Cambrian Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätten in South China: Distribution and significance

Zhang, Xingliang; Liu, Wei; Zhao, Yuanlong

doi:10.1016/j.gr.2007.06.008

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“…The material described here was mainly collected from two lo− calities (Jianshan, and Erjie) of the Chengjiang Lagerstätte in the mudstone−dominated Yu'anshan Member of the Helinpu Formation (previously Qiongzhusi Formation), Eoredlichia Zone, Stage 3, Series 2 of the Cambrian in eastern Yunnan, China, correlated with the late Atdabanian of the Siberian Cambrian sequence (Zhang et al 2001(Zhang et al , 2008Hou et al 2004). It comprises 87 specimens housed in the ELI and De− partment of Geology in NWU.…”

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Soft Anatomy of the Early Cambrian ArthropodIsoxys curvirostratusfrom the Chengjiang Biota of South China with a Discussion on the Origination of Great Appendages

Fu¹,

Zhang²,

Shu³

2011

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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Soft Anatomy of the Early Cambrian ArthropodIsoxys curvirostratusfrom the Chengjiang Biota of South China with a Discussion on the Origination of Great Appendages

Fu¹,

Zhang²,

Shu³

2011

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica

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“…the Guanshan, Hetang, Chengjiang faunas; Zhang et al, 2008). Zhang et al, 2015 (this issue) describe exceptionally well-preserved lingulid brachiopods from the Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4, Shipai Formation, in the Three Gorges area of South China.…”

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“…Les patrons phylogénétiques et de l'évolution écologique au cours de l'Époque 2 du Cambrien sont bien documentés par de nombreux Lagerstätten en Australie (Emu Bay ; Jago et Cooper, 2011), Groenland (Sirius Passet ;Peel et Ineson, 2011), Sibérie (Sinsk biota ;Ivantsova et al, 2005), Laurentia (Formation de Pioche, Nevada ; Webster et al, 2008) et Chine (par ex., les faunes de Guanshan, Hetang, Chengjiang ; Zhang et al, 2008). Zhang et al, 2015, ce fascicule) décrivent des brachiopodes lingulides exceptionnellement bien préservés de la Série 2, Étage 4 du Cambrien dans la Formation de Shipai, dans la région des Trois-Gorges du Sud de la Chine.…”

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The Cambrian explosion: Its timing and stratigraphic setting

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Álvaro

Devaere

et al. 2015

Annales de Paléontologie

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“…The Niutitang Formation has an age of ~535 Ma determined by Re-Os isochron method (Jiang et al 2007), and bears abundant fossils of acritarch, algae, sponge, and small animals (e.g., Steiner et al 2005;Zhang et al 2008). The Niutitang Biota is slightly older than the well-known Chengjiang Fauna (525 Ma, Hou et al 2004).…”

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Flower-like apatite recording microbial processes through deep geological time and its implication to the search for mineral records of life on Mars

Sun

Chan

2014

American Mineralogist

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The biological cycling of phosphorus on Earth could be as early as the origin of life in early Archean. However, because of the low abundance and fine particle size, phosphate related to microbial ecophysiological activities in early sedimentary rocks, especially those deposited before the Great Oxidation Event (GOE, ca. 2.45-2.32 Ma), is still poorly addressed. It is not until recently that certain petrographic and mineralogical features of apatite in the early Precambrian sedimentary rocks were found related to microbial activities. In this study, we report high-resolution electron microscopic investigations on apatite from the Neoarchean to early Paleoproterozoic banded iron formations (BIFs), Mesoproterozoic to Lower Cambrian black shale and phosphorites, and Pliocene sediments. Apatite in BIFs occurs as 4-8 mm radial flowers with "petals" made of apatite rods. Their mineralogical and petrologic features are highly similar to those in the younger sedimentary rocks in which biomass have been confirmed to play an important role in the mineralization of phosphate. We suggest that these sedimentary rocks or sediments have experienced similar phosphogenetic processes mediated by biomass that led to the mineralization of phosphorus. The formation and preservation of phosphate (apatite) with conspicuous recognizable features in association with biological activities from Late Archean to Pliocene implies its universal significance in recording microbial processes through deep geological evolution. With mild dynamic processes, the martian (sub)surface has better preservation conditions than Earth, and the micro-structure of phosphate formed in environments mediated by microorganisms could be recognized by high-resolution observations on the surface of Mars or returned samples, if microbial life ever developed on Mars.

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Cambrian Burgess Shale-type Lagerstätten in South China: Distribution and significance

Cited by 90 publications

References 37 publications

Soft Anatomy of the Early Cambrian ArthropodIsoxys curvirostratusfrom the Chengjiang Biota of South China with a Discussion on the Origination of Great Appendages

Soft Anatomy of the Early Cambrian ArthropodIsoxys curvirostratusfrom the Chengjiang Biota of South China with a Discussion on the Origination of Great Appendages

The Cambrian explosion: Its timing and stratigraphic setting

Flower-like apatite recording microbial processes through deep geological time and its implication to the search for mineral records of life on Mars

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