Distribution
Burgess Shale type biotas are found only in the early and middle Cambrian, but the preservational mode is also present before the Cambrian. It is surprisingly common during the Cambrian period; over 40 sites are known from across the globe, and soft bodied fossils occur in abundance at nine of these.
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