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EVOLUTIONBiology 145

Lecture 5 –The Late Proterozoic, The Cambrian Explosion, and Paleozoic

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Dickinsonia

Ediacaran Fauna

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Anomalocaris

Burgess Shale

505 million; middle Cambrian

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Opabina

Marella

Wiwaxia

Hallucigenia

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~ 25 body plans (bauplans)  ‐ ~ 19 extinct 

Historical Contingency

Biodiversity of the Burgess shale

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~ 20,000 species, 10 orders.

TRILOBITES

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12,000  (350 living)

BRACHIOPODS

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GRAPTOLITES

ECHINODERMS

Crinoids

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