1. BURGESS SHALE-TYPE PRESERVATION AND THE ANIMAL EVOLUTION ACROSS THE CAMBRIAN/PRECAMBRIAN BOUNDARY by (Alex) Jih-Pai Lin lin.542@osu.edu

2. Acknowledgements William I. Ausich, Loren E. Babcock and James St. John, Derek Briggs, and Sam Gon, III in USA; Yuan-Long Zhao, You-Yi Yu, Wang Yue, Jing Peng, Yuan Jin-Liang, and Shi- Xue Hu in China; Andrew Scott in UK; Chai-Wei Li and Hung-Jen Wu in Taiwan; and James G. Gehling in Australia. My graduate studies were supported by the Presidential Fellowship, Early-Start Fellowship, Ying-Chien Chang Fund, Graduate Student Ravel Grants, Alumni Research Grant from OSU, Student Research Grant and Gould Grant in Aid from PS, NSF East Asia Summer Research Fellowship, and two GSA Graduate Student Research Grants.

3. Why Study Fossils? Biostratigraphy Evolution Paleoecology Paleogeography Simple fascination Source: Prothero, D. R. 1998. Bring Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology, 1 st ed. McGraw-Hill, Boston, 457 p.

4. Presentation Sections Visited localities of exceptional preservation –Mistaken Point Biota, Newfoundland –Ediacara Biota, South Australia –Chengjiang Biota, Yunnan, China –Emu Bay Shale Biota, Kangaroo Island, Australia –Kaili Biota, Guizhou, China –Burgess Shale Biota, western Canada Significance of Kaili Biota –New mode of preservation

6. Exceptional Preservation in Siliciclastics

8. Visited Deposits of Exceptional Preservation around the World Mistaken Point Biota, Newfoundland, Canada

9. Narbonne et al., 2005

11. Narbonne et al., 2005

12. Visited Deposits of Exceptional Preservation around the World Ediacara Biota, Flinders Range, South Australia

13. Gehling, 2005

17. Visited Deposits of Exceptional Preservation around the World Chengjiang Biota, Yunnan Province, South China

18. Hou et al., 2004

30. Visited Deposits of Exceptional Preservation around the World Emu Bay Shale, Kangaroo Island, South Australia

31. Jago & Zang, 2006

43. Visited Deposits of Exceptional Preservation around the World Kaili Biota, Guizhou Province, South China

45. Stratigraphy

48. Kaili Biota – Arthropods http://hdl.handle.net/1811/24227

49. Kaili Biota – Echinoderms http://hdl.handle.net/1811/24227

50. Kaili Biota – Other Groups http://hdl.handle.net/1811/24227

51. Kaili Biota – Trace Fossils http://hdl.handle.net/1811/24227

52. Burgess Shale Biota Preservation of nonmineralizing organisms Preservation of soft parts

53. Visited Museum Collections Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Carnegie Museum of Natural History Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Oxford Museum of Natural History

54. Caron & Jackson, 2006

63. New Mode of Preservation from the Kaili Biota

64. Summary of Burgess Shale-type Preservation Organic carbon films Replication of clay minerals Pyritization Phosphatization

65. Clusters of Silicified Spheroids

66. Elemental Mappings

68. Synchrotron X-ray Microscopy Facility: National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC), Taiwan Advantage: Synchrotron X-ray provides the highest possible image resolution Collaborators: Chai-Wei Li and Hung-Jeng Wu (National Tsinghua University)

70. Summary Kaili egg clusters formed via selective silicification probably occurred in low pH and high solubility conditions. (Blatt, 1992)

72. 1997: Freshman Fee Remission Scholarship 1998: July 4 th weekend field trip to Nevada 1999: Laurentia ’99 2001: Teaching assistantship at The Ohio State University Important steps that had led to my early career in paleontology…

73. "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life" - Confucius