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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Three-dimensional reconstructions of the putative metazoan

Akshay Mehra, Wesley A Watters, John P Grotzinger, Adam C Maloof

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Ediacaran sponges, animal biomineralization, and skeletal reefs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Akshay MehraDepartment of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544; akmehra@alumni.princeton.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-3966-1469
Wesley A WattersDepartment of Astronomy, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481.
John P GrotzingerDivision of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125.
Adam C MaloofDepartment of Geosciences, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Strata from the Ediacaran Period (635 million to 538 million years ago [Ma]) contain several examples of enigmatic, putative shell-building metazoan fossils. These fossils may provide insight into the evolution and environmental impact of biomineralization on Earth, especially if their biological affinities and modern analogs can be identified. Recently, apparent morphological similarities with extant coralline demosponges have been used to assign a poriferan affinity to

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AnimalsBiological EvolutionEarth, PlanetEnvironmentFossilsHistory, AncientImaging, Three-DimensionalNamibia3D reconstructionearly lifeEdiacaran

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PMID32747528
PMCPMC7443946

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