List of contributors | |
Preface | |
Geology and paleobiology of the Archean Earth | |
Geological evolution of the Proterozoic Earth | |
Proterozoic biochemistry | |
Proterozoic atmosphere and ocean | |
Proterozoic and selected early Cambrian microfossils: prokaryotes and protists | |
Modern mat-building microbial communities: a key to the interpretation of Proterozoic stromatolitic communities | |
Proterozoic and earliest Cambrian carbonaceous remains, trace and body fossils | |
The Proterozoic-early Cambrian evolution of metaphytes and metazoans | |
Molecular phylogenetics, molecular paleontologym and the Proterozoic fossil record | |
Biostratigraphy and paleobiology of the Proterozoic | |
Biotic diversity and rates of evolution during Proterozoic and earliest Phanerozoic time | |
A paleogeographic model for Vendian and Cambrian time | |
Evolution of the Proterozoic biosphere: benchmarks, tempo and mode | |
Geographic and geologic data for PPRG rock samples | |
Flow chart and processing procedures for rock samples | |
Procedures of whole rock and kerogen analysis | |
Abundances and isotopic compositions of carbon and sulphur species in whole rock and kerogen samples | |
Procedures for analysis of extractable organic matter | |
Composition of extractable organic matter | |
Modern mat-building microbial communities: methods of investigation and supporting data | |
Construction and use of geological, geochemical and paleobiological databases | |
Proterozoic and selected early Cambrian microfossils and microfossil-like objects | |
Described taxa of Proterozoic and selected earliest Cambrian Carbonaceous remains, trace and body fossils | |
Atlas of representative Proterozoic microfossils | |
Informal revised classifications of Proterozoic microfossils | |
Models for Vendian-Cambrian biotic diversity and for Proterozoic atmospheric and ocean chemistry | |
Glossary of technical terms | |
References cited | |
Subject index | |
Index to geologic units | |
Taxonomic index | |
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