Also known as Guanshan fauna

Where: Yunnan, China (25.0° N, 102.8° E: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 159.7° E)

When: Palaeolenus trilobite zone, Wulongqing Formation, Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)

• Upper Canglangpuan Stage (the 3rd trilobite zone in the Stage) in South China;

•18 m thick greenish yellow mudrock with quartz siltystone layers

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, trace, soft parts

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: H.-L. Luo, L. Yong, S.-X. Hu, X.-P. Fu, S.-Q. Hou, X.-Y. Liu, L.-Z. Chen, F.-J. Li, J.-Y. Pang and Q. Liu. 2008. Early Cambrian Malong Fauna and Guanshan Fauna from Eastern Yunnan, China 1-134 [A. Lin/A. Lin]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90356: authorized by Alex Lin, entered by Alex Lin on 17.07.2009

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