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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 ==