Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China

The Neoproterozoic

(2015) Nicholas J. Butterfield   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The survival of benthic macroscopic phototrophs on a Neoproterozoic snowball Earth

(2015) Qin Ye et al.   GEOLOGY

Earth’s middle age

(2014) Peter A. Cawood et al.   GEOLOGY

Problematic Mesoproterozoic fossil Horodyskia from Glacier National Park, Montana, USA

(2013) Gregory J. Retallack et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Primary endosymbiosis events date to the later Proterozoic with cross-calibrated phylogenetic dating of duplicated ATPase proteins

(2013) P. M. Shih et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity

(2011) Andrew H. Knoll   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Problematic fossils from the Palaeo-Neoproterozoic Vindhyan Supergroup, India

(2011) Purnima Srivastava   Arabian Journal of Geosciences

Stratigraphic and sedimentary records of the rift to drift evolution of the northern North China craton at the Paleo- to Mesoproterozoic transition

(2011) Qing-Ren Meng et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

An early Ediacaran assemblage of macroscopic and morphologically differentiated eukaryotes

(2011) Xunlai Yuan et al.   NATURE

Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks

(2011) L. W. Parfrey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago

(2010) Abderrazak El Albani et al.   NATURE

Animals and the invention of the Phanerozoic Earth system

(2010) Nicholas J. Butterfield   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Taxonomy and affinity of Early Mesoproterozoic megascopic helically coiled and related fossils from the Rohtas Formation, the Vindhyan Supergroup, India

(2009) Mukund Sharma et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Evidence for eukaryotic diversification in the ∼1800 million-year-old Changzhougou Formation, North China

(2009) D.M. Lamb et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Modes of pre-Ediacaran multicellularity

(2009) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH