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lagerstätte
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Lagerstätte
A
Lagerstätte
(, from 'storage, lair' 'place'; plural
Lagerstätten
) is a
sedimentary
deposit that exhibits extraordinary
fossils
with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues. These formations may have resulted from carcass burial in an
anoxic
environment with minimal bacteria, thus delaying decomposition.
Lagerstätten
span
geological
time from the
Neoproterozoic
era to the
present
. Worldwide, some of the best examples of near-perfect fossilization are the
Cambrian
Maotianshan shales
and
Burgess Shale
, the
Devonian
Hunsrück Slates
and
Gogo Formation
, the
Carboniferous
Mazon Creek
, the
Jurassic
Solnhofen limestone
, and the
Cretaceous
Santana
and
Yixian
formations.
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