Sirius Passet is an Early Cambrian fossil deposit in the remote Peary Land region of northern Greenland, preserving soft bodied marine animals in fine mudstone roughly five hundred and eighteen million years old, among the oldest Cambrian sites of exceptional preservation known. Its isolation and difficulty of access have limited excavation, but the specimens recovered have proven important for understanding the earliest diversification of animal body plans during the Cambrian explosion.
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In respect of the importance of the exceptionally preserved fossils in our understanding of the event, the 'Cambrian Explosion in Sirius Passet' was included by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) in its assemblage of 100 'geological heritage sites' around the world in a listing published in October 2022.
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Sirius Passet is a Cambrian Lagerstätte in Peary Land, Greenland
In Group: Paleozoic Fossil Sites, Lead sentence
Sirius Passet is a Cambrian Lagerstätte in Peary Land, Greenland.
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