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Microfossils in China

NANJING: The discovery of some microfossils in central China's Hubei Province has proved that animals came into existence about 632 million years ago, about 50 million years earlier than previously thought, said an expert on Wednesday. The phosphatised microfossils were discovered by a group of American and Chinese experts headed by Yin Leiming, researcher with the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences last year. ``We found diapauses egg cysts in the rocks collected from Xiaofenghe in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province, which resemble those in the multi-cell embryos in Weng'an of southwest China's Guizhou Province, the oldest ever known.'' — Xinhua

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