Where: Guizhou, China (26.6° N, 105.9° E: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 162.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Gezhongwu Member, 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 108391: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cambroclavida | |
Zhijinites sp. Qian 1978 | |
Fomitchella | |
Fomitchella sp. Missarzhevsky in Rozanov 1969 | |
Scyphozoa | |
Olivooides sp. Qian 1977 jellyfish |