澄江化石地

澂江化石地（又作“澄江化石地”）是中国西南部云南澂江县境内40多处散存的寒武纪多门类古生物群遗址，距今约5.20亿到5.25亿年，主要集中于帽天山的页岩，开始发掘于1984年。它的特点是动物体内没有矿物质的软组织部分保存得非常好。

A hilly 512 ha site in Yunnan province, Chengjiang’s fossils present the most complete record of an early Cambrian marine community with exceptionally preserved biota, displaying the anatomy of hard and soft tissues in a very wide variety of organisms, invertebrate and vertebrate. They record the early establishment of a complex marine ecosystem. The site documents at least sixteen phyla and a variety of enigmatic groups as well as about 196 species, presenting exceptional testimony to the rapid diversification of life on Earth 530 million years ago, when almost all of today’s major animal groups emerged. It opens a palaeobiological window of great significance to scholarship.

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