Also known as Chengjiang biota

Where: Yunnan, China (24.8° N, 102.6° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 161.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Maotianshan Shale Member (Yuanshan Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Maotianshan Shale Mbr of the Yuanshan Fm. AGE: Qiongzhusian in Steiner (2005); correlates to Atdabanian (Steiner, 2007). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta front; lithified, black, brown, green, carbonaceous mudstone and lithified, black sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTOR: Multiple collectors. REPOSITORY: Early Life Research Center (ELRC) and Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology (NIGPAS), Chengjiang.

Primary reference: S. Q. Dornbos and J.-Y. Chen. 2008. Community palaeoecology of the early Cambrian Maotianshan Shale biota: Ecological dominance of priapulid worms. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 258:200-212 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86930: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.02.2009, edited by Alex Lin

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