of this fossil a few metres below the GSSP led to the refinement of this argument, and information technology is the T. pedum ichnofossil assemblage that is now formally used to correlate the base of the Cambrian.[31] [32]

This formal designation allowed radiometric dates to be obtained from samples across the globe that corresponded to the base of operations of the Cambrian. Early on[ when? ] dates of 570 million years ago rapidly gained favour,[31] though the methods used to obtain this number are at present considered to be unsuitable and inaccurate. A more precise date using modern radiometric dating yield a appointment of 538.8 ± 0.2 meg years ago.[six] The ash horizon in Oman from which this date was recovered corresponds to a marked fall in the abundance of carbon-xiii that correlates to equivalent excursions elsewhere in the world, and to the disappearance of distinctive Ediacaran fossils (Namacalathus, Cloudina). Notwithstanding, there are arguments that the dated horizon in Oman does not stand for to the Ediacaran-Cambrian purlieus, but represents a facies modify from marine to evaporite-dominated strata – which would mean that dates from other sections, ranging from 544 or 542 Ma, are more than suitable.[31]

Paleogeography [edit]

Plate reconstructions suggest a global supercontinent, Pannotia, was in the process of breaking up early in the Cambrian,[33] [34] with Laurentia (Northward America), Baltica, and Siberia having separated from the main supercontinent of Gondwana to form isolated country masses.[35] Most continental state was clustered in the Southern Hemisphere at this time, but was globe-trotting north.[35] Large, loftier-velocity rotational movement of Gondwana appears to have occurred in the Early Cambrian.[36]

With a lack of sea ice – the corking glaciers of the Marinoan Snowball Earth were long melted[37] – the sea level was high, which led to big areas of the continents being flooded in warm, shallow seas ideal for ocean life. The sea levels fluctuated somewhat, suggesting there were "ice ages", associated with pulses of expansion and contraction of a due south polar ice cap.[38]

In Baltoscandia a Lower Cambrian transgression transformed large swathes of the Sub-Cambrian peneplain into an epicontinental sea.[39]

Climate [edit]

The Globe was mostly common cold during the early Cambrian, probably due to the ancient continent of Gondwana covering the South Pole and cut off polar ocean currents. However, boilerplate temperatures were 7 degrees Celsius college than today. There were likely polar ice caps and a series of glaciations, as the planet was withal recovering from an earlier Snowball Globe. It became warmer towards the finish of the flow; the glaciers receded and eventually disappeared, and sea levels rose dramatically. This trend would continue into the Ordovician Period.

Flora [edit]

The Cambrian flora was petty unlike from the Ediacaran. The principle taxa were the marine macroalgae Fuxianospira, Sinocylindra, and Marpolia. No calcareous macroalgae are known from the period.[40]

No land constitute (embryophyte) fossils are known from the Cambrian. However, biofilms and microbial mats were well developed on Cambrian tidal flats and beaches 500 mya.,[17] and microbes forming microbial Earth ecosystems, comparable with modern soil crust of desert regions, contributing to soil formation.[41] [42]

Oceanic life [edit]

The Cambrian explosion was a period of rapid multicellular growth. Nigh beast life during the Cambrian was aquatic. Trilobites were in one case assumed to be the dominant life form at that time,[43] but this has proven to be wrong. Arthropods were by far the well-nigh ascendant animals in the sea, but trilobites were just a small-scale part of the total arthropod diversity. What made them so patently abundant was their heavy armor reinforced by calcium carbonate (CaCOthree), which fossilized far more than easily than the delicate chitinous exoskeletons of other arthropods, leaving numerous preserved remains.[44]

The period marked a steep change in the diversity and composition of Earth'due south biosphere. The Ediacaran biota suffered a mass extinction at the start of the Cambrian Menses, which corresponded with an increment in the abundance and complexity of burrowing behaviour. This behaviour had a profound and irreversible outcome on the substrate which transformed the seabed ecosystems. Before the Cambrian, the sea floor was covered past microbial mats. By the end of the Cambrian, burrowing animals had destroyed the mats in many areas through bioturbation. As a consequence, many of those organisms that were dependent on the mats became extinct, while the other species adapted to the changed environment that now offered new ecological niches.[45] Around the same time in that location was a seemingly rapid advent of representatives of all the mineralized phyla except the Bryozoa, which appeared in the Lower Ordovician.[46] Notwithstanding, many of those phyla were represented merely past stem-grouping forms; and since mineralized phyla generally have a benthic origin, they may non be a good proxy for (more arable) non-mineralized phyla.[47]

While the early Cambrian showed such diversification that it has been named the Cambrian Explosion, this inverse later in the period, when there occurred a sharp driblet in biodiversity. About 515 million years ago, the number of species going extinct exceeded the number of new species appearing. Five 1000000 years later, the number of genera had dropped from an earlier summit of well-nigh 600 to merely 450. As well, the speciation rate in many groups was reduced to between a 5th and a third of previous levels. 500 million years agone, oxygen levels fell dramatically in the oceans, leading to hypoxia, while the level of poisonous hydrogen sulfide simultaneously increased, causing another extinction. The later half of Cambrian was surprisingly barren and showed evidence of several rapid extinction events; the stromatolites which had been replaced by reef building sponges known as Archaeocyatha, returned one time more than equally the archaeocyathids became extinct. This declining trend did non change until the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event.[49] [50]

Some Cambrian organisms ventured onto land, producing the trace fossils Protichnites and Climactichnites. Fossil show suggests that euthycarcinoids, an extinct group of arthropods, produced at to the lowest degree some of the Protichnites.[51] Fossils of the track-maker of Climactichnites have not been plant; however, fossil trackways and resting traces suggest a large, slug-similar mollusc.[52]

In contrast to later periods, the Cambrian beast was somewhat restricted; free-floating organisms were rare, with the bulk living on or close to the body of water floor;[53] and mineralizing animals were rarer than in future periods, in part due to the unfavourable ocean chemistry.[53]

Many modes of preservation are unique to the Cambrian, and some preserve soft body parts, resulting in an affluence of Lagerstätten .

Symbol [edit]

The United States Federal Geographic Information Committee uses a "barred capital C" ⟨Ꞓ⟩ character to represent the Cambrian Menses.[54] The Unicode grapheme is U+A792 LATIN Uppercase Letter C WITH BAR.[55] [56]

Gallery [edit]

See also [edit]

  • Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event – circa 488 mya
  • Dresbachian extinction effect—circa 499 mya
  • End Botomian extinction issue—circa 513 mya
  • List of fossil sites (with link directory)
  • Type locality (geology), the locality where a particular rock type, stratigraphic unit, fossil or mineral species is first identified

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Further reading [edit]

  • Amthor, J. E.; Grotzinger, John P.; Schröder, Stefan; Bowring, Samuel A.; Ramezani, Jahandar; Martin, Mark W.; Affair, Albert (2003). "Extinction of Cloudina and Namacalathus at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in Oman". Geology. 31 (5): 431–434. Bibcode:2003Geo....31..431A. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(2003)031<0431:EOCANA>2.0.CO;2.
  • Collette, J. H.; Gass, K. C.; Hagadorn, J. Due west. (2012). "Protichnites eremita unshelled? Experimental model-based neoichnology and new testify for a euthycarcinoid affinity for this ichnospecies". Journal of Paleontology. 86 (iii): 442–454. doi:10.1666/11-056.1. S2CID 129234373.
  • Collette, J. H.; Hagadorn, J. W. (2010). "Three-dimensionally preserved arthropods from Cambrian Lagerstatten of Quebec and Wisconsin". Journal of Paleontology. 84 (4): 646–667. doi:10.1666/09-075.i. S2CID 130064618.
  • Getty, P. R.; Hagadorn, J. W. (2008). "Reinterpretation of Climactichnites Logan 1860 to include subsurface burrows, and erection of Musculopodus for resting traces of the trailmaker". Periodical of Paleontology. 82 (six): 1161–1172. doi:ten.1666/08-004.i. S2CID 129732925.
  • Gould, S. J. (1989). Wonderful Life: the Burgess Shale and the Nature of Life . New York: Norton. ISBN9780393027051.
  • Howe, John Allen (1911). "Cambrian System". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 05 (11th ed.). Cambridge Academy Press. pp. 86–89.
  • Ogg, J. (June 2004). "Overview of Global Purlieus Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs)". Archived from the original on 23 April 2006. Retrieved 30 April 2006.
  • Owen, R. (1852). "Description of the impressions and footprints of the Protichnites from the Potsdam sandstone of Canada". Geological Club of London Quarterly Journal. 8 (1–2): 214–225. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1852.008.01-02.26. S2CID 130712914.
  • Peng, S.; Babcock, L.E.; Cooper, R.A. (2012). "The Cambrian Period" (PDF). The Geologic Time Scale. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 February 2015. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
  • Schieber, J.; Bose, P. K.; Eriksson, P. K.; Banerjee, S.; Sarkar, S.; Altermann, Due west.; Catuneau, O. (2007). Atlas of Microbial Mat Features Preserved inside the Clastic Stone Tape. Elsevier. pp. 53–71. ISBN9780444528599.
  • Yochelson, E. L.; Fedonkin, Thou. A. (1993). "Paleobiology of Climactichnites, and Enigmatic Belatedly Cambrian Fossil". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 74 (74): 1–74. doi:x.5479/si.00810266.74.1.

External links [edit]

  • Cambrian menses on In Our Time at the BBC
  • Biostratigraphy – includes data on Cambrian trilobite biostratigraphy
  • Dr. Sam Gon'south trilobite pages (contains numerous Cambrian trilobites)
  • Examples of Cambrian Fossils
  • Paleomap Project
  • Report on the web on Amthor and others from Geology vol. 31
  • Weird Life on the Mats
  • Chronostratigraphy scale v.2018/08 | Cambrian

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