Fengkoushao section, Qiongzhusi Fm., Yunan - Xianguang and Bergstrom 1994 (Cambrian to of China)

Where: Yunnan, China (24.7° N, 102.9° E: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 159.8° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Qiongzhusi Formation, Caerfai to Caerfai (538.8 - 497.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified mudstone

• According to the International Subcommission for Cambrian Stratigraphy, the sediments of the Chengjiang strata in which soft body organisms are preserved consists of finely laminated mudstones. URL: http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/palaeontologie/Stuff/casu30.htm

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

Primary reference: H. Xianguang and J. Bergstrom. 1994. Palaeoscolecid worms may be nematomorphs rather than annelids. Lethaia 27(1):11-17 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9941: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 01.02.2001

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Taxonomic list

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 Palaeoscolecidomorpha -
Maotianshania cylindrica
Maotianshania cylindrica Sun and Huo 1987
1 specimen