Erjie section, southwest of Haikou town, Yu'anshan member (Cambrian of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (24.7° N, 102.5° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 3.9° N, 74.4° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Eoredlichia-Wutingaspis trilobite zone, Yu'anshan Member (Chiungchussu Formation), Stage 3 (521.0 - 514.0 Ma)

• Cambrian Stage 3, ordinarily correlated with the late Atdabanian or Botoman stage in Siberia

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

• Appears to be mudstone in photographs

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Collection methods: Appears to be mudstone in photographs

Primary reference: Y. Zhao, A.-L. Chen, C. Klug, X.-T. Lei, and P.-Y. Cong. 2024. Adaptations to changing substrates in diploblastic dinomischids from the early Cambrian. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 648:112301 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235228: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 12.06.2024

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Taxonomic list

Dinomischidae
  - Dinomischidae
Calathites spinalis Luo et al. 1999