Junming Zhang

TL;DR: In this article, the Yangtze Platform of South China has been investigated for the purpose of constructing a framework for global chronostratigraphic correlation of Ediacaran strata, and the results indicated that the earliest known metazoan biotas do not constitute two temporally separate evolutionary lineages preceding the Cambrian explosion of animal life.

TL;DR: The discovery of embryo-like Doushantuo fossils inside large, highly ornamented organic vesicles (acritarchs) indicates that these organisms were eukaryotic, and most probably early cleavage stage embryos preserved within diapause egg cysts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the early Cambrian shallow-to-deep-water sequences of the Yangtze Platform and proposed a high-resolution stratigraphic framework for multidisciplinary analyses of the Cambrian explosion.

TL;DR: In this paper, two distinctive volcanic ash beds were found in the terminal Proterozoic Doushantuo Formation in south China, yielding a U-Pb zircon age of 621 6 7 Ma, providing the closest upper limit for a correlative of the Marinoan glaciation.

TL;DR: The Doushantuo Formation of South China, consisting of intercalated siliciclastic and carbonate rocks which exhibit considerable variation in thickness and sedimentary facies, is one of the key sedimentary units in the world for understanding Ediacaran geobiological processes as mentioned in this paper.