Where: Guizhou, China (27.1° N, 107.5° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 164.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Phosphorite Member (Doushantuo Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• lower part of the gray oolitic dolomitic phosphorite layer of the upper phosphorite member, Doushantuo Formation.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: soft parts, permineralized, original carbon, replaced with dolomite, replaced with pyrite, replaced with phosphate, replaced with other

Primary reference: Z. Yin, M. Zhu, E. H. Davidson, D. J. Bottjer, and F. Zhao, P., and Tafforeau. 2015. Sponge grade body fossil with cellular resolution dating 60 Myr before the Cambrian. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171365: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.07.2015

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