The terrestrial biota prior to the origin of land plants (embryophytes): a review of the evidence

Cryptospores from the Hanadir Shale Member of the Qasim Formation, Ordovician (Darriwilian) of Saudi Arabia: taxonomy and systematics

(2015) Paul K. Strother et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Ectomycorrhizal fungi and past high CO2 atmospheres enhance mineral weathering through increased below-ground carbon-energy fluxes

(2014) J. Quirk et al.   Biology Letters

Spatial and temporal distribution and characteristics of eukaryote-dominated microbial biofilms in an acid mine drainage environment: implications for development of iron-rich stromatolites

(2014) S. S. Brake et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Hypothesized link between Neoproterozoic greening of the land surface and the establishment of an oxygen-rich atmosphere

(2014) Lee R. Kump   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Paleobiological Perspectives on Early Eukaryotic Evolution

(2014) A. H. Knoll   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Land plant evolutionary timeline: Gene effects are secondary to fossil constraints in relaxed clock estimation of age and substitution rates

(2013) Susana Magallón et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Causes and consequences of low atmospheric pCO2 in the Late Mesoproterozoic

(2013) Nathan D. Sheldon   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Putative domal microbial structures in fluvial siliciclastic facies of the Mesoproterozoic (1.09 Ga) Copper Harbor Conglomerate, Upper Peninsula of Michigan, USA

(2013) Dylan T. Wilmeth et al.   Geobiology

Anoxia in the terrestrial environment during the late Mesoproterozoic

(2013) Vivien M. Cumming et al.   GEOLOGY

Resistance of Filamentous Chlorophycean, Ulvophycean, and Xanthophycean Algae to Acetolysis: Testing Proterozoic and Paleozoic Microfossil Attributions

(2013) Linda E. Graham et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Origin and early evolution of photosynthetic eukaryotes in freshwater environments: reinterpreting proterozoic paleobiology and biogeochemical processes in light of trait evolution

(2013) Carrine E. Blank   JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Problematic urn-shaped fossils from a Paleoproterozoic (2.2Ga) paleosol in South Africa

(2013) Gregory J. Retallack et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Comparison between cryptospores from the Cambrian Log Cabin Member, Pioche Shale, Nevada, USA and similar specimens from the Cambrian Kaili Formation, Guizhou, China

(2013) LeiMing Yin et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Genomes of Stigonematalean Cyanobacteria (Subsection V) and the Evolution of Oxygenic Photosynthesis from Prokaryotes to Plastids

(2012) Tal Dagan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Substantial biologically mediated phosphorus depletion from the surface of a Middle Cambrian paleosol

(2012) L.B. Horodyskyj et al.   GEOLOGY

Palaeontology: Fossils come in to land

(2012) Shuhai Xiao et al.   NATURE

Air density 2.7 billion years ago limited to less than twice modern levels by fossil raindrop imprints

(2012) Sanjoy M. Som et al.   NATURE

Ediacaran life on land

(2012) Gregory J. Retallack   NATURE

Contribution of cryptogamic covers to the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen

(2012) Wolfgang Elbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

Comments on Retallack, G. J. 2011: Problematic megafossils in Cambrian Palaeosols of South Australia

(2012) JAMES B. JAGO et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

3.2Ga eolian deposits from the Moodies Group, Barberton Greenstone Belt, South Africa: Implications for the origin of first-cycle quartz sandstones

(2012) Edward L. Simpson et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Microfossil assemblage from the 3400Ma Strelley Pool Formation in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: Results form a new locality

(2012) Kenichiro Sugitani et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Origin of first cells at terrestrial, anoxic geothermal fields

(2012) A. Y. Mulkidjanian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Aeroterrestrial Coleochaete (Streptophyta, Coleochaetales) models early plant adaptation to land

(2011) Linda E. Graham et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity

(2011) Andrew H. Knoll   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes

(2011) Paul K. Strother et al.   NATURE

Spores before sporophytes: hypothesizing the origin of sporogenesis at the algal-plant transition

(2011) Roy C. Brown et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution

(2011) John T. Clarke et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Problematic megafossils in Cambrian palaeosols of South Australia

(2011) GREGORY J. RETALLACK   PALAEONTOLOGY

Neoarchean paleoweathering of tonalite and metabasalt: Implications for reconstructions of 2.69Ga early terrestrial ecosystems and paleoatmospheric chemistry

(2011) Steven G. Driese et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Remarkably preserved prokaryote and eukaryote microfossils within 1Ga-old lake phosphates of the Torridon Group, NW Scotland

(2011) Leila Battison et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks

(2011) L. W. Parfrey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Start of the Wilson Cycle at 3 Ga Shown by Diamonds from Subcontinental Mantle

(2011) S. B. Shirey et al.   SCIENCE

Diverse microbially induced sedimentary structures from 1Ga lakes of the Diabaig Formation, Torridon Group, northwest Scotland

(2011) Richard H.T. Callow et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Biogenicity of Morphologically Diverse Carbonaceous Microstructures from the ca. 3400 Ma Strelley Pool Formation, in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia

(2010) Kenichiro Sugitani et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

How did LUCA make a living? Chemiosmosis in the origin of life

(2010) Nick Lane et al.   BIOESSAYS

An emerging picture of Neoproterozoic ocean chemistry: Insights from the Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, USA

(2010) David T. Johnston et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Reduction spots in the Mesoproterozoic age: implications for life in the early terrestrial record

(2010) Samuel C. Spinks et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Faint young Sun redux

(2010) James F. Kasting   NATURE

Early oxygenation of the terrestrial environment during the Mesoproterozoic

(2010) John Parnell et al.   NATURE

Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits

(2010) Emmanuelle J. Javaux et al.   NATURE

The invasion of the land by plants: when and where?

(2010) Charles H. Wellman   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Early Middle Ordovician evidence for land plants in Argentina (eastern Gondwana)

(2010) C. V. Rubinstein et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The geological completeness of paleontological sampling in North America

(2010) Shanan E. Peters et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

The ∼1100Ma Sturgeon Falls paleosol revisited: Implications for Mesoproterozoic weathering environments and atmospheric CO2 levels

(2010) Ria L. Mitchell et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Geodynamo, Solar Wind, and Magnetopause 3.4 to 3.45 Billion Years Ago

(2010) J. A. Tarduno et al.   SCIENCE

Cambrian–Ordovician non-marine fossils from South Australia

(2009) Gregory J. Retallack   ALCHERINGA

Streptophyte algae and the origin of embryophytes

(2009) Burkhard Becker et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Not so old Archaea - the antiquity of biogeochemical processes in the archaeal domain of life

(2009) CARRINE E. BLANK   Geobiology

Timing of morphological and ecological innovations in the cyanobacteria – a key to understanding the rise in atmospheric oxygen

(2009) C. E. BLANK et al.   Geobiology

Thalloid carbonaceous incrustations and the asynchronous evolution of embryophyte characters during the Early Paleozoic

(2009) Paul K. Strother   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COAL GEOLOGY

Biogeochemistry: Carbonate rocks deconstructed

(2009) Michael A. Arthur   NATURE

Microbial habitability of the Hadean Earth during the late heavy bombardment

(2009) Oleg Abramov et al.   NATURE

The discovery of the Earth's oldest rocks

(2009) S. Moorbath   Notes and Records-The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science

Evidence for eukaryotic diversification in the ∼1800 million-year-old Changzhougou Formation, North China

(2009) D.M. Lamb et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A giant, Late Archean lake system: The Meentheena Member (Tumbiana Formation; Fortescue Group), Western Australia

(2009) Stanley M. Awramik et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A Precambrian proximal ejecta blanket from Scotland

(2008) Kenneth Amor et al.   GEOLOGY

A Major Clade of Prokaryotes with Ancient Adaptations to Life on Land

(2008) F. U. Battistuzzi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Reassessing the first appearance of eukaryotes and cyanobacteria

(2008) Birger Rasmussen et al.   NATURE

Eukaryote-Dominated Biofilms in Extreme Environments: Overlooked Sources of Information in the Geologic Record

(2008) S. S. Brake et al.   PALAIOS

New morphological observations for Paleoproterozoic acritarchs from the Chuanlinggou Formation, North China

(2008) Y PENG et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Ultrastructure of some Cambrian palynomorphs from the Bright Angel Shale, Arizona, USA

(2008) Wilson A. Taylor et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY

Ultrastructure, morphology, and topology of Cambrian palynomorphs from the Lone Rock Formation, Wisconsin, USA

(2008) Wilson A. Taylor et al.   REVIEW OF PALAEOBOTANY AND PALYNOLOGY