Geology | 2019
Petrological evidence supports the death mask model for the preservation of Ediacaran soft-bodied organisms in South Australia
Abstract
Specimens were collected by AGL with permission and assistance from J. Gehling in 2015. AGL is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council [grant number NE/L011409/2]. SM acknowledges support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement 747877, and thanks M. Hall and A. McDonald for help with thin section polishing and Raman spectroscopy respectively. JJM recognises support from Mitacs, and all authors are grateful to N.J. Butterfield for constructive discussions during manuscript preparation. We thank R. Gaines, S. Darroch and J. Gehling for constructive reviews of this manuscript.