Skeletogenesis and asexual reproduction in the earliest biomineralizing animal Cloudina

By H. Hua, Zhe Chen, Xunlai Yuan, Lu-yi Zhang, Shuhai Xiao. 2005

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The Weng'an biota and the Ediacaran radiation of multicellular eukaryotes (2014, background): “We emphasize that Cloudina do not have internal cross-walls [133] and are thus fundamentally different from the Weng’an tubular fossils, but it is important to note their potential similarities in nested side-walls, dichotomous branching as an asexual reproduction strategy, or ecological response to”
Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (2008, background): “A radiation of macroscopic algae and possible metazoans (15, 16) occurred at the end of EN3, followed by the appearance of frondose and fractal Ediacaran organisms (18, 19), motile bilaterian animals evidenced by trace fossils (20), and biomineralizing animals (Cloudina and Sinotubulites) (21, 39).”
Explaining the Cambrian "Explosion" of Animals (2006, background): “There are also two problems that emerge once we begin to examine the fossil record in some detail: ( f ) Where are the (largely) missing fossils of the bilaterian stem-groups, and ( g) What are the phylogenetic affinities of the Ediacaran biota?”
Birth and early evolution of metazoans (2014, background): “Cloudina and a number of tubular fossils from theGaojiashan biota (Ediacaran 5) are morphologically compared with annelid tubes (Hua et al., 2005; Cai et al., 2014-in this issue), but they are alternatively considered as cnidariomorphs (Kouchinsky et al., 2012).”