Australia: The Land Where Time Began

A biography of the Australian continent 

Cambrian Fauna

Among the animals represented in this period are trilobites, archaeocyathids, brachiopods, molluscs and echinoderms. Being present from the Early to Late Cambrian, archaeocyathids were the first known reef-building organisms.

The Ediacaran-Cambrian Metazoan Diversification - Ecological Drivers

Sources & Further reading

  • Mary E. White, The Nature of Hidden Worlds, Reed, 1993
  • Mary E. White, The Greening of Gondwana, the 400 Million Year story of Australian Plants, Reed, 1994

Links

Weird Wonders Lived Past the Cambrian

 

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