Lantian Formation

Lantian Formation
Lantian Formation
Stratigraphic range: Ediacaran; ~602 ± 7 – ~577 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Location
Location	South China
Country	China

The Lantian Formation is a 150-meter-thick sequence of rocks deposited in Xiuning County, Anhui Province in southern China during a 90-million-year epoch in the Ediacaran period.^[2] Its algal macrofossils (which have alternatively been interpreted as putative metazoans^[3]) are the oldest large and complex fossils known.^[2]

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^ ^a ^b Narbonne, G. M. (2011). "Evolutionary biology: when life got big". Nature. 470 (7334): 339–40. Bibcode:2011Natur.470..339N. doi:10.1038/470339a. PMID 21331031. S2CID 205062340.
^ Wan, Bin; Yuan, Xunlai; Chen, Zhe; Guan, Chengguo; Pang, Ke; Tang, Qing; Xiao, Shuhai; McIlroy, Duncan (2016). "Systematic description of putative animal fossils from the early Ediacaran Lantian Formation of South China". Palaeontology. 59 (4): 515–532. doi:10.1111/pala.12242. ISSN 0031-0239.

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[Narbonne2011-2] Narbonne, G. M. (2011). "Evolutionary biology: when life got big". Nature. 470 (7334): 339–40. Bibcode:2011Natur.470..339N. doi:10.1038/470339a. PMID 21331031. S2CID 205062340.

[WanYuan2016-3] Wan, Bin; Yuan, Xunlai; Chen, Zhe; Guan, Chengguo; Pang, Ke; Tang, Qing; Xiao, Shuhai; McIlroy, Duncan (2016). "Systematic description of putative animal fossils from the early Ediacaran Lantian Formation of South China". Palaeontology. 59 (4): 515–532. doi:10.1111/pala.12242. ISSN 0031-0239.

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Lantian Formation
Stratigraphic range: Ediacaran ~602 ± 7 – ~577 Ma^[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Location
Location	South China
Country	China

Lantian Formation

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