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U-Pb ages from the neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China.

• Daniel Condon, Maoyan Zhu, Samuel Bowring, Wei Wang, Aihua Yang, Yugan Jin
• Science
• 2005

U-Pb zircon dates from volcanic ash beds within the Doushantuo Formation (China) indicate that its deposition occurred between 635 and 551 million years ago. The base records termination of the global-scale Marinoan glaciation and is coeval with similar dated rocks from Namibia, indicating synchronous deglaciation. Carbon isotopic and sequence-stratigraphic… (More)

Doushantuo embryos preserved inside diapause egg cysts.

• Leiming Yin, Maoyan Zhu, Andrew H Knoll, Xunlai Yuan, Junming Zhang, Jie Hu
• Nature
• 2007

Phosphatized microfossils in the Ediacaran (635-542 Myr ago) Doushantuo Formation, south China, have been interpreted as the embryos of early animals. Despite experimental demonstration that embryos can be preserved, microstructural evidence that the Doushantuo remains are embryonic and an unambiguous record of fossil embryos in Lower Cambrian rocks,… (More)

Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian.

• Zongjun Yin, Maoyan Zhu, Eric H Davidson, David J Bottjer, Fangchen Zhao, Paul Tafforeau
• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
• 2015

An extraordinarily well preserved, 600-million-year (Myr)-old, three-dimensionally phosphatized fossil displaying multiple independent characters of modern adult sponges has been analyzed by SEM and synchrotron X-ray tomography. The fossilized animal (Eocyathispongia qiania gen. et sp. nov.) is slightly more than 1.2 mm wide and 1.1 mm tall, is composed of… (More)

Complexity and diversity of eyes in Early Cambrian ecosystems

• Fangchen Zhao, David J. Bottjer, Shixue Hu, Zongjun Yin, Maoyan Zhu
• Scientific reports
• 2013

Here we report exceptionally preserved non-biomineralized compound eyes of a non-trilobite arthropod Cindarella eucalla from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstätte, China. The specimen represents the oldest microanatomical evidence confirming the occurrence of highly developed vision in the early Cambrian, over 2,000 ommatidia in each eye. Moreover, a… (More)

Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China

• Shixing Zhu, Maoyan Zhu, +6 authors Huan Liu
• Nature communications
• 2016

Fossils of macroscopic eukaryotes are rarely older than the Ediacaran Period (635-541 million years (Myr)), and their interpretation remains controversial. Here, we report the discovery of macroscopic fossils from the 1,560-Myr-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation, Yanshan area, North China, that exhibit both large size and regular morphology. Preserved as… (More)

Rise to modern levels of ocean oxygenation coincided with the Cambrian radiation of animals

• Xi Chen, Hong-Fei Ling, +8 authors Corey Archer
• Nature communications
• 2015

The early diversification of animals (∼ 630 Ma), and their development into both motile and macroscopic forms (∼ 575-565 Ma), has been linked to stepwise increases in the oxygenation of Earth's surface environment. However, establishing such a linkage between oxygen and evolution for the later Cambrian 'explosion' (540-520 Ma) of new, energy-sapping body… (More)

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