Doulingzi village, Qianxi (Stenian of China)

Where: Hebei, China (40.2° N, 118.2° E: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 0.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Zhangjiayu Member (Gaoyuzhuang Formation), Calymmian (1600.0 - 1400.0 Ma)

• A volcanic tuff in the lower third of Member III was dated at 1577 +/- 12 Ma by Tian et al., 2015, while one in the upper part of Member III was dated at 1560 +/- 3 Ma by Li et al., 2010.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: soft parts

Primary reference: S. X. Zhu, M. Y. Zhu, A. H. Knoll, Z. J. Yin, F. C. Zhao, S. F. Sun, Y. G. Qu, M. Shi, and H. Liu. 2016. Decimetre-scale multicellular eukaryotes from the 1.56-billion-year-old Gaoyuzhuang Formation in North China. Nature Communications 7(11500) [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 180121: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Life -
aff. Archaeplastida indet.
taxonomic assignment is tentative