Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history

DB Mills, RA Boyle, SJ Daines, EA Sperling… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria during eukaryogenesis has long been viewed as
an adaptive response to the oxygenation of Earth's surface environment, presuming a …

Global marine redox evolution from the late Neoproterozoic to the early Paleozoic constrained by the integration of Mo and U isotope records

GY Wei, NJ Planavsky, T He, F Zhang, RG Stockey… - Earth-Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The emergence and diversification of early animals is commonly thought to have coincided
with atmosphere and ocean oxygenation across the terminal Neoproterozoic and early …

Extreme variability in atmospheric oxygen levels in the late Precambrian

AJ Krause, BJW Mills, AS Merdith, TM Lenton… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Map** the history of atmospheric O2 during the late Precambrian is vital for evaluating
potential links to animal evolution. Ancient O2 levels are often inferred from geochemical …

Basin-scale reconstruction of euxinia and Late Devonian mass extinctions

SK Sahoo, GJ Gilleaudeau, K Wilson, B Hart… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Devonian–Carboniferous transition marks a fundamental shift in the surface
environment primarily related to changes in ocean–atmosphere oxidation states,, resulting …

Uranium isotopes in marine carbonates as a global ocean paleoredox proxy: a critical review

F Zhang, TM Lenton, Á del Rey, SJ Romaniello… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The protracted oxygenation of the ocean-atmosphere system is one of the most fundamental
changes to the Earth system through its history. The uranium isotopic composition (238 …

A diverse Ediacara assemblage survived under low-oxygen conditions

LB Cherry, GJ Gilleaudeau, DV Grazhdankin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The Ediacaran biota were soft-bodied organisms, many with enigmatic phylogenetic
placement and ecology, living in marine environments between 574 and 539 million years …

[HTML][HTML] Sedimentary Ce anomalies: Secular change and implications for paleoenvironmental evolution

K Zhang, GA Shields - Earth-Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Although Ce anomalies are commonly used to reconstruct past seawater redox conditions,
published interpretations are based on various proxy materials and analytical approaches …

The biogeochemistry of ferruginous lakes and past ferruginous oceans

ED Swanner, N Lambrecht, C Wittkop, C Harding… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Anoxic and iron-rich (ferruginous) conditions prevailed in the ocean under the low-oxygen
atmosphere that occurred through most of the Archean Eon. While euxinic conditions (ie …

Carbonate uranium isotopes record global expansion of marine anoxia during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event

MN Remírez, GJ Gilleaudeau, T Gan, MA Kipp… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
The Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE;~ 183 Mya) was a globally significant carbon-
cycle perturbation linked to widespread deposition of organic-rich sediments, massive …

Persistent global marine euxinia in the early Silurian

RG Stockey, DB Cole, NJ Planavsky… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The second pulse of the Late Ordovician mass extinction occurred around the Hirnantian-
Rhuddanian boundary (~ 444 Ma) and has been correlated with expanded marine anoxia …