Brief Description
“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.”
Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1388
Source UNESCO WH website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1388
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