Revisiting the phosphorite deposit of Fontanarejo (central Spain): new window into the early Cambrian evolution of sponges and the microbial origin of phosphorites

Cadomian orogenic collapse in the Ibor and Alcudia anticlines of the Central Iberian Zone, Spain

(2021) J. Javier Álvaro et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

A potential cephalopod from the early Cambrian of eastern Newfoundland, Canada

(2021) Anne Hildenbrand et al.   Communications Biology

Soft sponges with tricky tree: On the phylogeny of dictyoceratid sponges

(2020) Dirk Erpenbeck et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Understanding the geobiology of the terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Lagerstätte (Arctic Siberia, Russia)

(2020) Jan‐Peter Duda et al.   Geobiology

Algal origin of sponge sterane biomarkers negates the oldest evidence for animals in the rock record

(2020) Ilya Bobrovskiy et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Geological alteration of Precambrian steroids mimics early animal signatures

(2020) Lennart M. van Maldegem et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Three-dimensionally preserved stem-group hexactinellid sponge fossils from lower Cambrian (Stage 2) phosphorites of China

(2019) Cui Luo et al.   Palaeontologische Zeitschrift

Putative sponge biomarkers in unicellular Rhizaria question an early rise of animals

(2019) Benjamin J. Nettersheim et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Potential Fossilized Sulfide-Oxidizing Bacteria in the Upper Miocene Sulfur-Bearing Limestones From the Lorca Basin (SE Spain): Paleoenvironmental Implications

(2019) Federico Andreetto et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The first report of a vauxiid sponge from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota

(2019) Cui Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Updated stratigraphic framework and biota of the Ediacaran and Terreneuvian in the Alcudia-Toledo Mountains of the Central Iberian Zone, Spain

(2019) J. J. Álvaro et al.   ESTUDIOS GEOLOGICOS-MADRID

Titanite Mineralization of Microbial Bioalteration Textures in Jurassic Volcanic Glass, Coast Range Ophiolite, California

(2019) Matthew R. M. Izawa et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

Sponge-microbial build-ups from the lowermost Triassic Chanakhchi section in southern Armenia: Microfacies and stable carbon isotopes

(2018) Evelyn Friesenbichler et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Early sponge evolution: A review and phylogenetic framework

(2018) Joseph P. Botting et al.   Palaeoworld

Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals

(2018) J. Alex Zumberge et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

An integrative systematic framework helps to reconstruct skeletal evolution of glass sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida)

(2017) Martin Dohrmann et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Chambered structures from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation, Yunnan, China: comparison with the Cryogenian analogues and their microbial interpretation

(2017) CUI LUO et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Isolation and identification of chitin from heavy mineralized skeleton of Suberea clavata (Verongida: Demospongiae: Porifera) marine demosponge

(2017) Hermann Ehrlich et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Sponge spicules from the lower Cambrian in the Yanjiahe Formation, South China: The earliest biomineralizing sponge record

(2017) Shan Chang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Spicule formation in calcareous sponges: Coordinated expression of biomineralization genes and spicule-type specific genes

(2017) Oliver Voigt et al.   Scientific Reports

Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data

(2017) Martin Dohrmann et al.   Scientific Reports

Sterol and genomic analyses validate the sponge biomarker hypothesis

(2016) David A. Gold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Proposal for a revised classification of the Demospongiae (Porifera)

(2015) Christine Morrow et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

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

(2015) Cui Luo et al.   LETHAIA

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

(2015) A.D. Muscente et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The molecular record of Cryogenian sponges - a response to Antcliffe (2013)

(2015) Gordon D. Love et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian

(2015) Zongjun Yin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ediacaran-Cambrian phosphorites from the western margins of Gondwana and Baltica

(2015) J. Javier Álvaro et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze

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

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

(2014) Cui Luo et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Hypersaline conditions during deposition of the Calcare di Base revealed from archaeal di- and tetraether inventories

(2014) Daniel Birgel et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Enigmatic chambered structures in Cryogenian reefs: The oldest sponge-grade organisms?

(2014) Malcolm W. Wallace et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Filamentous sulfur bacteria preserved in modern and ancient phosphatic sediments: implications for the role of oxygen and bacteria in phosphogenesis

(2013) J. V. Bailey et al.   Geobiology

Phylogeny and Systematics of Demospongiae in Light of New Small-Subunit Ribosomal DNA (18S) Sequences

(2013) N. E. Redmond et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Spicule structure and affinities of the Late Ordovician hexactinellid-like spongeCyathophycus loydellifrom the Llanfawr Mudstones Lagerstätte, Wales

(2013) Joseph P. Botting et al.   LETHAIA

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

(2013) H. Ehrlich et al.   Scientific Reports

The advent of hard-part structural support among the Ediacara biota: Ediacaran harbinger of a Cambrian mode of body construction

(2012) E. C. Clites et al.   GEOLOGY

Ediacaran to Lower Ordovician age for rocks ascribed to the Schist–Graywacke Complex (Iberian Massif, Spain): Evidence from detrital zircon SHRIMP U–Pb geochronology

(2012) C. Talavera et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

An extraordinary new carnivorous sponge,Chondrocladia lyra, in the new subgenusSymmetrocladia(Demospongiae, Cladorhizidae), from off of northern California, USA

(2012) Welton L. Lee et al.   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

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

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

The role of microbes in the formation of modern and ancient phosphatic mineral deposits

(2012) Chris H. Crosby et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

A single-cell sequencing approach to the classification of large, vacuolated sulfur bacteria

(2011) Verena Salman et al.   SYSTEMATIC AND APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

Revised biochronology of the Lower Cambrian of the Central Iberian zone, southern Iberian massif, Spain

(2010) SÖREN JENSEN et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Chitin and collagen as universal and alternative templates in biomineralization

(2010) Hermann Ehrlich   INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW

Sulfide induces phosphate release from polyphosphate in cultures of a marine Beggiatoa strain

(2010) Jörg Brock et al.   ISME Journal

Occurrence of a Silicatein Gene in Glass Sponges (Hexactinellida: Porifera)

(2010) Galina N. Veremeichik et al.   MARINE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Possible animal-body fossils in pre-Marinoan limestones from South Australia

(2010) Adam C. Maloof et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbial sequestration of phosphorus in anoxic upwelling sediments

(2010) Tobias Goldhammer et al.   Nature Geoscience

Embryonic development of verongid demosponges supports the independent acquisition of spongin skeletons as an alternative to the siliceous skeleton of sponges

(2009) MANUEL MALDONADO   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Sterol Chemotaxonomy of Marine Pelagophyte Algae

(2009) José-Luis Giner et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY

Bacterial formation of phosphatic laminites off Peru

(2009) E. T. ARNING et al.   Geobiology

Where's the glass? Biomarkers, molecular clocks, and microRNAs suggest a 200-Myr missing Precambrian fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules

(2009) E. A. SPERLING et al.   Geobiology

Genesis of phosphorite crusts off Peru

(2009) E.T. Arning et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Phylogeny and Evolution of Glass Sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida)

(2008) Martin Dohrmann et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY