Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze

Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation: Context, correlation, and chronostratigraphy—Overcoming deficiencies of the first appearance datum (FAD) concept

(2013) Ed Landing et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Deep metazoan phylogeny: When different genes tell different stories

(2013) Tetyana Nosenko et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Evidence for spicule homology in calcareous and siliceous sponges: biminerallic spicules inLenicasp. from the Early Cambrian of South China

(2012) JOSEPH P. BOTTING et al.   LETHAIA

Records of a new spongelike group in the Riphean biota

(2012) T. N. German et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

A new metazoan from the Vendian of the White Sea, Russia, with possible affinities to the ascidians

(2012) M. A. Fedonkin et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

Exceptionally preserved crustaceans from western Canada reveal a cryptic Cambrian radiation

(2012) T. H. P. Harvey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The first animals: ca. 760-million-year-old sponge-like fossils from Namibia

(2012) C. K. ‘Bob’ Brain et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE

The non-hierarchical, non-uniformly branching topology of a leuconoid sponge aquiferous system revealed by 3D reconstruction and morphometrics using corrosion casting and X-ray microtomography

(2011) Jörg U. Hammel et al.   ACTA ZOOLOGICA

The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity

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

Chronology of early Cambrian biomineralization

(2011) ARTEM KOUCHINSKY et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Phosphate biomineralization in mid-Neoproterozoic protists

(2011) Phoebe A. Cohen et al.   GEOLOGY

Microfossils of sulphur-metabolizing cells in 3.4-billion-year-old rocks of Western Australia

(2011) David Wacey et al.   Nature Geoscience

Testing the protozoan hypothesis for Ediacaran fossils: a developmental analysis of Palaeopascichnus

(2011) JONATHAN B. ANTCLIFFE et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Resolving Difficult Phylogenetic Questions: Why More Sequences Are Not Enough

(2011) Hervé Philippe et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Correlation of the Meishucunian Stage in South Asia

(2010) Jiang Zhiwen et al.   ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA-ENGLISH EDITION

Carbonaceous preservation of Cambrian hexactinellid sponge spicules

(2010) T. H. P. Harvey   Biology Letters

Rangeomorphs, Thectardis (Porifera?) and dissolved organic carbon in the Ediacaran oceans

(2010) E. A. SPERLING et al.   Geobiology

Calcite and aragonite seas and the de novo acquisition of carbonate skeletons

(2010) S. M. PORTER   Geobiology

Early Neoproterozoic scale microfossils in the Lower Tindir Group of Alaska and the Yukon Territory

(2010) Francis A. Macdonald et al.   GEOLOGY

New observations on Cucullus Steiner from the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation of Guizhou, South China

(2010) YUE WANG et al.   LETHAIA

Improved Phylogenomic Taxon Sampling Noticeably Affects Nonbilaterian Relationships

(2010) K. S. Pick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

(2010) Abderrazak El Albani et al.   NATURE

Non-random decay of chordate characters causes bias in fossil interpretation

(2010) Robert S. Sansom et al.   NATURE

The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity

(2010) Mansi Srivastava et al.   NATURE

Early life: Origins of multicellularity

(2010) Philip C. J. Donoghue et al.   NATURE

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

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

CHARNIA AT 50: DEVELOPMENTAL MODELS FOR EDIACARAN FRONDS

(2010) JONATHAN B. ANTCLIFFE et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Effaced preservation in the Ediacara biota and its implications for the early macrofossil record

(2010) ALEXANDER G. LIU et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata

(2010) O. Rota-Stabelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

New data on biostratigraphy of the Vendian Nemakit-Daldynian stage in the southern Siberian platform

(2010) B. B. Kochnev et al.   STRATIGRAPHY AND GEOLOGICAL CORRELATION

Distribution of the archaeocyath-calcimicrobial bioconstructions on the Early Cambrian shelves

(2010) Anna Gandin et al.   Palaeoworld

Phylogenomics Revives Traditional Views on Deep Animal Relationships

(2009) Hervé Philippe et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Remarkable preservation of microbial mats in Neoproterozoic siliciclastic settings: Implications for Ediacaran taphonomic models

(2009) Richard H.T. Callow et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

New carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary interval from SW China: implications for global correlation

(2009) DA LI et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Evolutionary relationships within the Avalonian Ediacara biota: new insights from laser analysis

(2009) Martin D. Brasier et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

A solution to Darwin's dilemma of 1859: exceptional preservation in Salter's material from the late Ediacaran Longmyndian Supergroup, England

(2009) Richard H.T. Callow et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Biogeochemistry: Early animals out in the cold

(2009) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Modes of pre-Ediacaran multicellularity

(2009) Nicholas J. Butterfield   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The Burgess Shale Anomalocaridid Hurdia and Its Significance for Early Euarthropod Evolution

(2009) A. C. Daley et al.   SCIENCE

Growth of synthetic stromatolites and wrinkle structures in the absence of microbes – implications for the early fossil record

(2008) N. MCLOUGHLIN et al.   Geobiology

Use of NanoSIMS in the search for early life on Earth: ambient inclusion trails in a c. 3400 Ma sandstone

(2008) DAVID WACEY et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

A hypercalcified sponge with soft relatives: Vaceletia is a keratose demosponge

(2008) Gert Wörheide   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Dickinsonia from Ediacara: A new look at morphology and body construction

(2008) Martin D. Brasier et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The earliest fossil record of the animals and its significance

(2008) G. E Budd   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogeny and Evolution of Glass Sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida)

(2008) Martin Dohrmann et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ediacaran biota on Bonavista Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada

(2007) H. J. Hofmann et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY