Biomineralization and Evolutionary History

The Mesozoic marine revolution: evidence from snails, predators and grazers

Vermeij, G. J. (1977) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1017/s0094837300005352 · Cited by 1,043 · see citing works

Secular oscillations in the carbonate mineralogy of reef-building and sediment-producing organisms driven by tectonically forced shifts in seawater chemistry

Stanley, S. M., & Hardie, L. A. (1998) · Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology · doi:10.1016/s0031-0182(98)00109-6 · Cited by 830 · see citing works

An oscillating trend in Phanerozoic non-skeletal carbonate mineralogy

Sandberg, P. A. (1983) · Nature · doi:10.1038/305019a0 · Cited by 818 · see citing works

Divergence time estimates for the early history of animal phyla and the origin of plants, animals and fungi

Wang, D. Y.-C., Kumar, S., & Hedges, S. B. (1999) · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.1999.0617 · Cited by 493 · see citing works

Life on a young planet: the first three billion years of evolution on Earth

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A critical reappraisal of the fossil record of the bilaterian phyla

BUDD, G. E., & JENSEN, S. (2000) · Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · doi:10.1017/s000632310000548x · Cited by 428 · see citing works

Secular change in chert distribution: a reflection of evolving biological participation in the silica cycle

Maliva, R. G., Knoll, A. H., & Siever, R. (1989) · PALAIOS · doi:10.2307/3514743 · Cited by 321 · see citing works

Predatorial Borings in Late Precambrian Mineralized Exoskeletons

Bengtson, S., & Zhao, Y. (1992) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.257.5068.367 · Cited by 285 · see citing works

New shelly fossils from Nama Group, South West Africa

Germs, G. J. B. (1972) · American Journal of Science · doi:10.2475/ajs.272.8.752 · Cited by 277 · see citing works

Biogeochemical Evidence for Dinoflagellate Ancestors in the Early Cambrian

Moldowan, J. M., & Talyzina, N. M. (1998) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.281.5380.1168 · Cited by 237 · see citing works

Proterozoic Modular Biomineralized Metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia

Wood, R. A., Grotzinger, J. P., & Dickson, J. A. D. (2002) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1071599 · Cited by 184 · see citing works

Palaeobiology and evolution of the earliest agglutinated Foraminifera: <i>Platysolenites, Spirosolenites</i> and related forms

McIlroy, D., Green, O. R., & Brasier, M. D. (2001) · Lethaia · doi:10.1080/002411601300068170 · Cited by 102 · see citing works

Impacts of ocean acidification on marine fauna and ecosystem processes

Fabry, V. J., Seibel, B. A., Feely, R. A., & Orr, J. C. (2008) · ICES Journal of Marine Science · doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsn048 · Cited by 2,041 · see citing works

An Overview of Biomineralization Processes and the Problem of the Vital Effect

Weiner, S. (2003) · Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry · doi:10.2113/0540001 · Cited by 1,022 · see citing works

Eukaryotic organisms in Proterozoic oceans

Knoll, A. H., Javaux, E. J., Hewitt, D., & Cohen, P. (2006) · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1843 · Cited by 701 · see citing works

Mineral evolution

Hazen, R. M., Papineau, D., Bleeker, W., Downs, R. T., Ferry, J. M., McCoy, T. J., Sverjensky, D. A., & Yang, H. (2008) · American Mineralogist · doi:10.2138/am.2008.2955 · Cited by 701 · see citing works

Constraining the climate and ocean pH of the early Earth with a geological carbon cycle model

Krissansen-Totton, J., Arney, G. N., & Catling, D. C. (2018) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1721296115 · Cited by 348 · see citing works

The Geological Succession of Primary Producers in the Oceans

KNOLL, A. H., SUMMONS, R. E., WALDBAUER, J. R., & ZUMBERGE, J. E. (2007) · Evolution of Primary Producers in the Sea · doi:10.1016/b978-012370518-1/50009-6 · Cited by 249 · see citing works

Seawater Chemistry and Early Carbonate Biomineralization

Porter, S. M. (2007) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1137284 · Cited by 224 · see citing works

Ancient biomolecules: Their origins, fossilization, and role in revealing the history of life

Briggs, D. E. G., & Summons, R. E. (2014) · BioEssays · doi:10.1002/bies.201400010 · Cited by 223 · see citing works

Low-oxygen waters limited habitable space for early animals

Tostevin, R., Wood, R. A., Shields, G. A., Poulton, S. W., Guilbaud, R., Bowyer, F., Penny, A. M., He, T., Curtis, A., Hoffmann, K. H., et al. (2016) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms12818 · Cited by 213 · see citing works

The ‘biomineralization toolkit’ and the origin of animal skeletons

Murdock, D. J. E. (2020) · Biological Reviews · doi:10.1111/brv.12614 · Cited by 177 · see citing works

The Proterozoic Record of Eukaryotes

Cohen, P. A., & Macdonald, F. A. (2015) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1017/pab.2015.25 · Cited by 173 · see citing works

Ediacaran metazoan reefs from the Nama Group, Namibia

Penny, A. M., Wood, R., Curtis, A., Bowyer, F., Tostevin, R., & Hoffman, K.-H. (2014) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1253393 · Cited by 153 · see citing works

Cloning and Characterization of Four Novel Coral Acid-Rich Proteins that Precipitate Carbonates In Vitro

Mass, T., Drake, J. L., Haramaty, L., Kim, J. D., Zelzion, E., Bhattacharya, D., & Falkowski, P. G. (2013) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.05.007 · Cited by 143 · see citing works

CARBONATES IN SKELETON-POOR SEAS: NEW INSIGHTS FROM CAMBRIAN AND ORDOVICIAN STRATA OF LAURENTIA

PRUSS, S. B., FINNEGAN, S., FISCHER, W. W., & KNOLL, A. H. (2010) · PALAIOS · doi:10.2110/palo.2009.p09-101r · Cited by 139 · see citing works

The Latest Ediacaran Wormworld Fauna: Setting the Ecological Stage for the Cambrian Explosion

Schiffbauer, J. D., Huntley, J. W., O’Neil, G. R., Darroch, S. A. F., Laflamme, M., & Cai, Y. (2016) · GSA Today · doi:10.1130/gsatg265a.1 · Cited by 137 · see citing works

Paleoecology of the earliest skeletal metazoan communities: Implications for early biomineralization

Wood, R. A. (2011) · Earth-Science Reviews · doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.01.011 · Cited by 130 · see citing works

Evaluating the relationship between the carbon and sulfur cycles in the later Cambrian ocean: An example from the Port au Port Group, western Newfoundland, Canada

Hurtgen, M. T., Pruss, S. B., & Knoll, A. H. (2009) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2009.02.033 · Cited by 119 · see citing works

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

Zhuravlev, A. Y., Liñán, E., Vintaned, J. A. G., Debrenne, F., & Fedorov, A. B. (2012) · Acta Palaeontologica Polonica · doi:10.4202/app.2010.0074 · Cited by 113 · see citing works

Evolutionary Origins of Animal Skeletal Biomineralization

Murdock, D. J. E., & Donoghue, P. C. J. (2011) · Cells Tissues Organs · doi:10.1159/000324245 · Cited by 107 · see citing works

The rise of predators

Porter, S. (2011) · Geology · doi:10.1130/focus062011.1 · Cited by 98 · see citing works

Demise of Ediacaran dolomitic seas marks widespread biomineralization on the Siberian Platform

Wood, R. A., Zhuravlev, A. Y., Sukhov, S. S., Zhu, M., & Zhao, F. (2017) · Geology · doi:10.1130/g38367.1 · Cited by 94 · see citing works

Molecular Aspects of Biomineralization of the Echinoderm Endoskeleton

Gilbert, P. U. P. A., & Wilt, F. H. (2011) · Progress in Molecular and Subcellular Biology · doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21230-7_7 · Cited by 82 · see citing works

Calcareous sponge genomes reveal complex evolution of α-carbonic anhydrases and two key biomineralization enzymes

Voigt, O., Adamski, M., Sluzek, K., & Adamska, M. (2014) · BMC Evolutionary Biology · doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0230-z · Cited by 63 · see citing works

Ecological Expansion and Extinction in the Late Ediacaran: Weighing the Evidence for Environmental and Biotic Drivers

Tarhan, L. G., Droser, M. L., Cole, D. B., & Gehling, J. G. (2018) · Integrative and Comparative Biology · doi:10.1093/icb/icy020 · Cited by 65 · see citing works

First macrobiota biomineralization was environmentally triggered

Wood, R., Ivantsov, A. Y., & Zhuravlev, A. Y. (2017) · Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.0059 · Cited by 65 · see citing works

Biomineral armor in leaf-cutter ants

Li, H., Sun, C.-Y., Fang, Y., Carlson, C. M., Xu, H., Ješovnik, A., Sosa-Calvo, J., Zarnowski, R., Bechtel, H. A., Fournelle, J. H., et al. (2020) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19566-3 · Cited by 58 · see citing works

Carbon isotopes, sulfur isotopes, and trace elements of the dolomites from the Dengying Formation in Zhenba area, southern Shaanxi: Implications for shallow water redox conditions during the terminal Ediacaran

Chen, Y., Chu, X., Zhang, X., & Zhai, M. (2015) · Science China Earth Sciences · doi:10.1007/s11430-015-5071-0 · Cited by 35 · see citing works

Organic Controls over Biomineral Ca-Mg Carbonate Compositions and Morphologies

Fang, Y., Lee, S., Xu, H., & Farfan, G. A. (2023) · Crystal Growth &amp; Design · doi:10.1021/acs.cgd.3c00102 · Cited by 32 · see citing works

Constraining the onset and environmental setting of metazoan biomineralization: The Ediacaran Nama Group of the Tsaus Mountains, Namibia

Bowyer, F. T., Uahengo, C.-I., Kaputuaza, K., Ndeunyema, J., Yilales, M., Alexander, R. D., Curtis, A., & Wood, R. A. (2023) · Earth and Planetary Science Letters · doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2023.118336 · Cited by 23 · see citing works

Transgression–regression cycles drive correlations in Ediacaran–Cambrian rock and fossil records

Segessenman, D. C., & Peters, S. E. (2024) · Paleobiology · doi:10.1017/pab.2023.31 · Cited by 13 · see citing works

Adaptive responses in Cambrian predator and prey highlight the arms race during the rise of animals

Bicknell, R. D. C., Campione, N. E., Brock, G. A., & Paterson, J. R. (2025) · Current Biology · doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.12.007 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

Molecular paleobiology — Progress and perspectives

Wörheide, G., Dohrmann, M., & Yang, Q. (2016) · Palaeoworld · doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2015.01.005 · Cited by 10 · see citing works