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Corresponding author: Baptiste L Coutret (bcoutret@ualberta.ca)
Received: 18 Aug 2023 | Published: 18 Oct 2023
© 2023 Baptiste Coutret, Kurt Konhauser, Marc Laflamme, Murray Gingras
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Coutret BL, Konhauser KO, Laflamme M, Gingras MK (2023) The Crucial Relationship: Reinforcing the Role of Microbial Mats in Early Animal Life. ARPHA Conference Abstracts 6: e111320. https://doi.org/10.3897/aca.6.e111320
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The stem-group eumetazoans, also known as basal animals, have been present on Earth since the Neoproterozoic era, as evidenced by the fossil record of the Ediacaran Period (
(A, B) Pictures of the calcified-shelly macrofossils of Cloudina - Namacalathus in Ediacaran biostrom from the top of the Miette Group in the Mount Robson area (BC, Canada). Pictures are courtesy of Dr. Jon Husson from the University of Victoria. (C) Microbial mats in Cooking Lake sediments margin (Alberta, Canada). (D, E) Bioturbated sediments (back-filled burrow and elongated open-tunnel network) from Cooking Lake sediments margin. (F) Exemple of well-preserved stromatolite-reefs: large bedding plane displaying numerous stromatolites from the Ediacaran aged-Byng Formation in Jasper National Park (AB, Canada).
Microbial Mats, Early animal life, Oxygen production, Stromatolites
Baptiste Coutret
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