Fossil sites and rock units that preserve the oldest complex life, microbes and soft-bodied organisms from the Precambrian and the Ediacaran Period. A site belongs here when its cited article dates the fossils to the Precambrian, Proterozoic or Ediacaran. It excludes Cambrian and later sites, which sit in the Paleozoic group. These sites record the first animals and the microfossils that came before them, preserved in cherts, shales and siltstones.
Precambrian and Ediacaran Fossil Sites
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Doushantuo Formation (Wikipedia)
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It is known for the fossil Lagerstätten in Zigui in Hubei, Xiuning in Anhui, and Weng'an in Guizhou, as one of the oldest beds to contain minutely preserved microfossils, phosphatic fossils that are so characteristic they have given their name to "Doushantuo type preservation". The formation, whose deposits date back
Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve (Wikipedia)
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Ediacaran fossils discovered at the site constitute the oldest known remnants of multicellular life on Earth.
Gunflint chert (Wikipedia)
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The Gunflint chert (1.88 Ga) is a sequence of banded iron formation rocks that are exposed in the Gunflint Range of northern Minnesota and northwestern Ontario along the north shore of Lake Superior.
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