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L. Miao, M. Moczydłowska, S. Zhu, M. Zhu, New record of organic-walled, morphologically distinct microfossils from the late Paleoproterozoic Changcheng Group in the Yanshan Range, North China, Precambrian Research (2018), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2...
Evidence for eukaryotic diversification in the ∼1800 million-year-old Changzhougou Formation, North China
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Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic depositsEmmanuelle J. Javaux1, Craig P. Marshall2 & Andrey Bekker3
Bangiomorpha pubescens n. gen., n. sp.: implications for the evolution of sex, multicellularity, and the Mesoproterozoic/Neoproterozoic radiation of eukaryotes
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A Morphological and Geochemical Investigation of Grypania spiralis: Implications for Early Earth Evolution
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