EONS: CJ06 CHENGJIANG, MUSEUM GRADE PAIR, GUANGWEICARIS Start Price USD 8,999.00 Current Price USD 8,999.00 Time Left 12 days 14 hours 36 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, September 22, 2008 End Time Tuesday, January 20, 2009 Location Glen Allen, Virginia See more about 'EONS: CJ06 CHENGJIANG, MUSEUM GRADE PAIR, GUANGWEICARIS' Description EONS: CJ06 CHENGJIANG, SUPERB PAIR, NEW HABELIA SPECIES ABSOLUTE FINEST SPECIMEN OF A NEW GENUS, ONLY 39 KNOWN The winner of this specimen will also receive a proof-quality electronic copy of “The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China” -- worth more than $130. OVERVIEW: The Maotianshan shale is a lower Cambrian Konservat Lagerstätte named for Maotianshan Hill in Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province, China. More commonly, the extremely diverse assemblage of organisms are referred to as the Chengjiang biota for the multiple scattered fossil sites in Chengjiang, and more simply still, just Chengjiang. The Chengjiang fauna date to between 525 and 520 million years ago, a period the lies in about the middle of the early Cambrian epoch, at least some 10 million years earlier than the Burgess Shale. The Maotianshan shale is one of some forty Cambrian fossil locations worldwide exhibiting exquisite preservation of rarely preserved, non-mineralized soft tissue, comparable to the fossils of the Burgess Shale. The preservation of an extremely diverse faunal assemblage renders the Maotianshan shale the world’s most important locality for understanding the evolution of early multi-cellular life, and particularly the members of phylum Chordata, which includes all vertebrates. The Chengjiang fossils comprise the oldest diverse metazoan assemblage above the Proterozoic-Phanerozoic transition, and thus the fossil record’s best data source for understanding the apparently rapid diversification of life known as the Cambrian Explosion. (source: Wikipedia). SPECIFICS: This genus was formally erected eight months ago. Click here for the paper (including photos) which was published in the February 2007 Acta Geologica Sinica. Our specimen is of two complete individuals and is vastly superior to anything yet found. In short, it is the finest specimen of one of the newest genera from Chengjiang. The following is a reconstruction from that paper: AGE: Early Cambrian Epoch (525~520 million years ago) FOUND: Chengjiang, China RARITY: only 39 complete specimens known; these are 2 of them; this is the only double complete plate GENUS: GuangweicarisSPECIES: spinatusSPECIMEN LENGTH: both are 3.25" long MATRIX: 6” long x 5” wide x up to 1” thick WEIGHT: 1.12 pounds net / 4.5 pounds shipping SHIPPING EVERYWHERE: Please click the shipping calculator at the bottom of this page to see the cost to your location. The specimen can also be picked up in either Virginia or New Jersey immediately, or in Tucson in February. 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