Preface—Understanding the coevolution of life and environment in great turning periods of Earth history JinNan TongXiaoYing Shi EditorialNotes 22 October 2008 Pages: 1513 - 1515
Discussion on geobiology, biogeology and geobiofacies HongFu YinShuCheng XieGenMing Luo OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1516 - 1524
Sand veins and MISS from the Mesoproterozoic black shale (ca. 1.7 Ga) in North China: Implication for methane degassing from microbial mats XiaoYing ShiGanQing JiangJuan Liu OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1525 - 1536
New SHRIMP U-Pb age from the Wuqiangxi Formation of Banxi Group: Implications for rifting and stratigraphic erosion associated with the early Cryogenian (Sturtian) glaciation in South China ShiHong ZhangGanQing JiangHuaiChun Wu OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1537 - 1544
The Pengguan tectonic dome of Longmen Mountains, Sichuan Province: Mesozoic denudation of a Neoproterozoic magmatic arc-basin system DanPing YanMeiFu ZhouXiaoYing Shi OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1545 - 1559
Chemocline instability and isotope variations of the Ediacaran Doushantuo basin in South China GanQing JiangShiHong ZhangXinQiang Wang OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1560 - 1569
Devonian Frasnian-Famennian transitional event deposits of Guangxi, South China and their possible tsunami origin YuanSheng DuYiMing GongZhiQiang Huang OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1570 - 1580
Coupling relationships between brachiopods and Girvanella during the Late Devonian F-F transition in Guilin, South China Ran XuYiMing GongJianWei Zeng OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1581 - 1588
Evolutionary patterns of Productida (Brachiopoda) morphology during the Permian in South China Yang ZhangWeiHong He OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1589 - 1600
Late Changhsingian radiolarian biostratigraphy from Guangxi, South China and its correlation to conodonts Jun WuQingLai Feng OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1601 - 1610
End-Permian conodont fauna from Dongpan section: Correlation between the deep-and shallow-water facies GenMing LuoXuLong LaiJun Wu OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1611 - 1622
Extinction pattern and process of siliceous sponge spicules in deep-water during the latest Permian in South China GuiChun LiuQingLai FengSongZhu Gu OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1623 - 1632
Timing of the terrestrial Permian-Triassic boundary biotic crisis: Implications from U-Pb dating of authigenic zircons JianXin YuHuiMin LiQingLai Feng OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1633 - 1645
Anachronistic facies in the Lower Triassic of South China and their implications to the ecosystems during the recovery time XiaoMing ZhaoJinNan TongChen Zq OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1646 - 1657
Cenozoic sedimentary records and geochronological constraints of differential uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau KeXin ZhangGuoCan WangRuiMing Chen OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1658 - 1672