Geyi (Cambrian of China)

Where: Guizhou, China (26.8° N, 108.2° E: paleocoordinates 29.6° N, 157.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Balang Formation, Duyunian (514.0 - 509.0 Ma)

• middle and upper Balang Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, silty shale

• slope-shelf facies
• light gray calcareous shale and silty shale with intercalations of thin-bedded argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: J. Peng, H. Feng, X. Fu and Y. Zhao Yao. 2010. New bradoriid arthropods from the Early Cambrian Balang Formation of eastern Guizhou, south China. Acta Geologica Sinica 84(1):56-68 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99643: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

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 Bradoriida -
Comptaluta kailiensis, Comptaluta inflata
Comptaluta kailiensis Peng et al. 2010
Comptaluta inflata Chang 1974