When Life got Hard: An Environmental Driver for Metazoan Biomineralization


Alan Jay Kaufman1, Les Kriesfeld2, Guy Narbonne3 and Patricia Vickers-Rich2, (1)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology and ESSIC, College Park, MD, United States, (2)Monash University, Earth, Atmosphere, and Environment, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, (3)Queens University, Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Kingston, ON, Canada