Bed 07, Xianfeng Phosphorite Quarry, 23 km west of Xianfeng (Cambrian to of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (25.5° N, 103.0° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 163.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Anabarites trisulcatus - Protohertzina anabarica small shelly zone, Baiyanshao Member (Dengying Formation), Meishucunian to Meishucunian (541.0 - 530.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, dolomitic, phosphatic, brown conglomerate and lithified, lenticular, dolomitic, gray, cherty/siliceous phosphorite

• Brownish, thin- to medium-bedded phosphate-bearing conglomerate and dolomitic phosphorite intercalated with black siliceous phosphorite bands

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: GPIN

Primary reference: Y. Qian and S. Bengtson. 1989. Palaeontology and biostratigraphy of the Early Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in Yunnan Province, South China. Fossils and Strata 24:1-156 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 96451: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
Protoconodonta
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Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Canopoconus
  - Maikhanellidae
Canopoconus sp. Luo et al. 1982