Glossary

French: Site fossilifère de Chengjiang
The Chengjiang Fossil Site is a World Heritage site in China defined by the UNESCO in 2012 and definitely a recommended natural sightseeing Location.
It is on position 530 (327, 484) in our monthly survey..

"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."
Copyright © 1992 2014 UNESCO/World Heritage Centre. All rights reserved."

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