Also known as Chengjiang biota

Where: Yunnan, China (24.9° N, 102.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 161.3° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Maotianshan Shale Formation, Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• "an ~2-cm-thick mud bed" in the Eoredlichia Zone. AGE: Placed in Atdabanian by A. Hendy (2/2009).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, soft parts

Primary reference: J.-Y. Chen, D.-Y. Huang, Q.-Q. Peng, H.-M. Chi, X.-Q. Wang and M. Feng. 2003. The first tunicate from the Early Cambrian of South China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100(14):8314-8318 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68567: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.01.2007, edited by Mark Uhen

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