Where: Guizhou, China (26.6° N, 105.9° E: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 161.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Siphogonuchites - Lapworthella small shelly zone, Gezhongwu Member (Dengying Formation), Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)

• Siphogonuchites-Lapworthella assemblage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified phosphorite and lithified, phosphatic dolomite

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Xing, Q. Ding, H. Luo, T. He, and Y. Wang. 1984. The Sinian-Cambrian boundary of China and its related problems. Geological Magazine 121(3):155-170 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106514: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.03.2011

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