Fossilisation processes and our reading of animal antiquity

Protomelission is an early dasyclad alga and not a Cambrian bryozoan

(2023) Jie Yang et al.   NATURE

Implications for Ediacaran biological evolution from the ca. 602 Ma Lantian biota in China

(2022) Chuan Yang et al.   GEOLOGY

Guts, gut contents, and feeding strategies of Ediacaran animals

(2022) Ilya Bobrovskiy et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Keratose sponges in ancient carbonates – A problem of interpretation

(2022) Fritz Neuweiler et al.   SEDIMENTOLOGY

The origin of animals: an ancestral reconstruction of the unicellular-to-multicellular transition

(2021) Núria Ros-Rocher et al.   Open Biology

New multicellular marine macroalgae from the early Tonian of northwestern Canada

(2021) Katie M. Maloney et al.   GEOLOGY

The Sedimentary Geochemistry and Paleoenvironments Project

(2021) Úna C. Farrell et al.   Geobiology

Clay templates in Ediacaran vendotaeniaceans: Implications for the taphonomy of carbonaceous fossils

(2021) B. Becker-Kerber et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Metamorphism obscures primary taphonomic pathways in the early Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland

(2021) Morten Lunde Nielsen et al.   GEOLOGY

Possible poriferan body fossils in early Neoproterozoic microbial reefs

(2021) Elizabeth C. Turner   NATURE

Taphonomic study of Chuaria fossils from the Ediacaran Lantian biota of South China

(2021) Wei Wang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The tempo of Ediacaran evolution

(2021) Chuan Yang et al.   Science Advances

Discovery of bilaterian-type through-guts in cloudinomorphs from the terminal Ediacaran Period

(2020) James D. Schiffbauer et al.   Nature Communications

The ‘biomineralization toolkit’ and the origin of animal skeletons

(2020) Duncan J. E. Murdock   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Mineralogical constraints on Neoproterozoic pCO2 and marine carbonate chemistry

(2020) Justin V. Strauss et al.   GEOLOGY

A Chronostratigraphic Framework for the Rise of the Ediacaran Macrobiota: New Constraints from Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland

(2020) Jack J. Matthews et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Aluminosilicate haloes preserve complex life approximately 800 million years ago

(2020) Ross P. Anderson et al.   Interface Focus

Survival and selection biases in early animal evolution and a source of systematic overestimation in molecular clocks

(2020) Graham E. Budd et al.   Interface Focus

Total organic carbon and the preservation of organic-walled microfossils in Precambrian shale

(2020) C.R. Woltz et al.   GEOLOGY

Orbital control on exceptional fossil preservation

(2019) Farid Saleh et al.   GEOLOGY

Cambrian Sessile, Suspension Feeding Stem-Group Ctenophores and Evolution of the Comb Jelly Body Plan

(2019) Yang Zhao et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Simple sediment rheology explains the Ediacara biota preservation

(2019) Ilya Bobrovskiy et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Precambrian Si isotope mass balance, weathering, and the significance of the authigenic clay silica sink

(2019) Elizabeth J. Trower et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

Spiculogenesis and biomineralization in early sponge animals

(2019) Qing Tang et al.   Nature Communications

Canadia spinosa and the early evolution of the annelid nervous system

(2019) Luke Parry et al.   Science Advances

Constraints on Meso- to Neoproterozoic seawater from ancient evaporite deposits

(2019) Clara L. Blättler et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Taphonomic bias in exceptionally preserved biotas

(2019) Farid Saleh et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Unraveling the Mineralogical Complexity of Sediment Iron Speciation Using Sequential Extractions

(2019) S. P. Slotznick et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

MINERAL COMPOSITION OF HOST SEDIMENTS INFLUENCES THE FOSSILIZATION OF SOFT TISSUES

(2018) Elena Naimark et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

A mineralogical signature for Burgess Shale–type fossilization

(2018) Ross P. Anderson et al.   GEOLOGY

The temporal and environmental context of early animal evolution: considering all the ingredients of an ‘explosion’

(2018) Erik A Sperling et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Reverse weathering as a long-term stabilizer of marine pH and planetary climate

(2018) Terry T. Isson et al.   NATURE

Ancient steroids establish the Ediacaran fossil Dickinsonia as one of the earliest animals

(2018) Ilya Bobrovskiy et al.   SCIENCE

Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life’s early evolution and eukaryote origin

(2018) Holly C. Betts et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages through geologic time and space

(2017) A.D. Muscente et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The Weng'an Biota (Doushantuo Formation): an Ediacaran window on soft-bodied and multicellular microorganisms

(2017) John A. Cunningham et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Controls on fossil pyritization: Redox conditions, sedimentary organic matter content, and Chuaria preservation in the Ediacaran Lantian Biota

(2017) Chengguo Guan et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Exceptionally preserved Cambrian loriciferans and the early animal invasion of the meiobenthos

(2017) Thomas H. P. Harvey et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Dating early animal evolution using phylogenomic data

(2017) Martin Dohrmann et al.   Scientific Reports

Continental flood basalt weathering as a trigger for Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth

(2016) Grant M. Cox et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Experimental evidence that clay inhibits bacterial decomposers: Implications for preservation of organic fossils

(2016) Sean McMahon et al.   GEOLOGY

Exceptional preservation of soft-bodied Ediacara Biota promoted by silica-rich oceans

(2016) Lidya G. Tarhan et al.   GEOLOGY

Systematics of organic-walled microfossils from the ca. 780–740 Ma Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, Arizona

(2016) Susannah M. Porter et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Evolution of the global phosphorus cycle

(2016) Christopher T. Reinhard et al.   NATURE

Systematic description of putative animal fossils from the early Ediacaran Lantian Formation of South China

(2016) Bin Wan et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Phylogenomics Reveals Convergent Evolution of Lifestyles in Close Relatives of Animals and Fungi

(2015) Guifré Torruella et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales

(2015) Mario dos Reis et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Statistical analysis of iron geochemical data suggests limited late Proterozoic oxygenation

(2015) Erik A. Sperling et al.   NATURE

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 Proterozoic Record of Eukaryotes

(2015) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

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

Ancient biomolecules: Their origins, fossilization, and role in revealing the history of life

(2014) Derek E. G. Briggs et al.   BIOESSAYS

Early evolution of the Eukaryota

(2014) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PALAEONTOLOGY

Neoproterozoic glaciations in a revised global palaeogeography from the breakup of Rodinia to the assembly of Gondwanaland

(2013) Zheng-Xiang Li et al.   SEDIMENTARY GEOLOGY

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

(2013) H. Ehrlich et al.   Scientific Reports

Does cement-induced sulfate limitation account for Burgess Shale-type preservation?

(2012) N. J. Butterfield   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanism for Burgess Shale-type preservation

(2012) R. R. Gaines et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Taphonomic study of Ediacaran organic-walled fossils confirms the importance of clay minerals and pyrite in Burgess Shale−type preservation

(2011) Evan P. Anderson et al.   GEOLOGY

Small carbonaceous fossils (SCFs): A new measure of early Paleozoic paleobiology

(2011) N.J. Butterfield et al.   GEOLOGY

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

A placozoan affinity for Dickinsonia and the evolution of late Proterozoic metazoan feeding modes

(2010) Erik A. Sperling et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Clay mineralogy, organic carbon burial, and redox evolution in Proterozoic oceans

(2009) Nicholas J. Tosca et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Phylogenetic investigation of the aliphatic, non-hydrolyzable biopolymer algaenan, with a focus on green algae

(2009) Robin B. Kodner et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Large spinose microfossils in Ediacaran rocks as resting stages of early animals

(2009) P. A. Cohen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA