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Proterozoic References

Benton, MJ (2003), When Life Nearly Died: the Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time. Thames & Hudson, 336 pp.

Canfield, DE (2005), The early history of atmospheric oxygen.  Ann. Rev. Earth. Planet. Sci. 33: 1-36. 

Falkowski, PG, ME Katz, AH Knoll, A Quigg, JA Raven, O Schofield & FJR Taylor (2004), The evolution of modern eukaryotic phytoplankton.  Science 305: 354-360. 

Golubkova, E & E Raevskaya (2005), Main changes in microfossil communities throughout the Upper Proterozoic of Russia.  Carn. Géol. Mem. 2005/02:04. 

Honda, S, M Yoshida, S Ootorii, & Y Iwase (2000). The timescales of plume generation caused by continental aggregation.  Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 176: 31-43.

Huntley, JW, S-H Xiao, & M Kowalewski (2006), 1.3 Billion years of acritarch history: An empirical morphospace approach.  Precambrian Res. 144: 52–68. 

Javaux, EJ, AH Knoll & MR Walter (2001), Morphological and ecological complexity in early eukaryotic ecosystems.  Nature 412: 66-69. 

Javaux, EJ, AH Knoll & MR Walter (2004), TEM evidence for eukaryotic diversity in mid-Proterozoic oceans.  Geobiology 2: 121–132. 

Johnson, SP & T Rivers (2004), Mesoproterozoic supra-subduction magmatism and arc-accretion along the southern margin of the Congo Craton: implications for Rodinia reconstructions.  AOGS Abstr. 2004: 57-OSE-M229.    

Kaufman, AJ & S Xiao (2003), High CO2 levels in the Proterozoic atmosphere estimated from analyses of individual microfossils.  Nature 425: 279-282. 

Kempe, A, JW Schopf, W Altermann, AB Kudryavtsev & WM Heckl (2002), Atomic force microscopy of Precambrian microscopic fossils.  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 99: 9117-9120. 

Knoll, AH (1994), Proterozoic and Early Cambrian protists: Evidence for accelerating evolutionary tempo.  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 91: 6743-6750. 

Meeks, JC, EL Campbell, ML Summers & FC Wong (2002), Cellular differentiation in the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme.  Arch. Microbiol. 178: 395-403. 

Meert, JG & E Tamrat (2004), The H.O.G. hypothesis for explaining rapid continental motion in the late Neoproterozoic in PG Eriksson, W Altermann, O Catuneanu, WU Mueller & DR Nelson [eds.], The Precambrian Earth: Tempos and Events.  Elsevier.  

Meert, JG & TH Torsvik (2003), The making and unmaking of a supercontinent: Rodinia revisited.  Tectonophysics 375: 261-288.

Meert, J.G., E Tamrat, & J Spearman (2003), Non-dipole fields and inclination bias: Insights from a random walk analysis.  Earth & Planet. Sci. Lett., 214: 395-408.

Olcott, AN, AL Sessions, FA Corsetti, AJ Kaufman, & T Flavio de Oliviera (2005), Biomarker evidence for photosynthesis during Neoproterozoic glaciation.  Science 310: 471-474. 

Pesonen, LJ, S-Å Elming, S Mertanen, S Pisarevsky, MS D’Agrella-Filho, JG Meert, PW Schmidt, N Abrahamsen & G Bylund (2003), Assemblies of continents during the Proterozoic: Rodinia and beyond.  Tectonophysics 375: 289-324.

Peterson, KJ & NJ Butterfield (2005), Origin of the Eumetazoa: Testing ecological predictions of molecular clocks against the Proterozoic fossil record.  Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 102: 9547-9552. 

Porter, SM (2004), The fossil record of early eukaryote diversification.  Pal. Soc. Papers 10: 35-50. 

Stanley, SM (1998), Earth System History.  WH Freeman & Co., 615 pp.

Summons, RE, LL Jahnks, JM Hope & GA Logan (1999), 2-methylhopanoids: Biomarkers for cyanobacteria and for oxygenic photosynthesis.  VM Goldschmidt Conf. Abstr. 9: 7305.

Xiao, S-H, AH Knoll, X-L Yuan, & CM Pueschel (2004), Phosphatized multicellular algae in the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China, and the early evolution of florideophyte red algae.  Am. J. Bot. 91: 214–227. 

Yoon, HS, JD Hackett, C Ciniglia, G Pinto, & D Bhattacharya (2004), A molecular timeline for the origin of photosynthetic eukaryotes.  Mol. Biol. Evol. 21: 809–818.