A fossil Lagerstätte from the 700-750 Ma old Svanbergfjellet Formation of northeastern
Spitsbergen offers a substantially enhanced view of late Proterozoic paleobiology. Fossils …

Hundreds of specimens of spirally coiled, megascopic, carbonaceous fossils resembling
Grypania spiralis (Walcott), have been found in the 2.1-billion-year-old Negaunee Iron …

The age of the Vindhyan sedimentary basin in central India is controversial, because
geochronology indicating early Proterozoic ages clashes with reports of Cambrian fossils …

Recent work on the biochemistry of living organisms has shown that the organelles which
eukaryotic cells use for photosynthesis and aerobic respiration are of bacterial origin, and …

The upper Ediacaran Miaohe Member (∼ 551 Ma) in South China contains exceptionally
preserved macroscopic carbonaceous compression fossils that provide a crucial view of the …

Macroalgae play a crucial ecological and biogeochemical role in modern marine
ecosystems. Although eukaryotic algae have a deep history within the Precambrian, most …

A well preserved assemblage of compressed, straight, circular to sinuously coiled
megascopic and helical carbonaceous fossils and other varied megascopic morphoforms …

Three megafossils are described from the upper part of the Mesoproterozoic Rohtas
Formation, Semri Group (Lower Vindhyan). Generally they occur on the bedding surfaces of …

ABSTRACT The Vindhyan Supergroup constitutes one of the largest Proterozoic basins of
the world which attains a huge thickness of more than 5000m in central India. The rocks of …

The oldest authentic biogenic structures in this review are considered to be about 1,000 Ma
old. These records of metaphytes and metazoans-Ramapuraea vindhyanensis, vendotaenid …