Cited by 701Paleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsGeological and Geochemical AnalysisEvolution and Paleontology Studies

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 44 of the 46 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Biostratigraphic and Geochronologic Constraints on Early Animal Evolution

Grotzinger, John P., Bowring, Samuel A., Saylor, Beverly Z., Kaufman, Alan J.·1995·Science

DOI 10.1126/science.270.5236.598

Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Two distinct evolutionary pulses, represented by the Vendian Ediacaran fauna and Cambrian small shelly faunas, are generally thought to characterize the emergence of macroscopic animals at the end of Precambrian time. Biostratigraphic and uranium-lead zircon age data from Namibia indicate that most globally distributed Ediacaran fossils are no older than 549 million years old and some are as young as 543 million years old, essentially coincident with the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary. These data suggest that the most diverse assemblages of Ediacaran animals existed within 6 million years of the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary and that simple discoid animals may have appeared at least 50 million years earlier.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1126/science.270.5236.598

Cites

44 of 44 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Approximation of terrestrial lead isotope evolution by a two-stage model
Stacey, J. S., & Kramers, J. D. (1975) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/0012-821x(75)90088-6 · Cited by 9,173
Did the Breakout of Laurentia Turn Gondwanaland Inside-Out?
Hoffman, P. F. (1991) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.252.5011.1409 · Cited by 1,750
Improved accuracy of U-Pb zircon ages by the creation of more concordant systems using an air abrasion technique
Krogh, T. E. (1982) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/0016-7037(82)90165-x · Cited by 1,706
Neoproterozoic variations in the C-isotopic composition of seawater: stratigraphic and biogeochemical implications
KAUFMAN, A., & KNOLL, A. (1995) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/0301-9268(94)00070-8 · Cited by 1,167
Self-citation
Zircon U-Pb ages for the Early Cambrian time-scale
Compston, W., Williams, I. S., Kirschvink, J. L., Zhang, Z., & Guogan, M. (1992) · Journal of the Geological Society · doi:10.1144/gsjgs.149.2.0171 · Cited by 1,137
Calibrating Rates of Early Cambrian Evolution
Bowring, S. A., Grotzinger, J. P., Isachsen, C. E., Knoll, A. H., Pelechaty, S. M., & Kolosov, P. (1993) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.11539488 · Cited by 524
Self-citation
Vendobionta and Psammocorallia: lost constructions of Precambrian evolution
SEILACHER, A. (1992) · Journal of the Geological Society · doi:10.1144/gsjgs.149.4.0607 · Cited by 427
The Proterozoic Biosphere
Schopf, J. W., & Klein, C. (1992) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511601064.002 · Cited by 394
Isotopic compositions of carbonates and organic carbon from upper Proterozoic successions in Namibia: stratigraphic variation and the effects of diagenesis and metamorphism.
Kaufman, A. J., Hayes, J. M., Knoll, A. H., & Germs, G. (1991) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/0301-9268(91)90039-d · Cited by 354
Self-citation
Vendozoa: Organismic construction in the Proterozoic biosphere
Seilacher, A. (1989) · Lethaia · doi:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1989.tb01332.x · Cited by 348

Show all 46 references

Research works printed but not linked: 31

BENUS A.P., NEW YORK STATE MUSEU 463, 8 (1988).
BRASIER M, COMMUNICATION .
COWIE J.W., PRECAMBRIAN CAMBRIAN 186, (1989).
CRIMES T.P., ORIGIN EARLY EVOLUTI 177, (1992).
FEDONKIN M.A., T AKADEMIYA NAUK SSR 342, (1981).
GERMS GJB, TRACE FOSSILS FROM NAMA GROUP, SOUTHWEST AFRICA, JOURNAL OF PALEONTOLOGY 46, 864 (1972).
GERMS GJB, SPEC PUBL GEOL SOC S 11, 89 (1983).
GEYER G, BERINGERIA 175, (1995).
GLAESSNER M.F., DAWN ANIMAL LIFE (1984).
GLAESSNER M.F., PALAEONTOLOGY 9, 599 (1966).
GOULD S.J., TREASURES IN A TAXONOMIC WASTEBASKET, NATURAL HISTORY 94, 22 (1985).
GOULD S.J., WONDERFUL LIFE (1990).
HORODYSKI R.J., GEOL SOC AM CORD SEC 26, A60 (1994).
ISACHSEN C.E., NEW CONSTRAINT ON THE DIVISION OF CAMBRIAN TIME, GEOLOGY 22, 496 (1994). · DOI
KARLOVA G.A., NAUKA MOSCOW 292, 204 (1987).
KAYE C.A., MEMOIRS DEP GEOLOGIC 2, 257 (1980).
KIRSCHVINK J.L., PROTEROZOIC BIOSPHER 569, (1992).
KNOLL A.H., IN PRESS GEOLOGY .
LANDING E, ORIGIN EARLY EVOLUTI 283, (1992).
MCMENAMIN MAS, EMERGENCE ANIMALS CA (1990).
PELECHATY S.M., IN PRESS GEOL SOC AM .
PELL S.D., T ROY SOC SOUTH AUST 117, 153 (1993).
RUNNEGAR B, COMMUNICATION .
RUNNEGAR B, EARLY LIFE EARTH 287, (1994).
SEILACHER A, PATTERNS CHANGE EART 159, (1984).
SEPKOSKI J.J., PROTEROZOIC BIOSPHER 553, (1992).
SOKOLOV B.S., VENDIAN SYSTEM 1, (1990).
SOKOLOV B.S., VENDIAN SYSTEM 2, (1990).
TUCKER R.D., IN PRESS CAN J EARTH .
VALENTINE J.W., THE BIOLOGICAL EXPLOSION AT THE PRECAMBRIAN CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY, EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 25, 279 (1991).
VALENTINE J.W., ORIGIN EARLY EVOLUTI (1992).

Sorted by citations

Items 201–300 of 690

Neoproterozoic tectonic and climatic evolution recorded in the Gariep Belt, Namibia and South Africa
Frimmel, H. E., Fölling, P. G., & Eriksson, P. G. (2002) · Basin Research · doi:10.1046/j.1365-2117.2002.00166.x · Cited by 91
The falling amplitude of carbon isotopic oscillations through the Lower to Middle Cambrian: northern Siberia data
Brasier, M. D., & Sukhov, S. S. (1998) · Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences · doi:10.1139/e97-122 · Cited by 97
Sedimentology and sequence stratigraphy of Neoproterozoic and Cambrian units across a craton-margin hinge zone, southeastern California, and implications for the early evolution of the Cordilleran margin
Fedo, C. M., & Cooper, J. D. (2001) · Sedimentary Geology · doi:10.1016/s0037-0738(01)00088-4 · Cited by 88
Microbial–metazoan reefs of the terminal Proterozoic Nama Group ( c. 550–543 Ma), Namibia
GROTZINGER, J., ADAMS, E. W., & SCHRÖDER, S. (2005) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756805000907 · Cited by 90
Self-citation
Extensive metazoan reefs from the Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia: the rise of benthic suspension feeding
Wood, R. A., & Curtis, A. (2014) · Geobiology · doi:10.1111/gbi.12122 · Cited by 87
Proposed reassessment of the Cambrian GSSP
Babcock, L. E., Peng, S., Zhu, M., Xiao, S., & Ahlberg, P. (2014) · Journal of African Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2014.06.023 · Cited by 84
A mixed Ediacaran-metazoan assemblage from the Zaris Sub-basin, Namibia
Darroch, S. A. F., Boag, T. H., Racicot, R. A., Tweedt, S. M., Mason, S. J., Erwin, D. H., & Laflamme, M. (2016) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.07.003 · Cited by 86
Sulphur isotopic evolution of Neoproterozoic-Cambrian seawater: new francolite-bound sulphate δ34S data and a critical appraisal of the existing record
Shields, G., Kimura, H., Yang, J., & Gammon, P. (2004) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2003.12.001 · Cited by 89
A paleomagnetic analysis of Cambrian true polar wander
Meert, J. G. (1999) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/s0012-821x(99)00042-4 · Cited by 84
Nitrogen and organic carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Yangtze Platform during the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition in South China
Cremonese, L., Shields-Zhou, G. A., Struck, U., Ling, H.-F., & Och, L. M. (2014) · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.12.016 · Cited by 86
Insights into the Skeletonization, Lifestyle, and Affinity of the Unusual Ediacaran Fossil Corumbella
Pacheco, M. L. A. F., Galante, D., Rodrigues, F., Leme, J. D. M., Bidola, P., Hagadorn, W., Stockmar, M. K., Herzen, J., Rudnitzki, I. D., Pfeiffer, F., et al. (2015) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114219 · Cited by 87
Enigmatic nature of thick sedimentary carbonates depleted in C beyond the canonical mantle value: The challenges to our understanding of the terrestrial carbon cycle
Melezhik, V. A., Fallick, A. E., & Pokrovsky, B. G. (2005) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2005.03.010 · Cited by 81
The Shuram and subsequent Ediacaran carbon isotope excursions from southwest Laurentia, and implications for environmental stability during the metazoan radiation
Verdel, C., Wernicke, B. P., & Bowring, S. A. (2011) · Geological Society of America Bulletin · doi:10.1130/b30369.1 · Cited by 81
Self-citation
Neoproterozoic glaciation on a carbonate platform margin in Arctic Alaska and the origin of the North Slope subterrane
Macdonald, F. A., McClelland, W. C., Schrag, D. P., & Macdonald, W. P. (2008) · Geological Society of America Bulletin · doi:10.1130/b26401.1 · Cited by 79
Digital characterization of thrombolite-stromatolite reef distribution in a carbonate ramp system (terminal Proterozoic, Nama Group, Namibia)
Adams, E. W., Grotzinger, J. P., Watters, W. A., Schröder, S., McCormick, D. S., & Al-Siyabi, H. A. (2005) · AAPG Bulletin · doi:10.1306/06160505005 · Cited by 82
Self-citation
Geochemistry and tectonic setting of magmatic units in the Pan-African Gariep Belt, Namibia
Frimmel, H. E., Hartnady, C., & Koller, F. (1996) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/0009-2541(95)00188-3 · Cited by 82
Dating the Late Precambrian volcanicity of England and Wales
COMPSTON, W., WRIGHT, A. E., & TOGHILL, P. (2002) · Journal of the Geological Society · doi:10.1144/0016-764901-010 · Cited by 81
Corumbella and in situ Cloudina in association with thrombolites in the Ediacaran Itapucumi Group, Paraguay
Warren, L. V., Fairchild, T. R., Gaucher, C., Boggiani, P. C., Poiré, D. G., Anelli, L. E., & Inchausti, J. C. G. (2011) · Terra Nova · doi:10.1111/j.1365-3121.2011.01023.x · Cited by 82
The Sr isotope chemostratigraphy as a tool for solving stratigraphic problems of the Upper Proterozoic (Riphean and Vendian)
Кузнецов, А. Б., Semikhatov, M. A., & Gorokhov, I. M. (2014) · Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation · doi:10.1134/s0869593814060033 · Cited by 82
A new SIMS zircon U–Pb date from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation: age constraint on the Weng'an biota
Zhou, C., Li, X., Xiao, S., Lan, Z., Ouyang, Q., Guan, C., & Chen, Z. (2017) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756816001175 · Cited by 80
Prelude to the Cambrian Explosion
Valentine, J. W. (2002) · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.30.082901.092917 · Cited by 78
The Ediacaran Period
Xiao, S., & Narbonne, G. M. (2020) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-824360-2.00018-8 · Cited by 84
Corumbella, an Ediacaran-grade organism from the Late Neoproterozoic of Brazil
Babcock, L. E., Grunow, A. M., Sadowski, G. R., & Leslie, S. A. (2005) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2003.01.001 · Cited by 78
Morphology and paleoecology of the late Ediacaran tubular fossil Conotubus hemiannulatus from the Gaojiashan Lagerstätte of southern Shaanxi Province, South China
Cai, Y., Schiffbauer, J. D., Hua, H., & Xiao, S. (2011) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2011.09.002 · Cited by 78
Redox-dependent distribution of early macro-organisms: Evidence from the terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Formation in Arctic Siberia
Cui, H., Grazhdankin, D. V., Xiao, S., Peek, S., Rogov, V. I., Bykova, N. V., Sievers, N. E., Liu, X.-M., & Kaufman, A. J. (2016) · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.015 · Cited by 76
Self-citation
Reconstructing Rangea: new discoveries from the Ediacaran of southern Namibia
Vickers-Rich, P., Ivantsov, A. Y., Trusler, P. W., Narbonne, G. M., Hall, M., Wilson, S. A., Greentree, C., Fedonkin, M. A., Elliott, D. A., Hoffmann, K. H., et al. (2013) · Journal of Paleontology · doi:10.1666/12-074r.1 · Cited by 79
Radiometric and stratigraphic constraints on terminal Ediacaran (post-Gaskiers) glaciation and metazoan evolution
Hebert, C. L., Kaufman, A. J., Penniston‐Dorland, S. C., & Martin, A. J. (2010) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2010.07.008 · Cited by 78
Self-citation
Integrated chronostratigraphy of the Vendian System of Siberia: implications for a global stratigraphy
Pelechaty, S. M. (1998) · Journal of the Geological Society · doi:10.1144/gsjgs.155.6.0957 · Cited by 78
Sheet-crack cements and early regression in Marinoan (635Ma) cap dolostones: Regional benchmarks of vanishing ice-sheets?
Hoffman, P. F., & Macdonald, F. A. (2010) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2010.10.027 · Cited by 78
Snowballs in Africa: sectioning a long-lived Neoproterozoic carbonate platform and its bathyal foreslope (NW Namibia)
Hoffman, P., Halverson, G., Schrag, D., Higgins, J., Domack, E., Macdonald, F., Pruss, S., Blättler, C., Crockford, P., Hodgin, E., et al. (2021) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103616 · Cited by 65
Chemostratigraphic and Sequence Stratigraphic Constraints on Vendian-Cambrian Basin Dynamics, Northeast Siberian Craton
Pelechaty, S. M., Grotzinger, J. P., Аркадьевич, К. В., & Zhernovsky, V. P. (1996) · The Journal of Geology · doi:10.1086/629851 · Cited by 76
Self-citation
Paleomagnetism of the 550 Ma Skinner Cove volcanics of western Newfoundland and the opening of the Iapetus Ocean
McCausland, P. J. A., & Hodych, J. P. (1998) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/s0012-821x(98)00171-x · Cited by 76
A methane fuse for the Cambrian explosion: carbon cycles and true polar wander
Kirschvink, J. L., & Raub, T. D. (2003) · Comptes Rendus Géoscience · doi:10.1016/s1631-0713(03)00011-7 · Cited by 77
Rb–Sr dating of diagenetic illite in Neoproterozoic shales, Varanger Peninsula, northern Norway
Gorokhov, I. M., Siedlecka, A., Roberts, D. L., MELNIKOV, N. N., & Turchenko, T. L. (2001) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s001675680100574x · Cited by 75
Pushing the boundary: A calibrated Ediacaran-Cambrian stratigraphic record from the Nama Group in northwestern Republic of South Africa
Nelson, L. L., Ramezani, J., Almond, J. E., Darroch, S. A. F., Taylor, W. L., Brenner, D. C., Furey, R. P., Turner, M., & Smith, E. F. (2022) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117396 · Cited by 75
A cosmopolitan late Ediacaran biotic assemblage: new fossils from Nevada and Namibia support a global biostratigraphic link
Smith, E. F., Nelson, L. L., Tweedt, S. M., Zeng, H., & Workman, J. B. (2017) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.0934 · Cited by 76
Sr isotope excursion across the Precambrian–Cambrian boundary in the Three Gorges area, South China
Sawaki, Y., Ohno, T., Fukushi, Y., Komiya, T., Ishikawa, T., Hirata, T., & Maruyama, S. (2007) · Gondwana Research · doi:10.1016/j.gr.2007.11.002 · Cited by 74
A novel approach to double-spike Pb–Pb dating of carbonate rocks: examples from Neoproterozoic sequences in southern Africa
Fölling, P. G., Zartman, R. E., & Frimmel, H. E. (2000) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/s0009-2541(00)00204-7 · Cited by 74
Chapter 8 Tectonic Events and Palaeogeographic Evolution of Southwestern Gondwana in the Neoproterozoic and Cambrian
Gaucher, C., Frimmel, H. E., & Germs, G. J. B. (2009) · Developments in precambrian geology · doi:10.1016/s0166-2635(09)01621-1 · Cited by 72
The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) of the Guzhangian Stage (Cambrian) in the Wuling Mountains, Northwestern Hunan, China
Peng, S., Babcock, L. E., Zuo, J., Huanling, L., Zhu, X., Yang, X., Robison, R. A., Qi, Y., Bagnoli, G., & Yongan, C. (2009) · Episodes · doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2009/v32i1/006 · Cited by 72
Tubular compression fossils from the Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia
Cohen, P. A., Bradley, A., Knoll, A. H., Grotzinger, J. P., Jensen, S., Abelson, J., Hand, K., Love, G., Metz, J., McLoughlin, N., et al. (2009) · Journal of Paleontology · doi:10.1666/09-040r.1 · Cited by 71
Self-citation
Ediacara fossil assemblage in the upper Vindhyans of Central India and its significance
De, C. (2005) · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2005.06.006 · Cited by 71
Stratigraphy of the upper Neoproterozoic Kango and lower Palaeozoic Table Mountain groups of the Cape fold belt revisited
Barnett, W. P., Armstrong, R. A., & de Wit, M. J. (1997) · South African Journal of Geology · Cited by 71
Fossils and matgrounds from the Neoproterozoic Longmyndian Supergroup, Shropshire, UK
MCILROY, D., CRIMES, T. P., & PAULEY, J. C. (2005) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756805000555 · Cited by 70
Ediacaran paleogeography of Laurentia: Paleomagnetism and 40Ar–39Ar geochronology of the 583 Ma Baie des Moutons syenite, Quebec
McCausland, P. J. A., Hankard, F., Rob Van Der Voo, A., & Hall, C. M. (2011) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2011.02.004 · Cited by 70
The Baykonurian glaciohorizon of the Late Vendian
Chumakov, N. M. (2009) · Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation · doi:10.1134/s0869593809040029 · Cited by 69
Changes in organic matter production and accumulation as a mechanism for isotopic evolution in the Mesoproterozoic ocean
Frank, T. D., Kah, L. C., & Lyons, T. W. (2003) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756803007830 · Cited by 68
Geochemical changes in the Early Cambrian interval of the Yangtze Platform, South China: Implications for hydrothermal influences and paleocean redox conditions
Li, Y., Fan, T., Zhang, J., Zhang, J., Wei, X., Hu, X., Zeng, W., & Fu, W. (2015) · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2015.05.003 · Cited by 69
Organic-walled microfossils and biostratigraphy of the upper Port Nolloth Group (Namibia): implications for latest Neoproterozoic glaciations
Gaucher, C., Frimmel, H. E., & Germs, G. J. B. (2005) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756805001123 · Cited by 69
The unique skeleton of siliceous sponges (Porifera; Hexactinellida and Demospongiae) that evolved first from the Urmetazoa during the Proterozoic: a review
Müller, W. E. G., Li, J., Schröder, H. C., Qiao, L., & Wang, X. (2007) · Biogeosciences · doi:10.5194/bg-4-219-2007 · Cited by 78
Treptichnus pedum and the Ediacaran–Cambrian boundary: significance and caveats
Buatois, L. A. (2017) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756817000656 · Cited by 66
The Ediacaran-Cambrian rise of siliceous sponges and development of modern oceanic ecosystems
Chang, S., Zhang, L., Clausen, S., Bottjer, D. J., & Feng, Q. (2019) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105438 · Cited by 69
40Ar/39Ar constraints on the age and thermal history of the Urucum Neoproterozoic banded iron-formation, Brazil
Piacentini, T., Vasconcelos, P. M., & Farley, K. A. (2013) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2013.01.002 · Cited by 66
4. Did Supercontinental Amalgamation Trigger the “Cambrian Explosion”?
Brasier, M. D., & Lindsay, J. F. (2000) · Columbia University Press eBooks · doi:10.7312/zhur10612-004 · Cited by 66
Submarine silica-rich hydrothermal activity during the earliest Cambrian in the Tarim Basin, Northwest China
Zhou, X., Chen, D., Qing, H., Qian, Y., & Wang, D. (2014) · International Geology Review · doi:10.1080/00206814.2014.968885 · Cited by 65
The dawn of animal skeletogenesis: Ultrastructural analysis of the Ediacaran metazoan Corumbella werneri
Warren, L. V., Pacheco, M. L. A. F., Fairchild, T. R., Simões, M. G., Riccomini, C., Boggiani, P. C., & Cáceres, A. A. (2012) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g33005.1 · Cited by 65
Cambrian–Ordovician boundary age and duration of the lowest Ordovician Tremadoc Series based on U–Pb zircon dates from Avalonian Wales
Landing, E., Bowring, S. A., Davidek, K. L., Rushton, A. W. A., Fortey, R. A., & Wimbledon, W. A. P. (2000) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756800004507 · Cited by 65
Self-citation
Ediacaran paleoenvironmental changes recorded in the mixed carbonate-siliciclastic Bambuí Basin, Brazil
Uhlein, G. J., Uhlein, A., Pereira, E., Caxito, F. D. A., Okubo, J., Warren, L. V., & Sial, A. N. (2019) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.12.022 · Cited by 65
Stratigraphy and environmental conditions of the terminal Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Period in Oman: evidence from sulphur isotopes
Schröder, S., Schreiber, B., Amthor, J. E., & Matter, A. (2004) · Journal of the Geological Society · doi:10.1144/0016-764902-062 · Cited by 63
Ediacaran biota in the aftermath of the Kotlinian Crisis: Asha Group of the South Urals
Kolesnikov, A. V., Marusin, V. V., Nagovitsin, K. E., Maslov, A. V., & Grazhdankin, D. V. (2015) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2015.03.011 · Cited by 64
Geochronological constraints on stratigraphic correlation and oceanic oxygenation in Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in South China
Yang, C., Zhu, M., Condon, D. J., & Li, X. (2017) · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2017.03.017 · Cited by 63
Isotope stratigraphy of the Neoproterozoic Togari Group, Tasmania
Calver, C. R. (1998) · Australian Journal of Earth Sciences · doi:10.1080/08120099808728441 · Cited by 64
Sediment disturbance by Ediacaran bulldozers and the roots of the Cambrian explosion
Buatois, L. A., Almond, J. E., Mángano, M. G., Jensen, S., & Germs, G. J. B. (2018) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-018-22859-9 · Cited by 65
Internal structures and U–Pb ages of zircons from a tuff layer in the Meishucunian formation, Yunnan Province, South China
Sawaki, Y., Nishizawa, M., Suo, T., Komiya, T., Hirata, T., Takahata, N., Sano, Y., Han, J., Kon, Y., & Maruyama, S. (2007) · Gondwana Research · doi:10.1016/j.gr.2007.12.003 · Cited by 62
Duration of the first biozone in the Siberian hypostratotype of the Vendian
Rogov, V. I., Karlova, G. A., Marusin, V. V., Kochnev, B. B., Nagovitsin, K. E., & Grazhdankin, D. V. (2015) · Russian Geology and Geophysics · doi:10.1016/j.rgg.2015.03.016 · Cited by 62
Chapter 10 Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Biogeochemical Evolution
Halverson, G. P., Hurtgen, M. T., Porter, S. M., & Collins, A. S. (2009) · Developments in precambrian geology · doi:10.1016/s0166-2635(09)01625-9 · Cited by 61
The stratigraphic expression of a large negative carbon isotope excursion from the Ediacaran Johnnie Formation, Death Valley
Bergmann, K., Zentmyer, R. A., & Fischer, W. W. (2011) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2011.03.014 · Cited by 59
The room for the Vendian in the International Chronostratigraphic Chart
Grazhdankin, D. V., & Maslov, A. V. (2015) · Russian Geology and Geophysics · doi:10.1016/j.rgg.2015.03.007 · Cited by 60
Neonereites uniserialis from c. 600 Ma year old rocks in western Scotland and the emergence of animals
Brasier, M. D., & McIlroy, D. (1998) · Journal of the Geological Society · doi:10.1144/gsjgs.155.1.0005 · Cited by 57
Stratigraphy of the Port Nolloth Group of Namibia and South Africa and implications for the age of Neoproterozoic iron formations
Macdonald, F. A., Strauss, J. V., Rose, C. V., Dudás, F. Ö., & Schrag, D. P. (2010) · American Journal of Science · doi:10.2475/09.2010.05 · Cited by 59
Inconsistencies in proposed annelid affinities of early biomineralized organism Cloudina (Ediacaran): structural and ontogenetic evidences
Vinn, O., & Zatoń, M. (2012) · Carnets de géologie (Notebooks on geology) · doi:10.4267/2042/46095 · Cited by 59
Ediacaran in Uruguay: palaeoclimatic and palaeobiological implications
Ernesto Pecoits, A., Gingras, M. K., Aubet, N. R., & Konhauser, K. O. (2007) · Sedimentology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-3091.2007.00918.x · Cited by 59
Possible organisms similar to Ediacaran forms from the Bhander Group, Vindhyan Supergroup, Late Neoproterozoic of India
De, C. (2003) · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/s1367-9120(02)00036-6 · Cited by 58
The Origin of Bodyplans
Erwin, D. H. (1999) · American Zoologist · doi:10.1093/icb/39.3.617 · Cited by 57
The Trace-Fossil Record of Organism–matground Interactions in Space and Time
Buatois, L. A., & Mángano, M. G. (2012) · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks · doi:10.2110/sepmsp.101.015 · Cited by 57
Age constraints from small shelly fossils on the early Cambrian terminal Cadomian Phase in Iberia
Vidal, G., Palacios, T., Moczydłowska, M., & Gubanov, A. P. (1999) · GFF · doi:10.1080/11035899901212137 · Cited by 59
A U‐Pb Age for the Cambrian Taylor Formation, Antarctica: Implications for the Cambrian Time Scale
Encarnación, J., Rowell, A. J., & Grunow, A. M. (1999) · The Journal of Geology · doi:10.1086/314361 · Cited by 56
Spatial and temporal variations in carbon and sulfur isotopic compositions of Sinian sedimentary rocks in the Yangtze platform, South China
Li, R., Chen, J., Zhang, S., Lei, J., Shen, Y., & Chen, X. (1999) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/s0301-9268(99)00022-4 · Cited by 56
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
Hall, M., Kaufman, A. J., Vickers-Rich, P., Ivantsov, A. Y., Trusler, P., Linnemann, U., Hofmann, M., Elliott, D. A., Cui, H., Fedonkin, M. A., et al. (2013) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2013.09.009 · Cited by 58
Self-citation
Depositional age and provenance of the Itajaí Basin, Santa Catarina State, Brazil: Implications for SW Gondwana correlation
Guadagnin, F., Chemale, F., Dussin, I., Jelinek, A. R., dos Santos, M. N., Borba, M. L., Justino, D., Bertotti, A. L., & Alessandretti, L. (2010) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2010.04.002 · Cited by 55
Neoproterozoic microfossils from the margin of the East European Platform and the search for a biostratigraphic model of lower Ediacaran rocks
Vorob’eva, N. G., Sergeev, V. N., & Knoll, A. H. (2009) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2009.04.001 · Cited by 55
Lithostratigraphic correlations in the western branch of the Pan-African Saldania belt, South Africa: the Malmesbury Group revisited.
Belcher, R. W. (2003) · South African Journal of Geology · doi:10.2113/106.4.327 · Cited by 55
Controls on Sr and C Isotope Compositions of Neoproterozoic Sr-Rich Limestones of East Greenland and North China
Fairchild, I. J., Spiro, B. F., Herrington, P. M., & Song, T. (2000) · SEPM (Society for Sedimentary Geology) eBooks · doi:10.2110/pec.00.67.0297 · Cited by 53
Evolutionary Trends in Remarkable Fossil Preservation Across the Ediacaran–Cambrian Transition and the Impact of Metazoan Mixing
Brasier, M. D., Antcliffe, J. B., & Callow, R. H. T. (2010) · Topics in Geobiology · doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8643-3_15 · Cited by 54
Early to late Ediacaran conglomeratic wedges from a complete foreland basin cycle in the southwest São Francisco Craton, Bambuí Group, Brazil
Uhlein, G. J., Uhlein, A., Stevenson, R. K., Halverson, G. P., Caxito, F. D. A., & Cox, G. M. (2017) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.07.020 · Cited by 54
Polar Wander and the Cambrian
Torsvik, T. H., Meert, J. G., & Smethurst, M. A. (1998) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.279.5347.9a · Cited by 54
Sequence Stratigraphy and Carbonate-Siliciclastic Mixing in a Terminal Proterozoic Foreland Basin, Urusis Formation, Nama Group, Namibia
Saylor, B. Z. (2003) · Journal of Sedimentary Research · doi:10.1306/082602730264 · Cited by 52
Self-citation
Evolution, Radiations, and Extinctions in Proterozoic to Mid-Paleozoic Reefs
Copper, P. (2001) · Topics in geobiology · doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-1219-6_3 · Cited by 52
DEEP-WATER INCISED VALLEY DEPOSITS AT THE EDIACARAN-CAMBRIAN BOUNDARY IN SOUTHERN NAMIBIA CONTAIN ABUNDANT TREPTICHNUS PEDUM
Wilson, J. P., Grotzinger, J. P., Fischer, W. W., Hand, K. P., Jensen, S., Knoll, A. H., Abelson, J. N., Metz, J. M., McLoughlin, N., COHEN, P. A., et al. (2012) · Palaios · doi:10.2110/palo.2011.p11-036r · Cited by 53
Self-citation
Cloudina-Corumbella-Namacalathus association from the Itapucumi Group, Paraguay: Increasing ecosystem complexity and tiering at the end of the Ediacaran
Warren, L. V., Quaglio, F., Simões, M. G., Gaucher, C., Riccomini, C., Poiré, D. G., Freitas, B. T., Boggiani, P. C., & Sial, A. N. (2017) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.05.003 · Cited by 53
Metamorphic response and crustal architecture in a classic collisional orogen: The Damara Belt, Namibia
Goscombe, B. D., Foster, D. A., Gray, D. R., & Wade, B. (2017) · Gondwana Research · doi:10.1016/j.gr.2017.07.006 · Cited by 56
Correlating the Ediacaran of Australia
Grey, K., & Calver, C. R. (2007) · Geological Society London Special Publications · doi:10.1144/sp286.8 · Cited by 53
Conservation of a DPP/BMP signaling pathway in the nonbilateral cnidarian Acropora millepora
Samuel, G. N., Miller, D. J., & Saint, R. B. (2001) · Evolution & Development · doi:10.1046/j.1525-142x.2001.003004241.x · Cited by 53
Constraints on the late Ediacaran sulfur cycle from carbonate associated sulfate
Tostevin, R., He, T., Turchyn, A. V., Wood, R. A., Penny, A. M., Bowyer, F., Antler, G., & Shields, G. A. (2017) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.01.004 · Cited by 52
Evolution of the Sr-87/Sr-86 composition of Neoproterozoic seawater
Halverson, G. P., Maloof, A. C., & Bowring, S. A. (2007) · HAL · Cited by 52
Self-citation
A biota of Ediacaran aspect from lower Cambrian strata on the Digermul Peninsula, Arctic Norway
Crimes, T. P., & McIlroy, D. (1999) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756899003179 · Cited by 52
Digital Reconstruction and Stratigraphic Evolution of a Microbial-Dominated, Isolated Carbonate Platform (Terminal Proterozoic, Nama Group, Namibia)
Adams, E. W., Schröder, S., Grotzinger, J. P., & McCormick, D. S. (2004) · Journal of Sedimentary Research · doi:10.1306/122903740479 · Cited by 52
Self-citation
Trace fossils from the Dividalen Group, northern Sweden: implications for Early Cambrian biostratigraphy of Baltica
Jensen, S., & Grant, S. W. F. (1998) · Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift · Cited by 52
Marine redox stratification on the earliest Cambrian (ca. 542–529 Ma) Yangtze Platform
Chang, H., Chu, X., Feng, L., Huang, J., & Chen, Y. (2018) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.05.007 · Cited by 50
Ediacaran fossils from the southwestern Great Basin, United States
HAGADORN, J. W., & WAGGONER, B. (2000) · Journal of Paleontology · doi:10.1017/s0022336000031553 · Cited by 51

Authors: Grotzinger, J. P., Bowring, S. A., Saylor, B. Z., & Kaufman, A. J.
Affiliations: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Harvard University (US)
ORCID: Grotzinger, John P.
Saylor, Beverly Z.
Kaufman, Alan J.
Venue: Science
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published: 1995-10-27
Volume: 270
Issue: 5236
Pages: 598-604
ISSN: 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.270.5236.598
OpenAlex: W1995137647
Cited by: 701
References: 46
Citations by year: 2026: 9 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 16 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 18 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 28 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 26
FWCI: 31.85
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Science (publishedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geological and Geochemical Analysis
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
Keywords: early animal evolution, Ediacaran fauna, Ediacaran, Precambrian-Cambrian boundary, small shelly fossils, zircon U-Pb geochronology, biostratigraphy, Namibia

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review

Biostratigraphic and Geochronologic Constraints on Early Animal Evolution

Abstract

Overview

Integrity signals

Verification

Claims the paper makes

Claims other papers make about this one

Citations

Cites

Cited by

Related

Metadata

Record

About these checks