The Fulu Biota, a new Fossil Lagerstätte from the Late Cambrian of Yunnan Province, China.
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The term lagerstätte is used by Palaeontologists to describe a particularly rich fossil source; a site where fossils are either exceptionally numerous or exceptionally well preserved (or, ideally, both). Such lagerstätte are particularly important for our underestanding of the earliest ecosystems which emerged in the Ediacaran and Cambrian periods, which contained many unfamiliar lifeforms, difficult for palaeontologists to understand from fragmentary remains. The Early-to-Middle Cambrian is particularly well represented in such lagerstätte. with examples such as the Chengjiang Biota and the Burgess Shale Fauna having been particularly useful for our understanding of the development of early Metazoan Life. Lagerstätte from the Late Cambrian are, however, much less well known, leaving us with a gap in our understanding of this important period.
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