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Phosphatised Embryo Fossils in 'Orsten'-type Preservation

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2009

our paper on a noew Markuelia species will appear soon

2007

  • Dong Xiping 2007. Developmental sequence of Cambrian embryo Markuelia. Chinese Science Bulletin 52(7), 929-935.
  • Donoghue, Philip C. J. 2007. Embryonic identity crisis. Nature 445, 155-156.

2006

  • Chen, Jun-Yuan, Bottjer, David J., Davidson, Eric H., Dornbos, Stephen Q., Gao, Xiang, Yang, Yong-Hua, Li, Chia-Wei, Li, Gang, Wang, Xiu-Qiang, Xian, Ding-Chang & Wu Hung-Jen 2006. Phosphatized Polar Lobe-Forming Embryos from the Precambrian of Southwest China. Science 312, 1644-1646.
  • Raff, E.C., Villinski, J.T., Turner, F.R., Donoghue, P.C.J. & Raff, R.A. 2006. Experimental taphonomy shows the feasibility of fossil embryos. PNAS 103(15), 5846-5851.
  • Donoghue, P.C.J., Kouchinsky, A., Bengtson, S., Cunningham, J., Dong Xi-ping, Repetski, J.E., Val'kov, A.K. & Waloszek, D. 2006. Fossilized embryos are widespread but the record is temporally and taxonomically biased. Evolution & Development  8(2), 232-238. – PDF
  • Donoghue, P.C. J., Bengtson, S., Dong, Xi-ping, Gostling, N.J., Huldtgren, T., Cunningham, J.A., Yin, Chongyu, Yue, Zhao, Peng, Fan & Stampanoni, M. 2006. Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos. Nature 442, 680-683.
  • Hagadorn, J. W., Xiao, S., Donoghue, P. C. J., Bengtson, S., Gostling, N. J., Pawlowska, M., Raff, E. C., Raff, R. A., Turner, F. R., Yin, C., Zhou, C., Yuan, X., McFeely, M. B., Stampanoni, M. and Nealson, K. H. 2006. Cellular and subcellular structure of Neoproterozoic animal embryos. Science 314: 291-294.
  • Raff, Elizabeth C., Villinski, Jeffrey T., Turner, F. Rudolf, Donoghue, Philip C.J. & Rudolf A. Raff 2006. Experimental taphonomy shows the feasibility of fossil embryos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 103 (15), 5846-5851.

2005

  • Chen, Jun-Yuan & Chi,Huimei 2005. Precambrian phosphatized embryos and larvae from the Doushantuo Formation and their affinities, Guizhou (SW China). Chinese Science Bulletin 50(19), 2193-2200.
  • Dong Xi-ping, Donoghue, P.C.J. Cunningham, J.A., Liu Jian-bo & Cheng Hong 2005. The anatomy, affinity, and phylogenetic significance of Markuelia. Evolution & Development 7(5), 468–482.
  • Dornbos, Stephen Q., Bottjer, David J., Chen, Jun-Yuan, Oliveri, Paola, Gao, Feng & Li, Cia-Wei 2005. Precambrian animal life: Taphonomy of phosphatized metazoan embryos from southwest China. Lethaia 38, 101-109.

2004

  • Chen, Junyuan, Braun, A., Waloszek, D., Peng, Qingqing & Maas, A. 2004. Lower Cambrian yolk-pyramid embryos from Southern Shaanxi, China. Progress in Natural Science 14(2), 167-172. – PDF
  • Dong, Xi-Ping, Donoghue, Philip C.J., Cheng, Hong & Liu, Jian-Bo 2004. Fossil embryos from the Middle and Late Cambrian period of Hunan, South China. Nature 427, 237-240.
  • Steiner, Michael, Zhu, Maoyan, Li, Guoxiang, Qian, Yi & Erdtmann, Bernd-D. 2004. New Early Cambrian bilaterian embryos and larvae from China. Geology 32(10), 833-836.

2003 and older

  • Chen Junyuan, Oliveri, Paola, Li Chiawei, Zhou, Guiqiong, Gao, Feng, Hagadorn, James W., Peterson, Kevin J. & Davidson, Eric H. 2000. Precambrian animal diversity: Putative phosphatized embryos from the Doushantuo Formation of China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 97(9), 4457-4462. Reston.
  • Xiao, Shuhai & Knoll, A. 2000. Phosphatized animal embryos from the neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation at Weng`an, Guizhou, China. Journal of Paleontology 74(5), 767-788.
  • Zhao, Yue & Bengtson, S. 1999. Embryonic and post-embryonic development of the Early Cambrian cnidarian Olivooides. Lethaia 32, 181-195. Oslo.
  • Bengtson, S. & Yue Zhao 1997. Fossilized Metazoan Embryos from the Earliest Cambrian. Science 277, 1645-1648. Washington.
  • Pratt, Brian R. & Zhang, Xi-guang (1995). Unscrambling fossilized Cambrian embryos. The Journal of NIH Research 7, 46-47.
  • Zhang, Xi-guang & Pratt, Brian R. (1994). Middle Cambrian Arthropod Embryos with Blastomeres. Science 266, 637-639. Washington. Highly speculative but showing again 3d-preserved phosphatic microfossils.
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