Also known as Chengjiang fauna

Where: Yunnan, China (24.7° N, 103.0° E: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 160.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yuanshan Member (Qiongzhusi Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• lower Eoredlichia trilobite zone, Cf3-Cf6 correspond to units M2-M3 of Maotianshan

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: X. Hou and J. Bergström. 1997. Arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, southwest China. Fossils & Strata 45:1-116 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96413: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.06.2010

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