Xihaoping Formation, Hubei province: Atdabanian, China

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Phyllochiton sp. Duan 1984
Cambroclavida - Zhijinitidae
Sinoclavus sp. Duan 1984
Tanbaoites sp. Duan 1984
Chlorophyceae - Dasycladales
Cambroclavus sp. Mambetov and Repina 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:China State/province:Hubei
Coordinates: 31.7° North, 110.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.2° North, 160.4° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Cambrian Epoch: Series 2
Stage: Stage 3 10 m.y. bin: Cambrian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Cambrian *Epoch:Caerfai
Key time interval: Atdabanian
Age range of interval: 521 - 515.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Xihaoping
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Was Caerfai. Steiner et al. give this as Qiongzhusian.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:6816
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:P. Borkow
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-03-23 12:08:29 Last modified:2010-06-01 14:18:47
Access level:the public Released:2000-03-23 12:08:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
417. S. Conway Morris, J. S. Crampton, X. Bing and A.J. Chapman. 1997. Lower Cambrian Cambroclaves (Incertae sedis) from Xinjiang, China, with comments on the morphological variability of sclerites. Palaeontology 40(1):167-189 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow/J. Alroy]