Ningqiang (Cambrian of China)

Where: Shaanxi, China (33.0° N, 106.3° E: paleocoordinates 28.8° N, 166.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Kuanchuanpu Formation, Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic carbonate

• Carbonate platform
• phosphatic carbonates, siltstones, and cherts

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. H. Liu, Y. Li, T. Q. Shao, Y. P. Wang, B. Yu, H. P. Han, and J. Yang. 2005. Two new species of protoconulariids from the Early Cambrian in south Shaanxi, China. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 22(3):311-321 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108040: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 21.04.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Scyphozoa
 Conularina - Carinachitidae
Carinachites platus n. sp., Emeiconularia amplicanalis n. sp.
Carinachites platus n. sp. Liu et al. 2005 jellyfish
Emeiconularia amplicanalis n. sp. Liu et al. 2005 jellyfish