1.3 Billion years of acritarch history: An empirical morphospace approach

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SCALE AND HIERARCHY IN MACROEVOLUTION (2007, background): “…2004; Conway Morris 2006), mid-Palaeozoic land plants (Bateman et al. 1998; Boyce and Knoll 2002; Boyce 2005) and vertebrates (Ahlberg et al. 2006; Ruta et al. 2006), early angiosperms (Lupia 1999), and even in Proterozoic eukaryotes (Huntley et al. 2006; but see Butterfield 2007 for caveats).”
DISPARITY: MORPHOLOGICAL PATTERN AND DEVELOPMENTAL CONTEXT (2007, background): “Among marine groups such patterns have been established among crinoids (Foote 1994, 1995, 1999), blastozoans (Foote 1992a), Palaeozoic gastropods (Wagner 1995), brachiopods (Carlson 1992; McGhee 1995; Smith and Bunje 1999) and Neoproterozoic acritarchs (Huntley et al. 2006).”
The Proterozoic Record of Eukaryotes (2015, background): “Our overall results are consistent with previous assessments that document an increase in diversity metrics through the Proterozoic and into the Ediacaran (e.g., Knoll et al. 2006, Vidal and Moczydłowska-Vidal 1997, Huntley et al. 2006).”
The Geological Succession of Primary Producers in the Oceans (2007, background): “Compilations of total diversity (e.g., Knoll 1994; Vidal and Moczydlowska 1997), assemblage diversity (Knoll et al. 2006), and morphospace occupation (Huntley et al. 2006) through time agree that a moderate diversity of eukaryotic organisms existed in Mesoproterozoic oceans.”