Lakes through Time: Precambrian Lakes

The Nonesuch Shale

Strother, Paul K. & Charles H. Wellman. 2020. The Nonesuch Formation: a rare window into freshwater life one billion years ago. Journal of the Geological Society 178 jgs2020-133, 30 November 2020, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-133

Slotznick, Sarah P., Nicholas L. Swanson-Hysell, Yiming Zhang, Katherine E. Clayton, Charles H. Wellman, Nicholas J. Tosca & Paul K. Strother. 2023. Reconstructing the paleoenvironment of an oxygenated Mesoproterozoic shoreline and its record of life. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. (2023) doi:10.1130/b36634.1.

Strother, PK & CH Wellman. 2016. Palæoecology of a billion-year-old cyanobacterium from the Torridon Group and Nonesuch Formation. Palæontology 59 (1): 89-108. doi:10.1111/pala.12212

The Torridonian Sequence

Strother, PK, M Brasier, D Wacey, M Saunders, L Timpe, CH Wellman. 2021. A possible billion-year-old holozoan with differentiated multicellularity. Current Biology 31 (12), P2658-P2665.E2, June 21, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.051

Strother, PK, L Battison, MD Brasier & CH Wellman. 2011. Earth’s earliest non-marine eukaryotes. Nature 473: 505-509.

Wellman, CH & PK Strother. 2015. The terrestrial biota prior to the origin of land plants (embryophytes): a review of the evidence. Palæontology 58 (4): 611-627. doi:10.1111/pala.12172

Strother, PK & CH Wellman. 2016. Palæoecology of a billion-year-old cyanobacterium from the Torridon Group and Nonesuch Formation. Palæontology 59 (1): 89-108. doi:10.1111/pala.12212

Wacey D, E Sirantoine, M Saunders, PK Strother. 2019. 1 billion-year-old cell contents preserved in monazite and xenotime. Scientific Reports 9(1):9068; doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-45575-4.