Fossils, rocks and early Cambrian clocks: Calibrating body plan assembly and lineage splits in ancestral animals from Gondwana

The precise timing of when animal body plans evolved and rapidly diversified during the Cambrian Explosion remains mysterious. This project will investigate vast collections of exquisitely preserved early-middle Cambrian fossils from Australia to determine the precise order of evolutionary events at the root of the animal tree of life.

Funder: Australian Research Council
Award Value: $45,000