YANGTZIRAMULUS ZHANGI NEW GENUS AND SPECIES, A CARBONATE-HOSTED MACROFOSSIL FROM THE EDIACARAN DENGYING FORMATION IN THE YANGTZE GORGES AREA, SOUTH CHINA

• Main Authors: Shen, Bing, Xiao, Shuhai, Zhou, Chuanming, Yuan, Xunlai
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: PALEONTOLOGICAL SOC INC 2009
• Subjects: BASAL CAMBRIAN MICROFOSSILS; DOUSHANTUO FORMATION; FOSSIL PRESERVATION; WRINKLE STRUCTURES; SHELLY FOSSILS; MISTAKEN POINT; TRACE FOSSILS; LIFE-STYLES; SEA PENS; NEWFOUNDLAND; Paleontology; Mistaken Point; Newfoundland; Siberia
• Online Access: http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/19418

Very few macroscopic Soft-bodied Ediacaran fossils are hosted in carbonates: most of them are preserved as casts and molds in siliciclastic rocks or as carbonaceous compressions in black shales. This taphonomic bias limits our capability to fully understand the diversity and paleoecology of macrosco...