@misc{doeksen1963soil2,
    author = "Doeksen, J. and van der Drift, J",
    title = "Soil organisms",
    year = "1963",
    howpublished = "Amsterdam, North- Holland, 453 p",
    note = "talkorigins\_source = {true}; raw\_reference = {Doeksen, J., and van der Drift, J., 1963, Soil organisms: Amsterdam, North- Holland, 453 p.}"
}

@article{doi101126science1503694337,
    author = "Barghoorn, Elso S. and Schopf, J. William",
    title = "Microorganisms from the Late Precambrian of Central Australia",
    year = "1965",
    journal = "Science",
    abstract = "An assemblage of structurally and organically well preserved microorganisms, interpreted as both green and blue-green algae, has been found in chert facies of the Bitter Springs limestone from the upper Precambrian of central Australia. This appears to be the earliest known occurrence of green algae in the fossil record. These organisms are among the oldest known multicellular and unicellular fossils exhibiting distinct histological preservation.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1126/science.150.3694.337",
    doi = "10.1126/science.150.3694.337",
    openalex = "W2063489439"
}

@misc{cloud1977new1,
    author = "Cloud, P. E. and Morrison, K. and Lo, S. O",
    title = "New late pre-Phanerozoic and earliest Phanerozoic (?) microbiotas from Eastern Siberia",
    year = "1977",
    howpublished = "Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 9, no. 12",
    note = "talkorigins\_source = {true}; raw\_reference = {Cloud, P. E., Morrison, K., and Lo, S. O., 1977, New late pre-Phanerozoic and earliest Phanerozoic (?) microbiotas from Eastern Siberia: Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v. 9, no. 12.}"
}

@article{wright1978algal,
    author = "WRIGHT, LAUREN and WILLIAMS, EUGENE G. and CLOUD, PRESTON",
    title = "Algal and cryptalgal structures and platform environments of the late pre-Phanerozoic Noonday Dolomite, eastern California",
    year = "1978",
    journal = "Geological Society of America Bulletin",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1978)89<321:aacsap>2.0.co;2",
    doi = "10.1130/0016-7606(1978)89<321:aacsap>2.0.co;2",
    number = "3",
    openalex = "W1992918921",
    pages = "321",
    volume = "89"
}

@article{cloud1979earliest,
    author = "Cloud, Préston and Awramik, S.M. and Morrison, Karen and Hadley, D.G.",
    title = "Earliest Phanerozoic or latest Proterozoic fossils from the Arabian Shield",
    year = "1979",
    journal = "Precambrian Research",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-9268(79)90020-2",
    doi = "10.1016/0301-9268(79)90020-2",
    number = "1-2",
    openalex = "W2096384323",
    pages = "73-93",
    volume = "10",
    references = "doi101099002077132811, doi101126science1503694337, doi101128mmbr4212441978, doi101128mr4212441978, doi101146annurevmi31100177001301, doi10182618200094189197601, doi1023072406301, doi102475ajs26791017, doi102475ajs2726537, openalexw2326083785"
}

@article{balkwill1980late,
    author = "Balkwill, Hugh R. and Bustin, R.Marc",
    title = "Late phanerozoic structures, Canadian Arctic Archipelago",
    year = "1980",
    journal = "Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1016/0031-0182(80)90058-9",
    doi = "10.1016/0031-0182(80)90058-9",
    openalex = "W2001495331",
    pages = "219-227",
    volume = "30",
    references = "doi1010079781461323518, doi101029jb075i026p04925, doi101038scientificamerican046386, doi1011300091761319742377ptmfte20co2, doi101139e77123, doi101139e79068, doi101306c1ea3bea16c911d78645000102c1865d, doi101306c1ea4f8616c911d78645000102c1865d, openalexw1543325052, openalexw1865918832"
}

@article{binda1980earliest,
    author = "Binda, P.L. and Ramsay, C.R.",
    title = "Earliest phanerozoic or latest proterozoic fossils from the Arabian shield — A discussion",
    year = "1980",
    journal = "Precambrian Research",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-9268(80)90051-0",
    doi = "10.1016/0301-9268(80)90051-0",
    number = "4",
    openalex = "W2047588659",
    pages = "375-377",
    volume = "13",
    references = "cloud1979earliest, doi101007bf01164527, doi1010160301926878900748, doi101016b9780080244600500071, doi101016b9780080244679500101, doi101126science1934248143, doi101130001676061976879gotasw20co2, doi102475ajs26711, doi103133pp1131"
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@article{lo1980microbial,
    author = "Lo, Su-Chu C.",
    title = "Microbial fossils from the lower Yudoma Suite, earliest Phanerozoic, eastern Siberia",
    year = "1980",
    journal = "Precambrian Research",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-9268(80)90002-9",
    doi = "10.1016/0301-9268(80)90002-9",
    number = "2-3",
    openalex = "W2061310368",
    pages = "109-166",
    volume = "13",
    references = "cloud1976beginnings, doi101086626920, doi101126science1473658563, doi101126science148366627, doi105408002213683134, openalexw1573720888, openalexw2326083785, openalexw2336572712, openalexw2622880403, openalexw3126336940"
}

@article{cogley1981late,
    author = "Cogley, J. Graham",
    title = "Late Phanerozoic extent of dry land",
    year = "1981",
    journal = "Nature",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1038/291056a0",
    doi = "10.1038/291056a0",
    number = "5810",
    openalex = "W2082841418",
    pages = "56-58",
    volume = "291",
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}

@article{doi1054991jop19861549,
    author = "Shukla, Manoj and Tewari, V. C. and Yadav, Vineet",
    title = "Late Precambrian microfossils from Deoban Limestone Formation, Lesser Himalaya, India",
    year = "1986",
    journal = "Journal of Palaeosciences",
    abstract = "A well-preserved microbiota consisting of filamentous Cyanobacteria, viz., Oscillatoriopsis, Cyanonema, Siphonophycus, Eomycetopsis, Gunflintia and Animikiea; spheroidal unicells, viz., Glenobotrydion, Globophycus, Sphaerophycus and Myxococcoides; Eubacteria, viz., Archaeotrichion, Biocatenoides; and acritarch (?plankton) Kildinosphaera, is described from petrographic thin sections of cherts from the Deoban Formation, Garhwal Lesser Himalaya. The assemblage has been compared with other authentic Proterozoic records. The palaeomicrobial community is interpreted to have inhabited a protected shallow intertidal environment.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.54991/jop.1986.1549",
    doi = "10.54991/jop.1986.1549",
    openalex = "W2807184000",
    references = "doi1010160301926877900250, doi1010160301926879900226, doi10108003115517708527768, doi10108003115517808527785, doi101126science1473658563, doi101126science1503694337, openalexw2326083785, openalexw2336572712, openalexw2600684084, openalexw620292862"
}

@article{doi101666091331,
    author = "Sergeev, Vladimir N. and Schopf, J. William",
    title = "Taxonomy, paleoecology and biostratigraphy of the late Neoproterozoic Chichkan microbiota of South Kazakhstan: the marine biosphere on the eve of metazoan radiation",
    year = "2010",
    journal = "Journal of Paleontology",
    abstract = "Carbonaceous bedded cherts of the late Neoproterozoic (Cryogenian) ∼800 to 750 Ma old Chichkan Formation of South Kazakhstan contain an abundant, diverse assemblage of exquisitely preserved microorganisms. Like many Proterozoic microbiotas, the Chichkan assemblage is dominated by prokaryotic cyanobacteria, both filamentous (oscillatorialeans and nostocaleans, represented primarily by cellular trichomes and empty sheaths) and coccoidal (chroococcaleans and pleurocapsaleans, including solitary, colonial, and stalk-forming specimens). However, unlike Proterozoic microbiotas reported from peritidal settings, the Chichkan fossils, permineralized in cherts deposited in the open shelf facies of the formation, include diverse microscopic eukaryotes: vase-shaped testate amoebae, spiny (acanthomorphic) phytoplanktonic unicells, large (up to ∼1 mm diameter) megasphaeromorphic acritarchs, and sausage-shaped vaucheriacean green alga-like filaments. Given the composition of this biota and the presence in it and similarly aged assemblages of numerous taxa typical of late Neoproterozoic deposits (e.g., Cerebrosphaera, Jacutianema, Melanocyrillium, Stictosphaeridium, Trachyhystrichosphaera, and Vandalosphaeridium), the Chichkan Lagerstätte appears representative of the Cryogenian biota as now known, thereby documenting the status of the marine biosphere at a time closely preceding the radiation of the Metazoa. As such, we interpret this and other coeval mixed assemblages of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microfossils as representing an evolutionary stage transitional between the predominantly prokaryote-dominated Precambrian and the eukaryote-dominated Phanerozoic biospheres. As reported here, the Chichkan assemblage is composed of 39 taxa (of which two forms are described informally) that are assigned to 23 genera of microscopic prokaryotes and eukaryotes and that include two new species: Polybessurus crassus n. sp. and Vandalosphaeridium koksuicum n. sp.",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.1666/09-133.1",
    doi = "10.1666/09-133.1",
    openalex = "W2116688300",
    references = "doi1010160301926877900262, doi101017cbo9780511601064, doi101073pnas74115088, doi10108011035898209455245, doi1010990022128711111, doi101111j150239311988tb02083x, doi101126science1103096, doi1023071485834, doi1073260003481911253913, lo1980microbial, openalexw2026796374, openalexw2326083785, openalexw3038870694, sergeev1994microfossils"
}

@misc{du2023identification,
    author = "Du, Long and Long, Xiaoping and Yuan, Chao and Zhang, Yunying and Huang, Zongying and Zhu, Hongli",
    title = "Identification of the Earliest (Late Devonian) Back-Arc Magmatism in the Chinese Eastern Tianshan",
    year = "2023",
    url = "https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4366629",
    doi = "10.2139/ssrn.4366629",
    openalex = "W4321504402"
}