Not a single paleosol had been described from rocks of Ediacaran age until 2011, but 354
Ediacaran paleosols have been described by 20 different authors since then. Some of these …

Patterns of origination and evolution of early complex life on this planet are largely
interpreted from the fossils of the Precambrian soft-bodied Ediacara Biota. These fossils …

The early‐successional status of lichens in modern terrestrial ecosystems, together with the
role lichen‐mediated weathering plays in the carbon cycle, have contributed to the long and …

Despite numerous attempts, classification of the Precambrian fossil Dickinsonia has eluded
scientific consensus. This is largely because Dickinsonia and its relatives are structurally …

The fossil record paints a thin picture of early terrestrial life. Useful diagnostic features are
rare in the organic-walled fossils of the first land colonizers, and at first glance the Silurian …

The study of microbial fossils involves a broad array of disciplines and covers a vast diversity
of topics, of which we review a select few, summarizing the state of the art. Microbes are …

Ediacaran macrofossils immediately precede the first animal ecosystems of the Cambrian
Period and have excited much attention for potentially containing ancestors of the modern …

Retallack, GJ, June 2016. Ediacaran fossils in thin-section. Alcheringa 40, xx–xx. ISSN 0311-
5518 Megafossils from the Ediacaran Period (635–541 Ma) have been controversial in part …

We presented (Xiao et al., 2013) comparative paleobiological and functional morphological
evidence that Ediacara fossils such as Eoandromeda are marine organisms, rather than …