Even if no soft-bodied fossils had been preserved in the Cambrian, their adaptive radiations would be evident from the record of trace fossils.

These soft-bodied fossils are the first record of multicellular life.

Microbial mats help to preserve soft-bodied fossils by:

It is famous for the exceptional preservation of soft-bodied fossils: the Burgess Shale biota.

The Balang formation, which crops out in Hunan province, China, contains Burgess Shale-type soft-bodied fossils.

To be preserved as soft-bodied fossils, these animals had to be moved elsewhere.

Walcott found the first soft-bodied fossils on Burgess Ridge on either August 30 or 31.

He should have located the main beds right away, in 1909, in the week after he first discovered the soft-bodied fossils.

He succeeded abundantly, finding soft-bodied fossils at more than a dozen additional nearby localities.

The Ediacaran lasts for about 90 million years, of which only the last 50 million years show the soft-bodied fossils.