Mid-level Bed of Shibantan Member, Wuhe (Ediacaran of China)

Where: Hubei, China (30.8° N, 111.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 162.1° E)

When: Nama other zone, Shibantan Member (Dengying Formation), Ediacaran (635.0 - 541.0 Ma)

• "From the upper-Ediacaran Shibantan Member of the Dengying Formation." "2–2.5 m above the base of the Shibantan Member (around 551–543 Ma)" "Late Ediacaran" Found at & above ash bed dated at 550.1±0.6 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the NIGPAS

Primary reference: C. Wu, K. Pang, Z. Chen, X. Wang, C. Zhou, B. Wan, X. Yuan and S. Xiao. 2024. The rangeomorph fossil Charnia from the Ediacaran Shibantan biota in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China. Journal of Paleontology 98(2):232-248more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 236902: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 05.11.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Erniettomorpha -
Pteridinium simplex Gürich 1930
 Arboreomorpha -
Arborea "sp. A Wang et al. 2020" Glaessner and Wade 1966
Arborea "sp. B Wang et al. 2020" Glaessner and Wade 1966
Arborea arborea Glaessner 1959
Arborea denticulata Wang et al. 2020
Charniodiscus sp. Ford 1958
Eumetazoa
 Rangeomorpha -
Charnia masoni Ford 1958
Charnia gracilis n. sp. Wu et al. 2024
 Rangeomorpha - Charniidae
 Ichnofossils -
Wutubus annularis
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Wutubus annularis Chen et al. 2014