Xinli [Xinli Mbr, Dengying Fm] (Cambrian of China)

Where: Sichuan, China (32.4° N, 106.8° E: paleocoordinates 28.6° N, 165.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Anabarites trisulcatus-Protohertzina anabarica small shelly zone, Xinli Member (Dengying Formation), Early/Lower Cambrian (538.8 - 509.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Xinli Mbr of the Dengying Fm. AGE: Atdabanian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in regional section.

•Age is Fortunian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Lithology not stated in text. LITHIFICATION: Assumed lithified as replaced by phosphate.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text, but presumably Steiner et al; unknown date. REPOSITORY: TU Berlin.

Primary reference: M. Steiner, G. Li, Y. Qian, M. Zhu, and B.-D. Erdtmann. 2007. Neoproterozoic to early Cambrian small shelly fossil assemblages and a revised biostratigraphic correlation of the Yangtze Platform (China). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 254:67-99 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 86617: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.02.2009, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to characteristic taxa figured in publication. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication but with modern nomenclature and with species resolution identifications.
 Bilateria -
Eokinorhynchus rarus n. gen. n. sp.
Eokinorhynchus rarus n. gen. n. sp. Zhang et al. 2015
Protoconodonta
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