Environmental context for the terminal Ediacaran biomineralization of animals

Paired carbonate and organic carbon isotope variations of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation from an upper slope section at Siduping, South China

(2016) Xinqiang Wang et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Depositional dynamics of a bituminous carbonate facies in a tectonically induced intra-platform basin: the Shibantan Member (Dengying Formation, Ediacaran Period)

(2015) Jan-Peter Duda et al.   CARBONATES AND EVAPORITES

Redox architecture of an Ediacaran ocean margin: Integrated chemostratigraphic (δ13C–δ34S–87Sr/86Sr–Ce/Ce*) correlation of the Doushantuo Formation, South China

(2015) Huan Cui et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

A public goods approach to major evolutionary innovations

(2015) D. H. Erwin   Geobiology

Patterns of sulfur isotope fractionation during microbial sulfate reduction

(2015) A. S. Bradley et al.   Geobiology

Sulfur isotope fractionation in modern euxinic systems: Implications for paleoenvironmental reconstructions of paired sulfate–sulfide isotope records

(2015) Maya L. Gomes et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Ediacaran sulfur cycle: Insights from sulfur isotope measurements (Δ 33 S and δ 34 S) on paired sulfate–pyrite in the Huqf Supergroup of Oman

(2015) Nanping Wu et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Laurentian and Amazonian sediment sources to Neoproterozoic–lower Paleozoic Maryland Piedmont rocks

(2015) Aaron J. Martin et al.   Geosphere

Life history and autecology of an Ediacaran index fossil: Development and dispersal of Cloudina

(2015) Iván Cortijo et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Digging deeper

(2015) Murray Gingras et al.   Nature Geoscience

Protracted development of bioturbation through the early Palaeozoic Era

(2015) Lidya G. Tarhan et al.   Nature Geoscience

Dynamic redox conditions control late Ediacaran metazoan ecosystems in the Nama Group, Namibia

(2015) R.A. Wood et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Stratigraphic position of the Ediacaran Miaohe biota and its constrains on the age of the upper Doushantuo δ 13 C anomaly in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China

(2015) Zhihui An et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Flourishing ocean drives the end-Permian marine mass extinction

(2015) Martin Schobben et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ediacaran skeletal metazoan interpreted as a lophophorate

(2015) A. Yu. Zhuravlev et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spatial variability in photosynthetic and heterotrophic activity drives localized δ13Corgfluctuations and carbonate precipitation in hypersaline microbial mats

(2014) J. Houghton et al.   Geobiology

Extensive metazoan reefs from the Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia: the rise of benthic suspension feeding

(2014) R. Wood et al.   Geobiology

Widespread contamination of carbonate-associated sulfate by present-day secondary atmospheric sulfate: Evidence from triple oxygen isotopes

(2014) Yongbo Peng et al.   GEOLOGY

When Life Got Smart: The Evolution of Behavioral Complexity Through the Ediacaran and Early Cambrian of NW Canada

(2014) Calla Carbone et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

Deep-Water Ediacaran Fossils from Northwestern Canada: Taphonomy, Ecology, and Evolution

(2014) Guy M. Narbonne et al.   JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY

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

Widespread delayed mixing in early to middle Cambrian marine shelfal settings

(2014) Lidya G. Tarhan et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Geobiology of a palaeoecosystem with Ediacara-type fossils: The Shibantan Member (Dengying Formation, South China)

(2014) Jan-Peter Duda et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Intracellular metabolite levels shape sulfur isotope fractionation during microbial sulfate respiration

(2014) Boswell A. Wing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ediacaran metazoan reefs from the Nama Group, Namibia

(2014) A. M. Penny et al.   SCIENCE

Neoarchean carbonate-associated sulfate records positive  33S anomalies

(2014) G. Paris et al.   SCIENCE

Large sulfur isotope fractionations associated with Neoarchean microbial sulfate reduction

(2014) I. Zhelezinskaia et al.   SCIENCE

New U-Pb zircon ages of the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary strata in South China

(2014) Daizhao Chen et al.   TERRA NOVA

A unifying model for Neoproterozoic–Palaeozoic exceptional fossil preservation through pyritization and carbonaceous compression

(2014) James D. Schiffbauer et al.   Nature Communications

New Ediacara fossils preserved in marine limestone and their ecological implications

(2014) Zhe Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

Tube growth patterns and microbial mat-related lifestyles in the Ediacaran fossil Cloudina, Gaojiashan Lagerstätte, South China

(2013) Yaoping Cai et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

The anomalous Ca cycle in the Ediacaran ocean: Evidence from Ca isotopes preserved in carbonates in the Three Gorges area, South China

(2013) Yusuke Sawaki et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Are 34S-enriched authigenic sulfide minerals a proxy for elevated methane flux and gas hydrates in the geologic record?

(2013) Walter S. Borowski et al.   MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY

Interactions between Ediacaran animals and microbial mats: Insights from Lamonte trevallis, a new trace fossil from the Dengying Formation of South China

(2013) Mike Meyer et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Stratigraphy, palaeontology and geochemistry of the late Neoproterozoic Aar Member, southwest Namibia: Reflecting environmental controls on Ediacara fossil preservation during the terminal Proterozoic in African Gondwana

(2013) Michael Hall et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Influence of sulfate reduction rates on the Phanerozoic sulfur isotope record

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

Metabolic rates and sulfur cycling in the geologic record

(2013) N. Wu 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

Carbonate-associated sulfate: Experimental comparisons of common extraction methods and recommendations toward a standard analytical protocol

(2012) Thomas Wotte et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

The oldest evidence of bioturbation on Earth

(2012) Vladimir Rogov et al.   GEOLOGY

Ocean oxygenation in the wake of the Marinoan glaciation

(2012) Swapan K. Sahoo et al.   NATURE

TAPHONOMY OF THE UPPER EDIACARAN ENIGMATIC RIBBONLIKE FOSSIL SHAANXILITHES

(2012) M. MEYER et al.   PALAIOS

Trace fossil evidence for Ediacaran bilaterian animals with complex behaviors

(2012) Zhe Chen et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Local δ34S variability in ∼580Ma carbonates of northwestern Mexico and the Neoproterozoic marine sulfate reservoir

(2012) Sean J. Loyd et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

New Finds of Skeletal Fossils in the Terminal Neoproterozoic of the Siberian Platform and Spain

(2011) Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Significant increases in global weathering during Oceanic Anoxic Events 1a and 2 indicated by calcium isotopes

(2011) Clara L. Blättler et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Neoproterozoic oxygenation event: Environmental perturbations and biogeochemical cycling

(2011) Lawrence M. Och et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The rise of predators

(2011) Susannah Porter   GEOLOGY

Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635–551Ma) in South China

(2011) Ganqing Jiang et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

A hydrothermal origin for isotopically anomalous cap dolostone cements from south China

(2011) Thomas F. Bristow et al.   NATURE

Enigmatic origin of the largest-known carbon isotope excursion in Earth's history

(2011) John P. Grotzinger et al.   Nature Geoscience

Morphology and paleoecology of the late Ediacaran tubular fossil Conotubus hemiannulatus from the Gaojiashan Lagerstätte of southern Shaanxi Province, South China

(2011) Yaoping Cai et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Isotopic evidence for a sizeable seawater sulfate reservoir at 2.1Ga

(2011) M. Reuschel et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Cerium anomaly variations in Ediacaran–earliest Cambrian carbonates from the Yangtze Gorges area, South China: Implications for oxygenation of coeval shallow seawater

(2011) Hong-Fei Ling et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The DOUNCE event at the top of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation, South China: Broad stratigraphic occurrence and non-diagenetic origin

(2011) Miao Lu et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Large Sulfur Isotope Fractionation Does Not Require Disproportionation

(2011) M. S. Sim et al.   SCIENCE

A burial diagenesis origin for the Ediacaran Shuram–Wonoka carbon isotope anomaly

(2010) Louis A. Derry   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Petrographic and SIMS pyrite sulfur isotope analyses of Ediacaran chert nodules: Implications for microbial processes in pyrite rim formation, silicification, and exceptional fossil preservation

(2010) Shuhai Xiao et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

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

(2010) S. M. PORTER   Geobiology

Carbon, sulfur, and oxygen isotope evidence for a strong depth gradient and oceanic oxidation after the Ediacaran Hankalchough glaciation

(2010) Bing Shen et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Surface kinetic model for isotopic and trace element fractionation during precipitation of calcite from aqueous solutions

(2010) Donald J. DePaolo   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

A δ34SSO4 approach to reconstructing biogenic pyrite burial in carbonate-evaporite basins: An example from the Ara Group, Sultanate of Oman

(2010) D.A. Fike et al.   GEOLOGY

High isotope fractionations during sulfate reduction in a low-sulfate euxinic ocean analog

(2010) Donald E. Canfield et al.   GEOLOGY

BIOSTRATINOMY OF THE LATE EDIACARAN PYRITIZED GAOJIASHAN LAGERSTATTE FROM SOUTHERN SHAANXI, SOUTH CHINA: IMPORTANCE OF EVENT DEPOSITS

(2010) Y. CAI et al.   PALAIOS

Carbon and sulfur isotope chemostratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Quanji Group of the Chaidam Basin, NW China: Basin stratification in the aftermath of an Ediacaran glaciation postdating the Shuram event?

(2010) Bing Shen et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

A Stratified Redox Model for the Ediacaran Ocean

(2010) C. Li et al.   SCIENCE

Animals and the invention of the Phanerozoic Earth system

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

Oxygenation of the ocean and sediments: Consequences for the seafloor carbonate factory

(2009) J.A. Higgins et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Oxygen, animals and oceanic ventilation: an alternative view

(2009) N. J. BUTTERFIELD   Geobiology

The effect of sulfate concentration on (sub)millimeter-scale sulfide δ34S in hypersaline cyanobacterial mats over the diurnal cycle

(2009) David A. Fike et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Superheavy pyrite ( 34Spyr >  34SCAS) in the terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, southern Namibia: A consequence of low seawater sulfate at the dawn of animal life

(2009) J. B. Ries et al.   GEOLOGY

Constraints on 87Sr/86Sr of Late Ediacaran seawater: insight from Siberian high-Sr limestones

(2009) V.A. Melezhik et al.   JOURNAL OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY

A new species of Cloudina from the terminal Ediacaran of Spain

(2009) I. Cortijo et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

The Ediacaran radiogenic Sr isotope excursion in the Doushantuo Formation in the Three Gorges area, South China

(2009) Yusuke Sawaki et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Anoxygenic photosynthesis modulated Proterozoic oxygen and sustained Earth's middle age

(2009) D. T. Johnston et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Animal evolution, bioturbation, and the sulfate concentration of the oceans

(2009) D. E. Canfield et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Enhanced precision, accuracy, efficiency, and spatial resolution of U-Pb ages by laser ablation-multicollector-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry

(2008) George E. Gehrels et al.   GEOCHEMISTRY GEOPHYSICS GEOSYSTEMS

Behavior of carbonate-associated sulfate during meteoric diagenesis and implications for the sulfur isotope paleoproxy

(2008) Benjamin C. Gill et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

A paired sulfate–pyrite δ34S approach to understanding the evolution of the Ediacaran–Cambrian sulfur cycle

(2008) D.A. Fike et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Sr2+/Ca2+ and 44Ca/40Ca fractionation during inorganic calcite formation: I. Sr incorporation

(2008) Jianwu Tang et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Micron-scale mapping of sulfur cycling across the oxycline of a cyanobacterial mat: a paired nanoSIMS and CARD-FISH approach

(2008) David Andrew Fike et al.   ISME Journal

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

The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical Cycles

(2008) P. G. Falkowski et al.   SCIENCE

Oxidation of pyrite during extraction of carbonate associated sulfate

(2007) Pedro J. Marenco et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Stratification and mixing of a post-glacial Neoproterozoic ocean: Evidence from carbon and sulfur isotopes in a cap dolostone from northwest China

(2007) Bing Shen et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS