1. Preface

   • S. V. Rozhnov

   EditorialNotes 07 January 2015 Pages: 1449 - 1449

2. Features of calcareous algae mineralization at the transition to the Phanerozoic Biosphere

   • V. A. Luchinina
   • A. A. Terleev

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1450 - 1456

3. Skeletogenesis in problematic Late Proterozoic Lower Metazoa

   • E. A. Serezhnikova

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1457 - 1472

4. Biomineralization of radiolarian skeletons

   • M. S. Afanasieva
   • E. O. Amon

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1473 - 1486

5. Fossilization of radiolarian skeletons

   • M. S. Afanasieva
   • E. O. Amon

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1487 - 1501

6. What might cause the differences in the shell composition of the earliest Brachiopods?

   • G. T. Ushatinskaya

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1502 - 1510

7. Primary layer of some Rhynchonelliformean brachiopods

   • A. A. Madison

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1511 - 1518

8. Formation of bivalve shells and their microstructure

   • S. V. Popov

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1519 - 1531

9. General features of echinoderm skeleton formation

   • A. I. Kokorin
   • G. V. Mirantsev
   • S. V. Rozhnov

   OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1532 - 1539

10. Echinoid skeleton

    • A. N. Solovjev

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1540 - 1551

11. Specific microaggregates and problematic microfossils as satellites of biochenogenic rocks

    • L. V. Leonova
    • T. V. Litvinova
    • S. P. Glavatskikh

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1552 - 1556

12. Bioinduced crustification as a reaction of Late Carboniferous-Early Permian reef ecosystems to biosphere changes

    • A. I. Antoshkina
    • E. S. Ponomarenko

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1557 - 1568

13. Cosmophysical situation in the epoch of the Cambrian explosion

    • L. I. Miroshnichenko
    • O. V. Khabarova

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1569 - 1572

14. Upper Jurassic Lagerstätte Shar Teg, southwestern Mongolia

    • A. G. Ponomarenko
    • D. S. Aristov
    • E. V. Yan

    OriginalPaper 07 January 2015 Pages: 1573 - 1682