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ArticleNature2024

A late-Ediacaran crown-group sponge animal.

Xiaopeng Wang, Alexander G Liu, Zhe Chen, Chengxi Wu, Yarong Liu, Bin Wan, Ke Pang, Chuanming Zhou, Xunlai Yuan, Shuhai Xiao

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Article in Nature, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  10. Phosphatic stromatoporoid sponges formed reefs ~480 Mya.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  11. The Palaeobiology of Two Crown Group Cnidarians:Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Xiaopeng WangState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Alexander G LiuDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3985-982X
Zhe ChenState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Chengxi WuState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Yarong LiuState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7319-8757
Bin WanState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China. binwan@nigpas.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-4216-1158
Ke PangState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9995-7627
Chuanming ZhouState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
Xunlai YuanState Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China. xlyuan@nigpas.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0001-9068-3519
Shuhai XiaoDepartment of Geosciences and Global Change Centre, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA. xiao@vt.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4655-2663

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sponges are the most basal metazoan phylum

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FossilsPoriferaAnimalsBayes TheoremChinaPhylogeny

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