Where: Hubei, China (30.8° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 26.3° N, 160.3° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tianzhushan Member (Dengying Formation), Tommotian to Tommotian (525.5 - 512.9 Ma)
• The grouping of beds is 0.2m thick. AGE: Tommotian-Botomian; refined by A. Hendy (6/2009) on the basis of biostratigraphic data.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, intraclastic, black, sandy phosphorite
Collection methods: Description comes from description of the supplimentary diagrammatic section of the Eastern Yangtze Gorge area (Fig. 4).
Primary reference: S. Weiguo. 1986. Late Precambrian Pennatulids (sea pens) from the Eastern Yangtze Gorge, China: Paracharnia gen. nov. Precambrian Research 31:361-375 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10500: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 14.05.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Tommotiida | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Monoplacophora | |
Monoplacophora indet. Knight 1952 |