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Doushantuo Formation

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294: 623:, as well as due to its microfossils' potential utility as biostratigraphical markers. Taken as a whole, the Doushantuo Formation ranges from about 635 Ma (million years ago) at its base to about 551 Ma at its top, with the most fossiliferous layer predating by perhaps five Ma the earliest of the 'classical' Ediacaran faunas from 730:) makes these claims difficult to prove: some argue that their lack suggests these finds are not larval and embryonic forms at all; supporters contend that some unidentified process "filtered out" all but the smallest forms from fossilization. An alternative interpretation suggests that it was created by non-biological 711:
Doushantuo fossils are all aquatic, microscopic, and preserved to a great degree of detail. The latter two characteristics mean that the structure of the organisms that made them can be studied at the cellular level, and considerable insight has been gained into the embryonic and larval stages of
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The discovery was made when the rich phosphate deposits were being mined, and was first reported in 1998. The finds offer direct evidence that confirms expectations that major evolutionary diversification of animals already had occurred before the onset of the Cambrian period, with its apparent
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have defended their conclusion that it was an animal, pointing out that they found ten specimens (not illustrated) of the same size and configuration, and stating that non-biological processes would be very unlikely to produce so many specimens that were so alike.
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C.-W. Li; J.-Y. Chen; J. H. Lipps; F. Gao; H.-M. Chi; H.-J. Wu (2007), "Ciliated protozoans from the Precambrian Doushantuo Formation, Wengan, South China", in Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Komarower, Patricia (eds.),
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The most recent Doushantuo rocks show a sharp decrease in the C/C carbon isotope ratio. Since this change appears to be worldwide but its timing does not match that of any other known major event such as a
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Hagadorn, J. W.; Xiao, S; Donoghue, PC; Bengtson, S; Gostling, NJ; Pawlowska, M; Raff, EC; Raff, RA; et al. (2006). "Cellular and Subcellular Structure of Neoproterozoic Animal Embryos".
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The formation was laid down on a carbonate shelf, whose rim enclosed a lagoon between tidal flats on the shore, and the deeper ocean. This lagoon was periodically anoxic or
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Awramik, S.M.; McMenamin, D.S.; Yin, C.; Zhao, Z.; Ding, Q.; Zhang, Z. (1985). "Prokaryotic and eukaryotic microfossils from a Proterozoic/Phanerozoic transition in China".
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by the bacteria, which has been observed in modern environments. If dark spots in the fossil transpire to be fossilised nuclei - an unlikely claim - this would refute the
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Chen, J.Y.; Oliveri, P.; Davidson, E. & Bottjer, D.J. (2004). "Response to Comment on "Small Bilaterian Fossils from 40 to 55 Million Years Before the Cambrian"".
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Jiang, G.; Shi, X.; Zhang, S.; Wang, Y.; Xiao, S. (2011). "Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635-551 Ma) in South China".
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Chen, Jun-Yuan; Bottjer, David J.; Oliveri, Paola; Dornbos, Stephen Q.; Gao, Feng; Ruffins, Seth; Chi, Huimei; Li, Chia-Wei; Davidson, Eric H. (9 July 2004).
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Lee, J. S.; Chao, Y. T. (1924). "Geology of the Gorges Area of the Yangtze (from Ichang to Tzekuei) with special reference to the development of the gorges".
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with the underlying Liantuo formation, which is free of fossils, an unconformity usually being interpreted as a period of erosion. On that unconformity lie
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indicate highly saline conditions, such as might be found in a lagoon, low oxygen levels, and very little sediment that had been washed off land surfaces.
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The Doushantuo formation itself has three layers representing aquatic sediments that formed as sea levels rose with the melting of worldwide glaciation.
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Bailey, Jake V.; Joye, SB; Kalanetra, KM; Flood, BE; Corsetti, FA (2007). "Evidence of giant sulphur bacteria in Neoproterozoic phosphorites".
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Xiao, S.; Knoll, A. H. (2000). "Phosphatized Animal Embryos from the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation at Weng'an, Guizhou, South China".
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Xiao, S.; Zhang, Y.; Knoll, A. H. (1998). "Three-dimensional preservation of algae and animal embryos in a Neoproterozoic phosphorite".
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Schiffbauer, J. D.; Xiao, S.; Sharma, K. S.; Wang, G. (2012). "The origin of intracellular structures in Ediacaran metazoan embryos".
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operations in the area. A workshop led in protest by local paleontologists resulted in a temporary halt to the mining in 2017.
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Only about one-twentieth of the site's fossils have been excavated. The fossil beds are threatened by increasing intensity of
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itself) lie at the bottom of the middle stratum, with a date about 570 Ma, thus from some time after the great
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and expired sea urchin embryos shows little similarity between the fossils and decaying bacterial cells.
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Chuanming, Zhou; Guwei, Xie; McFadden, Kathleen A.; Shuhai, Xiao; Xunlai, Yuan (28 November 2006).
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An alternative possibility is that the "embryos" and "eggs" are in fact fossils of giant sulfur
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hypothesis. That being said, recent comparisons of the Doushantuo fossils to modern decaying
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McFadden, Kathleen A.; Xiao, Shu; Chuanming, Zhou; Kowalewski, Michał (September 2009).
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many early creatures. One contentious claim is that many of the fossils show signs of
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Condon, D.; Zhu, M.; Bowring, S.; Wang, W.; Yang, A. & Jin, Y. (1 April 2005).
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or algal cells), including eggs and embryos which are most probably of sponges or
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relationships between evolutionary innovation and seawater chemistry" in which
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formed of glacial deposits of cobbles and gravel laid down at the end of the
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in Guizhou, as one of the oldest beds to contain minutely preserved
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recognizable in Cambrian macrofossils must have existed previously.
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that are so characteristic they have given their name to "
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contained within an acritarch from the Doushantuo Formation
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Dengying Formation
Nantuo Formation
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phosphate minerals
China
Hubei
Li Siguang
Zhao Yazeng

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