mineralizable

The development of mineralizable body parts was a major innovation which as rapidly exploited by many different organisms.

Steve Steve and end of the Cambrian Explosion as we know it (part 1) - The Panda's Thumb 2006

The development of mineralizable body parts was a major innovation which as rapidly exploited by many different organisms.

Steve Steve and end of the Cambrian Explosion as we know it (part 1) - The Panda's Thumb 2006

They interpret it not just as the appearance of mineralizable structures which has precursors in the “small shelly fauna” but as the abrupt appearance of all major animal phyla.

Steve Steve and end of the Cambrian Explosion as we know it (part 1) - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Or was there some change in the environment that was conducive to the development of mineralizable body parts?

Steve Steve and end of the Cambrian Explosion as we know it (part 1) - The Panda's Thumb 2006

Now the ICD claims are nonsense, but the existence of major animal phyla in the Precambrian, and molecular evidence suggesting diversification took place over longer periods than the mineralizable fossils suggest, have been comprehensively ignored by the IDC’s.

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