... sediments is preferable. Located in the Yangtze Gorges region of southern China, lagoonal black shales at Miaohe preserve alga and putative metazoans, including Eoandromeda, a candidate total-group ctenophore, thereby providing one example of where integrated study is possible. We present a multi-proxy...

...WEI WANG; CHENGGUO GUAN; CHUANMING ZHOU; BIN WAN; QING TANG; XIANG CHEN; ZHE CHEN; XUNLAI YUAN Abstract The Ediacaran Lantian and Miaohe biotas (South China) are among the earliest-known fossil assemblages with macroscopic and morphologically complex life forms. Preservation of these macrofossils...

.... And, there are no physical or paleobiological indicators of high salinity or other environmental features that might have excluded animals. At present, the South China assemblages are unique. Nonetheless, the sharp contrast in bilaterian megafossil diversity between the Miaohe and the Burgess Shale/Chengjiang biotas...

... models for the chronostratigraphic position of the Miaohe Member (uppermost Doushantuo Formation vs. middle Dengying Formation). (3) The Ediacara-type fossils preserved in the Dengying Formation in South China are temporally correlated to the Nama Assemblage. Their exceptional limestone taphonomic...

...Figure 2. A: Gesinella hunanensis from uppermost Doushantuo black shale at Wenghui (China; courtesy of Y. Zhao). B, C: Similar tubular forms from Ediacara Member (South Australia) sandstone. D: Longifuniculum dissolutum from Miaohe Member black shale in Yangtze Gorges (China) area (courtesy...

... Proterozoic shale: A systematic reassessment of the Miaohe biota, South China : Journal of Paleontology , v. 76 , p. 347 – 376 , doi:10.1666/0022-3360(2002)076<0347:MCCIAT>2.0.CO;2 . Xiao S. Droser M. Gehling J.G. Hughes I.V. Wan B. Chen Z. Yuan X. , 2013...

...Figure 1. Beltanelliformis brunsae in organic mode of preservation from Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, Miaohe, China (Berlin Technical University collection, MMi065B) ...

... Miaohe Member of South China. Our observations reveal that pervasive and displacive syn-compactional dolomitization of the concretions and differential compaction of surrounding sediment led to the formation of biconvex or upward-convex primary laminae within the concretions. When exposed along parting...

... explosion’. How animals and environments co-evolved, and what caused these fundamental changes to the Earth system during the NPT, is a great scientific puzzle, which has been a rapidly developing frontier of interdisciplinary research between bio- and geosciences. South China preserves a complete...

... Ediacaran chronostratigraphic framework of south China ( Zhou and Xiao, 2007 ; Zhu et al., 2007 ), the Miaohe Member and hence the fossiliferous black shale at Wenghui is older than 551 Ma and probably younger than 580 Ma. Carbon isotope chemostratigraphic correlation indicates that the Miaohe Member...

...., 2002 ; Ye et al., 2019 ) from the upper Doushantuo black shales at Miaohe, Zigui, western Hubei, South China, which shares many common species (see Wang et al., 2011 , 2016a , 2020a ; Ye et al., 2019 ). The lithological succession of the Doushantuo Formation in northeastern Guizhou is similar...

... on the Yangtze platform in southern China, with varied sedimentary facies. Just as interesting as Weng'an are the Lantian site in Anhui and the Miaohe site in Hubei, both of which have produced diverse macroscopic algae, preserved in black shales (chapter 2). In the systematic paleontology section of chapter 2...

... of volcanic tuffs. The mudstones have yielded diverse assemblages of carbonaceous compressions ( Sokolov and Fedonkin, 1984 ) analogous in preservation to the late Ediacaran Miaohe fossil biota from the uppermost Doushantuo Formation of south China ( Fig. 3 ) ( Xiao et al., 2002 ). Identified taxa include...

... : Lethaia , 32 . 219 – 240 . Xiao , S. , Yuan , X. , Steiner , M. , and Knoll , A.H. , 2002 , Macroscopic carbonaceous compressions in a terminal Proterozoic shale: A systematic reassessment of the Miaohe biota, South China : Journal of Paleontology , 76 . 347 – 376...