Understanding the palaeoenvironmental conditions of Corumbella werneri and biomineralisation of Sinotubulites: geobiological and palaeoenvironmental perspectives of the earliest mineralised skeletal biotas

• Grant number: 22/14705-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Effective date (Start): February 19, 2023
• Effective date (End): June 18, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Nuclear Physics
• Principal Investigator: Márcia de Almeida Rizzutto
• Grantee: Gabriel Ladeira Oses
• Supervisor: Rachel Alison Waye Wood
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Research place: University of Edinburgh, Scotland
• Associated to the scholarship: 21/07007-7 - Palaeometry applied to the investigation of biomineralization, environments and fossil preservation, BP.PD

Abstract

The Ediacaran-Cambrian transition (ca. 541 Ma, or younger) witnessed profound palaeobiological innovations concerning metazoans (animals), such as predation, motility and biomineralisation, that inaugurated ecological interactions that impacted evolution through the Phanerozoic (