Where: Guizhou, China (27.1° N, 107.4° E: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 0.0° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Doushantuo Formation, Neoproterozoic (1000.0 - 541.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: carbonate and phosphorite
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: soft parts, replaced with phosphate
Primary reference: G. H. Barfod, F. Albarede, A. H. Knoll, S. Xiao, P. Telouk, R. Frei, and J. Baker. 2002. New Lutetium-Hafnium and Lead-Lead age constraints on the earliest animal fossils. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 201:203-212 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/L. Murdoch]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 97561: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Laura Murdoch on 09.08.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Eumetazoa | |
Eumetazoa indet. Butchili 1910 | |
unclassified | |
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Cnidaria indet. Hatschek 1888 |