Where: Yunnan, China (25.5° N, 103.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 163.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zhongyicun Member (Dengying Formation), Meishucunian to Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)
• Bed #10
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, black phosphorite and lithified, lenticular, dolomitic, gray, conglomeratic phosphorite
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Collection methods: GPIN
Primary reference: Y. Qian and S. Bengtson. 1989. Palaeontology and biostratigraphy of the Early Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in Yunnan Province, South China. Fossils and Strata 24:1-156 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 50504: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mobergella | |
Aculifera | |
Ocruranus trulliformis, "Ocruranus finial" = Ocruranus finial, "Eohalobia diandongensis" = Ocruranus finial
Ocruranus trulliformis Jiang 1980
"Ocruranus finial" = Ocruranus finial Liu 1979
"Eohalobia diandongensis" = Ocruranus finial Liu 1979 | |
Helcionelloida | |
"Archaeospira cf. sonlingpoensis" = Oelandiella korobkovi, "Archaeospira ornata" = Oelandiella korobkovi, "? Bemella cf. simplex" = Securiconus simplex, "? Bemella emeiensis" = Bemella amplaperata, Emarginoconus cf. mirus
"Archaeospira cf. sonlingpoensis" = Oelandiella korobkovi Vostokova 1962
Emarginoconus cf. mirus Yü 1979 | |
Xianfengella prima He and Yang 1982 | |
Canopoconus cambrinus | |
"Canopoconus cambrinus" = Canopoconus superatus
"Canopoconus cambrinus" = Canopoconus superatus Feng et al. 2001 | |
Canopoconus | |
"? Canopoconus radularis n. sp." = Canopoconus superatus
"? Canopoconus radularis n. sp." = Canopoconus superatus Feng et al. 2001 | |
Yunnanopleura accurata | |
"Yunnanopleura biformis" = Yunnanopleura accurata
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Xiadongoconus luminosus | |
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Purella | |
Purella squamulosa n. sp.
Purella squamulosa n. sp. Qian and Bengtson 1989 |