Also known as Chengjiang biota
Where: Yunnan, China (25.7° N, 102.2° E: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 162.2° E)
When: Eoredlichia-Wutingaspis trilobite zone, Maotianshan Sh Member (Yuanshan Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)
• 10 cm thick, strongly bioturbated mudstone
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, soft parts
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: S.-X. Hu. 2005. Taphonomy and Palaeoecology of the Early Cambrian Chengjiang Biota from Eastern Yunnan, China. Berliner Paläobiologische Abhandlungen 7:1-197 [A. Lin/A. Lin]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 90126: authorized by Alex Lin, entered by Alex Lin on 08.07.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Hyolitha | |
Lingulata | |
Diandongia pista Rong 1974 | |
Deuteropoda | |
Isoxys sp. Walcott 1890 | |
Crustacea | |
Chuandianella ovata Li 1975 | |
Trilobita | |
Wutingaspis tingi Kobayashi 1944 trilobite | |
Microdictyon | |
Microdictyon sinicum Chen et al. 1989 | |
Coeloscleritophora | |