Where: Yunnan, China (27.9° N, 103.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 164.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sinosachites flabelliformis - Tannuolina zhangwentangi small shelly zone, Shiyantou Formation, Meishucunian (530.7 - 521.0 Ma)

• See Figure 1. This is the top of the Meishucunian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, phosphatic, cherty/siliceous dolomite

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Collection methods: bulk, chemical,

• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text, but presumably Steiner et al; unknown date. REPOSITORY: TU Berlin.

Primary reference: G. Li and S. Xiao. 2004. Tannuolina and Micrina (Tannuolinidae) from the Lower Cambrian of eastern Yunnan, south China, and their scleritome reconstruction. Journal of Paleontology 78(5):900-913 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96296: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 31.05.2010

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