Macroalgal fossil Longfengshania from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang and Jiuliqiao formations in western Shandong and northern Anhui, North China

Lost world of complex life and the late rise of the eukaryotic crown

(2023) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

Is there a great unconformity between Xiamaling and Longshan formations in the North China Craton?

(2023) Hongwei Kuang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Tonian carbonaceous compressions indicate that Horodyskia is one of the oldest multicellular and coenocytic macro-organisms

(2023) Guangjin Li et al.   Communications Biology

Tonian discoidal fossils from North China: Relating discs to worm-like annulated tubes and their paleoecological and evolutionary implications

(2023) Guangjin Li et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Macroscopic carbonaceous compression fossils from the Tonian Liulaobei Formation in the Huainan region of North China

(2023) Shujian Qin et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

SIMS Pb-Pb dating of phosphates in the Proterozoic strata of SE North China Craton: Constraints on eukaryote evolution

(2022) Shujing Zhang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Microscopic and geochemical analyses of the Tonian Longfengshan biota from the Luotuoling Formation (Hebei Province, North China) with taphonomic implications

(2022) Yinghao Jing et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Chuaria Walcott from the early Cambrian Qingjiang biota: a taxon persisted for billions of years

(2022) Rui-Yun Li et al.   Palaeoworld

The Proterozoic macrofossil Tawuia as a coenocytic eukaryote and a possible macroalga

(2021) Qing Tang et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Evolution of Holdfast Diversity and Attachment Strategies of Ediacaran Benthic Macroalgae

(2021) Xiaopeng Wang et al.   Frontiers in Earth Science

A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte

(2020) Qing Tang et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

An assemblage of macroscopic and diversified carbonaceous compression fossils from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang Formation in western Shandong, North China

(2020) Guangjin Li et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Ediacaran macroalgal holdfasts and their evolution: a case study from China

(2020) Ye Wang et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Seaweeds through time: Morphological and ecological analysis of Proterozoic and early Paleozoic benthic macroalgae

(2020) Natalia Bykova et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

First record of organic-walled microfossils from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang Formation of the Tumen Group in western Shandong, North China

(2020) Chun-Mei Han et al.   Palaeoworld

Repositioning the Great Unconformity at the southeastern margin of the North China Craton

(2019) Bin Wan et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

New geochronologic and paleomagnetic results from early Neoproterozoic mafic sills and late Mesoproterozoic to early Neoproterozoic successions in the eastern North China Craton, and implications for the reconstruction of Rodinia

(2019) Hanqing Zhao et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Organic-walled microfossils from the Tonian Tongjiazhuang Formation of the Tumen Group in western Shandong, North China Craton and their biostratigraphic significance

(2019) Guangjin Li et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Free and kerogen‐bound biomarkers from late Tonian sedimentary rocks record abundant eukaryotes in mid‐Neoproterozoic marine communities

(2019) J. Alex Zumberge et al.   Geobiology

Provenance analysis of the late Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic Xuhuai Basin in the southeast North China Craton: Implications for paleogeographic reconstruction

(2019) Fengbo Sun et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Nitrogen-Fixing Heterocystous Cyanobacteria in the Tonian Period

(2018) Ke Pang et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolution of phytolith deposition in modern bryophytes, and implications for the fossil record and influence on silica cycle in early land plant evolution

(2018) Ryan V. Thummel et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals

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

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

(2017) Timothy M. Gibson et al.   GEOLOGY

The rise of algae in Cryogenian oceans and the emergence of animals

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

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

Electron microscopy reveals evidence for simple multicellularity in the Proterozoic fossilChuaria

(2016) Qing Tang et al.   GEOLOGY

A Multicellular Alga with Exceptional Preservation from the Ediacaran of Nevada

(2014) Stephen M. Rowland et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Organic-walled microfossils from the early Neoproterozoic Liulaobei Formation in the Huainan region of North China and their biostratigraphic significance

(2013) Qing Tang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Mesoproterozoic magmatic events in the eastern North China Craton and their tectonic implications: Geochronological evidence from detrital zircons in the Shandong Peninsula and North Korea

(2012) Bo Hu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

NIH Image to ImageJ: 25 years of image analysis

(2012) Caroline A Schneider et al.   NATURE METHODS

Bryophyte diversity and evolution: Windows into the early evolution of land plants

(2011) A. Jonathan Shaw et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Neoproterozoic (~900Ma) Sariwon sills in North Korea: Geochronology, geochemistry and implications for the evolution of the south-eastern margin of the North China Craton

(2011) Peng Peng et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

A multi-locus time-calibrated phylogeny of the brown algae (Heterokonta, Ochrophyta, Phaeophyceae): Investigating the evolutionary nature of the “brown algal crown radiation”

(2010) Thomas Silberfeld et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A Molecular Genetic Timescale for the Diversification of Autotrophic Stramenopiles (Ochrophyta): Substantive Underestimation of Putative Fossil Ages

(2010) Joseph W. Brown et al.   PLoS One

Mesoproterozoic age for Xiamaling Formation in North China Plate indicated by zircon SHRIMP dating

(2008) LinZhi Gao et al.   Science Bulletin

Restudy of the worm-like carbonaceous compression fossils Protoarenicola, Pararenicola, and Sinosabellidites from early Neoproterozoic successions in North China

(2007) Lin Dong et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY