Also known as Bed 7 of Qian & Bengston, Mb7 of Vendrasco et al.

Where: Yunnan, China (24.7° N, 102.6° E: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 162.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Siphogonuchites-Paragloborilus small shelly zone, Zhongyicun Member (Zhujianqing Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• Vendrasco et al. report 11 m. They give Anabarites trisulcatus - Protohertzina anabarica zone, but Qian & Bengston give it as Siphogonuchites-Paragloborilus. Meishucunian stage.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, phosphatic, brown, gray dolomite and phosphorite

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Specimens stored at Nanjing Institue of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, Nanjing, China

Primary reference: Y. Qian and S. Bengtson. 1989. Palaeontology and biostratigraphy of the Early Cambrian Meishucunian Stage in Yunnan Province, South China. Fossils and Strata 24:1-156 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 94556: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 28.02.2010

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