New sponge spicules from the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition in deep-water facies of South China

C Chen, Q Feng, TJ Algeo, L Zhang, S Chang… - Palaeogeography …, 2023 - Elsevier
Sponges have great significance for understanding the origin and evolution of metazoans.
Biomarker fossil and molecular clock studies suggest a Precambrian origin of sponges, but …

Surface microornamentation of demosponge sterraster spicules, phylogenetic and paleontological implications

P Cárdenas - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Siliceous spicules in demosponges exist in a variety of shapes, some of which look like
minute spheres of glass. They are called “sterrasters” when they belong to the Geodiidae …

Copper-Bearing Mineralisation in the Upper Devonian Limestones: A Case Study from the Historical Teresa Adit in the Świętokrzyskie Mountains, Poland

A Ciurej, M Struska, A Wolska, M Szczerba, J Olszak - Minerals, 2022 - mdpi.com
The studied copper ore deposit is located in Miedzianka Mountain (Świętokrzyskie
Mountains, central Poland). This deposit was exploited from the 13th century to the 1950s; …

Stable-isotope chemostratigraphy of Urgonian-type platform carbonates: Time to be cautious?

AJB Tendil, C Frau, P Léonide, F Fournier… - Stratigraphy & …, 2019 - Elsevier
In recent years, δ 13 C and δ 18 O chemostratigraphy has become a powerful tool used to
solve controversial results using different biological time markers from shallow-marine …

Planktonic biota constituents responses to global sea-level changes recorded in the uppermost Albian to middle Cenomanian deep-water facies of the Outer …

Z Górny, M Bąk, K Bąk, P Strzeboński - Minerals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Interpretations of sea-level changes over geological time are mainly based on analyses of
sediments deposited within stable platforms. One of the criteria for recognizing these …

Timing of mass redeposition of sponge spicules from the peri-Tethyan shelf into the deep Carpathian Basin and their relation to mid-Cretaceous global sea level …

M Bąk, K Bąk, Z Górny - Bulletin, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Extensive Albian–Cenomanian sponge growth on the European peri-Tethyan
shelves depended on sea level fluctuations that caused significant shoreline shifts and …

Silification of the mesozoic rocks accompanying the bełchatów lignite deposit, central Poland

A Pękala - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Fieldwork and exploratory study of Poland's Bełchatów lignite deposit reveals that the
Jurassic and Cretaceous sediments with overlying Neogene clays include rocks of greater …