The Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635–551Ma) in South China contains
exceptionally well-preserved fossils of multicellular eukaryotes including early animals, and …

The Neoproterozoic contains severe glacial intervals (750–580 Ma) including two extending
to low palaeomagnetic latitudes. Paucity of radiometric dates indicates the need for …

Geological evidence indicates that grounded ice sheets reached sea level at all latitudes
during two long-lived Cryogenian (58 and≥ 5 My) glaciations. Combined uranium-lead and …

The ocean‐atmosphere system is typically envisioned to have gone through a unidirectional
oxygenation with significant oxygen increases in the earliest (ca. 635 Ma), middle (ca. 580 …

Metazoans are likely to have their roots in the Cryogenian period,,, but there is a marked
increase in the appearance of novel animal and algae fossils shortly after the termination of …

Recent geochemical data from Oman, Newfoundland, and the western United States
suggest that long-term oxidation of Ediacaran oceans resulted in progressive depletion of a …

The deep-water Avalon biota (about 579 to 565 million years old) is often regarded as the
earliest-known fossil assemblage with macroscopic and morphologically complex life forms …

The Ediacaran Period was a critical time in the history of life and Earth. Understanding the
complex interactions between geological and biological events during this interval requires …

New isotope data obtained from relatively conformable, carbonate-rich strata of the
Ediacaran Yangtze platform in South China reveal substantial δ13C variability. In platform …

The distributions of 77 Neoproterozoic glacigenic formations are shown on global
palaeogeographic maps for 715 Ma (Sturtian), 635 Ma (Marinoan) and 580 Ma (Ediacaran) …