The correlation between Neoproterozoic tectonics, paleoenvironment and early life are
crucial for understanding the evolution of the Earth's habitability. The Yangtze Block …

Glacial depositions are widely discovered in the late Ediacaran strata all over the world, but
the temporal and spatial distributions of the Ediacaran glaciations remain poorly …

The popularity of relaxed clock Bayesian inference of clade origin timings has generated
several recent publications with focal results considerably older than the fossils of the clades …

The strongly 13 C-depleted calcite in the Doushantuo cap dolostones (∼ 635 Ma) of South
China is considered to form via thermochemical or biological oxidation of methane by sulfate …

The Neoproterozoic assembly and break-up of Rodinia have not only caused
reconfiguration of the global tectonic architecture of oceans and continents, but also led to …

Estimates for animal antiquity exhibit a significant disconnect between those from molecular
clocks, which indicate crown animals evolved∼ 800 million years ago (Ma), and those from …

The late Ediacaran period is a critical transitional period in Earth's history, marked by the
evolution of the Ediacara biota (∼ 574 to 538.8 Ma). The marine redox state and nutrient …

While it is widely accepted that early animals originated and primarily evolved during the
Neoproterozoic to Cambrian period, there remains ongoing debate over how fluctuations in …

The timing of the first appearance of animals is of crucial importance for understanding the
evolution of life on Earth. Although the fossil record places the earliest metazoans at 572 …

Palaeopascichnida is a problematic group of extinct organisms that is globally distributed in
Ediacaran sequences of Avalonia, Baltica, Siberia, South China and Australia. The fossils …