Wangjiawan (Cambrian of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (24.6° N, 102.7° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 163.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Xiaowaitoushan Member (Dengying Formation), Nemakit-Daldynian (538.8 - 525.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified dolomite

• grey, greyish-white medium-bedded phosphoritic dolomite intercalated with chert stripes, 11.2 m thick

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: Y. Xing, Q. Ding, and H. Luo. 1982. Biotic characteristics of the Sinian-Cambrian boundary beds in China and the boundary problems. Precambrian Research 17:77-85 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106505: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Circotheca sp.
Circotheca sp. Syssoiev 1958