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References

Benton, MJ (2003), When Life Nearly Died: the Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time. Thames & Hudson, 336 pp.

Brocks JJ, R Buick, RE Summons & GA Logan (2003), A reconstruction of Archean biological diversity based on molecular fossils from the 2.78 to 2.45 billion-year-old Mount Bruce Supergroup, Hamersley Basin, Western Australia. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 67: 4321-4335.

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Huntley, JW, S-H Xiao, & M Kowalewski (2006), 1.3 Billion years of acritarch history: An empirical morphospace approach.  Precambrian Res. 144: 52–68. 

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Meert, JG & E Tamrat (2004), The H.O.G. hypothesis for explaining rapid continental motion in the late Neoproterozoic in PG Eriksson, W Altermann, O Catuneanu, WU Mueller & DR Nelson [eds.], The Precambrian Earth: Tempos and Events.  Elsevier.  

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