Origin and early diversification of the phylum Cnidaria Verrill: major developments in the analysis of the taxon's Proterozoic-Cambrian history

Cladistics and mass extinctions: the example of conulariids (Scyphozoa, Cnidaria) and the End Ordovician Extinction Event

(2014) Heyo Van Iten et al.   GFF

Patterns of Evolution of the Ediacaran Soft-Bodied Biota

(2014) Dmitriy Grazhdankin   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Cnidarian phylogenetic relationships as revealed by mitogenomics

(2013) Ehsan Kayal et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Tube growth patterns and microbial mat-related lifestyles in the Ediacaran fossil Cloudina, Gaojiashan Lagerstätte, South China

(2013) Yaoping Cai et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Birth and early evolution of metazoans

(2013) Degan Shu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Sedentary habits of anthozoa-like animals in the Chengjiang Lagerstätte: Adaptive strategies for Phanerozoic-style soft substrates

(2013) Qian-Ping Lei et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Novel Scenarios of Early Animal Evolution--Is It Time to Rewrite Textbooks?

(2013) M. Dohrmann et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Mitogenomics at the base of Metazoa

(2013) Hans-Jürgen Osigus et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A Diploblastic Radiate Animal at the Dawn of Cambrian Diversification with a Simple Body Plan: Distinct from Cnidaria?

(2013) Kinya Yasui et al.   PLoS One

Early Cambrian Pentamerous Cubozoan Embryos from South China

(2013) Jian Han et al.   PLoS One

Explaining the exceptional preservation of Ediacaran rangeomorphs from Spaniard's Bay, Newfoundland: A hydraulic model

(2013) Martin D. Brasier et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Embryos, polyps and medusae of the Early Cambrian scyphozoan Olivooides

(2013) X.-P. Dong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution

(2013) J. F. Ryan et al.   SCIENCE

The Precambrian-Cambrian biosphere (r)evolution: Insights from the Chinese Yangtze Platform

(2012) O. Fatka et al.   BULLETIN OF GEOSCIENCES

The dawn of animal skeletogenesis: Ultrastructural analysis of the Ediacaran metazoan Corumbella werneri

(2012) L.V. Warren et al.   GEOLOGY

The end of the Ediacara biota: Extinction, biotic replacement, or Cheshire Cat?

(2012) Marc Laflamme et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Evolution of Precambrian life in the Brazilian geological record

(2012) Thomas Rich Fairchild et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Life mode ofin situ Conulariain a Middle Devonian epibole

(2012) HEYO VAN ITEN et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization

(2011) ARTEM KOUCHINSKY et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Estimation of divergence times in cnidarian evolution based on mitochondrial protein-coding genes and the fossil record

(2011) Eunji Park et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

An early Ediacaran assemblage of macroscopic and morphologically differentiated eukaryotes

(2011) Xunlai Yuan et al.   NATURE

The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Evolutionary Relationships Among Scyphozoan Jellyfish Families Based on Complete Taxon Sampling and Phylogenetic Analyses of 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA

(2010) K. M. Bayha et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Unusually preserved Metaconularia manni (Roy, 1935) from the Silurian of Iowa, and the systematics of the genus

(2010) Douglas L. John et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Redescription ofHexaconulariaHe and Yang, 1986 (Lower Cambrian, South China): implications for the affinities of conulariid-like small shelly fossils

(2010) HEYO VAN ITEN et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Tiny Sea Anemone from the Lower Cambrian of China

(2010) Jian Han et al.   PLoS One

The fossil record of cnidarian medusae

(2010) Graham A. Young et al.   Palaeoworld

Evolutionary relationships within the Avalonian Ediacara biota: new insights from laser analysis

(2009) Martin D. Brasier et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Evolution of box jellyfish (Cnidaria: Cubozoa), a group of highly toxic invertebrates

(2009) B. Bentlage et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The mitochondrial genome of Hydra oligactis (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) sheds new light on animal mtDNA evolution and cnidarian phylogeny

(2008) Ehsan Kayal et al.   GENE

Phylogenetics of Trachylina (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) with new insights on the evolution of some problematical taxa

(2008) Allen G. Collins et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Phylogenetics of Hydroidolina (Hydrozoa: Cnidaria)

(2008) Paulyn Cartwright et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE

CLADISTIC ANALYSIS OF THE SUBORDER CONULARIINA MILLER AND GURLEY, 1896 (CNIDARIA, SCYPHOZOA; VENDIAN–TRIASSIC)

(2008) JULIANA DE MORAES LEME et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

(2008) PENGJU LIU et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance

(2008) G. E Budd   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A section of Vendian in the east of West Siberian Plate (based on data from the Borehole Vostok 3)

(2008) A.E. Kontorovich et al.   Russian Geology and Geophysics

New material of microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in the Zhangcunping area, Yichang, Hubei Province and its zircon SHRIMP U-Pb age

(2008) PengJu Liu et al.   Science Bulletin