Possible poriferan body fossils in early Neoproterozoic microbial reefs

Keratolite–stromatolite consortia mimic domical and branched columnar stromatolites

(2021) Jeong-Hyun Lee et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

A possible billion-year-old holozoan with differentiated multicellularity

(2021) Paul K. Strother et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

High-resolution correlation between contrasting early Tonian carbonate successions in NW Canada highlights pronounced global carbon isotope variations

(2020) J. Wilder Greenman et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The ‘classic stromatolite’ Cryptozoön is a keratose sponge‐microbial consortium

(2020) Jeong‐Hyun Lee et al.   Geobiology

Early fungi from the Proterozoic era in Arctic Canada

(2019) Corentin C. Loron et al.   NATURE

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

(2019) Zhe Chen et al.   NATURE

Early sponge evolution: A review and phylogenetic framework

(2018) Joseph P. Botting et al.   Palaeoworld

Organic-walled microfossils from the late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic lower Shaler Supergroup (Arctic Canada): Diversity and biostratigraphic significance

(2018) Corentin C. Loron et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

New U-Pb constraints on the age of the Little Dal Basalts and Gunbarrel-related volcanism in Rodinia

(2017) Jack E. Milton et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Crouching shells, hidden sponges: Unusual Late Ordovician cavities containing sponges

(2017) Jino Park et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Questioning the microbial origin of automicrite in Ordovician calathid-demosponge carbonate mounds

(2017) Yuefeng Shen et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data

(2017) Martin Dohrmann et al.   Scientific Reports

A new Middle Ordovician bivalve–siliceous sponge–microbe reef-building consortium from North China

(2016) Jeong-Hyun Lee et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Early divergence dates of demosponges based on mitogenomics and evaluated fossil calibrations

(2016) Jun-Ye Ma et al.   Palaeoworld

The Neoproterozoic

(2015) Nicholas J. Butterfield   CURRENT BIOLOGY

‘Stromatolites’ built by sponges and microbes - a new type of Phanerozoic bioconstruction

(2015) Cui Luo et al.   LETHAIA

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

(2015) A.D. Muscente et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze

(2014) Jonathan B. Antcliffe et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Co-evolution of eukaryotes and ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic era

(2014) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

First report of fossil “keratose” demosponges in Phanerozoic carbonates: preservation and 3-D reconstruction

(2014) Cui Luo et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

TALES FROM THE CRYPT: EARLY ADAPTATION OF CRYPTOBIONTIC SESSILE METAZOANS

(2014) J. HONG et al.   PALAIOS

FURONGIAN (LATE CAMBRIAN) SPONGE-MICROBIAL MAZE-LIKE REEFS IN THE NORTH CHINA PLATFORM

(2014) J.-H. LEE et al.   PALAIOS

Oxygen requirements of the earliest animals

(2014) D. B. Mills et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Constraining the depositional history of the Neoproterozoic Shaler Supergroup, Amundsen Basin, NW Canada: Rhenium-osmium dating of black shales from the Wynniatt and Boot Inlet Formations

(2013) David van Acken et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Discovery of 505-million-year old chitin in the basal demosponge Vauxia gracilenta

(2013) H. Ehrlich et al.   Scientific Reports

Horny sponges and their affairs: On the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges

(2012) Dirk Erpenbeck et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Environmental perturbations and biogeochemical cycling

(2011) Lawrence M. Och et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Early Neoproterozoic origin of the metazoan clade recorded in carbonate rock texture

(2009) Fritz Neuweiler et al.   GEOLOGY

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE