Where: Yunnan, China (24.7° N, 102.9° E: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 162.5° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Qiongzhusi Formation, Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• The local/international stage names and lithology were derived from the International Commission on Cambrian Stratigraphy. URL: www.uni-wuerzburg.de/palaeontologie/Stuff/casu30.htm The main link can be found under "Life in the Cambrian" on the home page.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone

Collection methods: Collection consists of Palaeoscolecids, a poorly understood group of fossil worms ranging from Lower Cambrian to the Upper Silurian.

Primary reference: W. Sun and X. Hou. 1987. Early Cambrian worms from Chengjiang, Yunnan, China: Maotianshania gen. nov. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 26(3):299-305 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6817: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 23.03.2000

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