Zongjun Yin

TL;DR: An extraordinarily well preserved, 600-million-year-old, three-dimensionally phosphatized fossil displaying multiple independent characters of modern adult sponges is presented, consistent with phylogenomic inference and implies the presence of eumetazoan ancestors by 60 Myr before the Cambrian.

TL;DR: The discovery of macroscopic fossils from the 1,560-Myr-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation, Yanshan area, North China, that exhibit both large size and regular morphology provide the strongest evidence yet that multicellular eukaryotes with decimetric dimensions and a regular developmental program populated the marine biosphere at least a billion years before the Cambrian Explosion.

TL;DR: A set of recommendations for minimum standards and additional best practice for three-dimensional digital data publication are proposed, and the issues around data storage, management and accessibility are reviewed.

TL;DR: These embryos provide further evidence for the presence of bilaterian animals in the Doushantuo biota and indicate that the last common ancestor of the bilaterians lived much earlier than is usually thought.

TL;DR: The structure and ecology of Cambrian Burgess Shale-type communities remained relatively stable until at least the Middle Cambrian (Series 3, Stage 5) in subtidal to relatively deep-water offshore settings in siliciclastic soft-substrate environments.