Paleobiology & Geobiology Research Group
at Virginia Tech
Publications
List of Recent Publications
2021
Bronzati, M., R. B. J. Benson, S. W. Evers, M. D. Ezcurra, S. F. Cabreira, J. Choiniere, K. N. Dollman, A. Paulina-Carabajal, V. J. Radermacher, L. Roberto-Da-Silva, G. Sobral, M. R. Stocker, L. M. Witmer, M. C. Langer and S. J. Nesbitt. 2021. Deep evolutionary diversification of semicircular canals in archosaurs, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.086.
Colleary, C.*, H. M. Lamadrid, S. S. O’Reilly, A. Dolocan and S. J. Nesbitt. 2021. Molecular preservation in mammoth bone and variation based on burial environment, 11:2662.10.1038/s41598-021-81849-6.
Cui, H., K. Kitajima, I. J. Orland, S. Xiao, J.-M. Baele, A. J. Kaufman, A. Denny, C. Zhou, M. J. Spicuzza, J. H. Fournelle and J. W. Valley. 2021. Deposition or diagenesis? Probing the Ediacaran Shuram excursion in South China by SIMS, 206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2021.103591
Gan, T.*, T. Luo, K. Pang, C. Zhou, G. Zhou, B. Wan, G. Li, Q. Yi, A. D. Czaja and S. Xiao. 2021. Cryptic terrestrial fungus-like fossils of the early Ediacaran Period, 12:1-12.
Griffin, C. T.*, M. R. Stocker, C. Colleary*, C. M. Stefanic*, E. J. Lessner**, M. Riegler*, K. Formoso*, K. Koeller* and S. J. Nesbitt. 2021. Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles, 96:470-525.https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12666.
Gurgis, G. P., J. D. Daza, I. G. Brennan, M. Hutchinson, A. M. Bauer, M. R. Stocker and J. C. Olori. 2021. Ecomorphometric analysis of diversity in cranial shape of pygopodid geckos, 10.1093/iob/obab013.
Heckert, A. B., S. J. Nesbitt, M. R. Stocker, V. P. Schneider, D. K. Hoffman* and B. W. Zimmer. 2021. A new short-faced archosauriform from the Upper Triassic Placerias/Downs’ quarry complex, Arizona, USA, expands the morphological diversity of the Triassic archosauriform radiation, 108:32.10.1007/s00114-021-01733-1
Kligman, B. T.*, W. C. Mcclure, M. Korbitz and B. A. Schumacher. 2021. New sphenodontian (Reptilia: Lepidosauria) from a novel Late Triassic paleobiota in western North America sheds light on the earliest radiation of herbivorous lepidosaurs, 1-18.10.1017/jpa.2021.22.
Lang, X., Z. Zhao, H. Ma, K. Huang, S. Li, C. Zhou, S. Xiao, Y. Peng, Y. Liu, W. Tang and B. Shen. 2021. Cracking the superheavy pyrite enigma: possible roles of volatile organosulfur compound emission, 10.1093/nsr/nwab034
Maloney, K. M., G. P. Halverson, J. D. Schiffbauer, S. Xiao, T. M. Gibson, M. A. Lechte, V. M. Cumming, A. E. G. Millikin, J. G. Murphy, M. W. Wallace, D. Selby and M. Laflamme. 2021. New multicellular marine macroalgae from the early Tonian of northwestern Canada, 10.1130/g48508.1
McCabe, M. B.** and S. J. Nesbitt. 2021. The first pectoral and forelimb material assigned to the lagerpetid Lagerpeton chanarensis (Archosauria: Dinosauromorpha) from the upper portion of the Chañares Formation, Late Triassic, 14:121-131, 111.
Mestriner, G., A. Leblanc, S. J. Nesbitt, J. C. A. Marsola, R. B. Irmis, Á. A. S. Da-Rosa, A. M. Ribeiro, J. Ferigolo and M. Langer. 2021. Histological analysis of ankylothecodonty in Silesauridae (Archosauria: Dinosauriformes) and its implications for the evolution of dinosaur tooth attachment, https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24679
Nesbitt, S. J., M. R. Stocker, S. Chatterjee, J. R. Horner and M. B. Goodwin. 2021. A remarkable group of thick-headed Triassic Period archosauromorphs with a wide, possibly Pangean distribution, https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13414
Ouyang, Q., C. Zhou, S. Xiao, C. Guan, Z. Chen, X. Yuan and Y. Sun. 2021. Distribution of Ediacaran acanthomorphic acritarchs in the lower Doushantuo Formation of the Yangtze Gorges area, South China: Evolutionary and stratigraphic implications, 353:106005.
Parker, W. G., S. J. Nesbitt, R. B. Irmis, J. W. Martz, A. D. Marsh, M. A. Brown, M. R. Stocker and S. Werning. 2021. Osteology and relationships of Revueltosaurus callenderi (Archosauria: Suchia) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) Chinle Formation of Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.24757
Schwid, M. F.*, S. Xiao, M. R. Nolan* and Z. An. 2021. Differential weathering of diagenetic concretions and the formation of Neoproterozoic annulated discoidal structures, 36:15-27.10.2110/palo.2020.018
Steyer, J.-S., B. R. Peecook, T. Arbez, S. J. Nesbitt, S. Tolan, M. R. Stocker, R. M. H. Smith, K. D. Angielczyk and C. A. Sidor. 2021. New data on the Triassic temnospondyls from the Karoo rift basins of Tanzania and Zambia, 43:365-376.
Stocker, M. R., C. A. Brochu and E. C. Kirk. 2021. A new caimanine alligatorid from the Middle Eocene of Southwest Texas and implications for spatial and temporal shifts in Paleogene crocodyliform diversity, 9:e10665.
Sues, H.-D. and B. T. Kligman*. 2021. A new lizard-like reptile from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of Virginia and the Triassic record of Lepidosauromorpha (Diapsida, Sauria), e1879102.10.1080/02724634.2021.1879102
Tang, Q.*, K. Pang, G. Li, L. Chen, X. Yuan, M. Sharma and S. Xiao. 2021. The Proterozoic macrofossil Tawuia as a coenocytic eukaryote and a possible macroalga, 110485.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110485
Tang, Q.*, K. Pang, G. Li, L. Chen, X. Yuan and S. Xiao. 2021. One-billion-year-old epibionts highlight symbiotic ecological interactions in early eukaryote evolution, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2021.05.008
To, K. H. T.*, H. D. O’brien, M. R. Stocker and P. M. Gignac. 2021. Cranial Musculoskeletal Description of Black-Throated Finch (Aves: Passeriformes: Estrildidae) with DiceCT, 10.1093/iob/obab007
Wang, X.-P., Z. Chen, K. Pang, C.-M. Zhou, S. Xiao, B. Wan and X.-L. Yuan. 2021. Dickinsonia from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China,
Wynd, B. M.*, J. C. Uyeda and S. J. Nesbitt. 2021. Including distorted specimens in allometric studies: linear mixed models account for deformation, 10.1093/iob/obab017
Xiao, S., Z. Chen, K. Pang, C. Zhou and X. Yuan. 2021. The Shibantan Lagerstätte: insights into the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic transition, 178:jgs2020-2135.10.1144/jgs2020-135
2020
Beyl, A., S. J. Nesbitt and M. R. Stocker. 2020. An Otischalkian dinosauromorph assemblage from the Los Esteros Member (Santa Rosa Formation) of New Mexico and its implications for biochronology and lagerpetid body size, 40:e1765788.10.1080/02724634.2020.1765788.
Bykova, N.*, S. T. Loduca, Q. Ye, V. Marusin, D. Grazhdankin and S. Xiao. 2020. Seaweeds through time: Morphological and ecological analysis of Proterozoic and early Paleozoic benthic macroalgae, 350:105875.
Ezcurra, M. D., S. J. Nesbitt, L. E. Fiorelli and J. B. Desojo. 2020. New specimen sheds light on the anatomy and taxonomy of the early Late Triassic dinosauriforms from the Chañares Formation, NW Argentina, 303:1393-1438.
Ezcurra, M. D., S. J. Nesbitt, M. Bronzati, F. M. Dalla Vecchia, F. L. Agnolin, R. B. J. Benson, F. Brissón Egli, S. F. Cabreira, S. W. Evers, A. R. Gentil, R. B.
Irmis, A. G. Martinelli, F. E. Novas, L. Roberto Da Silva, N. D. Smith, M. R. Stocker, A. H. Turner and M. C. Langer. 2020. Enigmatic dinosaur precursors bridge the gap to the origin of Pterosauria, 588:445-449.10.1038/s41586-020-3011-4.
Foffa, D., R. J. Butler, S. J. Nesbitt, S. Walsh, P. M. Barrett, S. L. Brusatte and N. C. Fraser. 2020. Revision of Erpetosuchus (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) and new erpetosuchid material from the Late Triassic ‘Elgin Reptile’ fauna based on μCT scanning techniques, 111:209-233.
Griffin, C. T.* and S. J. Nesbitt. 2020. Does the maximum body size of theropods increase across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary? Integrating ontogeny, phylogeny, and body size, 303:1158-1169.
Hégron, A., M. R. Stocker, A. D. Marsh and S. J. Nesbitt. 2020. Archosauromorphs (Reptilia: Diapsida) from the Lamy Quarry, Garita Creek Formation (Adamanian, Late Triassic), New Mexico, USA, 13:135-149, 115.
Jenkins, X. A., A. C. Pritchard, A. D. Marsh, B. T. Kligman*, C. A. Sidor and K. E. Reed. 2020. Using Manual Ungual Morphology to Predict Substrate Use in the Drepanosauromorpha and the Description of a New Species, 40:e1810058.10.1080/02724634.2020.1810058.
Kammerer, C. F., S. J. Nesbitt, J. J. Flynn, L. Ranivoharimanana and A. R. Wyss. 2020. A tiny ornithodiran archosaur from the Triassic of Madagascar and the role of miniaturization in dinosaur and pterosaur ancestry, 117:17932-17936.10.1073/pnas.1916631117
Kligman, B. T.*, A. D. Marsh, S. J. Nesbitt, W. G. Parker and M. R. Stocker. 2020. New trilophosaurid species demonstrates a decline in allokotosaur diversity across the Adamanian-Revueltian boundary in the Late Triassic of western North America, 13:25-37.
Kligman, B. T.*, A. D. Marsh, H.-D. Sues and C. A. Sidor. 2020. A new non-mammalian eucynodont from the Chinle Formation (Triassic: Norian), and implications for the early Mesozoic equatorial cynodont record, 16:20200631.doi:10.1098/rsbl.2020.0631.
Liang, D., Y. Cai, M. R. Nolan* and S. Xiao. 2020. The terminal Ediacaran tubular fossil Cloudina in the Yangtze Gorges area of South China, 351:105931.
Marsh, A. D., M. E. Smith, W. G. Parker, R. B. Irmis and B. T. Kligman*. 2020. Skeletal Anatomy of Acaenasuchus geoffreyi Long and Murry, 1995 (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) and its Implications for the Origin of the Aetosaurian Carapace, 40:e1794885.10.1080/02724634.2020.1794885.
Mitchell, E. G., N. Bobkov, N. Bykova*, A. Dhungana, A. V. Kolesnikov, I. R. P. Hogarth, A. G. Liu, T. M. R. Mustill, N. Sozonov, V. I. Rogov, S. Xiao and D. V. Grazhdankin. 2020. The influence of environmental setting on the community ecology of Ediacaran organisms, 10:20190109.doi:10.1098/rsfs.2019.0109
Müller, R. T., M. B. Von Baczko, J. B. Desojo and S. J. Nesbitt. 2020. The first ornithosuchid from Brazil and its macroevolutionary and phylogenetic implications for Late Triassic faunas in Gondwana, 65:1-10.
Nesbitt, S. J. and H.-D. Sues. 2020. The osteology of the early-diverging dinosaur Daemonosaurus chauliodus (Archosauria: Dinosauria) from the Coelophysis Quarry (Triassic: Rhaetian) of New Mexico and its relationships to other early dinosaurs, 191:150-179.10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa080.
Nesbitt, S. J., M. C. Langer and M. D. Ezcurra. 2020. The anatomy of Asilisaurus kongwe, a dinosauriform from the Lifua Member of the Manda Beds (~ Middle Triassic) of Africa, 303:813-873.
Nesbitt, S. J., J. M. Zawiskie and R. M. Dawley. 2020. The osteology and phylogenetic position of the loricatan (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) Heptasuchus clarki, from the ?Mid-Upper Triassic, southeastern Big Horn Mountains, Central Wyoming (USA), 8:e10101.
Okubo, J.*, Y. I. Klyukin, L. V. Warren, D. M. Sublett, R. J. Bodnar, B. C. Gill and S. Xiao. 2020. Hydrothermal influence on barite precipitates in the basal Ediacaran Sete Lagoas cap dolostone, São Francisco Craton, central Brazil, 340:105628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105628
Pang, K., Q. Tang*, B. Wan and X.-L. Yuan. 2020. New insights on the palaeobiology and biostratigraphy of the acritarch Trachyhystrichosphaera aimika: A potential late Mesoproterozoic to Tonian index fossil, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2020.02.003
Pang, K., Q. Tang*, C. Wu, G. Li, L. Chen, B. Wan, X. Yuan, R. J. Bodnar and S. Xiao. 2020. Raman spectroscopy and structural heterogeneity of carbonaceous material in Proterozoic organic-walled microfossils in the North China Craton, 346:105818. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105818
Schachner, E. R., R. B. Irmis, A. K. Huttenlocker, K. Sanders, R. L. Cieri and S. J. Nesbitt. 2020. Osteology of the Late Triassic Bipedal Archosaur Poposaurus gracilis (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) from Western North America, 303:874-917.
Schwid, M. F.*, S. Xiao, E. E. Hiatt, Y. Fang and M. R. Nolan*. 2020. Iron phosphate in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation of South China: A previously undocumented marine phosphate sink, 560:109993.
Tang, Q.*, K. Pang, X. Yuan and S. Xiao. 2020. A one-billion-year-old multicellular chlorophyte, 4:543-549. DOI.10.1038/s41559-020-1122-9.
Wan, B., Z. Chen, X. Yuan, K. Pang, Q. Tang*, C. Guan, X. Wang, S. K. Pandey, M. L. Droser and S. Xiao. 2020. A tale of three taphonomic modes: The Ediacaran fossil Flabellophyton preserved in limestone, black shale, and sandstone, 84:296-314. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2020.04.003
Wang, Z., C. Chen, J. Wang, E. Suess, X. Chen, X. Ma, G. Wang and S. Xiao. 2020. Wide but not ubiquitous distribution of glendonite in the Doushantuo Formation, South China: Implications for Ediacaran climate, 338:105586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105586
Wang, X., K. Pang, Z. Chen, B. Wan, S. Xiao, C. Zhou and X. Yuan. 2020. The Ediacaran frondose fossil Arborea from the Shibantan limestone of South China, 94:1034-1050.
Wynd, B. M.*, D. G. Demar Jr and G. P. Wilson. 2020. Euselachian diversity through the uppermost Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of Garfield County, Montana, USA, with implications for the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction in freshwater environments, 104483.
Wynd, B. M.*, R. N. Martínez, C. Colombi and O. Alcober. 2020. A Review of Vertebrate Beak Morphologies in the Triassic; A Framework to Characterize an Enigmatic Beak from the Ischigualasto Formation, San Juan, Argentina, 57:370-387, 318.
Wynd, B. M.*, S. J. Nesbitt, M. R. Stocker and A. B. Heckert. 2020. A Detailed description of Rugarhynchos sixmilensis, gen. et comb. nov. (Archosauriformes, Proterochampsia), and cranial convergence in snout elongation across stem and crown archosaurs, e1748042.
Xiao, S. 2020. Ediacaran sponges, animal biomineralization, and skeletal reefs, 117:20997-20999.10.1073/pnas.2014393117.
Xiao, S. and G. M. Narbonne, 2020, The Ediacaran Period. p. 521-561. In F. M. Gradstein, J. G. Ogg, M. D. Schmitz, and G. M. Ogg (ed.), Geologic Time Scale 2020 (Volume 1). Elsevier, Oxford. https://www.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824360-2.00018-8.
Xiao, S., H. Cui, J. Kang*, K. A. Mcfadden, A. J. Kaufman, K. Kitajima, J. H. Fournelle, M. Schwid*, M. Nolan*, J.-M. Baele and J. W. Valley. 2020. Using SIMS to decode noisy stratigraphic δ13C variations in Ediacaran carbonates, 343:105686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2020.105686.
Xiao, S., J. G. Gehling, S. D. Evans*, I. V. Hughes and M. L. Droser. 2020. Probable benthic macroalgae from the Ediacara Member, South Australia, 350:105903.
Zhou, C.-M., M. H. Huyskens, S. Xiao and Q.-Z. Yin. 2020. Refining the termination age of the Cryogenian Sturtian glaciation in South China, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2020.04.002
2019
Arrouy, M. J., C. Gaucher, D. G. Poiré, S. Xiao, L. E. Gómez Peral, L. V. Warren, N. Bykova* and F. Quaglio. 2019. A new record of late Ediacaran acritarchs from La providencia group (Tandilia System, Argentina) and its biostratigraphical significance, 93:283-293.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2019.05.015
Bradley, A. B.**, S. H. Burch, A. H. Turner, N. D. Smith, R. B. Irmis and S. J. Nesbitt. 2019. Sternal elements of early dinosaurs fill a critical gap in the evolution of the sternum in Avemetatarsalia (Reptilia: Archosauria), 39:e1700992.
Cai, Y.*, S. Xiao, G. Li and H. Hua. 2019. Diverse biomineralizing animals in the terminal Ediacaran Period herald the Cambrian explosion, 47:380-384.10.1130/g45949.1
Chen, Z., C. Zhou, X. Yuan and S. Xiao. 2019. Death march of a segmented and trilobate bilaterian elucidates early animal evolution, 573:412-415.10.1038/s41586-019-1522-7
Cui, H., S. Xiao, Y. Cai*, S. Peek, R. E. Plummer and A. J. Kaufman. 2019. Sedimentology and chemostratigraphy of the terminal Ediacaran Dengying Formation at the Gaojiashan section, South China, 156:1924-1948.10.1017/S0016756819000293
Formoso, K. K., S. J. Nesbitt, A. C. Pritchard, M. R. Stocker and W. G. Parker. 2019. A long-necked tanystropheid from the Middle Triassic Moenkopi Formation (Anisian) provides insights into the ecology and biogeography of tanystropheids, https://doi.org/10.26879/988
Gilbert, P. U. P. A., S. M. Porter, C.-Y. Sun, S. Xiao, B. M. Gibson, N. Shenkar and A. H. Knoll. 2019. Biomineralization by particle attachment in early animals, 116:17659-17665.10.1073/pnas.1902273116
Griffin, C. T.* 2019. Large neotheropods from the Upper Triassic of North America and the early evolution of large theropod body sizes. Journal of Paleontology.
Griffin, C. T.* and K. Angielczyk. 2019. The evolution of the dicynodont sacrum: constraint and innovation in the synapsid axial column. Paleobiology 45:201-220.
Griffin, C. T.* 2019. Pathological bone tissue in a Late Triassic neotheropod fibula, with implications for the interpretation of medullary bone. New Jersey State Museum Investigations 6.
Griffin, C. T.*, L. S. Bano**, A. H. Turner, N. D. Smith, R. B. Irmis, S. J. Nesbitt. 2019. Integrating gross morphology and bone histology to assess skeletal maturity in early dinosauromorphs: new insights from Dromomeron (Archosauria: Dinosauromorpha). PeerJ 7: e6331.
Hoffman, D. K.*, H. R. Edwards**, P. M. Barrett and S. J. Nesbitt. 2019. Reconstructing the archosaur radiation using a Middle Triassic archosauriform tooth assemblage from Tanzania, 7:e7970.
Hoffman, D. K.*, A. B. Heckert and L. E. Zanno. 2019. Disparate Growth Strategies within Aetosauria: Novel Histologic Data from the Aetosaur Coahomasuchus chathamensis, 302:1504-1515.
Marsh, A. D., W. G. Parker, M. C. Langer and S. J. Nesbitt. 2019. Redescription of the Holotype Specimen of Chindesaurus bryansmalli Long and Murry, 1995 (Dinosauria, Theropoda), from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, 39:e1645682.
Mergelsberg, S. T., R. N. Ulrich, S. Xiao and P. M. Dove. 2019. Composition Systematics in the Exoskeleton of the American Lobster, Homarus americanus and Implications for Malacostraca, 7:10.3389/feart.2019.00069
Nesbitt, S. J., R. K. Denton, M. A. Loewen, S. L. Brusatte, N. D. Smith, A. H. Turner, J. I. Kirkland, A. T. Mcdonald and D. G. Wolfe. 2019. A mid-Cretaceous tyrannosauroid and the origin of North American end-Cretaceous dinosaur assemblages, 3:892-899.
Ouyang, Q., C. Zhou, S. Xiao, Z. Chen, and Y. Shao, 2019, Acanthomorphic acritarchs from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation at Zhangcunping in South China, with implications for the evolution of early Ediacaran eukaryotes. Precambrian Research, 320: 171-192. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.10.012.
Stefanic, C. M.* and S. J. Nesbitt. 2019. The evolution and role of the hyposphene-hypantrum articulation in Archosauria: phylogeny, size and/or mechanics?, 6:190258.
Stocker, M. R. 2019. Morphology: Too hip for two sacral vertebrae, 8:e53399.
Stocker, M. R., S. J. Nesbitt, B. T. Kligman*, D. J. Paluh, A. D. Marsh, D. C. Blackburn & W. G. Parker. The earliest equatorial record of frogs from the Late Triassic of Arizona. Biology Letters 15. http://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0922.
Tang, Q.*, J. Hu, G. Xie, X. Yuan, B. Wan, C. Zhou, X. Dong, G. Cao, B. S. Lieberman, S. P. Leys and S. Xiao. 2019. A problematic animal fossil from the early Cambrian Hetang Formation, South China—A reply, 93:1279-1282.10.1017/jpa.2019.69
Tang, Q.*, B. Wan, X. Yuan, A. D. Muscente* and S. Xiao. 2019. Spiculogenesis and biomineralization in early sponge animals, 10:3348-3348.10.1038/s41467-019-11297-4
Tolchard, F., S. J. Nesbitt, J. B. Desojo, P. Viglietti, R. J. Butler and J. N. Choiniere. 2019. ‘Rauisuchian’material from the lower Elliot Formation of South Africa and Lesotho: Implications for Late Triassic biogeography and biostratigraphy, 160:103610.
Wan, B., Q. Tang*, K. Pang, X. Wang, Z. Bao, F. Meng, C. Zhou, X. Yuan, H. Hua, and S. Xiao, 2019, Repositioning the Great Unconformity in the
southeastern margin of North China Craton. Precambrian Research, 324: 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2019.01.014.
Wynd, B. M.*, E. B. Daeschler and M. R. Stocker. 2019. Evolutionary homology in the fin-to-limb transition: evaluating the morphology of foramina in a Late Devonian humerus from the Catskill Formation, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, 39:e1718682.
Xiao, S., Z. Chen, C. Zhou and X. Yuan. 2019. Surfing in and on microbial mats: Oxygen-related behavior of a terminal Ediacaran bilaterian animal, 47:1054-1058 DOI.10.1130/g46474.1
Ye*, Q., J. Tong, L. Tian, J. Hu, Z. An, R. J. Bodnar, and S. Xiao, 2019, Detrital graphite particles in the Cryogenian Nantuo Formation of South China: Implications for sedimentary provenance and tectonic history. Precambrian Research, 232: 6-15. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2019.01.003.
Ye*, Q., J. Tong, Z. An, J. Hu, L. Tian, K. Guan, and S. Xiao, 2019, Carbonaceous compression macrofossils from the upper Ediacaran Miaohe Member in South China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 17: 183-238. doi: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1404499.
Zhang, F., S. Xiao, S. J. Romaniello, D. Hardisty, C. Li, V. Melezhik, B. Pokrovsky, M. Cheng, W. Shi, T. M. Lenton and A. D. Anbar. 2019. Global marine redox changes drove the rise and fall of the Ediacara biota, 17:594-610.10.1111/gbi.12359
Zhou, C., M. H. Huyskens, X. Lang, S. Xiao, and Q.-Z. Yin, 2019, Calibrating the terminations of Cryogenian global glaciations. Geology. doi: 10.1130/G45719.1.
Zhou, C., X. Yuan, S. Xiao, Z. Chen, and H. Hua, 2019, Ediacaran integrative stratigraphy and timescale of China. Science China: Earth Sciences, 62: 7-24. doi: 10.1007/s11430-017-9216-2.
2018
Bradley, A.B.** & Nesbitt, S.J. 2018. A new specimen of Ruhuhuaria reiszi from the Manda Beds (?Middle Triassic) of southern Tanzania: Implications for small reptiles in the Middle Triassic. pp. 88–95 in C. A. Sidor and S. J. Nesbitt (eds.), Vertebrate and Climatic Evolution in the Triassic Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 17. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6, Supplement). Link
Butler, R.J., Nesbitt, S.J., Charig, A.J., Gower, D.J. & Barrett, P.M. 2018. Mandasuchus tanyauchen gen. et sp. nov., a pseudosuchian archosaur from the Manda Beds of Tanzania. pp. 96–121 in C. A. Sidor and S. J. Nesbitt (eds.), Vertebrate and Climatic Evolution in the Triassic Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 17. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6, Supplement). Link
Chen, Z., X. Chen, C. Zhou, X. Yuan, and S. Xiao, 2018, Late Ediacaran trackways produced by bilaterian animals with paired appendages. Science Advances, 4: eaao6691. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aao6691.
Delarue, F., F. Robert, R. Tartese, K. Sugitani, Q. Tang*, R. Duhamel, S. Pont, and S. Xiao, 2018, Can NanoSIMS probe quantitatively the geochemical composition of ancient organic-walled microfossils? A case study from the early Neoproterozoic Liulaobei Formation. Precambrian Research, 311: 65-73. doi: 10.1016/j.precamres.2018.03.003.
Fang, Y., A. D. Muscente*, S. W. Heads, B. Wang, and S. Xiao, 2018, The earliest Elcanidae (Insecta, Orthoptera) from the Upper Triassic of North America. Journal of Paleontology, 92: 1028-1034. doi: 10.1017/jpa.2018.20.
Griffin, C. T*. 2018. Developmental patterns and variation among early theropods. Journal of Anatomy 232: 604–640.
McLain, M., D. Nelsen, K. Snyder, C. Griffin*, B. Siviero, L. Brand, A. Chadwick. 2018. Tyrannosaur cannibalism: A case of a tooth-traced tyrannosaurid bone in the Lance Formation (Maastrichtian), Wyoming. PALAIOS 33: 164–173.
Hawkins*, A. D., M. Kowalewski, and S. Xiao, 2018, Breaking down the lithification bias: The effect of preferential sampling of larger specimens on the estimate of species richness, evenness, and average specimen size. Paleobiology, 44:326-345. doi: 10.1017/pab.2017.39.
Hawkins*, A. D., H. P. Liu, D. E. G. Briggs, A. D. Muscente, R. M. Mckay, B. J. Witzke, and S. Xiao, 2018, Taphonomy and biological affinity of three-dimensionally phosphatized bromalites from the Middle Ordovician Winneshiek Lagerstätte, northeastern Iowa, USA. Palaios, 33, 1-15. doi: 10.2110/palo.2017.053.
Hoffman, D. K.*, Heckert, A. B., Zanno, L. E. 2018. Under the armor: X-ray computed tomographic reconstruction of the internal skeleton of Coahomasuchus chathamensis (Archosauria: Aetosauria) from the Upper Triassic of North Carolina, USA, and a phylogenetic analysis of Aetosauria: PeerJ.10.7717/peerj.4368.
Kammerer, C.F., Angielczyk, K.D. & Nesbitt, S.J. 2018. Novel hindlimb morphology in a kannemeyeriiform dicynodont from the Manda Beds (Songea Group, Ruhuhu Basin) of Tanzania. pp. 178–188 in C. A. Sidor and S. J. Nesbitt (eds.), Vertebrate and Climatic Evolution in the Triassic Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 17. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6, Supplement). Link
Kligman, B.T.*, Marsh, A.D. and Parker, W.G., 2018. First records of diapsid Palacrodon from the Norian, Late Triassic Chinle Formation of Arizona, and their biogeographic implications. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 63(1), pp.117-127.
Lang, X., B. Shen, Y. Peng, S. Xiao, C. Zhou, H. Bao, A. J. Kaufman, K. Huang, P. W. Crockford, Y. Liu, and H. Ma, 2018, Transient marine euxinia at the end of the terminal Cryogenian glaciation. Nature Communications, 9: 3019. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05423-x.
Lessner, E. J.**, Parker, W. G., Marsh, A. D., Nesbitt, S. J., Irmis, R. B. & Mueller, B. D. 2018. New insights into Late Triassic dinosauromorph bearing assemblages from Texas using apomorphy-based identifications. Paleobios. Link
Muscente*, A. D., A. D. Czaja, J. Tuggle, C. Winkler, and S. Xiao, 2018, Manganese oxides resembling microbial fabrics and their implications for recognizing inorganically preserved microfossils. Astrobiology, 18: 249-258. doi: 10.1089/ast.2017.1699.
Nesbitt, S.J., Butler, R.J., Ezcurra, M.D., Charig, A.J. & Barrett, P.M. 2018. The anatomy of Teleocrater rhadinus, an early avemetatarsalian from the lower portion of the Lifua Member of the Manda Beds (~Middle Triassic). pp. 142–177 in C. A. Sidor and S. J. Nesbitt (eds.), Vertebrate and Climatic Evolution in the Triassic Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 17. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6, Supplement). Link
Nesbitt, S.J., Stocker, M.R., Parker, W.G., Wood, T.A.**, Sidor, C.A. & Angielczyk, K.D. 2018. The braincase and endocast of Parringtonia gracilis, a Middle Triassic suchian (Archosaur: Pseudosuchia). pp. 122–141 in C. A. Sidor and S. J. Nesbitt (eds.), Vertebrate and Climatic Evolution in the Triassic Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 17. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6, Supplement). Link
Pang*, K., Q. Tang*, L. Chen, B. Wan, C. Niu, X. Yuan, and S. Xiao, 2018, Nitrogen-fixing heterocystous cyanobacteria in the Tonian Period. Current Biology, 28: 616-622. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2018.01.008.
Roopnarine, P. D., Angielczyk, K. D., Olroyd, S. L., Nesbitt, S. J., Botha-Brink, J., Peecook, B. R., Day, M. O. & Smith, R. M. H. 2018. Comparative ecological dynamics of Permian-Triassic communities from the Karoo, Luangwa, and Ruhuhu basins of southern Africa. pp. 254–272 in C. A. Sidor and
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Sidor, C.A. and Nesbitt, S.J. 2018. Introduction to vertebrate and climatic evolution in the Triassic rift basins of Tanzania and Zambia. pp. 1–7 in C. A. Sidor and S. J. Nesbitt (eds.), Vertebrate and Climatic Evolution in the Triassic Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 17. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6, Supplement). Link
Smith, R.M.H., Sidor, C.A., Angielczyk, K.D., Nesbitt, S.J. and Tabor, N.J. 2018. Taphonomy and paleoenvironments of Middle Triassic bone accumulations in the Lifua Member of the Manda Beds, Songea Group (Ruhuhu Basin), Tanzania. pp. 65–79 in C. A. Sidor and S. J. Nesbitt (eds.), Vertebrate and Climatic Evolution in the Triassic Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 17. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6, Supplement). Link
Stefanic, C.M.* & Nesbitt, S.J. 2018. The axial skeleton of Poposaurus langstoni (Pseudosuchia: Poposauroidea) and its implications for accessory intervertebral articulation evolution in pseudosuchian archosaurs. PeerJ, 6: e4235. Link
Tabor, N.J., Myers, T.S., Sidor, C.A., Smith, R.M.H., Nesbitt, S.J. & Angielczyk, K.D. 2018. Paleosols of the Permian-Triassic: proxies for rainfall, climate change, and major changes in terrestrial tetrapod diversity. pp. 240–253 in C. A. Sidor and S. J. Nesbitt (eds.), Vertebrate and Climatic Evolution in the Triassic Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 17. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6, Supplement). Link
Wynd, B.M.*, Sidor, C.A., Whitney, M.R. and Peecook, B.R., 2018. The first occurrence of Cynognathus in Tanzania and Zambia, with biostratigraphic implications for the age of Triassic strata in southern Pangea. pp.228-239. in C. A. Sidor and S. J. Nesbitt (eds.), Vertebrate and Climatic Evolution in the Triassic Rift Basins of Tanzania and Zambia. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 17. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6, Supplement).
Xiao, S. and Q. Tang*, 2018, After the boring billion and before the freezing millions: evolutionary patterns and innovations in the Tonian Period. Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 2: 161-171. doi: 10.1042/ETLS20170165.
Ye*, Q., J. Tong, Z. An, J. Hu, L. Tian, K. Guan, and S. Xiao, 2018, Carbonaceous compression macrofossils from the upper Ediacaran Miaohe Member in South China. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, doi: 10.1080/14772019.2017.1404499.
Zhang, F., S. Xiao, B. Kendall, S. J. Romaniello, H. Cui, M. Meyer, G. J. Gilleaudeau, A. J. Kaufman, and A. D. Anbar, 2018, Terminal Ediacaran oceanic anoxia and the decline of the Ediacara biota. Science Advances, 4: eaan8983. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aan8983.
2017
Bykova, N. V., Gill, B. C., Grazhdankin, D., Rogov, V., & Xiao, S. 2017. A geochemical study of the Ediacaran discoidal fossil Aspidella preserved in limestones: Implications for its taphonomy and paleoecology. Geobiology, 15, 572-587. doi:10.1111/gbi.12240
Cui, H., Kaufman, A. J., Xiao, S., Zhou, C., & Liu, X. 2017. Was the Ediacaran Shuram Excursion a globally synchronized early diagenetic event? Insights from methane-derived authigenic carbonates in the uppermost Doushantuo Formation, South China. Chemical Geology, 450, 59-80. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.12.010
Griffin, C. T., C. M. Stefanic*, W. G. Parker, A. Hungerbuehler, & M. Stocker. 2017. Sacral anatomy of the phytosaur Smilosuchus adamanensis, with implications for pelvic girdle evolution among Archosauriformes. Journal of Anatomy 231:886–905. doi:10.1111/joa.12681.
Hawkins, A. D., Xiao, S., Jiang, G., Wang, X., & Shi, X. 2017. New biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic data from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in intra-shelf and upper slope facies of the Yangtze platform: Implications for biozonation of acanthomorphic acritarchs in South China. Precambrian Research, 300, 28-39. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.08.004
Hoshino, Y., A. Poshibaeva, W. Meredith, C. Snape, V. Poshibaev, G. J. M. Versteegh, N. Kuznetsov, A. Leider, L. van Maldegem, M. Neumann, S. Naeher, M. Moczydłowska, J. J. Brocks, A. Jarrett, Q. Tang*, S. Xiao, D. McKirdy, S. Das, J. J. Alvaro, P. Sansjofre, and C. Hallmann, 2017, Cryogenian evolution of stigmasteroid biosynthesis. Science Advances, 3: e1700887. Doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1700887.
Laing, A., Doyle, S., Gold, E. M., Nesbitt, S., O'Leary, M., Turner, A., . . . Poole, K. 2017. Giant taxon-character matrices: the future of morphological systematics. Cladistics. doi:10.1111/cla.12197
LoDuca, S. T., Bykova, N., Wu, M., Xiao, S., & Zhao, Y. 2017. Seaweed morphology and ecology during the great animal diversification events of the early Paleozoic: A tale of two floras. Geobiology, 15, 588-616. doi:DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12244
Meyer*, M., Polys, N., Yaqoob, H., Hinnov, L., & Xiao, S. 2017. Beyond the stony veil: Reconstructing the Earth's earliest large animal traces via computed tomography X-ray imaging. Precambrian Research, 298, 341–350. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.05.010
Muscente*, A. D., Schiffbauer, J. D., Broce, J., Laflamme, M., O'Donnell, K., Boag, T. H., . . . Xiao, S. 2017. Exceptionally preserved fossil assemblages through geologic time and space. Gondwana Research, 48, 164-188. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2017.04.020
Nesbitt, S. J., Butler, R. J., Ezcurra, M. D., Barrett, P. M., Stocker, M. R., Angielczyk, K. D., . . . Charig, A. J. 2017. The earliest bird-line archosaurs and assembly of the dinosaur body plan. Nature, 544, 484-487.
Nesbitt, S. J., & Desojo, J. B. 2017. The osteology and phylogenetic position of Luperosuchus fractus Archosauria: Loricata from the latest Middle Triassic or earliest Late Triassic of Argentina. Ameghiniana, 54, 261–282.
Ouyang, Q., Guan, C., Zhou, C., & Xiao, S. 2017. Acanthomorphic acritarchs of the Doushantuo Formation from an upper slope section in northwestern Hunan Province, South China, with implications for early Ediacaran biostratigraphy. Precambrian Research, 298, 512–529. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.07.005
Qu, Y., Wang, J., Xiao, S., Whitehouse, M., Engdahl, A., Wang, G., & McLoughlin, N. 2017. Carbonaceous biosignatures of diverse chemotrophic microbial communities from chert nodules of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation. Precambrian Research, 290, 184-196. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.01.003
Shen, B., S. Xiao, C. Zhou, L. Dong, J. Chang, and Z. Chen, 2017, A new modular modular fossilpalaeopascichnid fossil from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area of South China. Geological Magazine, 154, 1257-1268. doi: 10.1017/S001675681700036X.
Stocker, M. R., Zhao, L.-J., Nesbitt, S. J., Wu, X.-C., & Li, C. 2017. A short-snouted, Middle Triassic phytosaur and its implications for the morphological evolution and biogeography of Phytosauria. Scientific reports, 7, 46028. doi:10.1038/srep46028
Tang*, Q., Hughes, N. C., McKenzie, N. R., Myrow, P. M., & Xiao, S. 2017. Late Mesoproterozoic-early Neoproterozoic organic-walled microfossils from the Madhubani Group of the Ganga Valley, northern India. Palaeontology. doi:10.1111/pala.12323
Tang*, Q., Pang*, K., Yuan, X., & Xiao, S. 2017. Electron microscopy reveals evidence for simple multicellularity in the Proterozoic fossil Chuaria. Geology, 45, 75-78. doi:10.1130/G38680.1
Wang*, W., Guan, C., Zhou, C., Peng, Y., Pratt, L. M., Chen, X., . . . Xiao, S. 2017. Integrated carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen isotope chemostratigraphy of the Ediacaran Lantian Formation in South China: spatial gradient, ocean redox oscillation, and fossil distribution. Geobiology, 15, 552-571. doi:10.1111/gbi.12226
Wang*, Z., Wang, J., Kouketsu, Y., Bodnar, R. J., Gill, B. C., & Xiao, S. 2017. Raman geothermoδ13C signatures in the aftermath of the terminal Cryogenian snowball Earth glaciation. Precambrian Research, 298, 174-186. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.06.013
Wang*, Z., Wang, J., Suess, E., Wang, G., Chen, C., & Xiao, S. 2017. Silicified glendonites in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation South China and their potential paleoclimatic implications. Geology, 45, 115-118. doi:10.1130/G38613.1
Xiao, S., Zhou, C., Guan, C., & Wan, B. 2017. Neoproterozoic Strata and Ediacaran Fossils in Yichang of South China: China University of Science and Technology Press.
Zhang, H., & Xiao, S. 2017. Three-dimensionally phosphatized meiofaunal bivalved arthropods from the upper Cambrian of western Hunan, South China. Neues Jahrbuch f¸r Geologie und Pal‰ontologie Abhandlungen, 285, 39-52. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2017/0668
Zhou, C., Li, X.-H., Xiao, S., Lan, Z., Ouyang, Q., Guan, C., & Chen, Z. 2017. A new SIMS zircon U-Pb date from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation: age constraint on the Weng'an biota. Geological Magazine, 10.1017/S0016756816001175.
Zhou, C., Xiao, S., Wang, W., Guan, C., Ouyang, Q., & Chen, Z. 2017. The stratigraphic complexity of the middle Ediacaran carbon isotopic record in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China, and its implications for the age and chemostratigraphic significance of the Shuram excursion. Precambrian Research, 288, 23-38. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2016.11.007
2016
Chen, L., Xiao, S., Pang, K., Zhou, C., & Yuan, X. 2016. Are the new Ediacaran Doushantuo embryo-like fossils early metazoans? A reply. Palaeoworld, 25, 132-134. doi:10.1016/j.palwor.2015.08.001
Cui, H., Grazhdankin, D. V., Xiao, S., Peek, S., Rogov, V. I., Bykova, N. V., . . . Kaufman, A. J. 2016. Redox-dependent distribution of early macro-organisms: Evidence from the terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Formation in Arctic Siberia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 461, 122-139. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.08.015
Cui, H., Kaufman, A. J., Xiao, S., Peek, S., Cao, H., Min, X., . . . Martin, A. J. 2016. Environmental context for the terminal Ediacaran biomineralization of animals. Geobiology, 144, 344-363. doi:10.1111/gbi.
Griffin, C. T. & Nesbitt, S. J. 2016. Anomalously high variation in postnatal development is ancestral for dinosaurs but absent in birds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 113: 14757-14762. doi:10.1073/pnas.1613813113.
Cui, H., Xiao, S., Zhou, C., Peng, Y., Kaufman, A. J., & Plummer, R. E. 2016. Phosphogenesis associated with the Shuram Excursion: Petrographic and geochemical observations from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation of South China. Sedimentary Geology, 341, 134-146. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2016.05.008
Griffin, C. T., & Nesbitt, S. J. 2016. The femoral ontogeny and long bone histology of the Middle Triassic ?late Anisian dinosauriform Asilisaurus kongwe and implications for the growth of early dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e1111224. doi:10.1080/02724634.2016.1111224
Huang, K.-J., Teng, F.-Z., Shen, B., Xiao, S., Lang, X., Ma, H.-R., . . . Peng, Y. 2016. Episode of intense chemical weathering during the termination of the 635 Ma Marinoan glaciation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 11352, 14904-14909. doi:10.1073/pnas.1607712113
Lessner*, E. J., Stocker, M. R., Smith, N. D., Turner, A. H., Irmis, R. B., & Nesbitt, S. J. 2016. A new taxon of rauisuchid Archosauria, Pseudosuchia from the Upper Triassic of New Mexico increases the diversity and temporal range of the clade. PeerJ, 4, e2336. doi: 10.7717/peerj.2336
Li, C., Wu, X.-C., Zhao, L.-J., Nesbitt, S. J., Stocker, M. R., & Wang, L.-T. 2016. A new armored archosauriform Diapsida: Archosauromorpha from the marine Middle Triassic of China, with implications for the diverse life styles of archosauriforms prior to the diversification of Archosauria. The Science of Nature, 10395. doi:10.1007/s00114-016-1418-4
Muscente, A. D., Allmon, W. D., & Xiao, S. 2016. The hydroid fossil record and analytical techniques for assessing the affinities of putative hydrozoans and possible hemichordates. Palaeontology, 59, 71-87. doi:10.1111/pala.12209
Nesbitt, S. J., & Clarke, J. A. 2016. The anatomy and taxonomy of the exquisitely preserved Green River Formation Early Eocene lithornithids Aves and the relationships of Lithornithidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 406, 1-91.
Pritchard, A. C., Turner, A. H., Irmis, R. B., Nesbitt, S. J., & Smith, N. D. 2016. Extreme modification of the tetrapod forelimb in a Triassic diapsid reptile. Current Biology.
Shen, B., Dong, L., Xiao, S., Lang, X., Huang, K., Peng, Y., . . . Liu, P. 2016. Molar tooth carbonates and benthic methane fluxes in Proterozoic oceans. Nature Communications, 6, 10317. doi:10.1038/ncomms10317
Stocker, M. R., Nesbitt, S. J., Criswell, K. E., Parker, W. G., Witmer, L. M., Rowe, T. B., . . . Brown, M. A. 2016. A dome-headed stem archosaur exemplifies convergence among dinosaurs and their distant relatives. Current Biology, 26, 2674–2680.
Wan, B., Yuan, X., Chen, Z., Guan, C., Pang, K., Tang, Q., & Xiao, S. 2016. Systematic description of putative animal fossils from the early Ediacaran Lantian Formation of South China. Palaeontology, 59, 515–532. doi:10.1111/pala.12242
Wang, X., Jiang, G., Shi, X., & Xiao, S. 2016. Paired carbonate and organic carbon isotope variations of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation from an upper slope section at Siduping, South China. Precambrian Research, 273, 53-66. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2015.12.010
Werning, S., & Nesbitt, S. J. 2016. Bone histology and growth in Stenaulorhynchus stockleyi Archosauromorpha: Rhynchosauria from the Middle Triassic of the Ruhuhu Basin of Tanzania. Paleovol, 15, 163-175.
Wu, M., LoDuca, S. T., Zhao, Y., & Xiao, S. 2016. The macroalga Bosworthia from the Cambrian Burgess Shale and Kaili biotas of North America and China. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 230, 47-55. doi:10.1016/j.revpalbo.2016.04.001
Xiao, S., G. M. Narbonne, C. Zhou, M. Laflamme, D. V. Grazhdankin, M. Moczydłowska-Vidal, and H. Cui, 2016, Toward an Ediacaran Time Scale: Problems, Protocols, and Prospects Episodes, 39: 540–555. doi: 10.18814/epiiugs/2016/v39i4/103886.
Xiao, S., Tang, Q., Hughes, N. C., McKenzie, N. R., & Myrow, P. M. 2016. Biostratigraphic and detrital zircon age constraints on the basement of the Himalayan Foreland Basin: Implications for a Proterozoic link to the Lesser Himalaya and cratonic India. Terra Nova, 286, 419-426. doi:10.1111/ter.12235
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2015
Barrett, P. M., S. J. Nesbitt, and B. R. Peecook. 2015, A large-bodied silesaurid from the Lifua Member of the Manda beds (Middle Triassic) of Tanzania and its implications for body-size evolution in Dinosauromorpha. Gondwana Research, 27: 925-931.
Cai, Y., S. Xiao, H. Hua, and X. Yuan. 2015, New material of the biomineralizing tubular fossil Sinotubulites from the late Ediacaran Dengying Formation, South China. Precambrian Research, 261: 12–24.
Chen, A.-L., W. E. G. Müller, X.-G. Hou, and S. Xiao. 2015a, New articulated protospongiid sponges from the early Cambrian Chengjiang biota. Palaeoworld, 24: 46-54.
Chen, L., S. Xiao, K. Pang, C. Zhou, and X. Yuan. 2015b, Are the new Ediacaran Doushantuo Megasphaera-like acritarchs early metazoans? A reply. Palaeoworld, 10.1016/j.palwor.2015.08.001.
Cortijo, I., Y. Cai, H. Hua, J. D. Schiffbauer, and S. Xiao. 2015, Life history and autecology of an Ediacaran index fossil: Development and dispersal of Cloudina. Gondwana Research, 28: 419-424.
Cui, H., A. J. Kaufman, S. Xiao, M. Zhu, C. Zhou, and X.-M. Liu. 2015, Redox architecture of an Ediacaran ocean margin: integrated chemostratigraphic (δ13C - δ34S - 87Sr/86Sr - Ce/Ce*) correlation of the Doushantuo Formation. Chemical Geology, 405: 48-62.
Hughes, N. C., P. M. Myrow, N. R. McKenzie, S. Xiao, D. M. Banerjee, D. F. Stockli, and Q. Tang. 2015, Age and implications of the phosphatic Birmania Formation, Rajasthan, India. Precambrian Research, 267: 164-173.
Kammerer, C. F., R. J. Butler, S. Bandyopadhyay, and M. R. Stocker. 2015, Relationships of the Indian phytosaur Parasuchus hislopiLydekker, 1885. Papers in Paleontology, 2015: 1-23.
Kendall, B., T. Komiya, T. W. Lyons, S. M. Bates, G. W. Gordon, S. Romaniello, G. Jiang, R. A. Creaser, S. Xiao, K. McFadden, Y. Sawaki, M. Tahata, D. Shu, J. Han, Y. Li, X. Chu, and A. D. Anbar. 2015, Uranium and molybdenum isotope evidence for an episode of widespread ocean oxygenation during the late Ediacaran Period. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 156: 173–193.
LoDuca, S. T., J.-B. Caron, J. D. Schiffbauer, S. Xiao, and A. Kramer. 2015, A reexamination of Yuknessia from the Cambrian of British Columbia and Utah. Journal of Paleontology, 89: 82-95.
Muscente*, A. D., A. D. Hawkins*, and S. Xiao. 2015a, Fossil preservation through phosphatization and silicification in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (South China): A comparative synthesis. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 434: 46-62.
Muscente*, A. D., F. M. Michel, J. Dale, and S. Xiao. 2015b, Assessing the veracity of Precambrian 'sponge' fossils using in situ nanoscale analytical techniques. Precambrian Research, 263: 142-156.
Muscente*, A. D., F. M. Michel, J. Dale, and S. Xiao. 2015c: Invalidating reports of sponge spicules below the Ediacaran-Cambrian boundary. Paper presented at the Berichte des Institutes für Erdwissenschaften, 2015c.
Muscente*, A. D., and S. Xiao. 2015a, New occurrences of Sphenothallus in the lower Cambrian of South China: Implications for its affinities and taphonomic demineralization of shelly fossils. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 437: 141-164.
Muscente*, A. D., and S. Xiao. 2015b, Resolving three-dimensional and subsurficial features of carbonaceous compressions and shelly fossils using backscattered electron scanning electron microscopy (BSE-SEM). Palaios, 30: 462-481.
Narbonne, G. M., M. Moczydłowska-Vidal, and S. Xiao. 2015: Formulating a Terminal Ediacaran Stage. Paper presented at the Berichte des Institutes für Erdwissenschaften, 2015.
Nesbitt, S. J., and M. D. Ezcurra. 2015, The early fossil record of dinosaurs in North America: a new neotheropod (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the base of the Dockum Group (Upper Triassic) of Texas. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.
Ou, Q., S. Xiao, J. Han, G. Sun, F. Zhang, Z. Zhang, and D. Shu. 2015, A vanished history of skeletonization in Cambrian comb jellies. Science Advances, 1: e1500092 (doi 10.1126/sciadv.1500092).
Pang, K., Q. Tang, X. Yuan, B. Wan, and S. Xiao. 2015, A biomechanical analysis of the early eukaryotic fossil Valeria and new occurrence of organic-walled microfossils from the Paleo-Mesoproterozoic Ruyang Group. Palaeoworld, 10.1016/j.palwor.2015.04.002.
Pritchard, A. C., A. H. Turner, S. J. Nesbitt, R. B. Irmis, and N. D. Smith. 2015, Late Triassic tanystropheid (Reptilia, Archosauromorpha) remains from northern New Mexico (Petrified Forest Member, Chinle Formation): insights into distribution, morphology, and paleoecology of Tanystropheidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: 10.1080/02724634.2014.911186.
Smith, A., L. M. Chiappe, J. A. Clarke, S. V. Edwards, D. T. Ksepka, S. J. Nesbitt, M. A. Norell, T. A. Stidham, A. H. Turner, M. van Tuinen, J. Vinther, and X. Xu. 2015, Rhetoric vs. Reality: a commentary on "Bird Origins Anew" by A. Feduccia, Auk. The Auk, 132: 467-480.
Tang*, Q., K. Pang, S. Xiao, X. Yuan, and B. Wan. 2015, Organic-walled microfossils from the Tonian Gouhou Formation, Huaibei region, North China Craton, and their biostratigraphic implications. Precambrian Research, 266: 296-318.
Tang*, Q., and S. Xiao. 2015: Trachyhystrichosphaera aimika as a potential Tonian index fossil. Paper presented at the Berichte des Institutes für Erdwissenschaften, 2015.
Werning, S., and S. J. Nesbitt. 2015, Bone histology and growth in Stenaulorhynchus stockleyi (Archosauromorpha: Rhynchosauria) from the Middle Triassic of the Ruhuhu Basin of Tanzania. Paleovol.
Whiteside, J. H., M. Dunlavey, S. Lindstrom, R. B. Irmis, A. Kasprak, I. J. Glasspool, S. J. Nesbitt, N. D. Smith, and A. H. Turner. 2015, Ecosystem instability during the Late Triassic rise of dinosaurs in North America. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Xiao, S., and G. Jiang. 2015: Subdivisions of the Ediacaran System: Integrating biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic data. Paper presented at the Berichte des Institutes für Erdwissenschaften, 2015.
Ye, Q., J. Tong, S. Xiao, S. Zhu, Z. An, L. Tian, and J. Hu. 2015, The survival of benthic macroscopic phototrophs on a Neoproterozoic snowball Earth. Geology, 43: 507-510.
Zanno, L. E., S. Drymala, S. J. Nesbitt, and V. P. Schneider. 2015, Early crocodylomorph increases top tier predator diversity during rise of dinosaurs. Scientific reports: 10.1038/srep09276.
Zhou, C., S. Xiao, Q. Ouyang, C. Guan, and W. Wang. 2015: Subdivision of the early Ediacaran. Paper presented at the Berichte des Institutes für Erdwissenschaften, 2015.
2014
Babcock, L. E., S. Peng, M. Zhu, S. Xiao, and P. Ahlberg. 2014, Proposed reassessment of the Cambrian GSSP. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 98: 3-10.
Broce*, J., J. D. Schiffbauer, K. Sen Sharma, G. Wang, and S. Xiao. 2014a, Possible animal embryos from the lower Cambrian (Stage 3) Shuijingtuo Formation, Hubei Province, South China. Journal of Paleontology, 88: 385-394.
Broce*, J., T. L. Selly, J. D. Schiffbauer, S. T. LoDuca, and S. Xiao. 2014b: Comparative Burgess Shale-type taphonomy across variable tissue biochemistries: analysis of mineral associations in lower-middle Cambrian fossils of western North America. Paper presented at the Tenth North American Paleontology Convention Abstract Book, 2014b.
Butler, R. J., O. W. M. Rauhut, M. R. Stocker, and R. Bronowicz. 2014, Redescription of the phytosaurs Paleorhinus ('Francosuchus') angustifrons and Ebrachosuchus neukami from Germany, with implications for Late Triassic biochronology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 170: 155-208.
Cai, Y., S. Xiao, H. Hua, and X. Yuan. 2014: New material of Sinotubulites from the late Ediacaran Dengying Formation, South China. Paper presented at the Abstracts of South China 2014: A symposium and field workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy, 2014.
Chen, L., S. Xiao, K. Pang, C. Zhou, and X. Yuan. 2014a, Cell differentiation and germ-soma separation in Ediacaran animal embryo-like fossils. Nature, 516: 238-241.
Chen, Z., C. Zhou, S. Xiao, W. Wang, C. Guan, H. Hua, and X. Yuan. 2014b: Ediacaran fossils in marine limestone from Dengying Formation, China. Paper presented at the Abstracts of South China 2014: A symposium and field workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy, 2014b.
Chen, Z., C. Zhou, S. Xiao, W. Wang, C. Guan, H. Hua, and X. Yuan. 2014c, New Ediacara fossils preserved in marine limestone and their ecological implications. Scientific Reports, 4: 4180; DOI:10.1038/srep04180.
Cui, H., A. J. Kaufman, S. Xiao, C. Zhou, and M. Zhu. 2014: Anaerobic oxidation of methane associated with the Shuam event revealed from the authigenic carabonates in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation. Paper presented at the Abstracts of South China 2014: A symposium and field workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy, 2014.
Drumheller, S. K., M. R. Stocker, and S. J. Nesbitt. 2014, Direct evidence of trophic interactions among apex predators in the Late Triassic of western North America. Naturwissenschaften, 101: 975-987.
Hawkins*, A. D., S. Xiao, G. Jiang, X. Shi, and X. Wang. 2014a: Acritarch biostratigraphy of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation in an upper slope facies. Paper presented at the Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 2014a.
Hawkins*, A. D., S. Xiao, H. P. Liu, and D. E. G. Briggs. 2014b: Phosphatization of vermiform fossils from the Winneshiek Lagerstätte, Winneshiek Shale, northeast Iowa. Paper presented at the Tenth North American Paleontology Convention Abstract Book, 2014b.
Kaufman, A. J., H. Cui, S. Peek, V. Rogov, D. Grazhdankin, and S. Xiao. 2014a: The effect of seawater redox stratification on early metazoans from the terminal Ediacaran Khatyspyt Formation of arctic Siberia. Paper presented at the Abstracts of South China 2014: A symposium and field workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy, 2014a.
Kaufman, A. J., H. Cui, C. Zhou, and S. Xiao. 2014b: Do authigenic carbonate cements explain the Neoproterozoic (and Permian) carbon isotope records? Paper presented at the Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 2014b.
Liu, P., S. Xiao, C. Yin, S. Chen, C. Zhou, and M. Li. 2014a, Ediacaran acanthomorphic acritarchs and other microfossils from chert nodules of the upper Doushantuo Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China. Journal of Paleontology, 72 (supplement to No 1): 1-139.
Liu, Y., S. Xiao, T. Shao, J. Broce, and H. Zhang. 2014b, The oldest known priapulid‐like scalidophoran animal and its implications for the early evolution of cycloneuralians and ecdysozoans. Evolution & Development, 16: 155-165.
Loduca, S. T., J. D. Schiffbauer, and S. Xiao. 2014a: Taphonomy and paleoecology of Silurian algal-Lagerstätten. Paper presented at the Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 2014a.
LoDuca, S. T., M. Wu, Y. Zhao, S. Xiao, and J. D. Schiffbauer. 2014b: Yuknessia from the Cambrian of China. Paper presented at the Tenth North American Paleontology Convention Abstract Book, 2014b.
Meyer*, M., D. Elliott, J. D. Schiffbauer, M. Hall, K. H. Hoffman, G. Schneider, P. Vickers-Rich, and S. Xiao. 2014a, Taphonomy of the Ediacaran fossil Pteridinium simplex preserved three-dimensionally in mass flow deposits, Nama Group, Namibia. Journal of Paleontology, 88: 240-252.
Meyer*, M., D. Elliott, A. D. Wood, N. F. Polys, M. Colbert, J. A. Maisano, P. Vickers-Rich, M. Hall, K. H. Hoffman, G. Schneider, and S. Xiao. 2014b, Three-dimensional microCT analysis of the Ediacara fossil Pteridinium simplex sheds new light on its ecology and phylogenetic affinity. Precambrian Research, 249: 79-87.
Meyer*, M., S. Xiao, B. C. Gill, J. D. Schiffbauer, Z. Chen, C. Zhou, and X. Yuan. 2014c, Interactions between Ediacaran animals and microbial mats: insights from Lamonte trevallis, a new trace fossil from the Dengying Formation of South China. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 396: 62-74.
Meyer*, M., S. Xiao, J. D. Schiffbauer, Z. Chen, C. Zhou, and X. Yuan. 2014d: Lamonte trevallis, a new trace fossil from the Dengying Formation of South China: insights into late Ediacaran benthic ecology. Paper presented at the Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 2014d.
Muscente*, A. D., and S. Xiao. 2014a: Scanning electron imaging of shell construction in the problematic tubular fossil Sphenothallus from the early Cambrian (Series 2) of South China. Paper presented at the Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 2014a.
Muscente*, D., and S. Xiao. 2014b: Taphonomy and allometry of the problematic tubular fossil Spehnothallus from the early Cambrian (Series 2) of South China. Paper presented at the Tenth North American Paleontology Convention Abstract Book, 2014b.
Nesbitt, S. J., C. A. Sidor, K. D. Angielczyk, R. M. H. Smith, and L. A. Tsuji. 2014, A new archosaur from the Manda beds (Anisian: Middle Triassic) of southern Tanzania and its implications for character optimizations at Archosauria and Pseudosuchia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34: 1357-1382.
Peng, Y., H. Bao, L. M. Pratt, A. J. Kaufman, G. Jiang, D. Boyd, Q. Wang, C. Zhou, X. Yuan, S. Xiao, and S. Loyd. 2014, Widespread contamination of carbonate-associated sulfate by present-day secondary atmospheric sulfate: Evidence from triple oxygen isotopes. Geology, 42: 815-818.
Schiffbauer*, J. D., K. Pang, Q. Tang, J. Yao, X. Yuan, B. Wan, L. Chen, Z. Ou, and S. Xiao. 2014a: The nature and origin of nucleus-like intracellular inclusions in Paleoproterozoic eukaryote microfossils. Paper presented at the Tenth North American Paleontology Convention Abstract Book, 2014a.
Schiffbauer*, J. D., A. F. Wallace, J. Broce, and S. Xiao. 2014b. Exceptional fossil conservation through phosphatization; pp. 59-82 in M. Laflamme, J. D. Schiffbauer, and S. A. F. Darroch (eds.), Reading and Writing of the Fossil Record: Preservational Pathways to Exceptional Fossilization (The Paleontological Society Papers, Volume 20).
Schiffbauer*, J. D., and S. Xiao. 2014, An examination of life history and behavrioral evolution across the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. Journal of Paleontology, 88: 205-206.
Schiffbauer*, J. D., S. Xiao, Y. Cai, A. F. Wallace, H. Hua, J. Hunter, H. Xu, Y. Peng, and A. J. Kaufman. 2014c, A unifying model for Neoproterozoic–Palaeozoic exceptional fossil preservation through pyritization and carbonaceous compression. Nature Communications, 5: 5754 (doi: 10.1038/ncomms6754).
Sidor, C. A., K. D. Angielczyk, R. M. H. Smith, A. K. Goulding, S. J. Nesbitt, B. R. Peecook, J. S. Steyer, and S. Tolan. 2014, Tapinocephalids (Therapsida: Dinocephalia) from the Madumabisa Mudstone Formation (Mid-Zambezi Basin) of southern Zambia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 34: 980-986.
Tang*, Q., K. Pang, S. Xiao, X. Yuan, Z. Ou, and B. Wan. 2014: Organic-walled microfossils from the early Neoproterozoic Liulaobei Formation in the Huainan region of North China and their biostratigraphic significance. Paper presented at the Abstracts of South China 2014: A symposium and field workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy, 2014.
Wan*, B., S. Xiao, X. Yuan, Z. Chen, K. Pang, Q. Tang, C. Guan, and J. A. Maisano. 2014a: Orbisiana linearis from the early Ediacaran Lantian Formation of South China and its taphonomic and ecological implications. Paper presented at the Abstracts of South China 2014: A symposium and field workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy, 2014a.
Wan*, B., S. Xiao, X. Yuan, Z. Chen, K. Pang, Q. Tang, C. Guan, and J. A. Maisano. 2014b, Orbisiana linearis from the early Ediacaran Lantian Formation of SouthChina and its taphonomic and ecological implications. Precambrian Research, 255: 266–275.
Wang*, Z., J. Wang, S. Xiao, and S. Tu. 2014: Tepee structures of the late Ediacaran Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China and their implications for glacioeustatic sea level change. Paper presented at the Abstracts of South China 2014: A symposium and field workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy, 2014.
Xiao, S. 2014, Evolution: The making of Ediacaran giants. Current Biology, 24: R120-122, doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2013.12.035.
Xiao, S. 2014, Geobiology of the Ediacaran Period. International Field Workshop of the Marwar Supergroup, Rajasthan, India: 72.
Xiao, S. 2014. Oxygen and early animal evolution; pp. 231-250 in H. D. Holland, and K. K. Turekian (eds.), Treatise on Geochemistry, Second Edition, vol. 6 (The Atmosphere - History). Elsevier, Oxford.
Xiao, S., L. Chen, X. Yuan, and C. Zhou. 2014: New observations of phosphatized acanthomorphic acritarchs and animal embryo-like microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation at Weng'an. Paper presented at the Abstracts of South China 2014: A symposium and field workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy.
Xiao, S., Z. Chen, C. Zhou, W. Wang, C. Guan, H. Hua, and X. Yuan. 2014b: Preliminary report of new Ediacara fossils from bituminous limestone of the Dengying Formation in South China. Paper presented at the Tenth North American Paleontology Convention Abstract Book, 2014b.
Xiao, S., M. Droser, J. G. Gehling, I. V. Hughes, B. Wan, Z. Chen, and X. Yuan. 2014c, Affirming life aquatic for the Ediacara biota in China and Australia: Reply. Geology, 42: e326 (doi:10.1130/G35364Y.1).
Xiao, S., Y. Liu, T. Shao, J. S. Broce, and H. Zhang. 2014d: Penis worms and their relatives in the earliest Cambrian Period. Paper presented at the Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs, 2014d.
Xiao, S., A. D. Muscente*, L. Chen, C. Zhou, J. D. Schiffbauer, A. D. Wood, N. F. Polys, and X. Yuan. 2014e, The Weng'an biota and the Ediacaran radiation of multicellular eukaryotes. National Science Review, 1: 498-520.
Xiao, S., and M. Sharma. 2014, International Field Workshop on the Marwar Supergroup, Rajasthan, India. Episodes, 37: 74-75.
Xiao, S., B. Shen, Q. Tang*, A. J. Kaufman, X. Yuan, J. Li, and M. Qian. 2014f, Biostratigraphic and chemostratigraphic constraints on the age of early Neoproterozoic carbonate successions in North China. Precambrian Research, 246: 208-225.
Xiao, S., and C. Zhou. 2014. Field Guidebook: Symposium and Field Workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy.
Xiao, S., C. Zhou, P. Liu, D. Wang, and X. Yuan. 2014g, Phosphatized acanthomorphic acritarchs and related microfossils from the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation at Weng'an (South China) and their implications for biostratigraphic correlation. Journal of Paleontology, 88: 1-67.
Xiao, S., C. Zhou, and M. Zhu. 2014h, International symposium and field workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian stratigraphy. Episodes, 37: 218-221.
Yuan, X., Z. Chen, S. Xiao, B. Wan, C. Guan, W. Wang, C. Zhou, and H. Hua. 2014: The Lantian biota: A new window onto the origin and early evolution of multicellular organisms. Paper presented at the Abstracts of South China 2014: A symposium and field workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy, 2014.
Zhang, H., X. Dong, and S. Xiao. 2014, New bivalved arthropods from the Cambrian (Series 3, Drumian Stage) of western Hunan, South China. Acta Geologica Sinica, 88: 1388-1396.
Zhou, C., Z. Chen, W. Wang, and S. Xiao. 2014: The stratigraphic complexity of the middle Ediacaran Shuram anomaly in western Hubei Province, South China. Paper presented at the Abstracts of South China 2014: A symposium and field workshop on Ediacaran and Cryogenian Stratigraphy, 2014.
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