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List of works by John A. Cunningham

A merciful death for the "earliest bilaterian," Vernanimalcula

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A multicellular organism with embedded cell clusters from the Ediacaran Weng'an biota (Doushantuo Formation, South China).

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A virtual world of paleontology

scientific article published on 10 May 2014

Critical appraisal of tubular putative eumetazoans from the Ediacaran Weng'an Doushantuo biota

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Developmental Paleobiology of the Vertebrate Skeleton

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Developmental biology of the early Cambrian cnidarianOlivooides

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Distinguishing geology from biology in the Ediacaran Doushantuo biota relaxes constraints on the timing of the origin of bilaterians

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2012)

Embryology in Deep Time

Embryos, polyps and medusae of the Early Cambrian scyphozoan Olivooides

scientific article (publication date: 22 April 2013)

Experimental taphonomy of Artemia reveals the role of endogenous microbes in mediating decay and fossilization

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Fossilized embryos are widespread but the record is temporally and taxonomically biased

scientific article published in March 2006

Fossilized nuclei and germination structures identify Ediacaran "animal embryos" as encysting protists

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Nanoparticle-based membrane assembly and silicification in coacervate microdroplets as a route to complex colloidosomes

scientific article published on 20 November 2014

Nucleus preservation in early Ediacaran Weng'an embryo-like fossils, experimental taphonomy of nuclei and implications for reading the eukaryote fossil record

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Open data and digital morphology

scientific article (publication date: 12 April 2017)

Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos

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Testing models of dental development in the earliest bony vertebrates, Andreolepis and Lophosteus

scientific article (publication date: 23 October 2012)

The Early Ediacaran Caveasphaera Foreshadows the Evolutionary Origin of Animal-like Embryology

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

The Weng'an Biota (Doushantuo Formation): an Ediacaran window on soft-bodied and multicellular microorganisms

scientific article published in 2017

The anatomy, taphonomy, taxonomy and systematic affinity of Markuelia: Early Cambrian to Early Ordovician scalidophorans

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The early Cambrian fossil embryo Pseudooides is a direct-developing cnidarian, not an early ecdysozoan.

scientific article published in December 2017

The origin of animals: Can molecular clocks and the fossil record be reconciled?

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