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A biomechanical analysis of the early eukaryotic fossil Valeria and new occurrence of organic-walled microfossils from the Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Ruyang Group

scholarly article by Ke Pang et al published September 2015 in Palaeoworld

A geochemical study of the Ediacaran discoidal fossil Aspidella preserved in limestones: Implications for its taphonomy and paleoecology.

scientific article published on 11 April 2017

A new SIMS zircon U–Pb date from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation: age constraint on the Weng'an biota

article by CHUANMING ZHOU et al published 17 January 2017 in Geological Magazine

A new modular palaeopascichnid fossil Curviacus ediacaranus new genus and species from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area of South China

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A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte

scientific article published on 24 February 2020

A pronounced negative δ13C excursion in an Ediacaran succession of western Yangtze Platform: A possible equivalent to the Shuram event and its implication for chemostratigraphic correlation in South China

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A reexamination of Yuknessia from the Cambrian of British Columbia and Utah

article published in 2015

A systematic description of new macrofossil material from the upper Ediacaran Miaohe Member in South China

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A template for an improved rock-based subdivision of the pre-Cryogenian time scale

scientific article

A unifying model for Neoproterozoic-Palaeozoic exceptional fossil preservation through pyritization and carbonaceous compression

scientific article

A uniquely preserved Ediacaran fossil with direct evidence for a quilted bodyplan

scientific article

A vanished history of skeletonization in Cambrian comb jellies

scientific article

Acanthomorphic acritarchs from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation at Zhangcunping in South China, with implications for the evolution of early Ediacaran eukaryotes

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Acanthomorphic acritarchs of the Doushantuo Formation from an upper slope section in northwestern Hunan Province, South China, with implications for early–middle Ediacaran biostratigraphy

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Affirming life aquatic for the Ediacara biota in China and Australia

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Affirming life aquatic for the Ediacara biota in China and Australia: REPLY

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After the boring billion and before the freezing millions: evolutionary patterns and innovations in the Tonian Period

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Age and implications of the phosphatic Birmania Formation, Rajasthan, India

An Examination of Life History and Behavioral Evolution Across the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition

scientific article published in 2014

An arthropod sphinx

An early Ediacaran assemblage of macroscopic and morphologically differentiated eukaryotes

scientific article

Are the new Ediacaran Doushantuo embryo-like fossils early metazoans? A reply

Armored kinorhynch-like scalidophoran animals from the early Cambrian

scientific article

Articulated sponges from the Lower Cambrian Hetang Formation in southern Anhui, South China: their age and implications for the early evolution of sponges

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Assessing the veracity of Precambrian ‘sponge’ fossils using in situ nanoscale analytical techniques

article published in 2015

BASAL CAMBRIAN MICROFOSSILS FROM THE YURTUS AND XISHANBLAQ FORMATIONS (TARIM, NORTH-WEST CHINA): SYSTEMATIC REVISION AND BIOSTRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION OF MICRHYSTRIDIUM-LIKE ACRITARCHS

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Basal Cambrian Microfossils from the Yangtze Gorges Area (South China) and the Aksu Area (Tarim Block, Northwestern China)

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Beyond the stony veil: Reconstructing the Earth’s earliest large animal traces via computed tomography X-ray imaging

scholarly article

Biomineralization by particle attachment in early animals

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Biomineralization, taphonomy, and diagenesis of Paleozoic lingulide brachiopod shells preserved in silicified mudstone concretions

scientific article published in 2012

Biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic constraints on the age of early Neoproterozoic carbonate successions in North China

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Biostratigraphic and detrital zircon age constraints on the basement of the Himalayan Foreland Basin: Implications for a Proterozoic link to the Lesser Himalaya and cratonic India

scientific article published in 2016

Bioturbation in Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätten — Case study of trace fossil–body fossil association from the Kaili Biota (Cambrian Series 3), Guizhou, China

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Breaking down the lithification bias: the effect of preferential sampling of larger specimens on the estimate of species richness, evenness, and average specimen size

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Can NanoSIMS probe quantitatively the geochemical composition of ancient organic-walled microfossils? A case study from the early Neoproterozoic Liulaobei Formation

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Carbon and sulfur isotope chemostratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Quanji Group of the Chaidam Basin, NW China: Basin stratification in the aftermath of an Ediacaran glaciation postdating the Shuram event?

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Carbon isotope evidence for widespread methane seeps in the ca. 635 Ma Doushantuo cap carbonate in south China

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Carbon, sulfur, and oxygen isotope evidence for a strong depth gradient and oceanic oxidation after the Ediacaran Hankalchough glaciation

scholarly article

Carbonaceous biosignatures of diverse chemotrophic microbial communities from chert nodules of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation

Cell differentiation and germ-soma separation in Ediacaran animal embryo-like fossils

scientific article

Cellular and subcellular structure of neoproterozoic animal embryos

scientific article

Comment on "Fossilized nuclei and germination structures identify Ediacaran 'animal embryos' as encysting protists".

scientific article

Correlation of Precambrian–Cambrian sedimentary successions across northern India and the utility of isotopic signatures of Himalayan lithotectonic zones

scholarly article

Cryogenian evolution of stigmasteroid biosynthesis.

scientific article published on 20 September 2017

Death march of a segmented and trilobate bilaterian elucidates early animal evolution ⬇️

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Detrital graphite particles in the Cryogenian Nantuo Formation of South China: Implications for sedimentary provenance and tectonic history

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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)

Dynamic interplay of biogeochemical C, S and Ba cycles in response to the Shuram oxygenation event

scientific article published in 2021

EARLY CAMBRIAN METAZOAN EGGS, EMBRYOS, AND PHOSPHATIC MICROFOSSILS FROM NORTHWESTERN CANADA

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Ediacaran Acanthomorphic Acritarchs and Other Microfossils from Chert Nodules of the Upper Doushantuo Formation in the Yangtze Gorges Area, South China

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Ediacaran integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China

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Ediacaran sponges, animal biomineralization, and skeletal reefs

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Ediacaran δ13C chemostratigraphy of South China

scholarly article

Eight-armed Ediacara fossil preserved in contrasting taphonomic windows from China and Australia

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Electron microscopy reveals evidence for simple multicellularity in the Proterozoic fossilChuaria

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Environmental context for the terminal Ediacaran biomineralization of animals.

scientific article

Episode of intense chemical weathering during the termination of the 635 Ma Marinoan glaciation.

scientific article published on 12 December 2016

Eumetazoan fossils in terminal proterozoic phosphorites?

scientific article

Evidence for spicule homology in calcareous and siliceous sponges: biminerallic spicules in Lenica sp. from the Early Cambrian of South China

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Evolution: the making of ediacaran giants

scientific article

Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages through geologic time and space

article published in 2017

Extensive marine anoxia during the terminal Ediacaran Period.

scientific article

Fossil preservation in the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo phosphorite Lagerstatte, South China

scientific article

Fossil preservation through phosphatization and silicification in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (South China): a comparative synthesis

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From the Cover: Osmotrophy in modular Ediacara organisms

scientific article (publication date: 25 August 2009)

Germanium/silica ratios in diagenetic chert nodules from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, South China

scholarly article

Global marine redox changes drove the rise and fall of the Ediacara biota

scientific article published on 28 July 2019

High CO2 levels in the Proterozoic atmosphere estimated from analyses of individual microfossils

scientific article

How synthetic is vendobionta morphology? A geometric morphometric study of pteridinium from the latest neoproterozoic

Hydrothermal influence on barite precipitates in the basal Ediacaran Sete Lagoas cap dolostone, São Francisco Craton, central Brazil

Integrated carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen isotope chemostratigraphy of the Ediacaran Lantian Formation in South China: Spatial gradient, ocean redox oscillation, and fossil distribution

scientific article published on 6 January 2017

Integrated chemostratigraphy of the Doushantuo Formation at the northern Xiaofenghe section (Yangtze Gorges, South China) and its implication for Ediacaran stratigraphic correlation and ocean redox models

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Interactions between Ediacaran animals and microbial mats: Insights from Lamonte trevallis, a new trace fossil from the Dengying Formation of South China

scientific article (publication date: February 2014)

Late Ediacaran trackways produced by bilaterian animals with paired appendages.

scientific article

Late Mesoproterozoic - early Neoproterozoic organic-walled microfossils from the Madhubani Group of the Ganga Valley, northern India

scientific article published in 2017

Life history and autecology of an Ediacaran index fossil: Development and dispersal of Cloudina

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MACROSCOPIC CARBONACEOUS COMPRESSIONS IN A TERMINAL PROTEROZOIC SHALE: A SYSTEMATIC REASSESSMENT OF THE MIAOHE BIOTA, SOUTH CHINA

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Manganese Oxides Resembling Microbial Fabrics and Their Implications for Recognizing Inorganically Preserved Microfossils

scholarly article

Mitotic topologies and mechanics of Neoproterozoic algae and animal embryos

Molar tooth carbonates and benthic methane fluxes in Proterozoic oceans

scientific article

Morphological reconstruction of Miaohephyton bifurcatum, a possible brown alga from the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, South China

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Morphology and paleoecology of the late Ediacaran tubular fossil Conotubus hemiannulatus from the Gaojiashan Lagerstätte of southern Shaanxi Province, South China

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NEW MULTICELLULAR ALGAL FOSSILS AND ACRITARCHS IN DOUSHANTUO CHERT NODULES (NEOPROTEROZOIC; YANGTZE GORGES, SOUTH CHINA)

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Neoproterozoic Glaciations and the Fossil Record

scientific article

New Bivalved Arthropods from the Cambrian (Series 3, Drumian Stage) of Western Hunan, South China

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New Ediacara fossils preserved in marine limestone and their ecological implications

scientific article (publication date: 25 February 2014)

New Lu–Hf and Pb–Pb age constraints on the earliest animal fossils

scientific article

New articulated protospongiid sponges from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota

New biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic data from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in intra-shelf and upper slope facies of the Yangtze platform: Implications for biozonation of acanthomorphic acritarchs in South China

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New constraints on the ages of Neoproterozoic glaciations in south China

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New material of the biomineralizing tubular fossil Sinotubulites from the late Ediacaran Dengying Formation, South China

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New observations on spiculelike structures from Doushantuo phosphorites at Weng’an, Guizhou Province

New occurrences of Sphenothallus in the lower Cambrian of South China: Implications for its affinities and taphonomic demineralization of shelly fossils

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Nitrogen-Fixing Heterocystous Cyanobacteria in the Tonian Period

scientific article published on 31 January 2018

Novel application of focused ion beam electron microscopy (FIB-EM) in preparation and analysis of microfossil ultrastructures: A new view of complexity in early Eukaryotic organisms

scientific article published in 2009

On the eve of animal radiation: phylogeny, ecology and evolution of the Ediacara biota

scientific article

Orbisiana linearis from the early Ediacaran Lantian Formation of South China and its taphonomic and ecological implications

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Organic carbon isotope constraints on the dissolved organic carbon (DOC) reservoir at the Cryogenian–Ediacaran transition

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Organic-walled microfossils from the Tonian Gouhou Formation, Huaibei region, North China Craton, and their biostratigraphic implications

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Organic-walled microfossils from the early Neoproterozoic Liulaobei Formation in the Huainan region of North China and their biostratigraphic significance

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PHOSPHATIZED ANIMAL EMBRYOS FROM THE NEOPROTEROZOIC DOUSHANTUO FORMATION AT WENG'AN, GUIZHOU, SOUTH CHINA

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Paired carbonate and organic carbon isotope variations of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation from an upper slope section at Siduping, South China

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Palaeontology: Fossils come in to land

scientific article

Palaeontology: undressing and redressing Ediacaran embryos

scientific article

Petrographic and SIMS pyrite sulfur isotope analyses of Ediacaran chert nodules: Implications for microbial processes in pyrite rim formation, silicification, and exceptional fossil preservation

scientific article

Phosphatized acanthomorphic acritarchs and related microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation at Weng'an (South China) and their implications for biostratigraphic correlation

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Phosphatized multicellular algae in the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China, and the early evolution of florideophyte red algae

scientific article (publication date: February 2004)

Phosphogenesis associated with the Shuram Excursion: Petrographic and geochemical observations from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation of South China

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Possible Animal Embryos from the Lower Cambrian (Stage 3) Shuijingtuo Formation, Hubei Province, South China

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Preservational modes in the Ediacaran Gaojiashan Lagerstätte: Pyritization, aluminosilicification, and carbonaceous compression

scientific article

Problematic macrofossils from Ediacaran successions in the North China and Chaidam blocks: implications for their evolutionary roots and biostratigraphic significance

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Proposed reassessment of the Cambrian GSSP

scholarly article

Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation

scientific article (publication date: 4 March 2008)

Pyritized chuarids with excystment structures from the late Neoproterozoic Lantian formation in Anhui, South China

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Quantitative evaluation of the biostratigraphic distribution of acanthomorphic acritarchs in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China

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RESOLVING THREE-DIMENSIONAL AND SUBSURFICIAL FEATURES OF CARBONACEOUS COMPRESSIONS AND SHELLY FOSSILS USING BACKSCATTERED ELECTRON SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY (BSE-SEM)

scientific article published in 2015

Raman geothermometry of carbonaceous material in the basal Ediacaran Doushantuo cap dolostone: The thermal history of extremely negative δ13C signatures in the aftermath of the terminal Cryogenian snowball Earth glaciation

Rare earth elements and carbon isotope geochemistry of the Doushantuo Formation in South China: Implication for middle Ediacaran shallow marine redox conditions

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Rare helical spheroidal fossils from the Doushantuo Lagerstätte: Ediacaran animal embryos come of age?

scientific article

Redox architecture of an Ediacaran ocean margin: Integrated chemostratigraphic (δ13C–δ34S–87Sr/86Sr–Ce/Ce*) correlation of the Doushantuo Formation, South China

scholarly article

Redox-dependent distribution of early macro-organisms: Evidence from the terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Formation in Arctic Siberia

scientific article

Reexamination of Yuknessia from the Cambrian of China and first report of Fuxianospira from North America

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Reply to comment on “Trace fossil evidence for Ediacaran bilaterian animals with complex behaviors” [Precambrian Res. 224 (2013) 690–701]

Reply to “Comment on ‘Three head-larvae of Hesslandona angustata’, Zhang et al., Gondwana Research, Volume 21, Issue 4, May 2012, Pages 1115–1127”

scientific article published in 2013

Repositioning the Great Unconformity at the southeastern margin of the North China Craton

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Restudy of the worm-like carbonaceous compression fossils Protoarenicola, Pararenicola, and Sinosabellidites from early Neoproterozoic successions in North China

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SYSTEMATIC DESCRIPTION AND PHYLOGENETIC AFFINITY OF TUBULAR MICROFOSSILS FROM THE EDIACARAN DOUSHANTUO FORMATION AT WENG’AN, SOUTH CHINA

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Seaweed morphology and ecology during the great animal diversification events of the early Paleozoic: A tale of two floras

scientific article published on 12 June 2017

Sedimentology and chemostratigraphy of the terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation at the Gaojiashan section, South China

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Silicified glendonites in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (South China) and their potential paleoclimatic implications

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Silicified tubular microfossils from the Upper Doushantuo Formation (Ediacaran) in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China

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SilicifiedHorodyskiaandPalaeopascichnusfrom upper Ediacaran cherts in South China: tentative phylogenetic interpretation and implications for evolutionary stasis

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Skeletogenesis and asexual reproduction in the earliest biomineralizing animal Cloudina

scientific article

Spiculogenesis and biomineralization in early sponge animals

scientific article published in 2019

Stable carbon isotopes of sedimentary kerogens and carbonaceous macrofossils from the Ediacaran Miaohe Member in South China: Implications for stratigraphic correlation and sources of sedimentary organic carbon

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Stratification and mixing of a post-glacial Neoproterozoic ocean: Evidence from carbon and sulfur isotopes in a cap dolostone from northwest China

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Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635–551Ma) in South China

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Systematic description of putative animal fossils from the early Ediacaran Lantian Formation of South China

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Systematic paleontology of macroalgal fossils from the Tonian Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup

scientific article published in 2023

TANNUOLINA AND MICRINA (TANNUOLINIDAE) FROM THE LOWER CAMBRIAN OF EASTERN YUNNAN, SOUTH CHINA, AND THEIR SCLERITOME RECONSTRUCTION

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TAPHONOMY AND BIOLOGICAL AFFINITY OF THREE-DIMENSIONALLY PHOSPHATIZED BROMALITES FROM THE MIDDLE ORDOVICIAN WINNESHIEK LAGERSTÄTTE, NORTHEASTERN IOWA, USA

scientific article published in 2018

Taphonomic study of Ediacaran organic-walled fossils confirms the importance of clay minerals and pyrite in Burgess Shale−type preservation

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Taphonomy of the Ediacaran Fossil Pteridinium Simplex Preserved Three-Dimensionally in Mass Flow Deposits, Nama Group, Namibia

scientific article published in 2014

The Avalon explosion: evolution of Ediacara morphospace

scientific article

The Lantian biota: A new window onto the origin and early evolution of multicellular organisms

The Neoproterozoic Quruqtagh Group in eastern Chinese Tianshan: evidence for a post-Marinoan glaciation

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The Weng'an biota and the Ediacaran radiation of multicellular eukaryotes

article published in 2014

The dawn of animal life: Evolutionary and palaeoecological patterns in the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian animal fossil record

scientific article

The earliest Foraminifera from southern Shaanxi, China

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The hydroid fossil record and analytical techniques for assessing the affinities of putative hydrozoans and possible hemichordates

scientific article published in 2015

The influence of environmental setting on the community ecology of Ediacaran organisms

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

The macroalga Bosworthia from the Cambrian Burgess Shale and Kaili biotas of North America and China

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The nature and origin of nucleus-like intracellular inclusions in Paleoproterozoic eukaryote microfossils

scientific article

The oldest known priapulid-like scalidophoran animal and its implications for the early evolution of cycloneuralians and ecdysozoans

scientific article

The origin of decoupled carbonate and organic carbon isotope signatures in the early Cambrian (ca. 542–520Ma) Yangtze platform

scholarly article

The origin of intracellular structures in Ediacaran metazoan embryos

scholarly article

The rise of bilaterians: a few closing comments

The rise of bilaterians: a reply

The stratigraphic complexity of the middle Ediacaran carbon isotopic record in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China, and its implications for the age and chemostratigraphic significance of the Shuram excursion

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The survival of benthic macroscopic phototrophs on a Neoproterozoic snowball Earth

scholarly article

Thermally-induced structural and chemical alteration of organic-walled microfossils: an experimental approach to understanding fossil preservation in metasediments

scientific article

Three head-larvae of Hesslandona angustata (Phosphatocopida, Crustacea) from the Upper Cambrian of western Hunan, South China and the phylogeny of Crustacea

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Three-dimensional microCT analysis of the Ediacara fossil Pteridinium simplex sheds new light on its ecology and phylogenetic affinity

scholarly article by Michael Meyer et al published August 2014 in Precambrian Research

Three-dimensional preservation of algae and animal embryos in a Neoproterozoic phosphorite

scientific article published in Nature

Three-dimensionally phosphatized meiofaunal bivalved arthropods from the Upper Cambrian of Western Hunan, South China

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Towards an Ediacaran Time Scale: Problems, Protocols, and Prospects

Towering sponges in an Early Cambrian Lagerstätte: Disparity between nonbilaterian and bilaterian epifaunal tierers at the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian transition

scholarly article

Trace fossil evidence for Ediacaran bilaterian animals with complex behaviors

Transient marine euxinia at the end of the terminal Cryogenian glaciation

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Two species of Hesslandona (Phosphatocopida, Crustacea) from the Upper Cambrian of western Hunan, South China and the phylogeny of Phosphatocopida

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Ultrastructural and geochemical characterization of Archean-Paleoproterozoic graphite particles: implications for recognizing traces of life in highly metamorphosed rocks

scientific article

Uranium and molybdenum isotope evidence for an episode of widespread ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Period

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Uranium isotope evidence for extensive shallow water anoxia in the early Tonian oceans

scientific article published in 2022

Was the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion a globally synchronized early diagenetic event? Insights from methane-derived authigenic carbonates in the uppermost Doushantuo Formation, South China

scholarly article

Widespread contamination of carbonate-associated sulfate by present-day secondary atmospheric sulfate: Evidence from triple oxygen isotopes

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Yangtziramulus zhangi new genus and species, a carbonate-hosted macrofossil from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China

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