A vaucheriacean alga from the middle Neoproterozoic of Spitsbergen: implications for the evolution of Proterozoic eukaryotes and the Cambrian explosion

By N. Butterfield. Paleobiology, 2004

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The Proterozoic Record of Eukaryotes (2015, background): “These clocks are calibrated with key fossils such as ca. 1100Ma Bangiomorpha (Turner and Kamber 2012; Butterfield et al. 2000), interpreted as a crown group red alga, the ca. 800Ma Paleovaucheria, interpreted as a crown group Vaucherian (chromalveolate) alga, ca. 800Ma Proterocladus, interpreted as ”
MACROEVOLUTION AND MACROECOLOGY THROUGH DEEP TIME (2007, background): “…may well be legitimate for early Palaeozoic forms, but this patently does not extend to the Proterozoic where major sectors of (eukaryotic) acritarch diversity are now recognized as benthic, vegetative, multicellular and non-protistan (Butterfield 1997, 2001a, 2004, 2005a, b; Knoll et al. 2006).”
The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity (2011, background): “Diverse organic-walled protists, including simple multicellular organisms, have been recorded widely in cherts and shales from this interval (Butterfield et al. 1994; Butterfield 2004, 2005a,b).”
Eukaryotic organisms in Proterozoic oceans (2006, background): “Phylogenetic conjectures for Shuiyousphaeridium range from dinoflagellates (Meng et al. 2005) to possible fungi (Butterfield 2004), but the fossils provide little support for any specific attribution.”
The Geological Succession of Primary Producers in the Oceans (2007, background): “Palaeovaucheria clavata, described from >1005 ±4 Ma shales in Siberia (Herman 1990), as well as ca. 750–800 Ma shales from Spitsbergen (Butterfield 2004), has a branching filamentous morphology and pattern of reproductive cell differentiation very similar to that of the extant xanthophyte alga Vauch”
THE EDIACARA BIOTA: Neoproterozoic Origin of Animals and Their Ecosystems (2005, background): “Crown-group members of the red algae, yellow-brown algae, green algae, heterokonts, and testate amoebae had appeared by 750 Ma (Butterfield 2004), but animals seem to have evolved relatively late 11 Mar 2005 22:33 AR AR233-EA33-14.tex XMLPublishSM(2004/02/24) P1: JRX in the Proterozoic.”
TEM evidence for eukaryotic diversity in mid‐Proterozoic oceans (2004, background): “…show that eukaryotic cells began to diversify no later than 1–1.2 Ga, well before anatomically complex animals spread through the oceans (e.g. Knoll, 1992; Xiao et al ., 1997; Butterfield, 2000, 2004; Javaux et al ., 2003; Porter et al ., 2003; for an alternative view see Cavalier-Smith, 2002).”
Proterozoic photosynthesis – a critical review (2015, background): “F, Jacutianema solubila; from the early–middle Neoproterozoic Svanbergfjellet Formation, Akademikerbreen Group, Spitsbergen (Butterfield 2004).”
Tempo and mode of early animal evolution: inferences from rocks, Hox, and molecular clocks (2005, background): “…event that started around 600 Ma and culminated with the phylum-level splits around 540 Ma, dates consistent with the known fossil record of metazoans (Xiao et al. 1998; Budd and Jensen 2000; Jensen 2003; Condon et al. 2005), and with the Proterozoic fossil record in general (Butterfield 2004).”
Probable Proterozoic fungi (2005, background): “In other words, Tappania is a natural taxon and, as such, is the preferred name to describe the whole organism—in the same way, for example, that Leiosphaeridia 1958 can be legitimately supplanted by Jacutianema 1980 when shown merely to be a constituent ‘‘organ’’ (see Butterfield 2004).”