1. Preface—Understanding the coevolution of life and environment in great turning periods of Earth history

   • JinNan Tong
   • XiaoYing Shi

   EditorialNotes 22 October 2008 Pages: 1513 - 1515

2. Discussion on geobiology, biogeology and geobiofacies

   • HongFu Yin
   • ShuCheng Xie
   • GenMing Luo

   OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1516 - 1524

3. Sand veins and MISS from the Mesoproterozoic black shale (ca. 1.7 Ga) in North China: Implication for methane degassing from microbial mats

   • XiaoYing Shi
   • GanQing Jiang
   • Juan Liu

   OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1525 - 1536

4. 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 Zhang
   • GanQing Jiang
   • HuaiChun Wu

   OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1537 - 1544

5. The Pengguan tectonic dome of Longmen Mountains, Sichuan Province: Mesozoic denudation of a Neoproterozoic magmatic arc-basin system

   • DanPing Yan
   • MeiFu Zhou
   • XiaoYing Shi

   OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1545 - 1559

6. Chemocline instability and isotope variations of the Ediacaran Doushantuo basin in South China

   • GanQing Jiang
   • ShiHong Zhang
   • XinQiang Wang

   OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1560 - 1569

7. Devonian Frasnian-Famennian transitional event deposits of Guangxi, South China and their possible tsunami origin

   • YuanSheng Du
   • YiMing Gong
   • ZhiQiang Huang

   OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1570 - 1580

8. Coupling relationships between brachiopods and Girvanella during the Late Devonian F-F transition in Guilin, South China

   • Ran Xu
   • YiMing Gong
   • JianWei Zeng

   OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1581 - 1588

9. Evolutionary patterns of Productida (Brachiopoda) morphology during the Permian in South China

   • Yang Zhang
   • WeiHong He

   OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1589 - 1600

10. Late Changhsingian radiolarian biostratigraphy from Guangxi, South China and its correlation to conodonts

    • Jun Wu
    • QingLai Feng

    OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1601 - 1610

11. End-Permian conodont fauna from Dongpan section: Correlation between the deep-and shallow-water facies

    • GenMing Luo
    • XuLong Lai
    • Jun Wu

    OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1611 - 1622

12. Extinction pattern and process of siliceous sponge spicules in deep-water during the latest Permian in South China

    • GuiChun Liu
    • QingLai Feng
    • SongZhu Gu

    OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1623 - 1632

13. Timing of the terrestrial Permian-Triassic boundary biotic crisis: Implications from U-Pb dating of authigenic zircons

    • JianXin Yu
    • HuiMin Li
    • QingLai Feng

    OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1633 - 1645

14. Anachronistic facies in the Lower Triassic of South China and their implications to the ecosystems during the recovery time

    • XiaoMing Zhao
    • JinNan Tong
    • Chen Zq

    OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1646 - 1657

15. Cenozoic sedimentary records and geochronological constraints of differential uplift of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    • KeXin Zhang
    • GuoCan Wang
    • RuiMing Chen

    OriginalPaper 22 October 2008 Pages: 1658 - 1672