Insights in the Neoproterozoic/Early Cambrian transition of NW Argentina: facies, environments and fossils in the Proto-Margin of Western Gondwana, G Acenolaza and F Acenolaza • Climates and climate zonality of the Vendian: geological evidence, N M Chumakov • Non-destructive method to detect the cycle of lamination in sedimentary rocks: rhythmite sequence in Neoproterozoic Cap carbonates, N Katsuta, B Tojo, M Takano, H Yoshioka, S Kawakami, T Ohno and M Kumazawa • Ediacaran rocks from the Cadomian basement of the Saxo-Thuringian Zone (NE Bohemian Massif, Germany): age constraints, geotectonic setting and basin development, U Linnemann • Siliciclastic prelude to Elatina-Nuccaleena deglaciation: lithostratigraphy and rock magnetism of the base of the Ediacaran System, T D Raub, D A D Evans and A V Smirnov • The rise and decline of the Ediacaran biota: palaeobiological and stable isotopic evidence from the NW and NE Lesser Himalaya, India, V C Tewari • Calcite-dolomite cycles in the Neoproterozoic Cap carbonates, Otavi Group, Namibia, B Tojo, N Katsuta, M Takano, S Kawakami and T Ohno • Correlating the Ediacaran of Australia, K Grey and C R Calver • 'Ediacaran' as a name for the newly designated terminal Proterozoic period, R J F Jenkins • First Early Cambrian Radiolaria, A Braun, J-Y Chen, D Waloszek and A Maas • Ciliated protozoans from the Precambrian Doushantuo Formation, Wengan, South China, Chia-Wei Li, J-Y Chen, J H Lipps, F Gao, H-M Chi and H-J Wu • New data on Kimberella, the Vendian mollusc-like organism (White Sea region, Russia): palaeoecological and evolutionary implications, M A Fedonkin, A Simonetta and A Y Ivantsov • Comment: future research directions for further analysis of Kimberella, P Trusler, J Stilwell and P Vickers-Rich • Ventogyrus, a possible siphonophore-like trilobozoan coelenterate from the Vendian Sequence (late Neoproterozoic), northern Russia, M A Fedonkin and A Y Ivantsov • The provenance and palaeobiology of a new multi-vaned, chambered frondose organism from the Ediacaran (later Neoproterozoic) of South Australia, R J F Jenkins and C Nedin • A brief review of the fossil record of the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition in the area of Montes de Toledo - Guadalupe, Spain, S Jensen, T Palacios and M Marti Mus • Morphology and taphonomy of an Ediacaran frond: Charnia from the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, M Laflamme, G M Narbonne, C Greentree and M M Anderson • Comparative taphonomy of Vendian genera Beltanelloides and Nemiana: taxonomy and lifestyle, M V Leonov • Upper Vendian assemblages of Carbonaceous micro- and macrofossils in the White Sea Region: systematic and biostratigraphic aspects, M V Leonov and A L Ragozina • Ediacaria booleyi: weeded from the Garden of Ediacara? B A MacGabhann, J Murray and C J Nicholas • Discoidal fossils of the Ediacaran biota – a review of current understanding, B A MacGabhann • Biota in the terminal Proterozoic successions on the Indian subcontinent: a review, P K Maithy and G Kumar • Vendian Hiemalora from Arctic Siberia reinterpreted as holdfasts of benthic organisms, E A Serezhnikova • A new reconstruction of Protolyellia (Early Cambrian psammocoral), E Savazzi • Poriferan paraphyly and its implications for Precambrian paleobiology, E A Sperling, D Pisani and K J Peterson • Seeing ghosts: Neoproterozoic bilaterian body plans, J W Valentine • Towards a morphospace for the Ediacara biota, J B Antcliffe and M D Brasier • The nature of vendobionts, A Seilacher • Theoretical morphology of quilt structures in Ediacaran fossils, B Tojo, R Saito, S Kawakami and T Ohno • The Verdun Syndrome: simultaneous origin of protective armour and infaunal shelters at the Precambrian-Cambrian transition, J Dzik • The Cambrian 'basement' of gastropod evolution, P Y Parkhaev • Siliceous microfossils and biosiliceous sedimentation in the lowermost Cambrian of China, A Braun, J-Y Chen, D Waloszek and A Maas • Fleshing out the Ediacaran period, J G Gehling • Rugosoopsis – a new group of Upper Riphean animals, T N Hermann and V N Podkovyrov • Microstratigraphy of the Late Ediacaran to the Ordovician in Northwest Iran (Takab Area), S M Jafari, A Shemirani and B Hamdi • ?13C stratigraphy of the Birmania Basin, Rajasthan, India: implications for the Vendian-Cambrian Transition, A Maheshwari, A N Sial and S C Mathur • Sprigg, Glaessner and Wade and the discovery and international recognition of the Ediacaran fauna, S Turner and P Vickers-Rich • Saline giants, cold cradles and global playgrounds of Neoproterozoic Earth: the origin of the Animalia, P Vickers-Rich