The Cambrian brachiopod fauna from the first-trilobite age Shuijingtuo Formation in the Three Gorges area of China

• Published in: Palaeoworld
• Main Authors: Zhang, Zhi-Fei, Zhang, Zhi-Liang, Li, Guo-Xiang (李国祥), Holmer, Lars E.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV 2016
• Subjects: Biostratigraphy; Botoman; Brachiopoda; Lingulids; Archaeocyatha; Small Shelly Fossils (Ssfs); Small Shelly Fossils; Pararaia-bunyerooensis Zone; South China; Yangtze Platform; Flinders Ranges; Northeast Greenland; Siberian Platform; Eastern Yunnan; Malyi-karatau; Tuff Layer; Paleontology; Flinders; Greenland; Siberia
• Online Access: http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/12376; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2015.10.001

The Yangtze platform of South China offers evidence within its Ediacaran-Cambrian geological record of the Cambrian explosion and diversification events in metazoan history. To understand the explosive radiation of animals and the environments in which it took place, the basal Cambrian fauna success...