Where: Hubei, China (30.8° N, 111.2° E: paleocoordinates 27.8° N, 161.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Huangshandong Formation, Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)

• lower member, Anabarites-Circotheca zone, also known as Tianzhushan Formation, Lower Meishucunian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Yü. 1979. Earliest Cambrian monoplacophorans and gastropods from western Hubei with their biostratigraphical significance. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 18(3):233-270 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107669: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.04.2011

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