Chris Davis|
The fossil-hunters term for an area that provides a cornucopia of high-quality specimens is "Lagerstaetten", literally storage places, or mother lode. And they're literally all over the world - four in Germany, three in the US, one each in Australia and Canada. But, when it comes to the Earth coughing up fossil remains, China is turning out to have the mother lodes of Lagerstaetten: Weng'an, Chengjiang, Kaili, Guanling, Jehol, just to name a few.