Where: Shaanxi, China (33.0° N, 106.2° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 167.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Beiwan Member (Dengying Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• horizon underlies both the Anabarites trisulcatus–Protohertzina anabarica assemblage zone and the Asteridium–Heliosphaeridium–Comasphaeridium assemblage zone, must be terminal Ediacaran in age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: Y. Cai, S. Xiao, G. Li and H. Hua. 2019. Diverse biomineralizing animals in the terminal Ediacaran Period herald the Cambrian explosion. Geology 47(4) [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 200480: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 08.04.2019, edited by Matthew Clapham

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