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

Absence of biomarker evidence for early eukaryotic life from the Mesoproterozoic Roper Group: Searching across a marine redox gradient in mid-Proterozoic habitability

(2019) Kevin Nguyen et al.   Geobiology

Bisnorgammacerane traces predatory pressure and the persistent rise of algal ecosystems after Snowball Earth

(2019) Lennart M. van Maldegem et al.   Nature Communications

Insights into vase-shaped microfossil diversity and Neoproterozoic biostratigraphy in light of recent Brazilian discoveries

(2019) L. Morais et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Evaporite deposition in the mid-Neoproterozoic as a driver for changes in seawater chemistry and the biogeochemical cycle of sulfur

(2019) John K.G. Prince et al.   GEOLOGY

Claypool continued: Extending the isotopic record of sedimentary sulfate

(2019) Peter W. Crockford et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Tracking the rise of eukaryotes to ecological dominance with zinc isotopes

(2018) Terry T. Isson et al.   Geobiology

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

Synthesis of 26-methyl cholestane and identification of cryostanes in mid-Neoproterozoic sediments

(2018) Pierre Adam et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

1.1-billion-year-old porphyrins establish a marine ecosystem dominated by bacterial primary producers

(2018) N. Gueneli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ediacara biota flourished in oligotrophic and bacterially dominated marine environments across Baltica

(2018) Kelden Pehr et al.   Nature Communications

Triple oxygen isotope evidence for limited mid-Proterozoic primary productivity

(2018) Peter W. Crockford et al.   NATURE

The aerobic diagenesis of Mesoproterozoic organic matter

(2018) Xiaomei Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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

A sluggish mid-Proterozoic biosphere and its effect on Earth's redox balance

(2018) Kazumi Ozaki et al.   Geobiology

U-Pb detrital zircon geochronology, petrography, and synthesis of the middle Neoproterozoic Visingsö Group, Southern Sweden

(2018) Mikaela A. Pulsipher et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Demosponge steroid biomarker 26-methylstigmastane provides evidence for Neoproterozoic animals

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

Paleoecology and paleoceanography of the Athel silicilyte, Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary, Sultanate of Oman

(2017) D. A. Stolper et al.   Geobiology

A Tonian age for the Visingsö Group in Sweden constrained by detrital zircon dating and biochronology: implications for evolutionary events

(2017) MAŁGORZATA MOCZYDŁOWSKA et al.   GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE

Coupled Re-Os and U-Pb geochronology of the Tonian Chuar Group, Grand Canyon

(2017) Alan D. Rooney et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis

(2017) Timothy M. Gibson et al.   GEOLOGY

Microbial Eukaryotes that Lack Sterols

(2017) Kiyotaka Takishita et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Carbonaceous and siliceous Neoproterozoic vase-shaped microfossils (Urucum Formation, Brazil) and the question of early protistan biomineralization

(2017) Luana Morais et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Paleoproterozoic sterol biosynthesis and the rise of oxygen

(2017) David A. Gold et al.   NATURE

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

(2017) Jochen J. Brocks et al.   NATURE

Constraining the thermal history of the North American Midcontinent Rift System using carbonate clumped isotopes and organic thermal maturity indices

(2017) Timothy M. Gallagher et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Unradiogenic strontium and moderate-amplitude carbon isotope variations in early Tonian seawater after the assembly of Rodinia and before the Bitter Springs Excursion

(2017) A.B. Kuznetsov et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A distinctive biomarker assemblage in an Infracambrian oil and source rock from western India: Molecular signatures of eukaryotic sterols and prokaryotic carotenoids

(2017) Sharmila Bhattacharya et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Uranium isotope compositions of mid-Proterozoic black shales: Evidence for an episode of increased ocean oxygenation at 1.36 Ga and evaluation of the effect of post-depositional hydrothermal fluid flow

(2017) Shuai Yang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Vase-shaped microfossil biostratigraphy with new data from Tasmania, Svalbard, Greenland, Sweden and the Yukon

(2017) Leigh Anne Riedman et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Organic geochemistry of rocks of the Mesoproterozoic Malgin Formation and their depositional environments ( southeastern Siberian Platform )

(2017) E.A. Suslova et al.   Russian Geology and Geophysics

Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae

(2017) Stefan Bengtson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Cryogenian evolution of stigmasteroid biosynthesis

(2017) Yosuke Hoshino et al.   Science Advances

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

(2017) Paul F. Hoffman et al.   Science Advances

A shale-hosted Cr isotope record of low atmospheric oxygen during the Proterozoic

(2016) Devon B. Cole et al.   GEOLOGY

Lipid biomarker stratigraphic records through the Late Devonian Frasnian/Famennian boundary: Comparison of high- and low-latitude epicontinental marine settings

(2016) Emily E. Haddad et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Organic geochemical characteristics of the Mesoproterozoic Hongshuizhuang Formation from northern China: Implications for thermal maturity and biological sources

(2016) Qingyong Luo et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Sterol and genomic analyses validate the sponge biomarker hypothesis

(2016) David A. Gold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Tiny vampires in ancient seas: evidence for predation via perforation in fossils from the 780–740 million-year-old Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, USA

(2016) Susannah M. Porter   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Neoproterozoic

(2015) Nicholas J. Butterfield   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Early sponges and toxic protists: possible sources of cryostane, an age diagnostic biomarker antedating Sturtian Snowball Earth

(2015) J. J. Brocks et al.   Geobiology

Did phosphorus derived from the weathering of large igneous provinces fertilize the Neoproterozoic ocean?

(2015) Forrest Horton   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Comparative microbial diversity and redox environments of black shale and stromatolite facies in the Mesoproterozoic Xiamaling Formation

(2015) Genming Luo et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Snowball cooling after algal rise

(2015) Georg Feulner et al.   Nature Geoscience

Scarcity of the C30 sterane biomarker, 24-n-propylcholestane, in Lower Paleozoic marine paleoenvironments

(2015) Megan Rohrssen et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Reappraisal of hydrocarbon biomarkers in Archean rocks

(2015) Katherine L. French et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Selenium isotope evidence for progressive oxidation of the Neoproterozoic biosphere

(2015) Philip A. E. Pogge von Strandmann et al.   Nature Communications

Ocean redox structure across the Late Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event: A nitrogen isotope perspective

(2014) Magali Ader et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Plate tectonic influences on Neoproterozoic–early Paleozoic climate and animal evolution

(2014) N. Ryan McKenzie et al.   GEOLOGY

740 Ma vase-shaped microfossils from Yukon, Canada: Implications for Neoproterozoic chronology and biostratigraphy

(2014) Justin V. Strauss et al.   GEOLOGY

The rise of oxygen in Earth’s early ocean and atmosphere

(2014) Timothy W. Lyons et al.   NATURE

Co-evolution of eukaryotes and ocean oxygenation in the Neoproterozoic era

(2014) Timothy M. Lenton et al.   Nature Geoscience

Assessing the syngeneity and indigeneity of hydrocarbons in the ∼1.4Ga Velkerri Formation, McArthur Basin, using slice experiments

(2014) Emma N. Flannery et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Low Mid-Proterozoic atmospheric oxygen levels and the delayed rise of animals

(2014) N. J. Planavsky et al.   SCIENCE

Paleobiological Perspectives on Early Eukaryotic Evolution

(2014) A. H. Knoll   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Regulation of atmospheric oxygen during the Proterozoic

(2013) Thomas A. Laakso et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Re-Os geochronology and coupled Os-Sr isotope constraints on the Sturtian snowball Earth

(2013) A. D. Rooney et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Authigenic Carbonate and the History of the Global Carbon Cycle

(2013) D. P. Schrag et al.   SCIENCE

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

Late Ediacaran redox stability and metazoan evolution

(2012) D.T. Johnston et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Ferruginous Conditions: A Dominant Feature of the Ocean through Earth's History

(2011) S. W. Poulton et al.   Elements

Putative Cryogenian ciliates from Mongolia

(2011) T. Bosak et al.   GEOLOGY

Possible early foraminiferans in post-Sturtian (716−635 Ma) cap carbonates

(2011) Tanja Bosak et al.   GEOLOGY

Widespread iron-rich conditions in the mid-Proterozoic ocean

(2011) Noah J. Planavsky et al.   NATURE

Hydrocarbon biomarkers of Neoproterozoic to Lower Cambrian oils from eastern Siberia

(2011) Amy E. Kelly et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Biomarkers of black shales formed by microbial mats, Late Mesoproterozoic (1.1Ga) Taoudeni Basin, Mauritania

(2011) Martin Blumenberg et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

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

Towards a quantitative understanding of the late Neoproterozoic carbon cycle

(2011) C. J. Bjerrum et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2011) D. H. Erwin et al.   SCIENCE

An emerging picture of Neoproterozoic ocean chemistry: Insights from the Chuar Group, Grand Canyon, USA

(2010) David T. Johnston et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Calibrating the Cryogenian

(2010) F. A. Macdonald et al.   SCIENCE

Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

(2009) Gordon D. Love et al.   NATURE

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

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

Sterols in red and green algae: quantification, phylogeny, and relevance for the interpretation of geologic steranes

(2008) R. B. KODNER et al.   Geobiology

The rise of atmospheric oxygen

(2008) Lee R. Kump   NATURE

Origin of petroleum in the Neoproterozoic–Cambrian South Oman Salt Basin

(2008) E. Grosjean et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation

(2008) K. A. McFadden et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA