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The exceptional preservation of Ediacaran organisms is problematic, and the cause of the unique conservation is difficult to prove for fossil material because of restrictions imposed by the incomplete palaeontological record. Observation of the various preservation forms is particularly important and provides the basis for further reconstructions of organisms and the Precambrian community structure.
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This work was supported in part by the Russian Foundation of Basic Research, projects nos. 08-05-00801, 08-05-90211, the Scientific School of Academicians B.S. Sokolov and M.A. Fedonkin, project no. NSH-4156.2008.5 and the Program N 18 of the Presidium of RAS. I am grateful to Academician M.A. Fedonkin and Dr. A.Yu. Ivantsov for the access to the collections and useful comments, to Dr. A.G. Ponomarenko for polite discussion, to A.V. Mazin (PIN RAS) and Yu.V. Shuvalova for the photographic works, to L.V. Zaytseva and E.A. Zhegallo (PIN RAS) for the fine-structural investigation, to N.I. Krasnova for improving the language of the manuscript and to the anonymous reviewer for critical reading and very constructive review.
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Serezhnikova, E.A. (2011). Microbial Binding as a Probable Cause of Taphonomic Variability of Vendian Fossils: Carbonate Casting?. In: Advances in Stromatolite Geobiology. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10415-2_31
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