First report of fossil “keratose” demosponges in Phanerozoic carbonates: preservation and 3-D reconstruction

Chert-hosted small shelly fossils: expanded tool of biostratigraphy in the Early Cambrian

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Birth and early evolution of metazoans

(2013) Degan Shu et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

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

(2013) H. Ehrlich et al.   Scientific Reports

Fossilized digestive systems in 23 million-year-old wood-boring bivalves

(2012) Steffen Kiel et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLLUSCAN STUDIES

Horny sponges and their affairs: On the phylogenetic relationships of keratose sponges

(2012) Dirk Erpenbeck et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Paleoecology of the earliest skeletal metazoan communities: Implications for early biomineralization

(2011) Rachel A. Wood   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

Marine subsurface eukaryotes: the fungal majority

(2010) Virginia P. Edgcomb et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Three-dimensional chitin-based scaffolds from Verongida sponges (Demospongiae: Porifera). Part I. Isolation and identification of chitin

(2010) H. Ehrlich et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES

Mid-Late Devonian Calcified Marine Algae and Cyanobacteria, South China

(2010) Qi Feng et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Phylogenetic-Signal Dissection of Nuclear Housekeeping Genes Supports the Paraphyly of Sponges and the Monophyly of Eumetazoa

(2009) E. A. Sperling et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

Reconstructing ordinal relationships in the Demospongiae using mitochondrial genomic data

(2008) Dennis V. Lavrov et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records

(2008) K. J Peterson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tomographic techniques for the study of exceptionally preserved fossils

(2008) M. D Sutton   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES