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title: "List of lagerstätten"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lagerstätten"
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The list of Lagerstätten is a documentation of Lagerstätte fossils sites around the world, arranged by geologic age. These are characterized by exceptional preservation of fossil organisms, regularly including many well-preserved animals and their soft tissue remains. The extent of Lagerstätten deposits can range from a select site or stratigraphic layer to a whole formation or group. Some sites that one author calls a single Lagerstätte may be called multiple by another (such as the Jehol Biota and the Yixian/Jiufotang Formations). This list attempts to note this in the text and provide the formation or stratigraphic unit from which a site came.


== Criteria ==
Sites on the list must either:

Be referred to as a Lagerstätte within the main text of at least one scientific publication. Similar terms, such as 'exceptional preservation', do not qualify.
Have fossils that fulfill the criteria of Konservat-Lagerstätte as set within Kimmig & Julien (2024): Konservat-Lagerstätten are characterized by exceptional preservation, and at least 5% of the fossils recovered from a site must preserve either soft tissue remains or nearly complete individuals, preferably both.


== List ==


=== Precambrian ===


=== Cambrian ===


=== Ordovician ===


=== Silurian ===


=== Devonian ===


=== Carboniferous ===


=== Permian ===


=== Triassic ===


=== Jurassic ===


=== Cretaceous ===


=== Paleogene ===


=== Neogene ===


=== Quaternary ===


== References ==