Wangjiaping (Cambrian of China)

Also known as Three Gorge area

Where: Hubei, China (30.8° N, 111.2° E: paleocoordinates 25.6° N, 159.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Shipai Formation, Atdabanian (520.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• late Atdabanian; from the "middle part" of formation; shown with an arrow at a specific point in the section, suggesting one or a few beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone and siltstone

• "mudstone-dominated unit interbedded with siltstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Primary reference: X. L. Zhang and H. Hua. 2005. Soft-bodied fossils from the Shipai Formation, Lower Cambrian of the Three Gorge area, South China. Geological Magazine 142(5):1-11 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 68086: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Goettingenia wangjiapingensis
  -
Goettingenia wangjiapingensis n. gen. n. sp. Zhang and Hua 2005
Cambrorhytium major
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 Palaeoscolecidomorpha -
Maotianshania cylindrica Sun and Huo 1987
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Botsfordiidae
Diandongia pista Rong 1974
Vetulicolida
  - Vetulicolidae
Vetulicola sp. Hou 1987