The Qingjiang biota—A Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätte from the early Cambrian of South China

Burgess Shale–type fossil Lagerstätten provide the best evidence for deciphering the biotic patterns and magnitude of the Cambrian explosion. Here, we report a Lagerstätte from South China, the Qingjiang biota (∼518 million years old), which is dominated by soft-bodied taxa from a distal shelf setti...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2019-03, Vol.363 (6433), p.1338-1342
Main Authors: Fu, Dongjing, Tong, Guanghui, Dai, Tao, Liu, Wei, Yang, Yuning, Zhang, Yuan, Cui, Linhao, Li, Luoyang, Yun, Hao, Wu, Yu, Sun, Ao, Liu, Cong, Pei, Wenrui, Gaines, Robert R., Zhang, Xingliang
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Language:English
Subjects:
Abundance
Animals
Biological Evolution
Biota
Cambrian
China
Environmental gradient
Fossils
Innovations
Larva
Minerals
New taxa
Preservation
Shale
Shales
Taxa
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