Paleobiota of the Maotianshan Shales

This is a list of fossils found at Maotianshan Shales, whose most famous assemblage of organisms are referred to as the Chengjiang biota.[1]

The Maotianshan Shales are a series of Early Cambrian sedimentary deposits in the Chiungchussu Formation,[2] famous for their Konservat Lagerstätten, deposits known for the exceptional preservation of fossilized organisms or traces. The Maotianshan Shales form one of some forty Cambrian fossil locations worldwide exhibiting exquisite preservation of rarely preserved, non-mineralized soft tissue, comparable to the fossils of the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada.

  1. ^ "Chengjiang Maotianshan Shales". www.fossilmuseum.net. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
  2. ^ Lipps, J. H.; Signor, P. W (1992). Origin and early evolution of the Metazoa. Springer. ISBN 978-0-306-44067-0.