Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian period

By G. Love, E. Grosjean, C. Stalvies, D. Fike, John P. Grotzinger, A. Bradley, A. Kelly, M. Bhatia, W. Meredith, Colin Snape and 3 more. Nature, 2009

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Subfields: Biotechnology, Oceanography, Paleontology

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• The Laurentian record of Neoproterozoic glaciation, tectonism, and eukaryotic evolution in Death Valley, California (2013, background): “The apparent coincidence between Neoproterozoic glacial events and the appearance of animals in the fossil record (Erwin et al., 2011; Love et al., 2009; Macdonald et al., 2010b; Peterson et al., 2008; Yin et al., 2007) has fueled speculation concerning the relationships between extreme climate…”
• The case for a Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event: Geochemical evidence and biological consequences (2011, background): “…major biological innovations, including the appearance of new biological and ecological strategies: the first metazoans (Hoffman et al., 1990; Love et al., 2009); the appearance of first large and architecturally complex organisms during the Ediacaran (Narbonne, 2005); and the Cambrian…”
• Remarkable insights into the paleoecology of the Avalonian Ediacaran macrobiota (2015, neutral): “, 2011), as well as Cryogenian biomarkers (Love et al., 2009) and putative body fossils (Maloof et al.”
• Animal Phylogeny and Its Evolutionary Implications (2014, background): “Fossil steroids record the appearance of Demospongiae during the Cryogenian Period.”
• The Multiple Origins of Complex Multicellularity (2011, background): “Fossil steranes interpreted as products of demosponge biosynthesis occur in relative abundance in Ediacaran strata and have been reported from rocks more than 635 Ma (Love et al. 2009).”
• Estimating the timing of early eukaryotic diversification with multigene molecular clocks (2011, neutral): “5 (68) Vertebrates Haikouichthys Phan 520 3, 5 (69) Animals LOEMs, sponge biomarkers Protero 632 2, 300 (70, 71)”
• Birth and early evolution of metazoans (2014, background): “The molecular record of the Silicaea (Demospongiae + Hexactinellida) may have extended back to the Cryogenian (Love et al., 2009), but bona fide fossil spicules of domosponge affinities first appeared in the Cloudina reefs of Namibia (Reitner and Wörheide, 2002), which is correlated to the…”
• A basin redox transect at the dawn of animal life (2012, background): “This age finds further support in the appearance of presumed demospongespecific biomarkers beneath ca. 635 Ma Marinoan glacial deposits (Love et al., 2009; Kodner et al., 2008); as demosponges represent a derived lineage within animals, the origin of the animal crown group must be even deeper in…”