We report the Fandian biota, a new Konservat-Lagerstätte from the Cambrian Stage 3
Yuxiansi and Jiulaodong Formations in Sichuan, South China, with close faunal links to the …

Burgess Shale-type fossil assemblages provide a unique record of animal life in the
immediate aftermath of the so-called “Cambrian explosion.” While most soft-bodied faunas …

Abstract The Lower Ordovician Fezouata Konservat-Lagerstätte from southern Morocco has
been one of the major palaeontological discoveries of the last decade. It provides a unique …

Background The combination of a meager fossil record of vermiform enteropneusts and their
disparity with the tubicolous pterobranchs renders early hemichordate evolution conjectural …

Abstract The Chengjiang and Guanshan fossil Lagerstätten of Yunnan represent key fossil
deposits to understand and reconstruct early metazoan evolution. Despite extensive studies …

Exoskeletal dwelling tubes are widespread among extant animals and early fossil
assemblages. Exceptional fossils from the Cambrian reveal independent origins of tube …

The cactus-like chancelloriids from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale are revised on the
basis of Walcott's (1920) original collections and new material containing several hundred …

Computed microtomography (XR-μCT) was used to study the three-dimensional morphology
of Palaeoscolex cf. tenensis, a palaeoscolecid worm from the Lower Ordovician Fezouata …

Guangweia cheni gen. et sp. nov. is an exceptionally preserved frond-like fossil from the
early Cambrian Guanshan biota of SW China, which shares morphological similarities with …

Simple Summary “Anomalocaris” kunmingensis is the most common radiodont in the
Guanshan biota, which has been recently reassigned to the family Amplectobeluidae …