In recent years, scientists have made remarkable progress reconstructing the animal
phylogeny. There is broad agreement regarding many deep animal relationships, including …

Computer-aided visualization and analysis of fossils has revolutionized the study of extinct
organisms. Novel techniques allow fossils to be characterized in three dimensions and in …

The~ 1.6 Ga Tirohan Dolomite of the Lower Vindhyan in central India contains phosphatized
stromatolitic microbialites. We report from there uniquely well-preserved fossils interpreted …

Ecdysozoans have been key components of ecosystems since the early Cambrian, when
trilobites and soft-bodied Burgess Shale-type ecdysozoans dominated marine animal …

The rise of multicellularity represents a major evolutionary transition and it occurred
independently in multiple eukaryote clades. Although simple multicellular organisms may …

The Doushantuo Formation at Weng'an in Guizhou Province, South China, is best known for
animal embryo-like microfossils preserved in phosphorites. However, this unit also contains …

Abstract Phosphorites of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (∼ 600 million years old)
yield spheroidal microfossils with a palintomic cell cleavage pattern,. These fossils have …

As purely sedimentary structures, fossil footprints are all about shape. Correctly interpreting
the significance of their surface topography requires understanding the sources of …

The Weng'an Biota is a fossil Konservat-Lagerstätte in South China that is c. 570–609 myr
old and provides an unparalleled snapshot of marine life during the interval in which …

Eggs, embryos, and hatchlings of olivooids are common and distinctive components of the
earliest Cambrian small shelly fossil assemblage (Anabarites trisulcatus–Protohertzina …