Early evolution of colonial animals (Ediacaran evolutionary radiation–Cambrian evolutionary radiation–Great Ordovician Biodiversification interval)

E Landing, JB Antcliffe, G Geyer, A Kouchinsky… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Re-evaluation of eumetazoan modular coloniality gives a new perspective to Ediacaran–
Ordovician animal diversification. Highly integrated eumetazoan colonies (porpitids …

An alternate perspective on the opening and closing of the intracratonic Purana basins in peninsular India

A Basu, ME Bickford - Journal of the Geological Society of India, 2015 - Springer
Purana basins in India are Proterozoic in age, filled with mostly marine, deltaic, and fluvial
sediments, with some alluvial fan deposits in the basin margins. The basin fill is largely …

Microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) from the Ediacaran Jodhpur Sandstone, Marwar Supergroup, western Rajasthan

S Kumar, S Ahmad - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
Fourteen microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) have been described from the
middle part of the Jodhpur Sandstone. They have been subdivided under three headings;(A) …

Proliferation of MISS-related microbial mats following the end-Permian mass extinction in terrestrial ecosystems: evidence from the Lower Triassic of the Yiyang area …

C Tu, ZQ Chen, GJ Retallack, Y Huang, Y Fang - Sedimentary Geology, 2016 - Elsevier
Microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISSs) are commonly present in siliciclastic
shallow marine settings following the end-Permian mass extinction, but have been rarely …

Microbial mats in the terrestrial Lower Triassic of North China and implications for the Permian–Triassic mass extinction

D Chu, J Tong, DJ Bottjer, H Song, H Song… - Palaeogeography …, 2017 - Elsevier
Evidence for microbial mats has been reported repeatedly from marine Lower Triassic rocks,
but scarcely mentioned in post-mass extinction terrestrial facies. Here, we report from the …

Fossils, pseudofossils and problematica from the Ura Formation: Ediacaran of the Patom Basin, Siberia

PY Petrov, NG Vorob'eva - Precambrian Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The pseudofossils, problematica and actual macrofossils from the Middle Ediacaran Ura
Formation of the Patom Basin of Siberia are critically reviewed. Both the pseudofossils and …

Microbial mat records in siliciclastic rocks: examples from four Indian Proterozoic basins and their modern equivalents in Gulf of Cambay

S Sarkar, S Banerjee, P Samanta… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2014 - Elsevier
Microbial mat-related structures (MRS) in siliciclastics have been investigated from four
Proterozic formations in India, namely the Marwar Supergroup, the Vindhyan Supergroup …

Precambrian and early Cambrian palaeobiology of India: Quo Vadis

M Sharma, VK Singh, SK Pandey, AH Ansari… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - Springer
Significance of Precambrian and early Cambrian palaeobiological remains recorded over
the last few years on the Indian subcontinent are discussed in the present review. The …

Microbially induced sedimentary structures in late Pennsylvanian glacial settings: A case study from the Gondwanan Paraná Basin

SH Noll, RG Netto - Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper explores microbially induced sedimentary structures (MISS) preserved in Late
Paleozoic Ice Age deposits to evaluate the potential microbe-substrate physical interactions …

Unusual microbial mat‐related structural diversity 2.1 billion years ago and implications for the Francevillian biota

J Aubineau, A El Albani, E Chi Fru, M Gingras… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The 2.1‐billion‐year‐old (Ga) Francevillian series in Gabon hosts some of the
oldest reported macroscopic fossils of various sizes and shapes, stimulating new debates on …