Bed 13 Phosph. Mine, Qiongzhusi Fm, China - Conway Morris and Menge 1990 (Cambrian of China)

Where: China (24.8° N, 102.5° E: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 161.2° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yuanshan Member (Qiongzhusi Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, pebbly, phosphatic dolomite

• phosphatized dolomite

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section,

• Specimens collected during a Royal Society-Academia Sinica Exchange Sheme.

Primary reference: S. Conway Morris and M. Chen. 1990. Tommotiids from the Lower Cambrian of South China. Journal of Paleontology 64(2):169-184 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8332: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 06.07.2000

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Taxonomic list

Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
Lapworthella sp. Cobbold 1921