The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE) is regarded as one of the most significant evolutionary events in the history of Phanerozoic life. The present study...
High-resolution carbonate carbon isotope (δ¹³Ccarb), bulk nitrogen isotope (δ¹⁵N), biogenic silica (BSi), TOC, and TN data from the YD-4 drill core, South China, spanning the Dengying to Yanjiahe form
The Ediacara biota is an assemblage of soft-bodied, multicellular animals present as fossils in rocks from the Ediacaran Period (635-541 Ma). Nearly all are preserved as casts and moulds in course-gra
One explanation for the early Neoproterozoic expansion of eukaryotes is the appearance of eukaryovorous predators—i.e. protists that preyed on other protists. Evidence for eukaryovory at this time, ho