Where: Shanxi, China (34.8° N, 110.6° E: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 145.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Xinji Formation, Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• Cambrian Epoch 2 Age 3 to Cambrian Epoch 2 Age 4. Strongly weathered bed of calcitic phosphatic quartz siltstone 3.4m to 3.8m above the base of the Xinji Formation. This is in the lower part of the formation. Correlated with the trilobite Drepanuloides Biozone (Yangtze Platform) and Pararaia janeae Biozone (Australia), and small shelly fossil Dailyatia odyssei Biozone (Australia).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, phosphatic, quartzose, silty, calcareous siltstone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

• S1, S2, and L sclerites present.

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Collection methods: acetic, sieve,

Primary reference: B. Pan, G. A. Brock, C. B. Skovsted, M. J. Betts, T. P. Topper and G. Li. 2018. Paterimitra pyramidalis Laurie, 1986, the first tommotiid discovered from the early Cambrian of North China. Gondwana Research 63:179-185 [T. Wong Hearing/T. Wong Hearing]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 215204: authorized by Thomas Wong Hearing, entered by Thomas Wong Hearing on 02.11.2020

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