Biostratigraphic and Geochronologic Constraints on Early Animal Evolution

Approximation of terrestrial lead isotope evolution by a two-stage model

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Did the Breakout of Laurentia Turn Gondwanaland Inside-Out?

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Improved accuracy of U-Pb zircon ages by the creation of more concordant systems using an air abrasion technique

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Neoproterozoic variations in the C-isotopic composition of seawater: stratigraphic and biogeochemical implications

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Zircon U-Pb ages for the Early Cambrian time-scale

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Calibrating Rates of Early Cambrian Evolution

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Vendobionta and Psammocorallia: lost constructions of Precambrian evolution

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The Proterozoic Biosphere

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Isotopic compositions of carbonates and organic carbon from upper Proterozoic successions in Namibia: stratigraphic variation and the effects of diagenesis and metamorphism.

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Vendozoa: Organismic construction in the Proterozoic biosphere

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Biogenesis of the Neoproterozoic kremydilite manganese ores from Urucum (Brazil) – A new manganese ore type

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A distinct unconformity in the Cango Caves Group of the Neoproterozoic to early Paleozoic Saldania Belt in South Africa: its regional significance

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Demographic history and asynchronous spawning shape genetic differentiation among populations of the hard coral Acropora tenuis in Western Australia

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Ecological controls on stromatolite development in a modern reef environment: A test of the ecological refuge paradigm

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Sedimentary evolution and tectonic setting of the Itapucumi Group, Ediacaran, northern Paraguay: From Rodinia break-up to West Gondwana amalgamation

Warren, L. V., Freitas, B. T., Riccomini, C., Boggiani, P. C., Quaglio, F., Simões, M. G., Fairchild, T. R., Giorgioni, M., Gaucher, C., Poiré, D. G., et al. (2018) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2018.12.022 · Cited by 26

Carbonate carbon isotope chemostratigraphy and U-Pb zircon geochronology of the Liuchapo Formation in South China: Constraints on the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary in deep-water sequences

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Transient shallow-ocean oxidation associated with the late Ediacaran Nama skeletal fauna: Evidence from iodine contents of the Lower Nama Group, southern Namibia

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The oldest record of Ediacaran macrofossils in Gondwana (~563 Ma, Itajaí Basin, Brazil)

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Facies and paleoenvironmental setting of Thrombolite-Stromatolite Reefs, Terminal Proterozoic Nama Group (ca. 550-543 Ma), central and southern Namibia

Grotzinger, J. P. (2000) · Cited by 26

High-resolution paired carbon isotopic records from the Meishucun section in South China: Implications for carbon cycling and environmental changes during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition

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An evaporitic facies in Neoproterozoic post-glacial carbonates: The Gifberg Group, South Africa

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Stratigraphic and chemical correlation of volcanic ash beds in the terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, Namibia

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The Triassic Explosion(?): a statistical model for extrapolating biodiversity based on the terrestrial Molteno Formation

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Genomic, phylogenetic, and cell biological insights into metazoan origins

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Diverse Assemblage of Ediacaran fossils from Central Iran

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Detrital zircon age and biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic constraints on the Ediacaran–Cambrian transitional interval in the Irkutsk Cis–Sayans Uplift, southwestern Siberian Platform

Marusin, V. V., Колесникова, А. А., Kochnev, B. B., Kuznetsov, N. B., Pokrovsky, B. G., Romanyuk, T. V., Karlova, G. A., Rud’ko, S. V., Shatsillo, A. V., Dubenskiy, А. S., et al. (2020) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756820001132 · Cited by 23

Palaeobiology of Indian Proterozoic and Early Cambrian Successions— Recent Developments

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Multiple S-isotopic constraints on paleo-redox and sulfate concentrations across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in South China

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Using Chemostratigraphy to Correlate and Calibrate Unconformities in Neoproterozoic Strata from the Southern Great Basin of the United States

Corsetti, F. A., Awramik, S. M., Pierce, D. E., & Kaufman, A. J. (2000) · International Geology Review · doi:10.1080/00206810009465096 · Cited by 24

Taxonomic revision of Ediacaran tubular fossils: Cloudina, Sinotubulites and Conotubus

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A Laurentian provenance for the Dalradian rocks of north Mayo, Ireland, and evidence for an original basement–cover contact with the underlying Annagh Gneiss Complex

McAteer, C. A., Daly, J. S., Flowerdew, M. J., Whitehouse, M. J., & Kirkland, C. L. (2010) · Journal of the Geological Society · doi:10.1144/0016-76492009-147 · Cited by 23

Carbon isotopic chemostratigraphy of the Ediacaran-Cambrian successions in the northwestern Tarim Craton, NW China: Correlations with Gondwana supercontinent

Zhang, Z., Zhu, G., Wu, G., Li, T., Feng, X., & Jing, Y. (2021) · Global and Planetary Change · doi:10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103702 · Cited by 22

Stratigraphic setting of the metalliferous Rosh Pinah Formation and the Spitzkop and Koivib Suites in the Pan-African Gariep Belt, southwestern Namibia

Alchin, D. J. (2005) · South African Journal of Geology · doi:10.2113/108.1.19 · Cited by 23

The Yudomian of Siberia, Vendian and Ediacaran systems of the International stratigraphic scale

Khomentovsky, V. V. (2008) · Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation · doi:10.1134/s0869593808060014 · Cited by 22

Chapter 9.1 Neoproterozoic Acritarch Evolution

Gaucher, C., & Sprechmann, P. (2009) · Developments in precambrian geology · doi:10.1016/s0166-2635(09)01622-3 · Cited by 22

Regional variations in the carbon isotopic composition of phosphorite from the Early Cambrian Lower Tal Formation, Mussoorie Hills, India

Mazumdar, A., & Banerjee, D. M. (2001) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/s0009-2541(00)00360-0 · Cited by 22

Cloudina aggregates from the uppermost Dengying Formation, Three Gorges area, South China, and stratigraphical implications

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Ediacaran carbon cycling and Shuram excursion recorded in the Tarim Block, northwestern China

Wang, Y., Chen, D., Liu, M., Liu, K., & Tang, P. (2022) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2022.106694 · Cited by 22

The nature of the Proterozoic-Cambrian transition in the northern Amadeus Basin, central Australia

McIlroy, D., Jenkins, R., & Walter, M. R. (1997) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/s0301-9268(97)00044-2 · Cited by 22

Provenance of the Late Ediacaran Rocha Formation, Cuchilla Dionisio Terrane, Uruguay: Tectonic implications on the assembly of Gondwana

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Basic Nervous System Types: One or Many?

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Evolution patterns of seawater carbon isotope composition during the Cambrian and their stratigraphic significance

Wu, Y., Wang, W., Jiang, H., Cui, Y., Zhao, R., Zhi-bin, H., Zhi-lin, Y., & Chen, Y. (2020) · Geological Journal · doi:10.1002/gj.3957 · Cited by 20

Substrate growth dynamics and biomineralization of an Ediacaran encrusting poriferan

Wood, R., & Penny, A. (2018) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.1938 · Cited by 21

Ediacaran ramp depositional model of the Tamengo Formation, Brazil

de Oliveira, R. S., Nogueira, A. C. R., Romero, G. R., Truckenbrodt, W., & Bandeira, J. C. D. S. (2019) · Journal of South American Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2019.102348 · Cited by 22

Using SIMS to decode noisy stratigraphic δ13C variations in Ediacaran carbonates

Xiao, S., Cui, H., Kang, J., McFadden, K. A., Kaufman, A. J., Kitajima, K., Fournelle, J., Schwid, M. F., Nolan, M. R., Baele, J., et al. (2020) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105686 · Cited by 21

An integrated stratinomic model for the genesis and concentration of “small shelly fossil”-style phosphatic microsteinkerns in not-so-exceptional conditions

Freeman, R., Dattilo, B. F., & Brett, C. (2019) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109344 · Cited by 23

Chapter 5.4 Syn- to Late-Orogenic Sedimentary Basins of Southwestern Africa

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Three-step modernization of the ocean: Modeling of carbon cycles and the revolution of ecological systems in the Ediacaran/Cambrian periods

Tahata, M., Sawaki, Y., Ueno, Y., Nishizawa, M., Yoshida, N., Ebisuzaki, T., Komiya, T., & Maruyama, S. (2014) · Geoscience Frontiers · doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2014.05.005 · Cited by 20

Chemostratigraphic constraints on early Ediacaran carbonate ramp dynamics, Río de la Plata craton, Uruguay

Aubet, N. R., Ernesto Pecoits, A., Bekker, A., Gingras, M. K., Zwingmann, H., Veroslavsky, G., Ana, H. D. S., & Konhauser, K. O. (2012) · Gondwana Research · doi:10.1016/j.gr.2012.03.011 · Cited by 20

The life and times of Pteridinium simplex

Darroch, S. A. F., Gibson, B. M., Syversen, M., Rahman, I. A., Racicot, R. A., Dunn, F. S., Gutarra, S., Schindler, E., Wehrmann, A., & Laflamme, M. (2022) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1017/pab.2022.2 · Cited by 20

Environmental control on granular clinoforms of ancient carbonate shelves

Quiquerez, A., & Dromart, G. (2006) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756806001749 · Cited by 19

Chemostratigraphy of the Vendian–Cambrian carbonate sedimentary cover of the Tuva-Mongolian microcontinent

Вишневская, И. А., & Letnikova, E. F. (2013) · Russian Geology and Geophysics · doi:10.1016/j.rgg.2013.04.008 · Cited by 19

Chemical Composition and Tectonic Setting of Chromian Spinels from the Ediacaran–Early Paleozoic Nama Group, Namibia

Blanco, G., Rajesh, H. M., Germs, G. J. B., & Zimmermann, U. (2009) · The Journal of Geology · doi:10.1086/597366 · Cited by 19

A Multicellular Alga with Exceptional Preservation from the Ediacaran of Nevada

Rowland, S., & Rodriguez, M. G. (2014) · Journal of Paleontology · doi:10.1666/13-075 · Cited by 21

Sedimentology and Palaeoecology of Ernietta-Bearing Ediacaran Deposits in Southern Namibia: Implications for Infaunal Vendobiont Communities

Bouougri, E. H., Porada, H., Weber, K., & Reitner, J. (2010) · Lecture notes in earth sciences · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10415-2_29 · Cited by 19

Isotope and Elemental Chemostratigraphy

Sial, A. N., Gaucher, C., Ferreira, V. P., Pereira, N. S., Cezario, W. S., Chiglino, L., & Lima, H. M. (2015) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-419968-2.00002-9 · Cited by 19

Scratching the discs: evaluating alternative hypotheses for the origin of the Ediacaran discoidal structures from the Cerro Negro Formation, La Providencia Group, Argentina

Inglez, L., Warren, L. V., Quaglio, F., Netto, R. G., Okubo, J., Arrouy, M. J., Simões, M. G., & Poiré, D. G. (2021) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756821000327 · Cited by 21

Marine carbon and sulfur cycling across the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary in Tarim Block and its implications for paleoenvironmental changes

Zhang, T., Li, Y., Fan, T., Lash, G. G., Gao, Z., & Fan, Q. (2020) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.110011 · Cited by 18

Enduring evolutionary embellishment of cloudinids in the Cambrian

Park, T., Jung, J., Lee, M., Lee, S.-M., Zhen, Y., Hua, H., Warren, L., & Hughes, N. (2021) · Royal Society Open Science · doi:10.1098/rsos.210829 · Cited by 16

Acritarchs of the Ediacaran Frecheirinha Formation, Ubajara Group, Northeastern Brazil

Chiglino, L., Gaucher, C., Sial, A. N., & Ferreira, V. P. (2015) · Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências · doi:10.1590/0001-3765201520140430 · Cited by 18

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

Ries, J. B., Fike, D. A., Pratt, L. M., Lyons, T. W., & Grotzinger, J. P. (2012) · Cited by 17

Sedimentological and geochemical evolution of an Ediacaran mixed carbonate-siliciclastic continental slope system, Windermere Supergroup, southern Canadian Cordillera, British Columbia, Canada

Cochrane, D. J. W., Navarro, L., & Arnott, R. W. C. (2019) · Precambrian Research · doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2019.02.021 · Cited by 16

On the ichnofossil Treptichnus pedum: inferences from the Nagaur Sandstone, Marwar Supergroup, India

Шарма, М., Ahmad, S., Pandey, S. K., & Kumar, K. (2018) · Bulletin of Geosciences · doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1666 · Cited by 18

Paleoenvironmental analysis of Ernietta-bearing Ediacaran deposits in southern Namibia

Maloney, K. M., Boag, T. H., Facciol, A. J., Gibson, B. M., Cribb, A. T., Koester, B. E., Kenchington, C. G., Racicot, R. A., Darroch, S. A. F., & Laflamme, M. (2020) · Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109884 · Cited by 17

Problematic Worms and Priapulid-like Fossils from the Nagaur Group, the Marwar Supergroup, Western Rajasthan, India

Srivastava, P. (2012) · Ichnos/Ichnos : an international journal for plant and animal traces · doi:10.1080/10420940.2012.702606 · Cited by 17

Some observations on Cloudina, a terminal Proterozoic index fossil from Namibia

Brain, C. K. (2001) · Journal of African Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/s0899-5362(01)00083-5 · Cited by 17

Ichnostratigraphy

Mángano, M. G., Buatois, L. A., & MacNaughton, R. B. (2012) · Developments in sedimentology · doi:10.1016/b978-0-444-53813-0.00007-1 · Cited by 17

U-Pb zircon dates from North American and British Avalonia bracket the Lower–Middle Cambrian boundary interval, with evaluation of the Miaolingian Series as a global unit

Landing, E., Schmitz, M. D., Westrop, S. R., & Geyer, G. (2023) · Geological Magazine · doi:10.1017/s0016756823000729 · Cited by 19

Ediacaran in Uruguay: Facts and controversies

Aubet, N. R., Ernesto Pecoits, A., Heaman, L. M., Veroslavsky, G., Gingras, M. K., & Konhauser, K. O. (2014) · Journal of South American Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jsames.2014.06.007 · Cited by 16

Horizontal surface traces from the Fermeuse Formation, Ferryland (Newfoundland, Canada), and their place within the late Ediacaran ichnological revolution

Liu, A., & McIlroy, D. (2015) · Bristol Research (University of Bristol) · Cited by 16

Neoproterozoic diamictite-cap carbonate succession and δ13C chemostratigraphy from eastern Sonora, Mexico

Corsetti, F. A., Stewart, J. H., & Hagadorn, J. W. (2006) · Chemical Geology · doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2006.06.020 · Cited by 16

Significance of Early Shells

Morris, S. C. (2001) · Palaeobiology II · doi:10.1002/9780470999295.ch6 · Cited by 16

The paleo-oceanic environment and organic matter enrichment mechanism of the early Cambrian in the southern Lower Yangtze platform, China

Zhou, D., Dong, H., Huang, X., Liang, Y., Deng, Z., Huang, L., & Jiang, S. Y. (2024) · Marine and Petroleum Geology · doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.107119 · Cited by 15

Episodic intra-continental reactivation during collapse of a collisional orogen: The Damara Belt, Namibia

Goscombe, B. D., Foster, D. A., Kelsey, D., Wade, B., Gray, D. R., Mulrooney, L., Jiang, P., Haseler, M., & Marsellos, A. E. (2022) · Gondwana Research · doi:10.1016/j.gr.2022.05.003 · Cited by 17

Application of the δ44/40Ca-δ88/86Sr multi-proxy to Namibian Marinoan cap carbonates

Wang, J., Jacobson, A. D., Sageman, B. B., & Hurtgen, M. T. (2023) · Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · doi:10.1016/j.gca.2023.04.023 · Cited by 15

U-Pb geochronology reveals that hydrothermal dolomitization was coeval to the deposition of the Burgess Shale lagerstätte

McCormick, C. A., Corlett, H., Roberts, N. M. W., Johnston, P. A., Collom, C. J., Stacey, J., Koeshidayatullah, A., & Hollis, C. (2024) · Communications Earth & Environment · doi:10.1038/s43247-024-01429-0 · Cited by 15

Potential index fossils for the Terminal Stage of the Ediacaran System

Chai, S., Wu, Y., & Hua, H. (2021) · Journal of Asian Earth Sciences · doi:10.1016/j.jseaes.2021.104885 · Cited by 15

Improvement of molecular phylogenetic inference and the phylogeny of Bilateria

Lartillot, N., & Philippe, H. (2009) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199549429.003.0012 · Cited by 15

Evolution is driven by natural autoencoding: reframing species, interaction codes, cooperation and sexual reproduction

Cohen, I. R., & Marron, A. (2023) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.2409 · Cited by 17

Multiple branching and attachment structures in cloudinomorphs, Nama Group, Namibia

Shore, A., Wood, R. A., Curtis, A., & Bowyer, F. T. (2020) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g47447.1 · Cited by 15

The C, O, and Sr Isotope Chemostratigraphy of the Vendian (Ediacaran)–Cambrian Transition, Olekma River, Western Slope of the Aldan Shield

Pokrovsky, B. G., Bujakaite, M. I., Петров, О. Л., & Колесникова, А. А. (2020) · Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation · doi:10.1134/s086959382005007x · Cited by 14

A clumped isotope diagenetic framework for the Ediacaran dolomites: Insights to fabric‐specific geochemical variabilities

Lu, C., Koeshidayatullah, A., Li, F., Cui, H., Zou, H., & Swart, P. K. (2023) · Sedimentology · doi:10.1111/sed.13144 · Cited by 14

Vendian of the Fore-Yenisei sedimentary basin (southeastern West Siberia)

Grazhdankin, D. V., Kontorovich, A. E., Kontorovich, V. A., Saraev, S. V., Filippov, Y. F., Ефимов, А. С., Karlova, G. A., Kochnev, B. B., Nagovitsin, K. E., Терлеев, А. А., et al. (2015) · Russian Geology and Geophysics · doi:10.1016/j.rgg.2015.03.008 · Cited by 14

Three-dimensional reconstructions of the putative metazoan Namapoikia show that it was a microbial construction

Mehra, A., Watters, W., Grotzinger, J., & Maloof, A. (2020) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · doi:10.1073/pnas.2009129117 · Cited by 13

Chapter 9.3 Trace Fossils and the Agronomic Revolution at the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Transition in Southwest Gondwana

Aceñolaza, G. F., Germs, G. J. B., & Aceñolaza, F. G. (2009) · Developments in precambrian geology · doi:10.1016/s0166-2635(09)01624-7 · Cited by 14

Neoproterozoic carbon isotope stratigraphy of the Amadeus Basin, central Australia

Verdel, C., & Campbell, M. J. (2017) · Geological Society of America Bulletin · doi:10.1130/b31562.1 · Cited by 14

Biolaminated Siliciclastic Deposits

Bouougri, E. H., & Porada, H. (2010) · Lecture notes in earth sciences · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10415-2_30 · Cited by 14

The Nama Group revisited

Meert, J. G., Eide, E. A., & Torsvik, T. H. (1997) · Geophysical Journal International · doi:10.1111/j.1365-246x.1997.tb04499.x · Cited by 14

Sedimentary and tectonic breccias at the base of the Ediacaran Tamengo Formation (Corumbá Group): a comparative study

Fernandes, H. A., Boggiani, P. C., Afonso, J. W. L., Amorim, K. B., & Trindade, R. I. F. (2022) · Brazilian Journal of Geology · doi:10.1590/2317-4889202220210062 · Cited by 13

Foundational uncertainties in terminal Ediacaran chronostratigraphy revealed by high-precision zircon U-Pb geochronology of the Nama Group, Namibia

Bowyer, F. T., Messori, F., Wood, R. A., Linnemann, U., Pérez, E. R., Hofmann, M., Zieger, J., Ndeunyema, J., Shipanga, M., Mataboge, B., et al. (2025) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105169 · Cited by 13

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