Bed Mb03, Meishucun section (Cambrian to of China)

Also known as Bed 3 of Qian & Bengston

Where: Yunnan, China (24.7° N, 102.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 163.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Anabarites trisulcatus - Protohertzina anabarica small shelly zone, Zhongyicun Member (Zhujianqing Formation), Meishucunian to Meishucunian (541.0 - 530.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, blue phosphorite

• Blue-grey, brecciated, crumbly phosphatic rock and variegated banded phosphatic rock

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 96433: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 07.06.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Anabarites trisulcatus Voronova and Missarzhevsky 1969 jellyfish
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
? Chancelloria sp. Walcott 1920
Archaeooides granulatus
  -
Xiadongoconus luminosus
  - Maikhanellidae
"Canopoconus pristinis" = Xiadongoconus luminosus
"Canopoconus pristinis" = Xiadongoconus luminosus Yü 1979
 Sachitida - Siphogonuchitidae
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Protoconodonta
  -
Protohertzina unguliformis Missarzhevsky 1973
Protohertzina anabarica Missarzhevsky 1973
Protohertzina cf. siciformis Missarzhevsky 1973
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
? Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872
 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
? Torellella sp. Holm 1893