Where: Yunnan, China (24.8° N, 102.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 162.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eoredlichia trilobite zone, Yu'anshan Member (Qiongzhusi Formation), Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• Qiongzhusi (Chiungchussu) Formation, Yu’anshan Member (Eoredlichia zone), Lower Cambrian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collection methods: Repository: Early Life Institute and Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Northwest University, Xi'an, China (Prefix: ELI).

Primary reference: D.-G. Shu, S. Conway Morris, J. Han, Z.-F. Zhang, and J.-N. Liu. 2002. Ancestral echinoderms from the Chengjiang deposits of China. Nature 430:422-428 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213116: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.08.2020

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