Also known as Reef 4012
Where: Shaanxi, China (32.5° N, 107.2° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 162.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Xiannudong Formation, Atdabanian to Atdabanian (520.0 - 513.0 Ma)
• Upper Atdabanian-Lower Botomian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified floatstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M. Hicks and S. M. Rowland. 2009. Early Cambrian microbial reefs, archaeocyathan inter-reef communities, and associated facies of the Yangtze Platform. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 281:137-153 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 91499: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.09.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Archaeocyatha | |
Changicyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge | |
Dictyocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Graphoscyphia sp. Debrenne 1974 archaeocyath sponge | |
Protopharetra sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge | |
Erismacoscinus sp. Debrenne 1958 archaeocyath sponge | |
Pilodicoscinus sp. Debrenne and Jiang 1989 archaeocyath sponge
Rudanulus sp. archaeocyath sponge | |
Taylorcyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Conannulofungia sp. archaeocyath sponge | |
Inessocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Rasetticyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge | |
Coscinocyathus sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge | |
Clathricoscinus sp. archaeocyath sponge | |
Coeloscleritophora | |
Chancelloriidae indet. Walcott 1920 | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Hyolitha | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet. Klein 1754 |