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Multiple Controls on Organic Matter Accumulation in the Intraplatform Basin of the Early Cambrian Yangtze Platform, South China

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A problematic animal fossil from the early Cambrian Hetang Formation, South China

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Increases in marine environmental heterogeneity during the early animal innovations: Evidence from nitrogen isotopes in South China

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Two tubular fossil assemblages from the terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation in southern Shaanxi Province of South China

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Lapworthellids and other skeletonised microfossils from the Cambrian Stage 3 of the northern Montagne Noire, southern France

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A new enigmatic hyolith from the Cambrian of West Gondwana and its bearing on the systematics of hyoliths

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The oldest palaeoloricate mollusc (Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4; North Greenland) and its bearing on aculiferan evolution

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Age of the lower Cambrian Vanadium deposit, East Guizhou, South China: Evidences from age of tuff and carbon isotope analysis along the Bagong section

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A new lower Cambrian shelly fossil biostratigraphy for South Australia: Reply

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Carbon Isotope Features of the Sugetbrak Section in the Aksu-Wushi Area, Northwest China: Implications for the Precambrian/Cambrian Stratigraphic Correlations

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Evolution of animal multicellularity stimulated by dissolved organic carbon in early Ediacaran ocean: DOXAM hypothesis

Kano, A., Kunimitsu, Y., Togo, T., Takashima, C., Shiraishi, F., & WANG, W. (2011) · Island Arc · doi:10.1111/j.1440-1738.2011.00767.x · Cited by 11

Coupling of geographic range and provincialism in Cambrian marine invertebrates

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Environmental Controls on Organic Matter Enrichment of the Lower Cambrian Source Rocks in the Tarim Basin, Northwest China

Li, T., Zhang, Y., Zhu, G., Chen, Z., & Li, X. (2023) · Marine and Petroleum Geology · doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106539 · Cited by 10

Environmental setting of the Cambrian Terreneuvian rocks from the southwestern Yangtze Platform, South China

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Review of organic-walled microfossils research from the Cambrian of China: Implications for global phytoplankton diversity

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In siturare earth element analysis of a lower Cambrian phosphate nodule by LA-ICP-MS

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Contribution of oxygenic photosynthesis to palaeo-oceanic organic carbon sink fluxes in Early Cambrian Upper Yangtze shallow sea: Evidence from black shale record

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Cambrian Age 3 small shelly fossils from the Terrades inlier, southern Pyrenees, Spain: Biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic implications

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First Report of Small Skeletal Fossils from the Upper Guojiaba Formation (Series 2, Cambrian), Southern Shaanxi, South China

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Correlation and stratigraphic implications of the lowermost Cambrian small shelly fossils from new sites of South China

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Nanopore characteristics of lower Cambrian shale based on gas adsorption and multifractal analysis: Implications for gas development and CO2 storage

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Detrital zircon provenance investigation from the Neoproterozoic successions of the South China Block: Paleogeographic implications

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Cambrian small shelly fossils of South China and their application in biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography

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Correlation and stratigraphic implications of the lowermost Cambrian small shelly fossils from new sites of South China

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Lower Cambrian Small Shelly Fossils of northern Sichuan and southern Shaanxi (China), and their biostratigraphic importance

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Small shelly fossils from the early Cambrian Yanjiahe Formation, Yichang, Hubei, China

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Terreneuvian small shelly faunas of East Yunnan (South China) and their biostratigraphic implications

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