The Jiangchuan Biota... complex animals in the Ediacaran?!

There has been an extraordinary number of new fossil assemblages described from the Ediacaran in the past year or two... and yet, we're still waiting for the holy grail of palaeontology: a perfectly preserved Late Ediacaran Burgess Shale-type fauna from whenever it was that animals were first diversifying! The Jiangchuan Biota has been known for many years, but almost entirely for its algae. Coillections of very rare, apparently animal fossils have now combined into a new paper, published in Science... and are presented as showing the transition from the Ediacaran to the Phanerozoic. So... is it all that we've dreamed of? Well... not quite. But it's definitely interesting! The paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... Lantian Biota algae for comparison: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f... Relevant previous videos: The Cambrian Explosion:    • The Cambrian Explosion: evidence and uncer...   Dongpo Biota:    • The Ediacaran Dongpo Biota... and Yilingia   The Tongshan Biota:    • Palaeontology news: the Tongshan Biota and...   Presented by Joe Botting, independent palaeontologist and Honorary Research Fellow at the National Museum Wales. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Channel Membership: to support the channel for £3.99 per month, please investigate the 'join' button underneath the video. You can expect 2-3 extra videos per month, showing current research, related mainly to the Ordovician Castle Bank Biota.