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Image: Fossiliferous peloidal phosphorite, Yunnan Province China

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Description: This comes from just south of Ercaicun, ~4 km WSW of Haikou, Kunming City Prefecture, east-central Yunnan Province, southwestern China. This rock was deposited not long after the Cambrian Explosion (the sudden, evolutionary appearance of abundant fossil life near the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary). On a global scale, phosphorite deposition was at its maximum, volumetrically, during the Neoproterozoic and Cambrian.
Title: Fossiliferous peloidal phosphorite, Yunnan Province China
Credit: Fossiliferous peloidal phosphorite (4.7 cm across) - sample of the “2nd SSF (small shelly fossil) assemblage” from the upper Zhongyicun Member, upper Zhujiaqing Formation (lower Meishucunian Stage, lower Lower Cambrian).
Author: James St. John
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