BEIJING, July 5, 2024
/CNW/ -- The "40th Anniversary, Discovery of Chengjiang Biota --
International Palaeontological Forum" kicked off on July 2 in Chengjiang, Yuxi, Southwest China's Yunnan Province, and will last to July 6.
This international forum aims to look back on the cooperation
results in recent years, share experience, and look forward to the
future. By leveraging the strengths of domestic and foreign
research institutions, the forum seeks to deepen international
cooperation in scientific research.
Experts and scholars from China, the United
Kingdom, the United States,
the Republic of Korea and Switzerland, have attended the forum. A total
of 39 oral presentations and six academic posters will be presented
to focus on domestic and foreign research achievements in life
evolution in the early Cambrian Age.
Located on the shores of Fuxian Lake in the central part of
Yunnan Province, the Chengjiang
Biota is known as a "world-class treasure trove for fossils". On
July 1, 2012, the Chengjiang Biota
was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, becoming
China's first and Asia's only fossil world natural heritage
site.
To date, more than 20 phyla and over 300 species of rare
Cambrian fossils have been discovered in the Chengjiang Biota, with
80 percent of them being new species. The Chengjiang Fossil Site
World Natural Heritage Museum now has a collection of over 60,000
specimens.
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