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

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

• The local/international ages/stages and lithology were derived from the Internatioal Subcommision on Cambrian Stratigraphy. URL: www.uni-wuerzburg.de/palaeontologie/Stuff/casu30.htm

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone

Collection methods: The specimens are palaeoscolecids, a poorly understood group of fosil worms ranging from the 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 6819: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 23.03.2000

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