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Revision as of 01:12, 25 March 2021 by Anthony Appleyard (talk | contribs) (→top: ed)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)A matground is a strong surface layer of bacterial fauna that hardened the surface of seabeds in the Proterozoic and early Cambrian. It is sometimes called "elephant skin" from its appearance when found fossil. It is theorized that matgrounds disapppeared when priapulid worms evolved to be big and strong and common enough to break the matground up when burrowing.
References
- Ediacaran matground ecology persisted into the earliest Cambrian, by Luis A. Buatois, Guy M. Narbonne, M. Gabriela Mángano, Noelia B. Carmona & Paul Myrow, Nature Communications volume 5, Article number: 3544 (2014), publ. 28 March 2014
- Matground Structures and Redox Facies, by Friedrich Pflüger, Palaios 1999, V. 14, 25-39
- Ediacaran matground ecology persisted into the earliest Cambrian, Luis A Buatois, Guy M Narbonne, M Gabriela Mángano, Noelia B Carmona, Paul Myrow, Nature Communications, 2014 March 28;5:3544.
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