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

• Paleocoordinates: 13.3° N, 65.6° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Watsonella crosbyi small shelly zone, Dahai Member (Zhujiaqing Formation), Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)

• bed 34: 3.0 m thick, Heraultipegma yunnanensis zone (=Watsonella crosbyi zone, Steiner 2007)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Y. Qian, M. Y. Zhu, T. G. He and Z. W. Jiang. 1996. New investigation of Precambrian-Cambrian boundary sections in eastern Yunnan. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 13(3):225-240 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 108309: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.04.2011

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