MACROSCOPIC CARBONACEOUS COMPRESSIONS IN A TERMINAL PROTEROZOIC SHALE: A SYSTEMATIC REASSESSMENT OF THE MIAOHE BIOTA, SOUTH CHINA

Xiao, Shuhai; Yuan, Xunlai; Steiner, Michael; H. Knoll, Andrew

doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0347:mcciat>2.0.co;2

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MACROSCOPIC CARBONACEOUS COMPRESSIONS IN A TERMINAL PROTEROZOIC SHALE: A SYSTEMATIC REASSESSMENT OF THE MIAOHE BIOTA, SOUTH CHINA

Published in Journal of Paleontology • Mar 1, 2002

Authors:

Shuhai Xiao

Xunlai Yuan

Michael Steiner

Abstract

Carbonaceous compression fossils in shales of the uppermost Doushantuo Formation (ca. 555-590 Ma) at Miaohe in the Yangtze Gorges area provide a rare Burgess-Shale-type taphonomic window on terminal Proterozoic biology. More than 100 macrofossil species have been described from Miaohe shales, but in...

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Taphonomy

Paleontology

Macrofossil

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