Fucheng, interreef (Cambrian to of China)

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

• archaeocyathan-rich float-rudstones adjacent to the microbial reefs

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
 Archaeocyathida - Metacyathidae
Changicyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Graphoscyphia sp. Debrenne 1974 archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Protopharetra sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
Erismacoscinus sp. Debrenne 1958 archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Rudanulidae
Pilodicoscinus sp. Debrenne and Jiang 1989 archaeocyath sponge
Rudanulus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Bronchocyathidae
Taylorcyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Conannulofungia sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Ethmocyathidae
Inessocyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Rasetticyathus sp. archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Coscinocyathidae
Coscinocyathus sp. Bornemann 1884 archaeocyath sponge
 Capsulocyathida - Clathricoscinidae
Clathricoscinus sp. archaeocyath sponge
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Hyolitha
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Trilobita
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Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
unclassified
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