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The Cambrian evolution of burrowing species is thought to have facilitated sediment mixing. However, sediment fabrics suggest that bioturbation remained insignificant until the appearance of more efficient sediment mixers in the Silurian.

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Figure 1: Burrows and oxygen.

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  1. Murray Gingras and Kurt Konhauser are in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, 1-26 Earth Science Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada,

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Gingras, M., Konhauser, K. Digging deeper. Nature Geosci 8, 825–826 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2548

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