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Early eukaryote diversity: a review and a reinterpretation

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The environmental context of carbonaceous compressions and implications for organism preservation 1.40 Ga and 0.63 Ga

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A diverse Palaeoproterozoic microbial ecosystem implies early eukaryogenesis

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Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity

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Did high temperature rather than low O2 hinder the evolution of eukaryotes in the Precambrian?

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Proterozoic microfossils continue to provide new insights into the rise of complex eukaryotic life

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First record of organic-walled microfossils from the Tonian Shiwangzhuang Formation of the Tumen Group in western Shandong, North China

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Cadmium isotope evidence deciphers enhanced marine productivity during the middle Mesoproterozoic (the Xiamaling formation, North China)

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Organic-walled microfossils from the lower Cambrian of North Greenland: a reappraisal of diversity

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The Proterozoic Qinggouzi microfossil assemblage and its biostratigraphic constraints on the Great Unconformity in northeastern North China Craton

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Morphologically diverse vase-shaped microfossils from the Russøya Member, Elbobreen Formation, in Spitsbergen

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Ecosystem relocation on Snowball Earth: Polar−alpine ancestry of the extant surface biosphere?

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Morphometric analysis of Skiagia -plexus acritarchs from the early Cambrian of North Greenland: toward a meaningful evaluation of phenotypic plasticity

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中元古代增氧事件

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Marine redox fluctuations during the Marinoan glaciation

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Tonian microfossils from subsurface shales in Botswana

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Multi-method dating constrains the diversification of early eukaryotes in the Proterozoic Mbuji-Mayi Supergroup of the D.R.Congo and the geological evolution of the Congo Basin

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The paleoredox context of early eukaryotic evolution: insights from the Tonian Mackenzie Mountains Supergroup, Canada

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Sustained shift in the morphology of organic-walled microfossils over the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition

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The Svanbergfjellet Formation: eukaryotic life in a Tonian Sea

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A billion years of temperature variability: a key driver of Earth’s long-term habitabilityPreprint

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Nitrogen Isotopes from the Neoproterozoic Liulaobei Formation, North China: Implications for Nitrogen Cycling and Eukaryotic Evolution

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A Flourishing Planktonic Microbial Community in an Interglacial Offshore Environment: Silicified Microfossils From the Cryogenian Datangpo Formation, South China

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Experimental snowball earth viscosity drives the evolution of motile multicellularity

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Interglacial dust, ocean fertilisation and Neoproterozoic earth oxygenation

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EELP and ECAP organic-walled microfossils from post-Marinoan carbonate successions in the Araras Group, West Gondwana, central Brazil

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Oxygenation of the Proterozoic Earth's surface: An evolving story

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Were there any snow algae on the Cryogenian ‘Snowball Earth’?

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New trail-like features associated with microbial mats from the early Neoproterozoic Sirbu Shale Member (Upper Vindhyan Group), Vindhyan Basin, central India

Choudhuri, A., Plummer, P. S., Ghnahalla, M., Albani, A. E., Sarkar, S., Bouougri, E. H., Reisberg, L. C., Kumar, A., & Bose, T. (2025) · Australian Journal of Earth Sciences · doi:10.1080/08120099.2025.2586733 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Sedimentological and palynological investigations of the Neoproterozoic Valdres Group

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Eukaryotes, Appearance and Early Evolution of

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Eukaryotes, Appearance and Early Evolution of

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Tafonomia e sistemática dos microfósseis das formações Tamengo e Guaicurus (Grupo Corumbá, faixa Paraguai Sul) e suas implicações paleoambientais

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新元古代氧化事件促发“雪球地球”冰期气候？

Cui, Y., Li, D., Shen, B., & Gao, X. (2025) · Earth Science-Journal of China University of Geosciences · doi:10.3799/dqkx.2024.048

Tonian age marker acritarch taxa Trachyhystrichosphaera aimika Hermann from the Mesoproterozoic Chhattisgarh Supergroup, Baradwar sub-basin, central India and its stratigraphic significance

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Geochemical Characteristics and Organic Matter Enrichment of Mesoproterozoic Shales: Insights from the Cuizhuang Formation, Ordos Basin, North China Craton

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An assemblage of carbonaceous compression macrofossils from the Tonian Changlingzi Formation, Liaonan region, North China

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Reestablishment of an early life shallow marine ecosystem in the Neoproterozoic Gardnos meteorite impact crater (Norway)

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Time scales and gaps, Haar fluctuations and multifractal geochronologies

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Vase‐Shaped Microfossils From North China Suggest an Earlier Origin of Protozoa at ~1.56 Ga

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Red to Green: A Lipid Biomarker Record of Tonian‐Ediacaran Algae in Siberia

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Evolutionary history of chlorophyte algae – organic-walled microbiota from the Neoproterozoic (Tonian) Visingsö Group, Sweden

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The evolution of atmospheric oxygen on Earth

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Quantifying the global biodiversity of Proterozoic eukaryotes

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EUKARYOTIC SPECIES RICHNESS IN THE EARLY TO MIDDLE NEOPROTEROZOIC

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Organic-walled microfossils of the mid-Neoproterozoic Alinya Formation, Officer Basin, Australia

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