Precambrian (English Wikipedia)

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Dawkins, Richard; Wong, Yan (2005). The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 673. ISBN 9780618619160.

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Ghosh, Pallab (1 March 2017). "Earliest evidence of life on Earth 'found'". BBC News. Retrieved 2 March 2017.

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Li, Z. X.; Bogdanova, S. V.; Collins, A. S.; Davidson, A.; De Waele, B.; Ernst, R. E.; Fitzsimons, I. C. W.; Fuck, R. A.; Gladkochub, D. P.; Jacobs, J.; Karlstrom, K. E.; Lul, S.; Natapov, L. M.; Pease, V.; Pisarevsky, S. A.; Thrane, K.; Vernikovsky, V. (2008). "Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis" (PDF). Precambrian Research. 160 (1–2): 179–210. Bibcode:2008PreR..160..179L. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2007.04.021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2016.

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Monroe, James S.; Wicander, Reed (1997). The Changing Earth: Exploring Geology and Evolution (2nd ed.). Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company. p. 492. ISBN 9781285981383.
Hitchcock, C. H. (1874). The Geology of New Hampshire. p. 511. The name Eozoic seems to have been proposed by Dr. J.W. Dawson, of Montreal, in 1865. He did not fully define the limits of its application at that time; but it seems to have been generally understood by geologists to embrace all the obscurely fossiliferous rocks older than the Cambrian.
Bulletin. Vol. 767. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1925. p. 3. [1888] Sir J. W. Dawson prefers the term "Eozoic" [to Archean], and would have it include all the Pre-Cambrian strata.
Salop, L.J. (2012). Geological Evolution of the Earth During the Precambrian. Springer. p. 9. ISBN 978-3-642-68684-9. a possibility of dividing the Precambrian history into two eons: the Eozoic, embracing the Archean Era only, and the Protozoic, comprising all the remaining Precambrian Eras.
Brun, Yves; Shimkets, Lawrence J. (January 2000). Prokaryotic development. ASM Press. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-55581-158-7.

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Gibson, Timothy M; Shih, Patrick M; Cumming, Vivien M; Fischer, Woodward W; Crockford, Peter W; Hodgskiss, Malcolm S.W; Wörndle, Sarah; Creaser, Robert A; Rainbird, Robert H; Skulski, Thomas M; Halverson, Galen P (2017). "Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis" (PDF). Geology. 46 (2): 135–138. doi:10.1130/G39829.1.

collinsdictionary.com

"Precambrian". CollinsDictionary.com. HarperCollins. Retrieved 2023-08-30.

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Cavosie, Aaron J.; Valley, John W.; Wilde, Simon A. (2007). "Chapter 2.5 The Oldest Terrestrial Mineral Record: A Review of 4400 to 4000 Ma Detrital Zircons from Jack Hills, Western Australia". Developments in Precambrian Geology. 15: 91–111. doi:10.1016/S0166-2635(07)15025-8. ISBN 9780444528100.
Senter, Phil (1 April 2013). "The Age of the Earth & Its Importance to Biology". The American Biology Teacher. 75 (4): 251–256. doi:10.1525/abt.2013.75.4.5. S2CID 85652369.
Kamp, Ulrich (6 March 2017). "Glaciations". International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology: 1–8. doi:10.1002/9781118786352.wbieg0612. ISBN 9780470659632.
Dodd, Matthew S.; Papineau, Dominic; Grenne, Tor; slack, John F.; Rittner, Martin; Pirajno, Franco; O'Neil, Jonathan; Little, Crispin T. S. (2 March 2017). "Evidence for early life in Earth's oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates". Nature. 543 (7643): 60–64. Bibcode:2017Natur.543...60D. doi:10.1038/nature21377. PMID 28252057.
Albani, Abderrazak El; Bengtson, Stefan; Canfield, Donald E.; Bekker, Andrey; Macchiarelli, Roberto; Mazurier, Arnaud; Hammarlund, Emma U.; Boulvais, Philippe; Dupuy, Jean-Jacques; Fontaine, Claude; Fürsich, Franz T.; Gauthier-Lafaye, François; Janvier, Philippe; Javaux, Emmanuelle; Ossa, Frantz Ossa; Pierson-Wickmann, Anne-Catherine; Riboulleau, Armelle; Sardini, Paul; Vachard, Daniel; Whitehouse, Martin; Meunier, Alain (July 2010). "Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago". Nature. 466 (7302): 100–104. Bibcode:2010Natur.466..100A. doi:10.1038/nature09166. PMID 20596019. S2CID 4331375.
Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Antcliffe, Jonathan B. (July 2010). "Origins of multicellularity". Nature. 466 (7302): 41–42. doi:10.1038/466041a. PMID 20596008. S2CID 4396466.
Rozanov, A. Yu.; Astafieva, M. M. (1 March 2013). "A unique find of the earliest multicellular algae in the Lower Proterozoic (2.45 Ga) of the Kola Peninsula". Doklady Biological Sciences. 449 (1): 96–98. doi:10.1134/S0012496613020051. PMID 23652437. S2CID 15774804.
Qu, Yuangao; Zhu, Shixing; Whitehouse, Martin; Engdahl, Anders; McLoughlin, Nicola (1 January 2018). "Carbonaceous biosignatures of the earliest putative macroscopic multicellular eukaryotes from 1630 Ma Tuanshanzi Formation, north China". Precambrian Research. 304: 99–109. Bibcode:2018PreR..304...99Q. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.11.004.
Bengtson, Stefan; Sallstedt, Therese; Belivanova, Veneta; Whitehouse, Martin (14 March 2017). "Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae". PLOS Biology. 15 (3): e2000735. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2000735. PMC 5349422. PMID 28291791.
Gibson, Timothy M; Shih, Patrick M; Cumming, Vivien M; Fischer, Woodward W; Crockford, Peter W; Hodgskiss, Malcolm S.W; Wörndle, Sarah; Creaser, Robert A; Rainbird, Robert H; Skulski, Thomas M; Halverson, Galen P (2017). "Precise age of Bangiomorpha pubescens dates the origin of eukaryotic photosynthesis" (PDF). Geology. 46 (2): 135–138. doi:10.1130/G39829.1.
Laflamme, M. (9 September 2014). "Modeling morphological diversity in the oldest large multicellular organisms". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (36): 12962–12963. Bibcode:2014PNAS..11112962L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1412523111. PMC 4246935. PMID 25114212.
Kolesnikov, Anton V.; Rogov, Vladimir I.; Bykova, Natalia V.; Danelian, Taniel; Clausen, Sébastien; Maslov, Andrey V.; Grazhdankin, Dmitriy V. (October 2018). "The oldest skeletal macroscopic organism Palaeopascichnus linearis". Precambrian Research. 316: 24–37. Bibcode:2018PreR..316...24K. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2018.07.017. S2CID 134885946.
Selden, Paul A. (2005). "Terrestrialization (Precambrian–Devonian)" (PDF). Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. doi:10.1038/npg.els.0004145. ISBN 978-0470016176.
Chen, Zhe; Chen, Xiang; Zhou, Chuanming; Yuan, Xunlai; Xiao, Shuhai (June 2018). "Late Ediacaran trackways produced by bilaterian animals with paired appendages". Science Advances. 4 (6): eaao6691. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.6691C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aao6691. PMC 5990303. PMID 29881773.
Fine JL, Pearlman RE (August 2023). "On the origin of life: an RNA-focused synthesis and narrative". RNA. 29 (8): 1085–98. doi:10.1261/rna.079598.123. PMC 10351881. PMID 37142437.
Salditt A, Karr L, Salibi E, Le Vay K, Braun D, Mutschler H (March 2023). "Ribozyme-mediated RNA synthesis and replication in a model Hadean microenvironment". Nat Commun. 14 (1): 1495. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37206-4. PMC 10023712. PMID 36932102.
Su S, Wong G, Shi W, Liu J, Lai AC, Zhou J, Liu W, Bi Y, Gao GF (June 2016). "Epidemiology, Genetic Recombination, and Pathogenesis of Coronaviruses". Trends Microbiol. 24 (6): 490–502. doi:10.1016/j.tim.2016.03.003. PMC 7125511. PMID 27012512.
Clemmey, Harry; Badham, Nick (1982). "Oxygen in the Precambrian Atmosphere". Geology. 10 (3): 141–146. Bibcode:1982Geo....10..141C. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1982)10<141:OITPAA>2.0.CO;2.
Harrison, T. Mark (27 April 2009). "The Hadean Crust: Evidence from >4 Ga Zircons". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 37 (1): 479–505. Bibcode:2009AREPS..37..479H. doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100151.
Abramov, Oleg; Kring, David A.; Mojzsis, Stephen J. (October 2013). "The impact environment of the Hadean Earth". Geochemistry. 73 (3): 227–248. Bibcode:2013ChEG...73..227A. doi:10.1016/j.chemer.2013.08.004.
Zhao, Guochun; Cawood, Peter A.; Wilde, Simon A.; Sun, M. (2002). "Review of global 2.1–1.8 Ga orogens: implications for a pre-Rodinia super-continent". Earth-Science Reviews. 59 (1): 125–162. Bibcode:2002ESRv...59..125Z. doi:10.1016/S0012-8252(02)00073-9.
Zhao, Guochun; Sun, M.; Wilde, Simon A.; Li, S.Z. (2004). "A Paleo-Mesoproterozoic super-continent: assembly, growth and breakup". Earth-Science Reviews (Submitted manuscript). 67 (1): 91–123. Bibcode:2004ESRv...67...91Z. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.02.003.
Li, Z. X.; Bogdanova, S. V.; Collins, A. S.; Davidson, A.; De Waele, B.; Ernst, R. E.; Fitzsimons, I. C. W.; Fuck, R. A.; Gladkochub, D. P.; Jacobs, J.; Karlstrom, K. E.; Lul, S.; Natapov, L. M.; Pease, V.; Pisarevsky, S. A.; Thrane, K.; Vernikovsky, V. (2008). "Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis" (PDF). Precambrian Research. 160 (1–2): 179–210. Bibcode:2008PreR..160..179L. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2007.04.021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2016.

geosociety.org

"Geological Society of America's "2009 GSA Geologic Time Scale."". Archived from the original on 2020-11-05. Retrieved 2019-08-29.

gt-crust.ru

Zhao, Guochun; Sun, M.; Wilde, Simon A.; Li, S.Z. (2004). "A Paleo-Mesoproterozoic super-continent: assembly, growth and breakup". Earth-Science Reviews (Submitted manuscript). 67 (1): 91–123. Bibcode:2004ESRv...67...91Z. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.02.003.

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Dodd, Matthew S.; Papineau, Dominic; Grenne, Tor; slack, John F.; Rittner, Martin; Pirajno, Franco; O'Neil, Jonathan; Little, Crispin T. S. (2 March 2017). "Evidence for early life in Earth's oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates". Nature. 543 (7643): 60–64. Bibcode:2017Natur.543...60D. doi:10.1038/nature21377. PMID 28252057.
Albani, Abderrazak El; Bengtson, Stefan; Canfield, Donald E.; Bekker, Andrey; Macchiarelli, Roberto; Mazurier, Arnaud; Hammarlund, Emma U.; Boulvais, Philippe; Dupuy, Jean-Jacques; Fontaine, Claude; Fürsich, Franz T.; Gauthier-Lafaye, François; Janvier, Philippe; Javaux, Emmanuelle; Ossa, Frantz Ossa; Pierson-Wickmann, Anne-Catherine; Riboulleau, Armelle; Sardini, Paul; Vachard, Daniel; Whitehouse, Martin; Meunier, Alain (July 2010). "Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago". Nature. 466 (7302): 100–104. Bibcode:2010Natur.466..100A. doi:10.1038/nature09166. PMID 20596019. S2CID 4331375.
Qu, Yuangao; Zhu, Shixing; Whitehouse, Martin; Engdahl, Anders; McLoughlin, Nicola (1 January 2018). "Carbonaceous biosignatures of the earliest putative macroscopic multicellular eukaryotes from 1630 Ma Tuanshanzi Formation, north China". Precambrian Research. 304: 99–109. Bibcode:2018PreR..304...99Q. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.11.004.
Laflamme, M. (9 September 2014). "Modeling morphological diversity in the oldest large multicellular organisms". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (36): 12962–12963. Bibcode:2014PNAS..11112962L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1412523111. PMC 4246935. PMID 25114212.
Kolesnikov, Anton V.; Rogov, Vladimir I.; Bykova, Natalia V.; Danelian, Taniel; Clausen, Sébastien; Maslov, Andrey V.; Grazhdankin, Dmitriy V. (October 2018). "The oldest skeletal macroscopic organism Palaeopascichnus linearis". Precambrian Research. 316: 24–37. Bibcode:2018PreR..316...24K. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2018.07.017. S2CID 134885946.
Chen, Zhe; Chen, Xiang; Zhou, Chuanming; Yuan, Xunlai; Xiao, Shuhai (June 2018). "Late Ediacaran trackways produced by bilaterian animals with paired appendages". Science Advances. 4 (6): eaao6691. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.6691C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aao6691. PMC 5990303. PMID 29881773.
Clemmey, Harry; Badham, Nick (1982). "Oxygen in the Precambrian Atmosphere". Geology. 10 (3): 141–146. Bibcode:1982Geo....10..141C. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1982)10<141:OITPAA>2.0.CO;2.
Harrison, T. Mark (27 April 2009). "The Hadean Crust: Evidence from >4 Ga Zircons". Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences. 37 (1): 479–505. Bibcode:2009AREPS..37..479H. doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100151.
Abramov, Oleg; Kring, David A.; Mojzsis, Stephen J. (October 2013). "The impact environment of the Hadean Earth". Geochemistry. 73 (3): 227–248. Bibcode:2013ChEG...73..227A. doi:10.1016/j.chemer.2013.08.004.
Zhao, Guochun; Cawood, Peter A.; Wilde, Simon A.; Sun, M. (2002). "Review of global 2.1–1.8 Ga orogens: implications for a pre-Rodinia super-continent". Earth-Science Reviews. 59 (1): 125–162. Bibcode:2002ESRv...59..125Z. doi:10.1016/S0012-8252(02)00073-9.
Zhao, Guochun; Sun, M.; Wilde, Simon A.; Li, S.Z. (2004). "A Paleo-Mesoproterozoic super-continent: assembly, growth and breakup". Earth-Science Reviews (Submitted manuscript). 67 (1): 91–123. Bibcode:2004ESRv...67...91Z. doi:10.1016/j.earscirev.2004.02.003.
Li, Z. X.; Bogdanova, S. V.; Collins, A. S.; Davidson, A.; De Waele, B.; Ernst, R. E.; Fitzsimons, I. C. W.; Fuck, R. A.; Gladkochub, D. P.; Jacobs, J.; Karlstrom, K. E.; Lul, S.; Natapov, L. M.; Pease, V.; Pisarevsky, S. A.; Thrane, K.; Vernikovsky, V. (2008). "Assembly, configuration, and break-up history of Rodinia: A synthesis" (PDF). Precambrian Research. 160 (1–2): 179–210. Bibcode:2008PreR..160..179L. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2007.04.021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2016.

independent.co.uk

"Scientists discover 'oldest footprints on Earth' in southern China dating back 550 million years". Independent.co.uk. 7 June 2018. The Independent

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Fedonkin, Mikhail A.; Gehling, James G.; Grey, Kathleen; Narbonne, Guy M.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia (2007). The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8679-9. LCCN 2007061351. OCLC 85162342. OL 17256629M.

msu.edu

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Davis, C.M. (1964). "The Precambrian Era". Readings in the Geography of Michigan. Michigan State University.

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Dodd, Matthew S.; Papineau, Dominic; Grenne, Tor; slack, John F.; Rittner, Martin; Pirajno, Franco; O'Neil, Jonathan; Little, Crispin T. S. (2 March 2017). "Evidence for early life in Earth's oldest hydrothermal vent precipitates". Nature. 543 (7643): 60–64. Bibcode:2017Natur.543...60D. doi:10.1038/nature21377. PMID 28252057.
Albani, Abderrazak El; Bengtson, Stefan; Canfield, Donald E.; Bekker, Andrey; Macchiarelli, Roberto; Mazurier, Arnaud; Hammarlund, Emma U.; Boulvais, Philippe; Dupuy, Jean-Jacques; Fontaine, Claude; Fürsich, Franz T.; Gauthier-Lafaye, François; Janvier, Philippe; Javaux, Emmanuelle; Ossa, Frantz Ossa; Pierson-Wickmann, Anne-Catherine; Riboulleau, Armelle; Sardini, Paul; Vachard, Daniel; Whitehouse, Martin; Meunier, Alain (July 2010). "Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago". Nature. 466 (7302): 100–104. Bibcode:2010Natur.466..100A. doi:10.1038/nature09166. PMID 20596019. S2CID 4331375.
Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Antcliffe, Jonathan B. (July 2010). "Origins of multicellularity". Nature. 466 (7302): 41–42. doi:10.1038/466041a. PMID 20596008. S2CID 4396466.
Rozanov, A. Yu.; Astafieva, M. M. (1 March 2013). "A unique find of the earliest multicellular algae in the Lower Proterozoic (2.45 Ga) of the Kola Peninsula". Doklady Biological Sciences. 449 (1): 96–98. doi:10.1134/S0012496613020051. PMID 23652437. S2CID 15774804.
Bengtson, Stefan; Sallstedt, Therese; Belivanova, Veneta; Whitehouse, Martin (14 March 2017). "Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae". PLOS Biology. 15 (3): e2000735. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2000735. PMC 5349422. PMID 28291791.
Laflamme, M. (9 September 2014). "Modeling morphological diversity in the oldest large multicellular organisms". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (36): 12962–12963. Bibcode:2014PNAS..11112962L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1412523111. PMC 4246935. PMID 25114212.
Chen, Zhe; Chen, Xiang; Zhou, Chuanming; Yuan, Xunlai; Xiao, Shuhai (June 2018). "Late Ediacaran trackways produced by bilaterian animals with paired appendages". Science Advances. 4 (6): eaao6691. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.6691C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aao6691. PMC 5990303. PMID 29881773.
Fine JL, Pearlman RE (August 2023). "On the origin of life: an RNA-focused synthesis and narrative". RNA. 29 (8): 1085–98. doi:10.1261/rna.079598.123. PMC 10351881. PMID 37142437.
Salditt A, Karr L, Salibi E, Le Vay K, Braun D, Mutschler H (March 2023). "Ribozyme-mediated RNA synthesis and replication in a model Hadean microenvironment". Nat Commun. 14 (1): 1495. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37206-4. PMC 10023712. PMID 36932102.
Su S, Wong G, Shi W, Liu J, Lai AC, Zhou J, Liu W, Bi Y, Gao GF (June 2016). "Epidemiology, Genetic Recombination, and Pathogenesis of Coronaviruses". Trends Microbiol. 24 (6): 490–502. doi:10.1016/j.tim.2016.03.003. PMC 7125511. PMID 27012512.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Bengtson, Stefan; Sallstedt, Therese; Belivanova, Veneta; Whitehouse, Martin (14 March 2017). "Three-dimensional preservation of cellular and subcellular structures suggests 1.6 billion-year-old crown-group red algae". PLOS Biology. 15 (3): e2000735. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2000735. PMC 5349422. PMID 28291791.
Laflamme, M. (9 September 2014). "Modeling morphological diversity in the oldest large multicellular organisms". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111 (36): 12962–12963. Bibcode:2014PNAS..11112962L. doi:10.1073/pnas.1412523111. PMC 4246935. PMID 25114212.
Chen, Zhe; Chen, Xiang; Zhou, Chuanming; Yuan, Xunlai; Xiao, Shuhai (June 2018). "Late Ediacaran trackways produced by bilaterian animals with paired appendages". Science Advances. 4 (6): eaao6691. Bibcode:2018SciA....4.6691C. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aao6691. PMC 5990303. PMID 29881773.
Fine JL, Pearlman RE (August 2023). "On the origin of life: an RNA-focused synthesis and narrative". RNA. 29 (8): 1085–98. doi:10.1261/rna.079598.123. PMC 10351881. PMID 37142437.
Salditt A, Karr L, Salibi E, Le Vay K, Braun D, Mutschler H (March 2023). "Ribozyme-mediated RNA synthesis and replication in a model Hadean microenvironment". Nat Commun. 14 (1): 1495. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37206-4. PMC 10023712. PMID 36932102.
Su S, Wong G, Shi W, Liu J, Lai AC, Zhou J, Liu W, Bi Y, Gao GF (June 2016). "Epidemiology, Genetic Recombination, and Pathogenesis of Coronaviruses". Trends Microbiol. 24 (6): 490–502. doi:10.1016/j.tim.2016.03.003. PMC 7125511. PMID 27012512.

nytimes.com

Zimmer, Carl (1 March 2017). "Scientists Say Canadian Bacteria Fossils May Be Earth's Oldest". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 March 2017.

openlibrary.org

Fedonkin, Mikhail A.; Gehling, James G.; Grey, Kathleen; Narbonne, Guy M.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia (2007). The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Foreword by Arthur C. Clarke. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8679-9. LCCN 2007061351. OCLC 85162342. OL 17256629M.

paulselden.net

Selden, Paul A. (2005). "Terrestrialization (Precambrian–Devonian)" (PDF). Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. doi:10.1038/npg.els.0004145. ISBN 978-0470016176.

reuters.com

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Dunham, Will (1 March 2017). "Canadian bacteria-like fossils called oldest evidence of life". Reuters. Archived from the original on March 2, 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.

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Senter, Phil (1 April 2013). "The Age of the Earth & Its Importance to Biology". The American Biology Teacher. 75 (4): 251–256. doi:10.1525/abt.2013.75.4.5. S2CID 85652369.
Albani, Abderrazak El; Bengtson, Stefan; Canfield, Donald E.; Bekker, Andrey; Macchiarelli, Roberto; Mazurier, Arnaud; Hammarlund, Emma U.; Boulvais, Philippe; Dupuy, Jean-Jacques; Fontaine, Claude; Fürsich, Franz T.; Gauthier-Lafaye, François; Janvier, Philippe; Javaux, Emmanuelle; Ossa, Frantz Ossa; Pierson-Wickmann, Anne-Catherine; Riboulleau, Armelle; Sardini, Paul; Vachard, Daniel; Whitehouse, Martin; Meunier, Alain (July 2010). "Large colonial organisms with coordinated growth in oxygenated environments 2.1 Gyr ago". Nature. 466 (7302): 100–104. Bibcode:2010Natur.466..100A. doi:10.1038/nature09166. PMID 20596019. S2CID 4331375.
Donoghue, Philip C. J.; Antcliffe, Jonathan B. (July 2010). "Origins of multicellularity". Nature. 466 (7302): 41–42. doi:10.1038/466041a. PMID 20596008. S2CID 4396466.
Rozanov, A. Yu.; Astafieva, M. M. (1 March 2013). "A unique find of the earliest multicellular algae in the Lower Proterozoic (2.45 Ga) of the Kola Peninsula". Doklady Biological Sciences. 449 (1): 96–98. doi:10.1134/S0012496613020051. PMID 23652437. S2CID 15774804.
Kolesnikov, Anton V.; Rogov, Vladimir I.; Bykova, Natalia V.; Danelian, Taniel; Clausen, Sébastien; Maslov, Andrey V.; Grazhdankin, Dmitriy V. (October 2018). "The oldest skeletal macroscopic organism Palaeopascichnus linearis". Precambrian Research. 316: 24–37. Bibcode:2018PreR..316...24K. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2018.07.017. S2CID 134885946.

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