Where: Hubei, China (31.7° N, 110.7° E: paleocoordinates 25.2° N, 160.4° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Xihaoping Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• Was Caerfai. Steiner et al. give this as Qiongzhusian.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: bulk, chemical

Primary reference: S. Conway Morris, J. S. Crampton, X. Bing and A.J. Chapman. 1997. Lower Cambrian Cambroclaves (Incertae sedis) from Xinjiang, China, with comments on the morphological variability of sclerites. Palaeontology 40(1):167-189 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6816: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 23.03.2000

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