Fortunately, Chinas fossil record for this period is rich.
幸运的是,中国在这个时期的化石资料是非常丰富的。
Until recently, the only known fossils of Precambrian animals were what is called theEdiacaran faunaa handful of strange creatures found in Australia, Canada and the EnglishMidlands that lived in the Ediacaran period, between 635m and 541m years ago, and whichbear little resemblance to what came afterwards.
直到目前,唯一知道的前寒武纪一少部分化石是埃迪卡拉动物群。它们生活与生活在距今6.35亿年到5.42亿年之间埃迪卡拉纪,在澳大利亚、加拿大、英格兰中部等地区被发现,但是他们和寒武纪的生物相似性很少。
In 1998, however, a team led by Chen Junyuan, also of the Nanjing Institute, and another ledby Xiao Shuhai of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, in America, discovered a 580m-year-oldLagerstttea place where fossils are particularly well preservedin a geological formationcalled the Doushantuo, which spreads out across southern China.
然而,1998年,一个由同样来自南京所的陈俊元和美国弗吉尼亚理工大学的肖书海共同领导的小组在中国南部一个广泛存在的陡山沱地质构造中发现了一个距今5.8亿年且保存出奇的好的生物群。
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