Dahai, bed 42 (Cambrian of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (26.3° N, 103.2° E: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 164.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shiyantou Member (Qiongzhusi Formation), Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)

• sample HDX-41, bed 42, Lapworthella-Tannuolina-Sinosachites assemblage (3th assemblage of Meishucunian), Qiongzhusi (=Chiungchussu) Formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Yue. 2004. Early Cambrian small shelly fossil Sinosachites from southwest China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 43(2):164-178 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 107773: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.04.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aculifera
  - Halkieriidae