Where: Hubei, China (30.8° N, 111.3° E: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 161.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Baimatuo Member (Dengying Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, cherty/siliceous dolomite and lithified chert

Preservation: soft parts

Collection methods: Description comes from description of the supplimentary diagrammatic section of the Eastern Yangtze Gorge area (Fig. 4).

Primary reference: S. Weiguo. 1986. Late Precambrian Pennatulids (sea pens) from the Eastern Yangtze Gorge, China: Paracharnia gen. nov. Precambrian Research 31:361-375 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10498: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 14.05.2001

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