Intrigued Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 "Scientists say they have discovered a "stunning" trove of thousands of fossils on a river bank in China. The fossils are estimated to be about 518 million years old, and are particularly unusual because the soft body tissue of many creatures, including their skin, eyes, and internal organs, have been "exquisitely" well preserved." From this BBC news item. The find is within a lagerstatte, a fine grained sediment in which fine detail, especially of soft tissue, is preserved. (Other famous examples include the Burgess Shale and the Solnhofen limestone.) We can reasonably expect signifcant understanding to emerge from further study of the find, and for more samples to be recovered in future. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koti Posted March 24, 2019 Share Posted March 24, 2019 Sounds like they hit the paleontological jackpot with this find, awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterwlocke Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 what can they apply this to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zapatos Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 28 minutes ago, peterwlocke said: what can they apply this to? What do you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intrigued Posted March 25, 2019 Author Share Posted March 25, 2019 14 hours ago, peterwlocke said: what can they apply this to? Off the top of my head (with no assurance of accuracy) Broaden our knowledge of soft bodied phyla in the Cambrian Refine our understanding of evolutionary trajectories within the Cambrian explosion Enlarge the number of known Cambrian families and genera Identify developmental stages for some organisms Deepen our understanding of Cambrian ecology Better recognise the conditions necessary for the formation of lagerstatte deposits with a view to locating further examples And I imagine the experts in the field have further, better examples. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterwlocke Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 1 hour ago, Intrigued said: Off the top of my head (with no assurance of accuracy) Broaden our knowledge of soft bodied phyla in the Cambrian Refine our understanding of evolutionary trajectories within the Cambrian explosion Enlarge the number of known Cambrian families and genera Identify developmental stages for some organisms Deepen our understanding of Cambrian ecology Better recognise the conditions necessary for the formation of lagerstatte deposits with a view to locating further examples And I imagine the experts in the field have further, better examples. thanks. I should of thought of that thanks for the jump start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rameshsingh01 Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 Its good things but not heard detailed report on that. Any buddy guide me where i will get detailed report to study that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strange Posted April 4, 2019 Share Posted April 4, 2019 The full paper is here, for those interested: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331948449_The_Qingjiang_biota-A_Burgess_Shale-type_fossil_Lagerstatte_from_the_early_Cambrian_of_South_China Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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