【国内文旅卷】世界自然遗产之澄江化石遗址（中英双语）
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“澄江化石遗址位于云南省的山地丘陵地区，占地512公顷，是目前保存最完整的寒武纪早期海洋古生物化石群，展现了门类广泛的无脊椎生命体的硬组织及软组织的解剖构造。澄江化石群记录了早期复杂海洋生态系统的形成。遗址地至少保存了16种生物门类和诸多神秘的种群以及其他196个物种，它们是5.3亿年前地球生物大爆炸的证据，几乎今天地球上所有的主要动物群都在这一时期出现。它为古生物的学术研究打开了一扇重要的窗口中”这是2012年联合国教科文组织将澄江化石遗址列入世界自然遗产时对其作出的评价。
澄江化石地位于云南省澄江县抚仙湖东岸的帽天山，呈带状蜿蜒分布，分布带长20公里，宽4.5公里，埋藏深度在50米上，现已探明埋藏面积为18平方公里。遗址保存了距今5.3亿年前寒武纪早期地球上的生物特征，并将脊椎动物的早期历史往前推进了近六千万年。在这一短暂的地质历史时期里， 地球上生物开始了大爆炸的过程，并成为后来几乎所有动物类群都的起源。
澄江生物化石群门类丰富，除了藻类化石外，现已发现16个门类、196种动物，包括海绵动物、腔肠动物、腕足动物、环节动物、节肢动物等，另外还有十余个仍然无法归入任何门类的不明种属化石，包括著名的抚仙湖虫、帽天山虫、云南虫、昆明虫和跨马虫等。
澄江化石群遗址被誉为“世纪近代古生物研究史上所罕见的、20世纪最惊人的发现之一”，是地球历史早期生物演化的重要实例。
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“In a hilly 512-hectare site in Yunnan Province, Chengjiang’s fossils present the most complete record of an early Cambrian marine community with exceptionally preserved biota, displaying the anatomy of hard and soft tissues in a very wide variety of organisms, invertebrate and vertebrate. They record the early establishment of a complex marine ecosystem. The site documents at least sixteen phyla and a variety of enigmatic groups as well as about 196 species, presenting exceptional testimony to the rapid diversification of life on Earth 530 million years ago, when almost all of today’s major animal groups emerged. It opens a palaeobiological window of great significance to scholarship.” This is the remark that UNESCO made when the Chengjiang Fossil Site was inscribed on the World Natural Heritage List in 2012.
The Chengjiang Fossil Site, located in Maotianshan Hill on the east bank of Fuxian Lake in Chengjiang County, Yunnan Province, is a zigzag belt that measures 20 kilometers in length, 4.5 kilometers in width, and more than 50 meters in depth. To date, its proven burial area has been 18 square kilometers. The site conserves features of the biology on the earth in the early Cambrian Period that dates back to 530 million years ago, and its discovery pushes forward the proven history of the vertebrates by nearly 60 million years. In this short geological interval, the explosion of life began on the earth, and almost all major groups of animals had their origins.
The fossils discovered at the Chengjiang Fossil Site cover diverse species and categories. To date, there have been unearthed fossils of 196 species of animals in 16 phyla, including spongia, coelenterates, brachiopods, annelids, and arthropods. Moreover, fossils of a dozen species, which cannot be classified as any category, such as the famous Fuxianhuia, Maotianshania, Yunnanozoon lividum, Kunmingia, and Kuamaia lata, have been found there.
The Chengjiang Fossil Site is acclaimed as “one of the rarest and most amazing paleontological discoveries of the 20th century”, presenting an important record of early biological evolution on the earth.