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Close ✕Chengjiang fossil site, Yunnan
A Cambrian Lagerstätte in the Maotianshan Shales near Chengjiang in Yunnan Province, southwest China, found by Hou Xianguang in 1984 and roughly ten million years older than the Burgess…
24.7, 103.0 · approximate · fossils c. 518 Ma; discovered 1984; inscribed 2012
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- instance of Konservat-Lagerstätte (exceptional preservation) — Chengjiang preserves soft tissue, though often replicated in iron-rich minerals rather than as carbon films, which means it filters its fauna differently from the Burgess Shale.
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