Deep origin of the long root tuft: the oldest stalk-bearing sponge from the Cambrian Stage 3 black shale of South China

Adaptive specialization of a unique sponge body from the Cambrian Qingjiang biota

(2022) Hao Yun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Possible poriferan body fossils in early Neoproterozoic microbial reefs

(2021) Elizabeth C. Turner   NATURE

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

(2021) Joachim Reitner et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Adaptive strategies of sponges to deoxygenated oceans

(2021) Valerio Micaroni et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Ediacaran sponges, animal biomineralization, and skeletal reefs

(2020) Shuhai Xiao   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Ediacaran-Cambrian rise of siliceous sponges and development of modern oceanic ecosystems

(2019) Shan Chang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Early sponge evolution: A review and phylogenetic framework

(2018) Joseph P. Botting et al.   Palaeoworld

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

(2017) W. Wang et al.   Geobiology

Transient deep-water oxygenation in the early Cambrian Nanhua Basin, South China

(2017) Meng Cheng et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Climatic-oceanic forcing on the organic accumulation across the shelf during the Early Cambrian (Age 2 through 3) in the mid-upper Yangtze Block, NE Guizhou, South China

(2017) Rumana Yeasmin et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIAN EARTH SCIENCES

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

Late Neoproterozoic seawater oxygenation by siliceous sponges

(2017) Michael Tatzel et al.   Nature Communications

Marine redox variations and nitrogen cycle of the early Cambrian southern margin of the Yangtze Platform, South China: Evidence from nitrogen and organic carbon isotopes

(2015) Dan Wang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze

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

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

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

Molecular paleobiology of early-branching animals: integrating DNA and fossils elucidates the evolutionary history of hexactinellid sponges

(2013) Martin Dohrmann et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Palaeoceanographic redox environments for the lower Cambrian Hetang Formation in South China: Evidence from pyrite framboids, redox sensitive trace elements, and sponge biota occurrence

(2008) Chuanming Zhou et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Phylogeny and Evolution of Glass Sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida)

(2008) Martin Dohrmann et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY