Fossil beds and rock units from the Paleozoic Era, from the Cambrian explosion through the Permian, noted for exceptional preservation of marine life, early land plants and animals. A site belongs here when its cited article dates it to the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous or Permian. It excludes Precambrian and Mesozoic sites. Many are Lagerstatten, deposits where soft tissue survives, so they show far more of ancient ecosystems than ordinary fossil beds.
Paleozoic Fossil Sites
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Maotianshan Shales (Wikipedia)
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The Maotianshan Shales (simplified Chinese: 帽天山页岩; traditional Chinese: 帽天山頁岩; pinyin: Màotiānshān yèyán) are a series of Early Cambrian sedimentary deposits in the Chiungchussu Formation or Heilinpu Formation, famous for their Konservat Lagerstätten, deposits known for the exceptional preservation of fossilized
Sirius Passet (Wikipedia)
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Sirius Passet is a Cambrian Lagerstätte in Peary Land, Greenland.
Wheeler Shale (Wikipedia)
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The Wheeler Shale (named by Charles Walcott) is a Cambrian (c. 507 Ma) fossil locality world-famous for prolific agnostid and Elrathia kingii trilobite remains (even though many areas are barren of fossils) and represents a Konzentrat-Lagerstätte.
Beecher's Trilobite Bed (Wikipedia)
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Beecher's Trilobite Bed is a Konservat-Lagerstätte of Late Ordovician (Caradoc) age located within the Frankfort Shale in Cleveland's Glen, Oneida County, New York, USA. Only 3-4 centimeters thick, Beecher's Trilobite Bed has yielded numerous exceptionally preserved trilobites with the ventral anatomy and soft tissue
Mazon Creek fossil beds (Wikipedia)
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The fossils are preserved in ironstone concretions, formed approximately 309 million years ago in the mid-Pennsylvanian epoch of the Carboniferous period.
East Kirkton Quarry (Wikipedia)
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The quarry is known for terrestrial and freshwater animal fossils; the most fossil-rich layer is dated to around 341 ± 3 million years ago, during the Viséan stage of the Mississippian subperiod (Early Carboniferous Period). The quarry is a 200-meter-long (~650 ft) depression located in the town of Bathgate.
Chemnitz petrified forest (Wikipedia)
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The Chemnitz petrified forest is a petrified forest in Chemnitz, Germany, that is part of the Early Permian Leukersdorf Formation.
Burgess Shale (Wikipedia)
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At c.505 million years old (middle Cambrian), it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part imprints.
Emu Bay Shale (Wikipedia)
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The Emu Bay Shale is dated as Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4, correlated with the upper Botomian Stage of the Lower Cambrian.
Montceau-les-Mines (Wikipedia)
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Exceptional preservation of Late Carboniferous fossil biota characterizes a Lagerstätte at Montceau-les-Mines.
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