Abstract The Cambrian (Series 2, Stage 3) Qingjiang Lagerstätte of South China is one of
the most diverse Burgess Shale‐type deposits around the world, yielding abundant non …

Diverse chancelloriids from two sections of the Kaili Biota (Cambrian Wuliuan Stage) in
Guizhou Province, China, are systematically described. A total of 25 complete individuals …

Biologically controlled mineral crystals producing organic-inorganic composites (hard
skeletons) by metazoan biomineralizers has been an evolutionary innovation for more than …

A diverse and abundant isolated sponge spicule assemblage of Late Ordovician age is first
reported from the western margin of the Yangtze Platform in South China. The spicule …

The significant changes in seafloor conditions during the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition
presumably bear on the autecology of the benthic animals living in this time interval …

By virtue of remarkable tolerance on hypoxia and adaptive specialization in morphology,
diverse hexactinellid sponges prospered in an early Cambrian environment characterized …

Biologically-controlled mineralization producing organic-inorganic composites (hard
skeletons) by metazoan biomineralizers has been an evolutionary innovation since the …

Sponges played a crucial role in the shaping of Cambrian marine ecosystems, commonly
being principal filter feeders among the benthos. While calcified archaeocyaths were main …

Black shales are mostly deposited in dysoxic to anoxic marine environments that
inhospitable to most benthic animals (Zhou and Jiang, 2009; Oschmann, 2011; Jin et al …