In this paper, ten Burgess shale-type soft-bodied fossil biotas in South China are investigated by comparing the geological settings, biological composition and their substrates. Except for the Yanjiahe biota, the other nine Cambrian Burgess shale-type soft-bodied fossil biotas in South China represent a series of closely-related biological communities lived in muddy-sandy substrates which show gradually transitions in biological composition in time-space distributions. The Burgess shale-type fossil biota in South China should have a wider distribution during the Middle-Late Cambrian.