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Regional nutrient decrease drove redox stabilisation and metazoan diversification in the late Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia
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The late Ediacaran witnessed an increase in metazoan diversity and ecological complexity, marking the inception of the Cambrian Explosion. To constrain the drivers of this diversification, we combine redox and nutrient data for two shelf transects, with an inventory of biotic diversity and distribution from the Nama Group, Namibia (similar to 550 to similar to 538 Million years ago; Ma). Unstable marine redox conditions characterised all water depths in inner to outer ramp settings from similar to 550 to 547Ma, when the first skeletal metazoans appeared. However, a marked deepening of the redoxcline and a reduced frequency of anoxic incursions onto the inner to mid-ramp is recorded from similar to 547Ma onwards, with full ventilation of the outer ramp by similar to 542Ma. Phosphorus speciation data show that, whilst anoxic ferruginous conditions were initially conducive to the drawdown of bioavailable phosphorus, they also permitted a limited degree of phosphorus recycling back to the water column. A long-term decrease in nutrient delivery from continental weathering, coupled with a possible decrease in upwelling, led to the gradual ventilation of the Nama Group basins. This, in turn, further decreased anoxic recycling of bioavailable phosphorus to the water column, promoting the development of stable oxic conditions and the radiation of new mobile taxa.
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AUTHIGENIC APATITE FORMATION
GEOCHRONOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS
SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY
CAMBRIAN TRANSITION
YANGTZE PLATFORM
ORGANIC-CARBON
TRACE FOSSILS
PHOSPHORUS
IRON
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