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dc.contributor.authorEl Albani, Abderrazaken_UK
dc.contributor.authorBengtson, Stefanen_UK
dc.contributor.authorCanfield, Donald Een_UK
dc.contributor.authorRiboulleau, Armelleen_UK
dc.contributor.authorRollion-Bard, Claireen_UK
dc.contributor.authorMacchiarelli, Robertoen_UK
dc.contributor.authorNgombi Pemba, Laurissen_UK
dc.contributor.authorHammarlund, Emmaen_UK
dc.contributor.authorMeunier, Alainen_UK
dc.contributor.authorMoubiya Mouele, Idalinaen_UK
dc.contributor.authorBenzerara, Karimen_UK
dc.contributor.authorBernard, Sylvainen_UK
dc.contributor.authorBoulvais, Philippeen_UK
dc.contributor.authorChaussidon, Marcen_UK
dc.contributor.authorWhite, Leeen_UK
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-11T23:21:00Z-
dc.date.available2017-08-11T23:21:00Z-
dc.date.issued2014-06en_UK
dc.identifier.othere99438en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/21131-
dc.description.abstractThe Paleoproterozoic Era witnessed crucial steps in the evolution of Earth's surface environments following the first appreciable rise of free atmospheric oxygen concentrations ~2.3 to 2.1 Ga ago, and concomitant shallow ocean oxygenation. While most sedimentary successions deposited during this time interval have experienced thermal overprinting from burial diagenesis and metamorphism, the ca. 2.1 Ga black shales of the Francevillian B Formation (FB2) cropping out in southeastern Gabon have not. The Francevillian Formation contains centimeter-sized structures interpreted as organized and spatially discrete populations of colonial organisms living in an oxygenated marine ecosystem. Here, new material from the FB2 black shales is presented and analyzed to further explore its biogenicity and taphonomy. Our extended record comprises variably sized, shaped, and structured pyritized macrofossils of lobate, elongated, and rod-shaped morphologies as well as abundant non-pyritized disk-shaped macrofossils and organic-walled acritarchs. Combined microtomography, geochemistry, and sedimentary analysis suggest a biota fossilized during early diagenesis. The emergence of this biota follows a rise in atmospheric oxygen, which is consistent with the idea that surface oxygenation allowed the evolution and ecological expansion of complex megascopic life.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_UK
dc.relationEl Albani A, Bengtson S, Canfield DE, Riboulleau A, Rollion-Bard C, Macchiarelli R, Ngombi Pemba L, Hammarlund E, Meunier A, Moubiya Mouele I, Benzerara K, Bernard S, Boulvais P, Chaussidon M & White L (2014) The 2.1 Ga old Francevillian biota: Biogenicity, taphonomy and biodiversity. PLoS ONE, 9 (6), Art. No.: e99438. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099438en_UK
dc.rights© 2014 El Albani et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.en_UK
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_UK
dc.titleThe 2.1 Ga old Francevillian biota: Biogenicity, taphonomy and biodiversityen_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0099438en_UK
dc.citation.jtitlePLoS ONEen_UK
dc.citation.issn1932-6203en_UK
dc.citation.volume9en_UK
dc.citation.issue6en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusVoR - Version of Recorden_UK
dc.author.emaill.j.white@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.description.notesAdditional co-authors: Christian Cesari, Claude Fontaine, Ernest Chi-Fru, Juan Manuel Garcia Ruiz, François Gauthier-Lafaye, Arnaud Mazurier, Anne Catherine Pierson-Wickmann, Olivier Rouxel, Alain Trentesaux, Marco Vecoli, Gerard J. M. Versteegh, Martin Whitehouse, Andrey Bekkeren_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Poitiersen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationSwedish Museum of Natural Historyen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationNordic Center for Earth Evolutionen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationLille University of Science & Technology (University of Lille 1)en_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationCentre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Franceen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Poitiersen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Poitiersen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationNordic Center for Earth Evolutionen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Poitiersen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Poitiersen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Paris 6 (Pierre and Marie Curie University)en_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Paris 6 (Pierre and Marie Curie University)en_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Rennesen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationCentre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques, Franceen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationBiological and Environmental Sciencesen_UK
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000338709500010en_UK
dc.identifier.scopusid2-s2.0-84903525549en_UK
dc.identifier.wtid617327en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2014-06-30en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2017-06-09en_UK
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rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_UK
rioxxterms.versionVoRen_UK
local.rioxx.authorEl Albani, Abderrazak|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorBengtson, Stefan|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorCanfield, Donald E|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorRiboulleau, Armelle|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorRollion-Bard, Claire|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorMacchiarelli, Roberto|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorNgombi Pemba, Lauriss|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorHammarlund, Emma|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorMeunier, Alain|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorMoubiya Mouele, Idalina|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorBenzerara, Karim|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorBernard, Sylvain|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorBoulvais, Philippe|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorChaussidon, Marc|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorWhite, Lee|en_UK
local.rioxx.projectInternal Project|University of Stirling|https://isni.org/isni/0000000122484331en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2017-06-09en_UK
local.rioxx.licencehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/|2017-06-09|en_UK
local.rioxx.filenameplosone.pdfen_UK
local.rioxx.filecount1en_UK
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